Re: Newbie / PowerBook at work (LAN) & home (AirPort)
Re: Newbie / PowerBook at work (LAN) & home (AirPort)
- Subject: Re: Newbie / PowerBook at work (LAN) & home (AirPort)
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:26:47 -0500
On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 01:18 AM, Michael Wilking wrote:
Additional follow ups:
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Paul had suggestion of scripting all but the determination of the type
of connection.
That is, have menu pop up on start that would ask where it is at, user
chooses form menu and off it goes to set up computer and apps, etc.
This would work (except 1 little thing) and cover bulk of scripting.
On boot, have to wait for menu to come up, then wait for script to do
its thing. No biggy, but often, say at home, boot it up, then while it
is booting, make coffee, check phone messages, kick the cats, etc.
Would have in essence a 2 step start process.
You could add the location managing script to your login items. That
still requires making the choice of locations from it's list, but a
property could hold the most current choice and allow you to have it
make a default choice if the dialog times out while you're AFK.
Perhaps a more useful choice might be to have it toggle between your
two most frequent locations.
As a PB user though I wonder why you have to boot. I reboot on the
occasional SW update request, and I admit to rebooting now and then
when I feel like things are getting unstable or slow. But ordinarily, I
just shut it.
I find it hard to believe, one cannot access type/method of
connection. Is there something in dev tools that would do it? Can it
be done in terminal? If one were writing a browser, ichat, help
viewer, email program would not one have to be able to determine how
the computer is connected? I mean, when I am at work (for example)
entourage/system can9t be trying to send/receive email through airport
or if it attempts it, it gets signal/message that airport is not
working so it tries, LAN (or modem) etc. Or do apps just send
signals/info to all outlets and hope it goes thru?
Your programs don't care what method you use to communicate. They
don't even know what you're using. The OS handles that, the apps just
use it. Much like your cats who don't care how you manage to acquire
food, they just eat it.
--
Paul Skinner
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Mike Wilking
619 990 7642
email@hidden
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