No true human support

I can not believe Skype has no phone number for tech support,to me it seems to be arrogant and cheap.

Hi, chuck54, and welcome to the Community,
With all due respect and appreciation for the technical issues you are facing, have you considered posting your enquiry here in the Community? We all benefit from the shared knowledge and expertise of our Super Users and many regular contributors, many of whom are experts in their subject matter areas.
Please allow me to clarify: Skype does offer live chat customer support, and this service is provided by real people; not a multi-tier robotic answering service.
Here is how to contact Skype Customer Service via their secure portal:
Live chat allows you to use instant messaging to contact our Customer Services team via our website.
To be eligible for live chat, you have to belong to one of these groups:
Skype Premium customers
Skype Manager™ administrators
Other groups of eligible paying customers
This service can be accessed via our website 24 hours a day, and is currently only available in English.
If you are a Skype customer, you can contact live chat support as follows:
Sign in with your Skype Name and password.
Select the topic you need help with and the problem you’re having. Some information that might help with your problem is displayed.
If the information doesn’t help, click Continue support request.
Select your contact method.
If you are eligible for live chat support, you will see an option to request chat support. Click the Start a chat button.
A live chat representative will ask you to describe your problem, and do their best to talk you through possible solutions.
If you are not eligible for live chat, then you can still contact us via email by following the same instructions as above.
I am also pleased to report the people who respond to my enquiries via e-mail are thorough and efficient.
Best regards,
Elaine
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I would like to find a client for that supports a Global Inbox.
In Mail, click the little arrow to the right of "Inbox" in the mailbox list. Now select "Inbox" to view all the messages in all In boxes. (Technically, you don't even have to collapse the list to do this.) I can't say anything about exchange support, though, but perhaps you should let folks know how Mail's exchange support is inadequate so any advice is more relevant.

Is this true re support by phone?

I was told today by Apple phone support that I was entitle to the Apple phone support "for the life of the phone" (what does "life of the phone" mean? When is it slated to "die"?)

i think it just means, as long as you own the iPhone, you have the support for it.

In competitive exams photo in "true color" format.... How to do it in adobe photoshop please replay it.....

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Mayuk, you are not making any sense here.
True color (24-bit)
"True Color" redirects here. For images with natural color rendition, see true-color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Truecolor.png 24 bits (16,777,216 colors, "truecolor")
True color supports 24-bit for three RGB colors. It provides a method of representing and storing graphical-image information (especially in computer processing) in an RGB color space such that a very large number of colors, shades, and hues can be displayed in an image, such as in high-quality photographic images or complex graphics. Usually, true color is defined to mean 256 shades of red, green, and blue, for a total of 224 or 16,777,216 color variations. The human eye can discriminate up to ten million colors.[13]
Color images composed from 3 grayscale images A, B & C assigned to R,G & B in different orders.
"True color" can also refer to an RGB display-mode that does not need a color look-up table (CLUT).
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Even with true color, monochromatic images, which are restricted to 256 levels, owing to their single channel, can sometimes still reveal visible banding artifacts.
True color, like other RGB color models, cannot express colors outside of the gamut of its RGB color space (generally sRGB).
Macintosh systems refer to 24-bit color as "millions of colors".
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Re-assigning a retail license for Office 2010 Home and Student - any charge for support?

I want to re-assign one of three licenses for Office, but I went to the Support website, which prompted for the product ID and indicated that the "free support"period had expired, presumably because it is 12 months since I first installed it.
Can the reassignment be organised at the time of activating on the new computer by phone? Would a person be speaking with a human if doing a phone activation? Will there be a charge and what's it likely to cost?
I also have a suggestion for Microsoft: a de-activation routine that would enable the license transfer process without the need for human support.

