Public Access Wi Fi

My new iTouch works fine at home accessing my local Apple/Airport network. However, I live in New York City and when I'm away from home and a public access Wi Fi appears on my display and Wi Fi is shown as 'On', I cannot access the internet. I get an error message 'cannot access mail.com'. Someone told me some public access Wi Fi systems are only compatible with PCs. Anyone else having trouble accessing Wi Fi when away from home? Thanks.

Not all detectable Wi-Fi networks are free. Some are locked, meaning you need a password to connect to the network. Some are open (not locked) but still require you to enter login into, or agree to terms of use, before you can connect to the internet. For those, you need to launch Safari and go to a 'common' page (e.g. google.com, cnn.com); you are re-directed to the network's front page. For example, this is the case for free Wi-Fi at Panera Bread, the local library, etc.
Also, in some cases, the open network requires use of a proxy server, and if you don't have that information, you cannot connect to the internet, even though your are connected to the WiFi network.
Hope this helps...

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Okay, here's the situation. I have a PowerMac G4/1.25GHz dual processor running Server X 10.3.9 with four Mac clients (a small law office). Up until recently, everyone had also been running (client) 10.3.9, but I started upgrading some of them to 10.4 (currently 10.4.5). When I did this, they started running into problems with Word sometimes giving a "network or file permission error" when attempting to save documents to the server. After weeks of posting questions to Word support and trying everything in the book that I could think of, I found Apple recently posted what appears to be the answer to this (article 302979, "Microsoft Office applications fail to save to a server volume." The problem? I have all four users logging into the same account on the server, and when one of them logs out, it zaps everything in a Microsoft-created temp folder on the server, including temp files created by open documents created by other clients. Sheesh.
I had everyone set to use the same account because they have no need of document security -- everyone should be able to get into everyone else's files on the server, period. So, because of this snafu, I've created separate accounts for each of the users. My problem now is that, if user "X" creates a file or folder on the server, user "Y" cannot modify it because it is created as read-only. Strangely, if someone modifies an existing file, it doesn't change the user rights at all -- not sure why.
I'll admit to being a bit of a novice with Server X but am familiar with parent/child folder permissions -- I think I've got everything set right, but I must obviously be missing something. Here's what I've got setup, and what I've tried. If anyone can point out how I've got this setup improperly, I really need to get this fixed... thanks.
I have a single sharepoint ("workfiles"). I used the "public" folder as an example, and set the owner to "root" and the group to "staff". Further, I set the owner, group and everyone privileges to "read & write". I've also tried setting the group to "admin". All the individual user accounts I've set are also setup as admin users. I've tried setting each users's primary group as "staff (20)" or "admin (80)". I've copied all these privileges to all enclosed items, which does reset everything to public access, but as soon as someone creates a new folder or file, that folder/file becomes private to that user (it shows up with the creator's username as "owner" (r&w), group as "admin (read-only), and others as "read-only" as well.
PS: If upgrading the server to Server X 10.4 would help, I'm sure I can arrange that.

In our law firm, the server (10.4.4), we have set access to read/write access so staff can open client files/folders, edit then and close, etc. That seems to be working okay. Before the tech worked on permissions, if someone created a letter another staff member could open it, but it was read-only.
The problem we are having is that if a file that is clicked on stationery pad and we want to edit it, it will not allow us to. For example, if we need to edit our letterhead that normally comes up as an untitled document, if I unclick the stationery pad box, it unclicks, but it still comes up as an untitled document. I even tried to unclick a stationery pad on a document that I created before the server upgrade and it wouldn't let me.
If I create a brand new document and put it on stationery pad, it comes up untitled as it should. If another user on another desktop wants to make changes, they unclick the stationery pad box, but when they open it, it comes up untitled and in checking get info, the stationery pad is selected.
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Access tab: owner, group and everyone have read/write privileges
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I cannot drag/add anything to the control list and the pencil and the minus sign is shaded
Protocol tab: Both boxes, share item using AFP and Allow AFP guest users are clicked. But for better security in reading the article, this should be unchecked.
Also under the protocol tab: the inherit permission from parent radio dial is clicked, not the use standard POSIX behavior.
What are we missing?
Thanks, Cheryl

