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Trying to improve the behaviour of some things on the Mac; the iPaq is bugging me because whilst FileJuicer can open up a Windows EXE and give me the CAB files, there appear to be files I need outside of the CAB archives. Silly machine. What is annoying - you can't remotely (network) connect to a Windows box with ActiveSync without having paired the machine first. Even my sodding Newton had a browser for network machines. Microsoft still have a LOT to learn about making networking 'user friendly'.
Anyway, paranoia.
I have a little Firewire hub, and I noticed I sometimes have glitches on Firewire devices - iPod once got messed up, the scanner is kinda fussy. It's reported as an "Unknown Device". It does seem to be working, so I'm not that worried, but surely Belkin are used to making Mac things and would make it say what it is. The USB hubs do.
Adding to this, the Epson scanner is an "E" Model "0x0". This convinced me it wasn't right, so I checked the scanner on the eMac - Epson Perfection 4880, nice and verbose. Wait, it's on USB2. Let's try Firewire. "E" model "G".
I mean, FFS, the iPod says what it is. The iSight says what it is. Would it KILL them to finish whatever bit of software or firmware that tells you what the device is? I mean, I know Firewire has only been around for something like 7 years and it probably takes some time to have a string which is more informative than "E" as your device ID...
Logical: The information is presented in a mess. Is this some sort of endian issue, or is it just "That's how things are done on PCs", or what? I've never had a PC that actually worked with FireWire - attempts to get a card working in the Dell resulted in bits of Dell flying everywhere (though when the same no-name card was found in a cupboard and shoved in the G3, it worked first time and was supported by the OS X version that the G3 wasn't supposed to be running).
No response from PocketMac yet, which is annoying. I want to make the iPaq do stuff; at the moment it's a very pretty (albeit badly made in little, detail ways) desktoy. I can't even work out how to change the screensaver to stop it displaying the built-in pictures when it's in the charger. I like the big clock and calendar, I don't like HP's image of what my lifestyle should be like. Edit: So, yeah, like, the application "Dockware" is responsible for the pictures. Nice one. Documentation is a lost art, clearly. I managed to get rid of the pictures.
Sick of reading about the iPod 60Gb being cheaper. I want one, dammit!
Anyway, paranoia.
I have a little Firewire hub, and I noticed I sometimes have glitches on Firewire devices - iPod once got messed up, the scanner is kinda fussy. It's reported as an "Unknown Device". It does seem to be working, so I'm not that worried, but surely Belkin are used to making Mac things and would make it say what it is. The USB hubs do.
Adding to this, the Epson scanner is an "E" Model "0x0". This convinced me it wasn't right, so I checked the scanner on the eMac - Epson Perfection 4880, nice and verbose. Wait, it's on USB2. Let's try Firewire. "E" model "G".
I mean, FFS, the iPod says what it is. The iSight says what it is. Would it KILL them to finish whatever bit of software or firmware that tells you what the device is? I mean, I know Firewire has only been around for something like 7 years and it probably takes some time to have a string which is more informative than "E" as your device ID...
Logical: The information is presented in a mess. Is this some sort of endian issue, or is it just "That's how things are done on PCs", or what? I've never had a PC that actually worked with FireWire - attempts to get a card working in the Dell resulted in bits of Dell flying everywhere (though when the same no-name card was found in a cupboard and shoved in the G3, it worked first time and was supported by the OS X version that the G3 wasn't supposed to be running).
No response from PocketMac yet, which is annoying. I want to make the iPaq do stuff; at the moment it's a very pretty (albeit badly made in little, detail ways) desktoy. I can't even work out how to change the screensaver to stop it displaying the built-in pictures when it's in the charger. I like the big clock and calendar, I don't like HP's image of what my lifestyle should be like. Edit: So, yeah, like, the application "Dockware" is responsible for the pictures. Nice one. Documentation is a lost art, clearly. I managed to get rid of the pictures.
Sick of reading about the iPod 60Gb being cheaper. I want one, dammit!