Hi
Normally Office for a retail version can only be activated once at a time in one computer, Office 2010 Home &Student can be installed on three machines.
If you have used up your activation times and want to transfer your Office to a new computer, contact Microsoft Customer Service and they will help you to activate your Office in a new machine:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295539/en-us
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ER's for Facelet Support, or "why facelets is a 2nd class citizen in JDev"

Hello all,
After an [url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=873997]interesting journey getting Facelets, Trinidad, and JDeveloper 11g to play nicely together, I thought I'd post some thoughts on the sort of things that (IMHO) JDeveloper 11 needs in order to offer real, true Facelets support. I'll offer my list below, which will include observations as well as suggestions:
1). If we are going to use true .xhtml files, JDeveloper 11g doesn't support drag-and-drop from the data control pallette on to the .xhtml page (I do have a workaround that I'll detail below, but that has its own issues).
2). It's literally impossible to mix JSP and Facelets in a single project. As soon as you configure your project for JSP (by adding taglibs, for instance), you can no longer create a Facelets page from the "New" gallery, as JDeveloper will tell you "Cannot add a facelets page to a project configured for JSP." It works both ways, too - if you add a Facelets file to your project, no longer can you create a JSP.
3). Even if I manually try to get data bindings (page definitions) working with .xhtml files, it doesn't seem to work (I did this by creating a jspx file and page definition and copying files / changing the data binding registry).
4). Because ADF Faces is so intertwined with Trinidad, it would be nice if faces-config.xml and web.xml would be properly configured automatically (as an option) for Trinidad. If I manually configure faces-config.xml by ensuring the view handler is not defined there, define an alternate view handler in web.xml, and then add a new Facelets page to my project, JDeveloper undoes all my work and puts the view handler back in faces-config.xml, causing major problems.
5). To work-around the poor support for drag-and-drop from data controls onto .xhtml files, I have just decided to use .jspx as my default suffix for Facelets files. I create them via picking "JSF Page" from the new gallery, and then I manually mess around with the source so that it's not really a JSPX anymore. However, if I do this, I don't have any tag completion support for the Facelets tags. If I download the TLD from [url https://facelets.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=4190&expandFolder=4190&folderID=0]here, JDeveloper complains about not having a tag handler class.
6). Two words: WYSIWYG Editing. There isn't any for Facelets pages. I have ADF Template envy. As soon as you configure web.xml and faces-config.xml for Facelets, all WYSIWYG is broken. Now, I know "real" coders don't use WYSIWYG, but it's sure darn nice to switch from source view and take a quick peek at the layout. For new-to-JSF/new-to-Trinidad/new-to-ADF Faces developers, it's almost a hard-and-fast necessity.
7). Would be nice to have page definition inheritance working like for ADF Templates too.
8). Drag-and-dropped things from the data control tend to include f:validator tags. No problems there, but the tags don't include an validatorId. Facelets needs them. I work around this manually by adding validatorId="" to each of the tags. I know there is a velocity template somewhere that JDeveloper uses for this drag-and-drop, but I cannot find them - does anyone know where they are?
9). If, in a project with no ADF Faces - only Trinidad, if I drag-and-drop from the data control on to an ui:define tag in the structure window, I get all kinds of ADF Faces options for the drop, nothing for trinidad.
10). Facelets < 1.1.15 has a tiny bug with the ui:debug tag (you cannot expand the component tree). It would be nice to update the one included with JDev (1.1.12) - I have done this and it appears to work fine.
From a productivity point of view - #6, together with drag-and-drop support on to true .xhtml files (not .xhtml files with a .jspx extension) would elevate the game leaps-and-bounds.
I'm interested in any of the following:
a). Some wonderful news from Oracle that they already know all of these limitations and they are fixed in a patch release which was just uploaded to OTN 5 minutes ago ;)
b). Insight on better ways of working with ADF BC / ADF Bindings / Trinidad / Facelets in JDeveloper 11
c). Feedback and experiences from other people using Facelets in JDeveloper, particularly with ADF Data Binding.
Depending upon the level of interest, perhaps we can migrate the discussion over to the [url http://groups.google.com/group/adf-methodology]ADF Enterprise Methodology group and produce a Wiki page out of it.
Best regards,
John