Trying to compare FCP with Media 100 for a Public Access studio

Hi all,
I am new here. I do most of the review of products for our Public Access studio. We have a couple of existing Media 100 systems and we are considering adding or upgrading our NLE capabilities. Our studio manager had a chance to look at FCP being used at our high school and she came back with a number of impressions that I wonder about and would like to vet with people who know more about FCP. So, any comments would be helpful.
The high school media person demo’d FCP for her and let her play with it a bit. After looking at it herself, she says she would definitely say Media 100 is easier to understand/use, especially if you've never used non-linear editing before. That is fairly typical of the people doing Public Access production in our town.
However, it looks to her like there are a lot of tools that come with FCP that Media 100 either doesn't have or are not easily found in it. For example, she feels FCP’s set up looks more complicated and confusing compared to Media 100’s, but in FCP you can have up to 99 video lines in a program, where with Media 100 we're just going back and forth between the a and b video lines. Plus you can have up to 99 Audio tracks on FCP as well, where our max at the moment is 8. Now as to when you would need 99 video or audio tracks, she is not sure, but it is definitely a capability that we don't have in Media 100.
Titling looked easier to her on Media 100. With FCP there were a lot of filters involved and hoops to jump through, plus she couldn't do a word with each letter a different color, for example, unless she did each letter on a different track.
The media person warned her that FCP is really large. Apparently the program itself takes up like 35 GB of space on the hard drive, and a typical 30 min. project comes in at over 100 GB! She couldn't believe it, but she was assured it’s true. Even with our longest programs, like like a School Committee meeting thqat went 3 1/2 hours, it would came in at a max of 30 GB on the Media 100. She got the impression this big difference was so because Final Cut renders everything you do, including rendering any edits you make on your footage as new files, and stores it all in a huge folder. She thinks with Media 100, you import the footage and use it as is - the only things it will render are screen freezes, transitions, and color effects. Is that sort of comparison correct (and fair), or is something being missed?
She says in her experience that something like iMovie is the most basic as far as what you can do, then Ulead would be a step above that- the editing is basically the same, but you have a few more options. Media 100 would be next as far as ease of use and understanding of the program. FCP seemed a little confusing even to her. Comments or insights?
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Welcome to the family, maybe.
I switched from M100 about four years ago, I was never so glad to give that company the boot. A direct comparison just isn't possible but I'll try to answer some questions. There is a Media 100 forum on creativecow.net.
she says she would definitely say Media 100 is easier to understand/use, especially if you've never used non-linear editing before.< </div>
Yes, absolutely, M100 has always had an elegant and refined interface. However, the paradigm in FCP is not opaque. It's far more interesting, deeper, more complex. So, yes, it's a bit tougher to grasp. But don't sell your students/users short. They'll get it.
99 tracks is marketing BS. The serious work is done with nesting. How many public access pieces need more than 5 or 10 video tracks?
Titling in FCP depends on third party filters like Boris or tools like LiveType and Motion. The basic titling tools in FCP are lame and difficult to use, in my opinion, compared to the elegant titler in M100 (as long as you don't launch Graffiti).
The installation includes tens of gigs of animation, movie and music loop resources that you don't need to load. The suite includes Motion, LiveType, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and FCP.
If you're shooting DV, a 3-1/2 hour show is, umm, well, you look it up, DV is DV. But if you're capturing 3 hours from each of three cameras, that's a lot of DV.
Rendering depends on lots of things. M100's native codec handles lots of realtime stuff that FCP can't unless you've got a huge Macintosh. Previewing is not a big deal at lower rez in FCP, you get used to it. .
FCP is really scary. You can look at thousands of "I'm in way over my head, HELP!" posts here. But all those folks find they slip right into the Apple paradigm, the weirdly new workflow and start exploring the wide new world of serious editing that FCP opens up. You'll hate it for a few months because it's so dramatically different from M100. You'll love it, though.
If you want to continue the thread, give the rest of the disaffected former M100 users a few days to post their comments. There are many of us here. Then maybe start a new thread, one question at a time.
bogiesan

ITunes U Public Access Issue -- iTunes Fails to Launch

Hello,
I've been notified of an issue with our iTunes U public access link. When users go to our itunes.clemson.edu page and try to access our public content via the Log In No ID Required link, iTunes does not launch.
This occurs when the user is off campus and not on the Clemson network (using IE). If the user VPN's into our network, things work as expected. This should not be a problem since the public content is available to anyone who wishes to view the Clemson iTunes U page.
We also have the same issue when users are off campus and try to gain access to our private content by authenticating with their campus userid and password. When they are on the Clemson network, everything is accessible, but when they are not, iTunes seems to be unavailable.
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Nicholas
mcelve2 at clemson dot edu

Your users may be running into an issue specific to their browser. You might want to read these threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2404380
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2927738
Unfortunately there's behavior in some browsers that doesn't always launch iTunes successfully based on previous dialog messages the user may have dismissed or unknowingly choose the wrong option.

