Internet connection timer in menue bar?

Hello, I was looking for help to make my mac have a small picture of a phone with a small dial showing how long ive been on the net for, just like in the top right hand corner of this picture.. any reply would be VERY greatfully apprecited THANKS!!
*not actually picture of my mac...

I have just the opposite situation...
I just migrated from Tiger to Leopard. In Tiger the menu bar just showed the Airport signal. In Leopard it shows the signal icon and the connect time. I don't need to know the connect time on an "Always On" connection, and it's taking up some valuable Menu Bar real estate.
So, how do I keep the signal strength icon but not the connect time?

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Hi everyone,
I'm having a very silly problem that is driving me crazy. I found similar problems on this forum but not exactly the answer to them.
The "Show date and time in menu bar" checkbox System Preferences will not remain checked. I have checked it 50 times but every time I close it and go back it's unchecked.
Based on some suggestions on the forum I check the SystemUIServer in Activity Monitor and it's hanging (i.e. Not Responding). I tried force quitting and restarting but it doesn't get it going. Somehow I think these two problems are related.
I also tried deleting the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file under ~/Library/Preferences and logging out and back in to go back to system defaults on the menu bar but that didn't work either.
Alot of people solved similar problems by installing OS X 10.5.2 but I'm already running 10.5.2! I'm running out of ideas here.
Any help is appreciated.

Excuse me, my interface is in Dutch and I literally translated the name.
Desktop and Screen saver I believe, select the menu for the screen saver.
There is a box you can tick, it will display the time when the screen saver is running.
It could be displayed like 3553 instead of the correct time.
If that is the case check in another user account, or make a new user account in Apple menu>System preferences>Accounts. Does the problem occur in the new account as well?

Date and Time on Menu Bar

Up until now the date and time has been displayed on the menu bar as...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:09 AM
Now, for some reason, it's being displayed as...
Tue 8:09 AM
Here's what I've tried in trying to restore the format...
1) System Preferences > Menu Bar Clock > Show Date and Time in Menu Bar
2) Deleted the following preference files:
com.apple.MenuBarClock.plist
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
Does anyone know how I can restore the format?
Thanks!
eMac Mac OS X (10.2.x) 128 MB, 700 MHz PowerPC G4

It looks like there can be as little
as 6 or so characters between the two sets of
icons
That sounds low, especially in
the Finder, even at the lower screen resolutions. I
just played with stepping down resolutions on this
Mac, and various right-side icons (the CoreServices
eject.menu, Display, Classic, and sound icons, plus
those from MenuMeters) disappeared
before the date and time (shown as "Tue 28 Nov, 04:00
PM" were affected (right-side menu items are
truncated from left to right).
In my case, just the date disappeared. So instead of seeing...
Tue November 28, 2006 5:43 PM
...I was seeing...
Tue 5:43 PM
The icons to the left (on the right side icons) were still there and unaffected.
What Display
resolution do you normally use?
It's set at 1024 X 768.
Does the time&date
format go back to the expected form if you increase
resolution to maximum as a test? If the format
affected by starting up in Safe Mode?
After trying the remedy you reference in your previous post, the format is back to where it was so I won't be able to test it. But I guess you suspect that the Date and Time was truncated because there wasn't enough space between the left side and right side icons, is this right? It would seem like a logical explanation...

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Using 10.6.7 with all updates as of the time I am writing this.
Show date and time in menu bar is unselected and unselectable. When I select it (click it) it will unselect itself. I will see the checkmark for 1/2 a second, but won't stay selected.
I've reparied permissions in the Disk Utility as described by a similar post (on an older version of the OS) with no luck.
At a little bit of a loss. Spending the mandatory 30 minutes with various forms of Google searches with no luck.
Looking for new ideas other than an OS restore.
David

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Restart?

Sonata Library Files Playing only internet connection time

Hi everyone.
My Problem ; Sonata Library Files Playing only internet connection time.When Internet connection not available sonata not playing my library files.
Thank you for helping.
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# An example configuration file for MPD
# See the mpd.conf man page for a more detailed description of each parameter.
# Files and directories #######################################################
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What is dropping I guess is the question? Is it wireless? Is it your WAN connection? You need to identify where the problem is.
To do that you need to try a few things.
1. If you use wireless then bypass it and use ethernet if that is possible.. even just drag things around so you can test if ethernet fixes it. If so and wireless is in fact the problem.. then you can do a few things.
2. Wireless issues with the 7.6.4 firmware are common. Did you upgrade about the time the problems started? I am afraid the bad news is, downgrading is not like in the past where it fixed things.. 7.6.4 seems to have some permanent effect on the TC and it is never quite the same again. How this is even possible I have yet to determine.
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Set wireless with short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. Different name for 5ghz.
Make sure security is WPA Personal with pure alphanumeric password of 8-20 characters.. unless you are more paranoid.
Fix the wireless channels and test in order. 11, 8, 6, 1
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3. No improvement factory reset again.. downgrade to 7.6.1 or even 7.5.2 if it is an older Gen4 .. at 18months it might be old enough.. no harm trying. Factory reset again after the downgrade to see if we can get rid of the memory effect.. then try the above steps again.
No luck.. whatever the upgrade did it did permanently.. no fix is available until Apple pushes out a new firmware to fix what they did in the last one. Buy a different wireless router for now and use the TC in bridge just for TM backups.

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My question is - how can I display that I am connected/using the ethernet connection rather than the wi-fi? The wi-fi symbol stays in the menu bar but it would be nice to see that I am using the ethernet connection instead
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medren wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions, all of you; I hope I can get to the point where someday I can answer a newbie's question.
Your welcome. Thanks for the it is appreciated.
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