Nice post John,
Here are some of my comments on those issues:
+1). If we are going to use true .xhtml files, JDeveloper 11g doesn't support drag-and-drop from the data control palette on to the .xhtml page (I do have a workaround that I'll detail below, but that has its own issues).+
+3). Even if I manually try to get data bindings (page definitions) working with .xhtml files, it doesn't seem to work (I did this by creating a jspx file and page definition and copying files / changing the data binding registry).+
I tried that a while back too because Facelets is so much more powerful than anything else to achieve high performance and powerful templating in JSF, but it's completely unsupported. I tried all possible combination of servlet-mapping aand servlet-filter-mapping. AFAIK there's no way to do it yet and Oracle will most likely delay the support of Facelets + Databindings until JSF 2.0 where there won't be much choice. If you got them working somehow in 11g, I would be very very interested in getting a small demo project.
+2). It's literally impossible to mix JSP and Facelets in a single project. As soon as you configure your project for JSP (by adding taglibs, for instance), you can no longer create a Facelets page from the "New" gallery, as JDeveloper will tell you "Cannot add a facelets page to a project configured for JSP." It works both ways, too - if you add a Facelets file to your project, no longer can you create a JSP.+
I can understand that one, I'm sure it comes from a a very good intention from Oracle as Facelets actually replace the JSP engine, meaning the pages don't get parsed by JSP, thus tag classes don't get called. So I assume that limitation was to prevent people from thinking that Facelets integrates with JSP while it's not at all. However, I can understand that some applications might want to leverage both technologies at the same time
Regards,
~ Simon

E65 and N95 microSD support

Hello,
simple question. I have E65 FW ver. 2.0633.65.01 03-10-07. I have 2 Giga Sandisk SD card. I have some maps on the SD card but when I want to download whole Europe its bigger than card. What is the maximum SD support for E65 please? Is it possible to use with this new FW bigger SD card? I asked in Nokia Care point and there told me that max is 2 GB, so Im asking you about the true of support.
And one more question I want to buy my girlfriend N95 (not N95 8GB) and what is there the maximum SD card support?
Thanks for answers

Hi petrr
For your E65 largest size is a maximum of 2GB microSD unfortunately.
For N95 the largest size currently available is 8GB micro SDHC although technology supports larger sizes.
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How to know whether my oracle 10g instalation in unicode supported or not

Hi
i am new to oracle. I have installed Oracle 10g client and server.
I want to know whether the database created can store unicode data/arabic data.
Please guide me how can i find whether unicode support is on for my db or not.
The outputs of some of the queries run by me are as follows:
SQL> HOST ECHO $NLS_LANG;
$NLS_LANG
SQL> HOST ECHO %NLS_LANG%;
%NLS_LANG%
SQL> @.[%NLS_LANG%];
SP2-0310: unable to open file ".[AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252]"
SQL> select cust_eng_name,cust_arb_name from custmast;
select cust_eng_name,cust_arb_name from custmast
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
Please reply me asap.

user10817093 wrote:
1. Yeh that is the thing I want. What are the other steps that i need to do with my Oracle Client/Server for unicode support.
Where i am getting trouble is the Oracle Client/Server unicode support.
And how to decide what character set will suite me best.1. If your application is going to be a "true" Unicode application, you can set the NLS_LANG registry/environment setting on your clients to ".UTF8" to enable true Unicode support.
2. Your database needs to support Unicode, too.
The recommended database character set for this in 10g is "AL32UTF8".
If you currently have a single-byte database character set (WE8MSWIN1252), you need to decide how to get this done.
If you can simply create a new database using the "AL32UTF8" character set, this would be the easiest way.
There are several documents available (e.g. on Oracle MetaLink) that describe in detail how to convert the character set of an existing database. Depending on your data this can be a tedious task involving several steps, so may be creating a new database and exporting/importing the data might be the simplest choice if you need to migrate some existing data.
The recommended national character set is "AL16UTF16", by the way, but that shouldn't matter that much once you have a Unicode enabled database using "AL32UTF8" as database character set.
2. How to set/retrive the "Database Character Set" and "National Character Set". This has already been answered partly. Retrieve:
Database Character Set:
SELECT VALUE FROM NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS WHERE PARAMETER = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';National Character Set:
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Elvis with X11 support - PKGBUILD