I am opening a public access/community TV station soon. We are thinking of using Final Cut X for our staff

I am opening a public access/community TV station very soon. We are thinking of using Final Cut X for our staff and community producers. I am curious if there are any special discounts for multiple purchases of computers, but also for Final Cut X software? Does anyone reading have any experience from a public access TV perspective?

Hi SCaryPictures,
I run a PEG station, where I have used FCP7, AvidExpressPro, Adobe CS6/CC, and FCPX - I am approaching 2 years with my FCPX experience. I'd be happy to engage with you in a private email thread about my experience (I value my access to the people on this forum, and I don't want the Apple staffers to take offence.) Good luck founding your station!
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Some users cannot "see" broadcast Public Access SSID but can all others...

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I heard that there is a community in SDN which allow users to access SAP systems (such as CRM, XI/PI, etc.) to test and try things.
(1) Is that true ? What is the URL ?
If not, is there any site for public access to SAP systems with or w/o fees ?
(2) Is there Test Drive for XI/PI ? Could not locate it under downloads.
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Hans

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I want to know what is the significance of public access modifier with main (String args[]) method. Like generally we write
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OR
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then also its working properly.............
then what is the use of public keyword..........................
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then what is the use of public keyword..........................Convention, I believe. And I think newer versions of the JVM require it.
P.S. Relax a bit on the punctuation overuse. Many folks around here find that a bit irritating, and you probably don't intend to send that kind of a message. Cheers!

DTO with attributes having public access.

Hi
In my application I'm using Data Trandfer Objects for trasfering data between client and server. It's only used for travfering data and as a client side buffer. Shall I keep all the attributes with public access specifiers?Is it against any concepts?
Example:
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public String resourceId;
public String lastName;
public String firstName;
public String department;
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So my proposal would be a class with a public
constructor, only private attributes and publich
getter methods. Additionally, you should implement
toString to allow easy debugging.
That gets rather tedious when the GUI layer wants to modify a single attribute.
The reason is, that you can easily introduce errors,
if you make all attributes public. Just consider the
following example:
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is some method, which creates a DTO
process(rdto); // here we do something with this DTO
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by process!!At least in my implementations, I don't try to guess whether it was modified or not. The caller is specifically required to do something different if is modified vs if is not.
And I not sure how this example proves your point. Creating a new object everytime doesn't tell you whether it was modified or not from the original. If you want to track modification then add a setter which sets a flag.
Additionally, if you
implement equals and hashCode, then your DTO could be
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But the vast majority will not be used in a hash.
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Can anyone give me a sense for the kind of success in terms of numbers of general traffic users to iTunes U Public Access content that your school is achieving? We are unable to get authentication for private courses working, so are left with the public access content and would like to gather some numbers to give to the public relations folks about potential benefits so they can take over.
rreo at gmu dot edu

Can anyone give me a sense for the kind of success in terms of numbers of general traffic users to iTunes U Public Access content that your school is achieving? We are unable to get authentication for private courses working, so are left with the public access content and would like to gather some numbers to give to the public relations folks about potential benefits so they can take over.
rreo at gmu dot edu

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In BI Publisher we set up a public access folder called "Guest". I understand by doing this any user can access the folder and the reports in this folder. We do not want the users to access the reports that are in this folder because, the reason why we set up the public access folder was to have just reports in this folder that are being called from a form. *(Which I was told this was the only way to call reports from forms).* Otherwise, we do not want the users to be able to access this folder and to run these reports when they want. The public access folder called "Guest" is under Shared Folders. Since it is under Shared Folders any user can see the folder and have access to it automatically. Can the Administrator put the public access folder under My Folders so the users can't see it or access it but reports can still be called from a form? Or is there another way to set up reports in BI Publisher that can be called from a form?
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Hello,
My comments inline:
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Go to the Wiki home page as an admin user, under the 'Admin functions' category in the side bar select 'Settings'. On the settings page, you will see a category named 'Comments'. Edit this to select 'Anyone' from the 'Commenters' drop down list. This will allow anyone to add comments. However, they must first be able to view a page before commenting on it. So in Directory.app in the 'Services' tab, select 'Anyone' from the 'view' drop down list.
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