Recent content by anilsen

I'll give it a shot. Would have been nicer though if Apple had implemented some solution for use with applescript for us who are not familiar with shell scripting. Well, I'll have to get that then! Thanks for your reply. Anders

How can I make a handler in applescript on OS X that runs when my Ibook wakes from sleep? Is there a wake system event that makes it possible to write something like on wake -- doing my stuff here end wake Regards Anders

Is it possible to run kOffice without installing the whole KDE environment under Apple x11? I have installed the kOffice-base via FinkCommander but cant figure out which file to launch from /sw/bin/ I suspect whole KDE is needed but whish the space could be saved for some other stuff as I at...

Does anyone know of a free application that will let me copy a CD-rom from the internal cd-drive of my iBook to an external cd-writer (zipCD 650) without having to make a diskimage first. I know that copying can be done with DiskCopy but only by first going through the tedious image. As I have...

Well there' a lot to learn here. I thought that admin and root were the same :rolleyes: . If not I guess I will normally have no need for root access but wil do fine with the admin account. The tip about an extra admin account sounds like a very good idea indeed. I will convert my regular user...

Well at the moment I do a lot of downloading new apps and installing them and fiddeling with system settings. The commands you specify sounds nice as a more direct way to log into root than the GUI way. Couldn't make it work though. Read the man pages and tried "su root" then typed in the...

I have startet to use OS X on my iBook just a few days ago. I have 2 accounts an admin and a regular user the latter intended for daily use. I understand that this is recommended with UNIX. Now my problem is that I constantly find myself loggin in as admin so I've begun to think I might stay...

Comment from another newbie. Never used any UNIX, including linux, until a week ago. Started off with Mandrake 8.2; the GUI installer was nice, all seemed to go fine then I rebooted and problems began. Finally managed to boot, the system looks lean and mean, didn't feel any speed problems on my...

I have just gone from OS 9 to X on my iBook. Is there anyone who can tell me how I manually put the internal harddisk of my iBook to sleep? I have only been able to find the "put harddisk to sleep when possible" feature in the Energy panel (this it is called in danish, maybe Power in the english...