Building the other 2 elvis PKGBUILDs in the AUR is broken, and they are without X11 support.
I'm wondering if I should submit this PKGBUILD, which compiles and works fine, and includes X11 and x86_64 support and the help documentation, to the AUR.
# Maintainer: Robert Kieffer <rek2w @ A L U M N I DOT V I R G I N I A DOT E D U>
# Based on pkgbuild by Rudy Matela <[email protected]>
# Date: 2010-1-18
#compile options
_ELVISVERSION=2.2_0 # valid options are 2.2_0 and 2.2_1 which are stable and beta, respectively
_COMPILEWX11=true # X11 support built by default
_SLACKWARECOLORS=false # elvis colorscheme from slackware not installed by default - it's boring
_GENERALCOMPILEOPTS="" # place for you you to define your own configure options
if [ $_ELVISVERSION = "2.2_0" ]; then
_ELVISSRC="ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/elvis-2.2_0.tar.gz"
_ELVISMD5="6831b8df3e4a530395e66c2889783752"
pkgver="2.2_0"
fi
if [ $_ELVISVERSION = "2.2_1" ]; then
_ELVISSRC="ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/unreleased/almost-2.2_1.tar.gz"
_ELVISMD5="6959f2f156920db47e4c6324f187e632"
pkgver="2.2_1"
fi
pkgname=elvis_patched-withx
pkgver=$pkgver
pkgrel=1
url="http://elvis.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/"
alt_url="http://elvis.vi-editor.org/"
pkgdesc="A vi clone - with X support (if you wish) - stable or beta version"
depends=('glibc' 'libx11' 'ncurses' 'fontconfig' 'expat' 'freetype2' 'zlib')
source=("$_ELVISSRC"
"http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/pkgsrc/editors/elvis/patches/patch-ref.c"
"http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/pkgsrc/editors/elvis/patches/patch-ae"
"ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/source/a/elvis/elvis.clr")
md5sums=("$_ELVISMD5"
'8d9df9aa5edcf8e0b8a2f5d59d1c30c7'
'2bec41d9f09542e2ef41de1e6b41727e'
'c47a70cb176ebf2eb99b055c4048a560')
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('PerlArtistic')
conflicts=('elvis' 'elvis_slack')
replaces=('elvis' 'elvis_slack')
_DESKTOPFILE="[Desktop Entry]\\nType=Application\\nVersion=1.0\\nName=Elvis\\nComment=A simple text editor\\nExec=elvis\\nIcon=$pkgname\\nTerminal=true\\nCategories=Editors;Programming;Accessories"
build() {
cd $srcdir/elvis-$pkgver
if [ $_COMPILEWX11 = "true" ]
then
_GENERALCOMPILEOPTS="$_GENERALCOMPILEOPTS --with-x"
_COMPILEWX11=1
else
_GENERALCOMPILEOPTS="$_GENERALCOMPILEOPTS --with-x=no"
_COMPILEWX11=0
fi
if [ $_SLACKWARECOLORS = "true" ]
then cp $srcdir/elvis.clr ./data
fi
cat $srcdir/patch-* > patches
patch -p0 <patches
echo -e $_DESKTOPFILE > $pkgname.desktop
./configure --prefix=/usr --verbose $_GENERALCOMPILEOPTS
sed 's/\<CTAGS\>/ELVTAGS/g; s/ctags\>/elvtags/g; s/ant" elvtags/ant" ctags/' doc/ctags.man >doc/elvtags.man
/usr/bin/make || return 1
install -d $pkgdir/usr/bin $pkgdir/usr/share/elvis/ $pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/
for i in elvis ref elvtags elvfmt; do
install -D -s -m755 $i $pkgdir/usr/bin/
done
cd $srcdir/elvis-$pkgver/data/
cp -r * $pkgdir/usr/share/elvis/
cd $srcdir/elvis-$pkgver/doc/
install -D -m644 *.html bugs.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/elvis/
for i in elvis ref elvtags elvfmt; do
mv $i.man $i.1
gzip $i.1
install -D -m644 $i.1.gz $pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/
done
if (( $_COMPILEWX11 ))
then
install -D -m644 $srcdir/elvis-$pkgver/$pkgname.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop
install -D -m644 $srcdir/elvis-$pkgver/data/icons/elvis3.xpm $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/$pkgname.xpm
fi
Last edited by theapodan (2010-01-20 01:15:08)

