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    Selecting diskimage at boottime / booting from diskimage (.dmg)

    Is this possible at all? It seems this is exactly what happens in the scenario of a netboot server… Basically, what i want is this: • I have: I've got a MacPro with 2 HD's, one of which (HD1) contains a partition that holds a large pool of Diskimage (.img) files, each containing a...
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    QuickLook (controller) appearance

    hi all, searching the forums didn't answer my question, so now i'd like to try your all-knowing wisdom… ever since leaving Tiger when switching to Leopard (long time ago..) i've really missed the simple Quicktime contoller you would find in the Finders' preview-column or inspector- and...
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    bash ssh completion (remote host)

    in debian i'm enjoying bash-completion, even when typing paths that are located on remote hosts (provided ssh-keys are shared). this is extremely useful, for instance when using scp.. however, this doesn't work on OSX for me, and i can't find where to configure this.. anyone an idea...
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    Pismo: No sound from speakers, headphone ok.

    hi, i have an old pismo that still works great. it's running debian, and is used mostly as a portable a/v jukebox and tv around the house/kitchen/bath/bed... there's also a partition with tiger that i sometimes use. since recently, when i boot into OSX, there's no sound coming from the...
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    super slow (wifi) networking

    hi i have a mac mini (intel) on which wifi-networking is really flaky when booted into osx. - it's not so much the actual transfer speed, but rather the "connection responsiveness". by this i mean that sometimes connections time-out, while a next attempt to connect succeeds in a few...
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    ssh/connection reset by peer (not timeout issue)

    hi, i'm sorry if missed similair posts, but all i found so far were issues related to timeouts or bad routers. also, i realise it's not completely mac-related, although the clients i'm using are all macs (leopard, tiger) my problem is that although nothing changed in my network setup, i'm...
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    Resources for vector- and point-averaging algorithms.

    Hi It's maybe a bit too much to explain exactly what i need, but in short; I'm analysing objects in a 2D space, and the resulting points i measure are a bit irregularly spread. I'm looking for a way to both in time and space smooth (average?) those points, but have a hard time figuring out...
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    bootpd (bootps) anyone?

    hi, after trying it in this thread: http://macosx.com/forums/networking-compatibility/298691-internet-sharing-subnet-conflict.html where i explain that internet sharing doesn't work, because the connection i want to share uses the same ip-range as the default ip-range osx uses on the...
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    "Internet Sharing" subnet conflict?

    hi i'm trying to share internet from one machines airport to my lan. simple enough, done that many times etc.. but this time there's a conflict, because the dhcp subnet ip-range on the 'external' wifi-network, is the same as the range osx' dhcp-server tries to use when using internet...
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    airport express to receive wirelss > bridge to wired

    i'm sorry if the answer is too obvious, as i would think reading this article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108038 still, i find it very hard to believe that the following scenario is not possoible: to have the Airport Express connect to an existing wireless...
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    ssh, keys, and faiing host-key verification

    hoi, firtst i need to say the situation that i'd like to debug is just a ad-hoc test solution. nothing critical... but i ran into an unexpected problem i'd like to understand. and probably i'm overlooking something simple/basic. i wanted to test the nat-setup at my current location and...
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    hotkeys mysteriously deactivated

    hi, after searching hi and low, and trying to forget the issue, i finally got really pi$#ed and frustrated, and decided to bother you people with my little problem: several hotkeys that i use a lot somehow get mysteriously deactivated at random moments, most notably the hotkeys for...
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    Quicktime refuses to exporrt

    hi, i compressed a video-file to H264 using mencoder, and the quality/filesize ratio is very good and quicktime plays the file perfectly fine. but now i want to 'hint' the file for use on a streaming server, and that is where i get stuck: - trying to 'export as hinted movie', quicktime...
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    DNS Problem

    you'll have to take my word for it that i have no clue how i ended-up on this website... i often open several google search-results in tabs in one window, especially when some sites respond slow. this was the case in this instance, and the above url had loaded in the last tab i reviewed for any...
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    mac-mini freeze - lookupd problem

    hi, after upgrading a mac-mini to 10.4.10, i can consistantly freeze it by running either tcpflow or tcpdump. appearantly this is caused by a bug in 'lookupd' that is around already for a few years.. there are planty of posts on the net about this problem, and supposedly it's filed in...
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    the final RAM thread? buy cheap or expensive ram?

    hi i just can't find a defenitive answer for this question. would anyone here be able to explain why 4Gb of ram in the apple=store costs around €/$1400,- while i can get about 40Gb of ram for the same price (ECC,CL5 kingston) around the corner? i know there's differences in quality, and...
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    audio-> oggenc | ffmpeg -> icecast2 ???

    hi i was wondering if someone has some quick links or directions to info about encoding a live audio- (and possibly video-) source into ogg, to stream that to icecast2. my first searches so far have lead me to oggenc, and pipe that into oggforward to stream it to the server. but then i also...
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    system-hang hangs after lost connection

    hi, i'm sure this has come-up thousands of time, but strangly i can't find any topics on it here. probably it's the raging anger and blood in my eyes that makes my perception blurry.. :) i just need to get it off my chest! i'm sure everyone knows this situation: you loose a conection...
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    pb g4 backlight control??

    hi does anyone know something about how/where the backlight controlled on a pb g4 dvi? the backlight wont come on anymore on an old pb i have. backlight itsself seem to be fine, also the inverterboard seems to work. i've tested this with two and a half other powerbooks i have around for...
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    HOWTO run command as root without password??

    hi is it possible, and if yes, how; to run a command that requires root privileges without having to type the password each time? thanks
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