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Networking Options - G4 Tower To G3 Ibook

Hello again,

Well I just recently added a G3 iBook (800Mghz) to my home studio!!! She's proven to be a great little machine, perfect for my live performance needs when used outside of my studio...

However, what i would really like to explore is networking my 2 mac's together (sanz Airport) so I can quickly and effortlessly share files back and forth, as well as perhaps even syncronizing my music software (Cubase SX, Reason, Ableton Live and Traktor)using both computers over a simple network! How can I Rewire or use OSC over this network to super charge my studio? Can it be done?

(Btw my Studio's Powermac is a Dual 1 Ghz G4 and both my ibook and Powermac are running Panther)

Also as a side note: I have two Lacie external firewire Harddrives with dual Firewire ports on em, and imagine it would be great to access these from both computeres simultaniously if possible. Is this possible? Can I have both my Mac's attached to and accessing files off these harddrives at the same time?

Thanks to you for your time in reading this inquiry, I'll really appreciate any advice from you folks out there who are savey to networking mac's together for music production purposses. Hopefully this thread will grow and turn out to be a helpfull one for everyone else who is also interested in this topic.



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Finder Windows Hack

I am one of those few people out there who seem to suffer from O.C.D (Obsesive Compulsive Dissorder)when it comes to my computer system. My biggest and only pet peve dealing with OSX Panther is everytime I open a new folder, the window's always open with that new side bar open as a default. Though I can see the use in it,,, I don't ever really use it and find myself constantly tucking it away, with every new folder I open.

If you create a new folder on your desk top and open it, you'll see that Apple have defaulted the window to open in the middle of the desktop a certain size and position, in Icon veiw, and with the sidebar open. I prefer all my windows to begin a certain size and certain placing along the middle of my desktop, using List veiw, sanz the Side bar. Thats all I ask.

How can I hack into Finder to make every new folder window open according to my personally choosen defualt, so I dont' have to set up each window manually? Know what I mean?

The "All Windows" option in Finder veiw pref's dosn't seem to be doing this for me so there must be a Hack. Is this possible?

Thanks In advance.

Disabling Power Mac G4 Start-up Sound

live in a small apt, and usually am forced to do my audio werk in headphones most of the time so as to not disturb my flatmates. But whenever restarting my Power Mac g4 dual 1Ghz, it blasts that uber loud startup orchestral hit,,, you know the one?

*Bup Baaaaaaa!!!!*

How the hell do I safely disable just that hellishly LOUD racket from my macs internal sound card or whatever?

I DO have an M-audio delta series as my main audio card for all my music production, but also occassionally use the Mac's stock card for certain apps as well, so I do not what to totally disable that card,, Just somehow tweek the firmware or whatever that's responsible for that startup blast that's waking the dead.

any ideas on this one?

Thousands Of Duplicate Song Files To Sort Through

Well it's spring cleaning time,,, and over the years I have acumulated over 3000 .rns song files (Reason song files) found scattered all over my 400GB worth of harddrives!!!

If I do a regular Finder Search in OS X for all my .rns files, it will show me all 3000+ files and I'd say that over 1/3 of these files are duplicates! Alot of em are the same files that have been renamed over time, or have the same name but different dates, versions ect, ect... WHAT A MESS!!! I dont want to go through all of them manually.
even using Aladin's Spring Cleaning-Duplicates Finder is nothing but a long drawn out pain in the ass... what a waste of time and money already!

Doing all this work manually would take me months and I really really could use some help here as I would much rather be making music,,, not f**ing around well into next fall trying to manually sort through all this mess.

Anyone know of any OS X software that will scan my harddrives for specific file types (ie: .rns), automatically delete all duplicate files (leaving only 1 version of each file left on my hard drives), then allow me to take all those files,, lift em all up off my various drives and place them neatly into one handy folder that I can then sort through as my new "Reason Song Library Folder"???

Basically, I just wanna scan my entire system for all .rns files and simply have them backed up in one tidy folder EXCLUDING all the duplicates, then once I have organize those files, I can use Silverkeeper to then have that "Reason Song Library Folder" syncronized to a backup drive and all will be chill again in the land of soundsmitten... [B]