While I didn't actually read your PKGBUILD here, in general, there's no reason not to submit such things to AUR.

Are there any other support options?

Does anyone know of a legitimate alternative human support option for Firefox, such as telephone, or chat, or direct one on one email, including paid/fee-based, options?
Thanks,
SK

iamjayakumars,
There are a number. This forum method is cumbersome (though very good, and people are very helpful), and often the elapsed time is too great for the nature or severity and/or urgency of the issues. Then, when you do get an answer, with - refer to such and such link or article, and try it, there are subsequent followups that can occur, again with the wait involved, and another layer of complexity to the problem. I would like at least have direct email with someone, or "someones, ".
For instance, see my question posted 03/3/13, 7:56 AM -
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It is now 04/06/13, and not resolved, and this is a straightforward one, without complications.
I've got more complex ones that I would be better served with direct one on one communication. I would pay for it.
Also, see this question -
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posted by stevek302 (that is also me), on 3/29/13 10:20 PM. I tried the profile method. but while installing, I chose a different folder/path then the x86 location, which is by design. At first it seemed to work, it was a clean install, without my 20 extensions, and 150 Bookmarks folders, and 100 Bookmarks Toolbar bookmarks. But now the new profile is no longer in Profile Manager. I ran the .exe setup file again, again chose a new folder, it appears to have installed in the new folder, but clicking it and opening it in the new folder, it opens with all the extensions, Bookmarks, etc., from the other Default profile. Now, it's 8 days later, and I still don't have it answered. I would willingly pay x amount a year for email, chat, or phone support, even from a third party company. But, Mozilla could use the funds.
There are more things constantly coming up. I am a long term user. I really like FF. It is so customizable. I am a layman, not an IT/computer guy, but hopefully towards the higher end of that scale, though self-taught. I want to keep using it, but as I learn more about it and do more with it, more things come up. Right now, using Google, the results page is behaving as though an auto-paging add-on is working. I want to be able to see the related searches at the bottom of the page, but I can't get to click any because the next page endlessly loads as I get down close to the bottom. I have no auto-page extension or plugin, neither enabled, nor disabled. I may have had one sometime, but not for a while. Yet in about:config, there are a bunch of auto-paging lines. Why are they there if its been removed? And the list goes on.
Thanks,
SK

PowerPC G5 support

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I am still fine with my PowerMac G5 and the old MB and MBP, and since apples bad support behaviour i won´t buy any new apple hardware in the future. I mean 10.5. Leopard came out fall 2007 and the last update was around april or may 2011, so around 3,5 years of support, same for 10.4 and others. And now that iTunes 10.7 is no longer available for PowerPC ihttp://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/decided.html decided, Apple no longer supports me so i no longer support them...
OK, they make their money with the hardware, but at least they could efford supporting a Version 5 years, after that i would be willing to pay for "extended support" to get at least security updates...

Static Support

I am a very new convert to Mac (4 days). Just purchased a MacBook Pro and having some serious issues. I get electric shocks in my wrists when typing and mac is on mains power, seems ok on battery. Has anyone else experienced this or is this just some kind of penance that I have to pay for using a PC all this time?
Second problem is a pixel has given up on me already and is burning nice and bright. When I took this up with the store here in the UAE they told me that Mac will not do anything about screen until at least 5 pixels give up, is this true.
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The pixel is fixed! I tried both your solutions and nothing seemed to happen but when I looked again about 10 mins later its was normal again. Well done!
Many thanks

