RA sure has some nice icons for their apps (I also enjoy all of the Unsanity icons). Thanks for turning me onto them. In fact, I wouldn't mind knowing all the Developers that Unsanity thinks are good.

CREB: this is obvious, but allow me to re-iterate -- this blog, although is supproted by my employer company, Unsanity, is more or less personal, so if *I* like a certain thing doesn't necessarily means Unsanity officially does. ;)

But in many cases it's the same thing, yeah. =D

I thought Unsanity WAS a small company, with you somewhere in charge.

Slava,

I support those Developers that are beneficial to the MAC community through purchasing all they have to offer, although some of the software I'll never use. It's just my way of returning the many years of satisfaction (since 1984) and the monetary gain the Mac world has given me. The adage of "birds of a feather, flock together" is so true and I find that the better Developers tend to hang with their own. Brian, turned me onto Ra (http://www.raspage.com/) and now you Rogue Amoeba. Just before I found Unsanity I was becoming disillusioned with the Mac world as it had become boring and I was looking to transition to the Linux world. It was Unsanity that changed my mind as I found the energy I had not seen since the inception of the Mac world...those were the days. I can't quite describe it, but Unsanity has the same "honesty" that those Mac days once had. There's still hope for the Mac world after all.

Off topic, but…

How about a Haxie to make all servers show up on the desktop? I hate the fact that under Panther servers accessed through the network browser do not show up on the desktop.

Actually it is turning into a support nightmare with my clients who don't understand this behavior, not sure what Apple was thinking on this one.

Cleo just use the [command] [K] in the finder and they will show up on the desktop.

1) Add the server via [command] [K] in the finder. Finder will mount it on the desktop. The finder will also make a file that points to that server and put it in /Users/username/Library/Favorites/

2) Go there and select the file and do a [command] [T] on it this will put that file in side bar in finder windows. Now when you click it, it mounts it and puts it on the desktop as well as the side bar. No need to do [command] [K] ever again.

you can put that file or an alias of it anywhere you want for quick access to servers that mount of eh desktop. In fact you can make an alias and put it in the Network area instead of the side of sidebar and then click to it like all the other servers but it will mount on the desktop also.

You can't use command K if you don't know the address of the server.

Also if you make an alias of a server for access next time it also does not show up on the desktop when mounted.

I noticed that if I tell the Finder to show invisibles the servers do show up on the desktop so they are there, just hidden.

>you can't use command K if you don't know the address of the server.

just do a get info in the server that the apple browser finds.
The info you need is there.

You of course still need the password either way. So if you are
getting the password how come you do not know the address?
ALL are shares are password protected at my work place.

>Also if you make an alias of a server for access next time it also does not show up on the desktop when mounted.

yes it does. You must have done something strange :) because the file
IS the file the [command] [k] uses to mount the server on the desktop

may i ask what happens when you dismount all servers then go to
/Users/username/Library/Favorites/
and double click on the server file in there? It should mount on the desktop
and it does here on ALL our 10.3 boxes.

I have about 20 in there all to windows boxes and all mount on the desktop
when using command k VS using the apple browser which uses automount
but does not show the server on the desktop.

What happens here is it mounts on the desktop and in the sidebar.
(you must have connect servers show on desktop turned on in the finder prefs)
me I just double click the separator bar with the little circle/dot on it and it collapses
so NO side bar and I use the servers via desktop.

>I noticed that if I tell the Finder to show invisibles the servers do show up on the desktop so they are there, just hidden.

that is interesting but should not be needed since ALL servers show up the desktop
when using command k and the finder prefs are set correctly

However that is a cool tip and if you do not mind seeing other invis files that
sounds like a good work around too.

The main problem it automount is set to not show on the desktop when
connecting to network browsed servers. The automount settings for command k
ARE set to show them on the desktop.

I am digging around in the plists now and if i find a way to force the apple network
browser to show them ion the desktop I will e-mail you and send it to macoxhints as well.

Thanks

Zep

NFS mounts don't show up on the desktop no matter what you do. It's also not possible to pass options (-s, -P -b, etc) to NFS servers using the Connect to Server window.

This has always been a source of much frustration to me.

Nice Cast Rocks!

Nicecast is cool but who really is going to pay $40 for it?

can someone please give us a serial number and name because i would love and need to use it but cant afford to waste 40 bucks on it - PLEASE

Yeah, "Joe".. you NEED it. If you NEED it, then dig up the $40 for it, you worthless software pirate leech.