Suggestion: General Discussions\Off Topic Section

hi,
it would be great to have an off topic forum/section here for us to interact and have general discussions. almost every forum i'm a member of has an Off Topic section. we can get to know each other much better and share useful information and opinions about various topics, technology and others also. we can do the same through PM's, but getting everyone involved will feel much better.
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if they start posting technical questions or spam here, then they should be banned!
EDIT: in other news, my reputation level increased!
Message Edited by DexterM on 01-07-2009 11:44 PM
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Off-topic section not available for outsiders

Hi people!
The Off-topic section is only visible when I am logged in. If I logout, I can't see it. I found that because I've sent the url from the photoshop thread (lots of good laughings) to a friend and he said that couldn't see it because he was not registered, acording to the message he got.
So, is it on purpose? I can't see why, so I'm asking here.

Yes, it is. The reason is that sometime threads in off-topics can degenerate because they can be of political/religious nature. Such threads are not allowed but we can't check the forum 24hr/day. Other threads in off-topics are pointless blabber. We don't want prospective users who are browsing the forums to know if Arch is OK for them or are searching help on installing it to see these posts. They can give a bad first impression of Arch. Once they register, we assume they have a better idea of the Arch community and realize that these threads are a minority.
Your friends will need to register is they want to see the photoshop thread.

Forum Atom feed and the Off-Topic forum

I'm subscribed via https://bbs.archlinux.org/extern.php?ac … der=posted and I've just noticed I don't get any notification if a new thread gets opened in Off-Topic forum. I haven't yet checked if any other forum is also excluded.
I know that I can subscribe to this forum via 'Subscribe to this forum' but according to http://projects.archlinux.org/vhosts/bb … extern.php the default feed shouldn't miss any subforums, as there are no nfids mentioned.
What am I missing?

ngoonee wrote:
Inxsible wrote:I don't mind opening the off-topic section as read only to not logged-in users/non-members
As I recall off-topic, dustbin, and TGN are log-in so that moderation there can be slightly more lenient, since its guaranteed its only our community in the place (no lurkers)? Not part of the 'main' forums in that sense, then.
EDIT: lurkers and/or bots, which is the main point.
This is correct. We don't want someone to type "Arch Linux" in a search engine and to get, as the first link, an off-topic forum thread about some random absurdities or some TGN rant. The same goes with someone visiting the forum to see what kind of community Arch Linux has before installing it. It's a question of giving a good first impression while still being able to have a good time.

Off Topic

How about an "Off Topic" section in the forums?
Something like a place for apple users and apple maniacs to hang out and talk about non tech related stuff. I think this could build up a community, and make the forum as well as the users a little more personal
What do you think? Bad idea?

I just wonder what comes with Level 5... and what is after Level 5... Level X ? g
So far, there's NO difference between Level 4 and Level 5 for me! I keep waiting for something special...
And while there is a "Lounge" forum available to Level 4 and higher users, topics there are still held to the Terms of Use (for example, no topics about rumors or unannounced products). But, there are some posts that are not strictly technical questions in there.
(I wouldn't hurry too much though, as I heard the place is quite dangerous for your health, if you're not too used to certain strong malt beverages...)
Hmm... I don't know about "strong malt beverages", but I've filled the water cooler in The Lounge with vodka for all my martinis, so use water out of the tap when it's your turn to make coffee...
-Doug

Off-Topic OAS Discussion Groups/lists??

Hi,
My apologies for the Off-Topic post. Might you be able to direct
me to a discussion group that deals with OAS and/or Servlet
technology?? I'm having trouble running a servlet(which is part
of a custom package) on OAS 4.0.8.1.
Regards,
Rob
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The "more" option at the bottom appears on pages displayed via the "Overview" tab at the top of the column of topics. If you switch that to the Discussions tab choice, you'll have the "Next" plus page number choices.
For any forum you can set the "Discussions" tab as your view preference by clicking the 'set as default' link next to it.

Off topic: General comment

All,
I know this is totally off-topic but this is the best way to send a very important message.
One of those days, someone called to us to offer Solaris support services, because that person was reading this forum and saw our entries. I guess, if we are here asking for help, and helping others, the idea is to use the community to achieve better results.
I understand that every business needs to make money, but there are some limits as well. If we had any interest to hire a consulant and pay for him/her services, we would not be here making posts.
Also, what is much more important, is to share information and knowledge about a product, Solaris, which is open source now.
So, if there are any other business digger here, please do not contact us in anyway, unless we ask for that contact. Right now, that person and his company are on my personal "avoid contact at any cost" list.
Cheers
Andreas

Printers are the Demon Seed, the work of Beelzebub. While my Epson R340 will of course print for weeks on end just fine, if I suddenly need to print something urgently, it is 100% guaranteed to print it in purple. Or, the heads will need cleaning, resulting in two hours of listening to "neeeeeeeeh neh-neh-neh-neh-neh neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh neh neh neh'. Or, the DVD's doesn't get drawn into the printer properly, the resulting label is half off the disc, and it's just made a nice coaster.
I broke my last Epson while leaping up and down upon it in an apoplectic rage in such circumstances. Really.
But it seems you are right, we have no option. Finally, Print Shop by Broderbund is probably like a high-tech wunderkind chrome robot when compared to the Official Worst Appplication of All Time, Epson Print CD, which closely resembles a turd.
Rant rant rant.