Happy New Year To All!... :D

Happy New Year To All!.. :D Apple Bring a New Beautiful Products.. We Hope that Apple Launch new Amazing and Thinner Product.. :D

babowa wrote:
So you have a problem with people wishing other people a happy New Year?
However, claiming this thread includes speculation and rumors about Apple policies is absurd.
If you'd like, I will report you and your concern to the hosts.
Babowa-
No, I like people wishing other people a happy new year, and I wish you one too.
My posting here was NOT really a complaint about the original post. It was an experiment. I am new here and I have had a couple of posts removed on the grounds they did not conform to the site's policies. So I am trying to understand better how the process works, hence this little "test". I was looking for a post that did NOT say something negative about Apple but that DID violate at least a strict reading of the rules about acceptable posts. No, I am not a lawyer, but legal thinking fascinates me. The Happy New Year post met these criteria.
Several users have posted to this forum that Apple removes posts that seem to be critical of Apple, regardless of whether they violate the "stated" rules. If these allegations are true, human judgment would be needed in order to implement Apple's policy and it is not obvious how that judgment is being applied. I am curious. Does a user "report to the hosts" if he or she is offended by a post? Does Apple have a computer program that screens for key words? Does Apple have employees who try to read as many posts as possible?
By way of background and to explain further my motivation, my deleted posts I thought were constructive and consistent with the stated "terms of use". It could be taken as critical of Apple, however. So I browsed the forum in search of something that was NOT critical of Apple but that I thought was even less consistent with the stated terms of use than my deleted post. Clearly, this "Happy New Year" post is not a technical question. It was written by a non-native English speaker who may or may not have been drinking in celebration. It is not offensve, but it is "clutter." Also, "Avoid Speculation and Rumor" is a standard that can be interpreted both very narrowly or very broadly. Apple could use that standard to justify deleting almost any post that included a statment about what Apple might do in the future, and so I mentioned that too.
The hypothesis in my little experiment (thanks for playing) is that Apple will NOT delete the "Happy New Year" post even though it could be categorized as inconsistent with the rules. If so, then the theory that Apple has an "unwritten" rule of deleting posts on this forum that are critical of Apple would be strenghened. Of course, Apple could view this post as being "not constructive" and delete it while leaving the "Happy New Year" post I may have just defeated the purpose of my experiment by answering your question as frankly as I have.
My current thinking is that I should not waste time expressing opinions here or engaging in "community-building" posts here. This forum seems to be a brilliant innovation by Apple to get its customers to do the "support work" for it while also enforcing the same strict standards it imposes on its own workforce. I've posted too much. I hope I have not offended. "Like" if you like.

How I got my 2011 MacBook Pro (17") to work with the UML290 without any 'hackery'

Frustrated and fed up with waiting for Verizon to finally fully support an operating system that is almost two and a half years old now, I decided to experiment and play around with things myself. Here is what I learned:
For some reason, the "dial your number" network hack that people got working didn't work for me. I set up everything as the tutorials all said (GRPS (GSM/2G), APN to "vzwinternet", dial your phone number, user name is [email protected], password is vzw, CID 3, etc). It just would not work for me. Maybe it's becasue I had my UML290 hooked up to a Windows 7 box that updated the firmware, which may have rendered this 'hack' inept. I don't know; all I know as that, despite trying to get this method to work for several days, I was never able to get it to work.
There was no way, as far as I could see, to force the Verizon Access Manager (VZAM) software to run in 32bit mode as you can with most other programs. Typically, you can hilight a program, press CMD+I and select a checkbox to run an app in 32bit mode, but no such option existed for VZAM (for whatever reason).
Finally, I found a workaround to get the modem working until Verizon gets their act together and makes VZAM work with 64bit OS X. Here's how:
Completely power off your computer.
Depress and hold the "3" key and the "2" key (at the top of your keyboard) at the same time BEFORE pressing the power button.
Press the power button while continuing to hold the "3" key and the "2" key.
Continue to hold the "3" key and the "2" key until the login prompt comes up.
Log in as normal (you may have to remove a bunch of characters from the password field; just CMD+A and delete what's in there and type your password as usual).
After following the steps above, you should have forced your Mac to run in 32bit mode. Run VZAM as normal and you should have no trouble connecting to the 4G/3G network.
Note: This measure is TEMPORARY, and will force OS X to load the 32bit kernel instead of the default 64bit kernel (if your MacBook is set up to use the 64bit kernel by default). This change will be undone at your next restart provided you do not hold down the "3" key and the "2" key.
Note: If you used previously posted "dial-up" methods to get your modem working on your Mac, you will need to undo the 'damage' to your settings that that workaround caused. Please see my post here (post 14) for detailed instructions on how to do so.
Note: This is a temporary solution that carries with it some down sides:
True 64bit support offers higher levels of security than 32bit.
You will likely be unable to use more than 3GB of of memory as a 32bit OS cannot, by nature, address that much RAM.
Please let me know if you have any problems. I can't promise I can help, but I'll do my best.

