Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]coincidentally, i am typing this on my wife's new ibook that came today, with airport card and airport base. a beautiful interface, and unix underneath it all. it is, how do you say, insanely great. another osx fan, - -rei > From: John Brownlow <lists@johnbrownlow.com> > > It took me one day to fall in love with OS X. It just plain WORKS like it > should. And you know it's just going to get better. > > (Actually there is one networking bug in the current release but hey... Okay > if you really want to know, it waits for the external DNS servers to time > out when trying to connect to a filesharing server on the LAN even if it has > an IP on the subnet. Then, when they've timed out, it finally finds the > right host. Why it is going to external DNS servers when you've given it an > IP is beyond me, but there you have it. That's the bug. You can workaround > by diddling with the Netinfo utility but, yuk) > -- > John Brownlow > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html