Newbie wireless question (slightly off-topic)

I didn't want to post this here as it's not entirely an Airport-specific question. I posted this to the iBook forums, but nobody there has answered so my apologies if this is not welcome here. (Any moderators can remove it if that's the case.)
I've been using computers extensively for over a decade, but I'm a total newbie to wifi. I just set up a wireless network in my house and would appreciate some advice/feedback.
My main concerns are whether or not my network is reasonably secure. I know there is no such thing as perfect security, but I don't know if what I've done is good enough or not.
I don't have an Airport base station, but I do have a D-Link Airplus G and an Airport card in my iBook. I have WEP set up on the router and I have enabled MAC filtering, listing only my desktop and my iBook, excluding all others from the network.
I'm fairly certain that nobody in my neighborhood is going to get into my machines this way or be able to sniff my network data stream, but am I right in assuming that nobody can "piggyback" on my Internet connection too? Presumably, if everyone but my own machines are MAC-filtered and kept out, then the Internet connection is also protected. Is that how it works?

WEP and MAC filtering are better than nothing, but you can do better. These are my suggestions:
1. Use WPA with a pre-shared key (PSK) and TKIP encryption on your Netgear router, along with an alphanumeric passphrase of at least eight characters not found in any dictionary. The equivalent setting on your Mac is "WPA Personal". Unlike WEP security (which an expert can crack in under half an hour), WPA security is currently unhackable by any practical means as long as you use a non-dictionary passphrase. One last point - WPA security requires all your wireless Macs to be running MacOS 10.3 or newer.
2. MAC filtering is (these days) essentially useless as a wireless security method. Using "packet sniffing" of traffic on your wireless network to find out what MAC addresses are used by computers on your network, and a PC that allows its MAC address to be cloned so that it is identical to the MAC address of one your own wireless computers (which is possible with most PC wireless network adapters) even an amateur hacker can defeat MAC address filtering in minutes.
By the way - I don't think your posted message here is off topic. In my opinion, the Airport discussion forums are the best place to post any questions related to usage of wireless networks. Questions of this nature are virtually never specific to any Mac model.

Off-topic : VPN setup

Hi,
off-topic, but having failed to find the answer on the net (in a form that I can understand) I thought I'd try here.
I live in France and have a dsl connection. I also have a dsl connection in Edinburgh in the UK. Sometimes it would be useful for me to have a UK IP address when using the internet in France. It occurred to me that I could perhaps set up a vpn.
Question : Would this mean that I would have to have a computer running at the UK end, in order to access the internet with a UK IP, or could I simply 'pass through' the router in the UK to gain a UK IP address?
Also ... I'm assuming that I would need to buy a special VPN Router for the UK. Would this need to replace the DSL router/modem or would it (could it) be placed after it? Currently in the UK, there is an airport base station placed after the DSL Router.
Any help/info much appreciated.
Grant

I suggest you post your question in the OS X Networking forums, as this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Remote Desktop, Apple's application for managing Macs on your network:
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Request to have off-topic posts moved

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Generally they've been posted by people that care to not read anything nor drill down to an appropriate forum and just dump a question.
I've done the "report abuse" routine on a number of them but that seems to have been ignored.
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My teenage cousin is going on a trip to Europe for a few weeks and she will be taking alot of digital pictures with her Canon point & shoot camera ( 5 MP SD30), but will not be able to unload her images from the SD card. She already has Three Cards totaling 1.5 GBs and does not want to buy more.
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You could purchase an iPod along with the iPod Photo Connector to download the images for storage.
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In Summary my question is this: Have I ANY chance of people stumbling across off topic posts?
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I.E: John's Tech Blog at techblogger.com
The content is pretty much all about tech stuff.
But then I see a film I like and want to review it...and put a review on there.
OR
I want to discuss something I find interesting on the Psychology Today website (something less mainstream).
Have I ANY chance of people stumbling across either of these or similar?
I know a bit about SEO, and know...basically the more I mention something (keyword-wise) the better. Aswell as density, proximity etc of course.
Now, because 'movie' and 'review' and the title of the movie are only mentioned in close proximity on that one page...does this mean nobody will find it?
Let's also assume I re-post these posts on 5 other article sites linking back.
So basically again: Have I ANY chance of people stumbling across off topic posts?

Most likely not to many, of course you will get a little google juice from the link.

*OFF TOPIC* Two copies of Spy Mouse to whomever wants them.

Hello, I realize this is off topic but I couldn't find a forum anywhere else to place it. I have two codes here (curtiousy of Starbucks a few months back) with a code for the game Spy Mouse on the App Store. I already redeemed one so two other people may have the others.
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Sorry if this is off topic.
OK my fingers are getting tired... is there a tool, or widget that will read the contents of a directory and generate an index XML file of that directory?
Running Mac OS X 10.6x server and we are hosting our own content. looking for a better way than hand-typing the directory of files for an RSS feed to iTunes U.

Not currently - well at least not easily - there is always the programatic approach.
I would suggest you can create an FSDB repository - this means you can then create your structure in the file system using standard desktop tools.
After that you could do a mass copy back into the db based KM repository if you so wished.
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Ok I'm ready to start a new site. I'm going cheap as it's all coming out of my pocket including hosting. I want to put a video chat room on my site. Is there anyway to capture a webcam in this fashion in director. I've done tons of searching but I can't really find anything. I'm trying to avoid using the flash communication server for three reasons. 1) I already have the director multiuser server that will host up to 1000 users (the room will never be anything close to that big 50 peeps tops) and my web host will support it and install it for me. 2) I can't find anything at a really cheap price. I'm looking at 25 cam users at once... 3) Actionscript is nothing I've every really worked with before, but I could do the lingo programming.
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Is there an xtra that will do what I want?
I read something about encoding the video to realvideo, but I have no clue how as I've never done anything like that before. Will this work and do you know of a tutorial for this?
Do you know of a really really cheap flash comm host?
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Does anyone know of a cheap off the shelf video chat room that I can put up on my site and just pay for the bandwidth overage that it uses?
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