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  1. scruffy

    Removing Dashboard?

    Actually, Tiger does a thoroughly lousy job of that periodic tasks, unless they've significantly fixed launchd lately. Anacrond does a good job, but they unfortunately tried to replace crond with launchd, including a halfbaked implementation of what anacron does. The periodic tasks are only...
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    Iphone no compared to Zune

    This is actually the first cellphone I might want. If only it weren't so bloody expensive, and tied to a US carrier (there are cellphone networks in other countries...). And also, it had better get a terminal and a wireless sniffer... Anyone else think this finally explains widgets? I...
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    Copied 3k+ files onto desktop

    OK, get out of single-user mode, there's no call for that. You don't need to be root to delete a few files. Now, reboot, and instead of logging in with your username and password as normal, enter in the username field: >console And hit enter. Now, log in with your regular username and...
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    FairPlay DRM reverse engineered

    Don't forget now, the DMCA is a U.S. law. And there are still countries out there where U.S. laws don't apply - like all of them except the U.S.
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    best practice: standard vs administrator

    Yes, a best practice would be to run daily as a non-admin user, and have one or more separate accounts that are administrators. It's a bit of a hassle, but then 'best practices' usually are... I say that, even though I don't do this myself..
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    Java User Agent Spoofing!!????

    You might try an editing web proxy. Basically, you start a web proxy on your local machine, which allows you to edit every aspect of both HTTP requests and responses - you choose exactly what you want to send to the server, and what you want to render in your browser. I don't know how you'd...
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    Shut Off Router/Modem When Not In Use?

    As you can tell by the warmth - those things are using power all the time. And their power converters use power too. To reduce power consumption, I put the router, modem & printer on the same power bar as my computer, and try to remember to turn off the power bar after I shut down the computer.
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    Intel iMac lockup

    By "lock up" do you mean the computer seriously stops responding to keypresses and mouse clicks? Because that's seriously not supposed to happen, no matter what kind of Internet connection you're dealing with... If you don't enable wireless, do the iMacs work fine?
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    Setting up Postfix

    what do you want to use postfix for - just local sendmail sending, or to receive mail as well? Because on Tiger, it already is set up to route messages it gets through commandline sendmail (which is actually a part of postfix, not part of _the_ sendmail).
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    Code Weavers for Mac

    Hi Fryke I had the impression that what was included in Tiger it was just a basic Tcl environment, without any of the Tk parts. Apparently that's not the case. This document has details on the install locations of the Tcl/Tk packages in Tiger: http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/tiger You can...
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    Native Intel version of Microsoft Remote Desktop?

    There is an open source RDC client package, called rdesktop, that you might want to look into. It would require running in X11, as it's not an OS X specific app, but a 'general purpose' unix one. It is one of the apps that can be installed through MacPorts, if you use that to manage packages...
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    Apple Laptops Catching on Fire?!?!

    I don't know about Dell, but I bet Apple does have better costume parties than Sony...;)
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    iTunes 7

    Well, nearly every iTunes or iPod update so far has involved a reduction in our capabilities (grumble DRM grumble user-hostile mumble grumble). I'd wait a while to see what Apple's taking away from us this time
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    Tiger, tiger, burning bright ....

    Yeh, I find most functions I would want through dashboard, I can get quicker in the terminal. And the little calculator is just no match for bc...
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    Paypal is a real scam

    Don't forget that they're now the same company as eBay. And since that time, eBay's security responsiveness has sunk to the low level of PayPal's...
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    an easy way to password protect folders?

    The easiest way would be simply to make a "guest" account. Note that the default folder permissions may still let others see the contents of one another's folders. You'll also have to change this - select the folder to protect in the Finder, choose "Get Info", and edit the permissions down at...
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    Is the government spying on us through our beloved internet?

    That's a pretty bleak view of the state of democracy in the US you have there, Chemistry Geek. Realistic, perhaps, but bleak...
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    new Verisign Certs - unrecognized in OS X

    Thanks for checking that for me, captain. I mentioned this to the site maintainers, so they're now aware of the problem. And it's good to know I haven't just reported to them something that's actually a misconfiguration with my computer...
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    new Verisign Certs - unrecognized in OS X

    Huh, curiouser and curiouser - don't see any difference from what I have. If I could try your patience just a bit more, would you mind trying: openssl s_client -connect securelogin.gov.ab.ca:443 -showcerts And either posting, or PMing me (it is rather verbose), the output? Thanks Mark
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