Hey, it's a simple fix that should give most people what they want until there is full VZW support: the ability to use their card with the VZAM software. I didn't see anyone else offering that suggestion... If you don't want to use it, you don't have to.
At the very least, this does seem to prove the theory that this is an issue with the 32/64bit compatability that some have refuted.

Possible to segment traffic between 2 interfaces? And other questions...

I would like to set my G5 up as a server utilizing a second connection and to keep traffic seperated between this server connection and my regular internet connection (would be wireless). I'm pretty sure this alone is fairly straightforward and can be accomplished by setting up the new interface and moving it down to the bottom of the connection list with wireless at the top. That should keep all non-specific traffic from flowing out the ethernet/server connection - I think.
If the above works the way I stated then I would also want to firewall ONLY the ethernet/server connection (the wireless has it's own hardware firewall). AND - this is the tricky part - I also want to add a fake interface that has a fake IP and bind that to the "real" ethernet/server connection. The reason for that is because I need a static IP to bind the service to. I know if the connection list thing works to flow the traffic that if I had an external router on the server connection, this wouldn't be needed. I'd already have a fake IP to bind to and I wouldn't have to run the firewall on the Mac. But I don't and I'd rather not have to buy one.
So can this be done through the network/sharing preferance panes? If so, are there any "gotchas" I should be aware of? If not, is there any software tool out there that would make setting this up easier/faster? I'm not opposed to doing it all via command line, but I'm a bit rusty with my linux/unix admin knowledge. Plus I'm not 100% certain how to set all that up command line wise without screwing up OS X!
Thanks.

I'm not sure I fully understand what you are attempting to accomplish. Lets see if I have the general idea.
You have a single G5, that you want to use as both your desktop machine and also to provided specific services, such as web, email, etc.
You have some type of hardware firewall/security appliance.
You have some type of wireless access point.
You don't seem to have any type of router or switch in your configuration.
You want all of your server based traffic to be sent and received on it's own Ethernet port. You want your personal Internet traffic to be sent and received on your wireless connection.
So my questions are:
Where is the server traffic going to, coming from? Who is accessing the server, is it users on the Internet, or just computers on your own LAN (which you didn't mention).
If your server is to allow data from or send to the Internet, then you need to have a way to route the traffic there. Do you have more then one method to access the Internet, or will all traffic, both personal and server being going though the same Internet access pipe?
If it is all going through the same pipe, and you only have the single computer, I don't understand why you wish to segment the traffic.
If on the other hand you have multiple computers on your LAN. then segmenting traffic may make sense. This would allow access to your server and keep your LAN well secure.
Anyway, to get to specifics, you'll need to use the terminal app to bind specific services to specific IP's and ports on your Mac. You will also need to manually configure the firewall to be able to select specific connection ports and bindings. However, while I think it can be done, I'm not sure it makes a great deal of sense.
I would be more inclined to suggest a router or switch that can provide VLAN support, or a router that provides true DMZ support, would be a good way to go.
Anyway, a little more info would be helpful.
Oh and if I have this totally worng in what I think your doing.. My mistake.
Tom N.

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