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I have Camtasia running just fine in Parallels on my MacBook Pro EXCEPT that the audio recording part is unusable. I believe that the audio keeps swapping between Mac and Win so it's extremely choppy. Most disappointing, as I really need to use Camtasia and it's now incompatible with the Boot...

GNU Emacs as the most important program written? While Gosling and Stallman might like to hear that, I'm always surprised at the number of people who talk about Emacs versus the number of people who actually use the bloated behemoth... ;-) Vi user since 1980, and proud of it!

here's how I would approach this: a two part process, where the first process parses your data files, inserting variables names into each field: ( while read field1 field2 field3 field4 ; do echo "f1='$field1'; f2='$field2'; f3='$field3'" ) < input-data-file > tempfile then in a second...

I'm lazy, I have an alias: alias ip="ifconfig en0 | grep 'inet '" it gives you useful output for configuring other systems, in addition to your own IP address: inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 Note the trailing space in the 'inet ' pattern!

What's probably failing in your cron job is that those jobs run with a different PATH than your login shell. You can experimentally verify it with a crontab entry like:30 * * * * env | mail -s env youremail What I do is add something likePATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin in the scripts as...

cute. Of course, there's a whole series of these Unix jokes like "Got a match?' {type it in}. In other news, the OSX chapter has been axed from my book as of this point. I continue to lobby, but there are other OSX-specific titles in the works. The good news is that almost every one of the...

Of the C programming language? An interesting comment. Were you stuck in the cursed C Shell, then? I personally am a fan of Bash, and give great kudos to Apple for adding it and giving a good alternative to the adequate, but not as capable zsh shell. [my opinion, your milage will...

Thanks everyone. Here's what I have on my list of OSX scripts, so far: Chapter 8. Mac OS X Hacks #87 Renice a job by process name #88 Start FTP/Apache from the command line #89 New version of ?open? that searches for named apps #90 iPod music list generator #91 NetInfo friendly version of...

My printer is hooked up via IP / Ethernet. I have a local LAN. Other computers seem to be printing fine, and some of my own printouts seem to work fine, while others take forever. I don't suppose that 10.2.3 has a newer version of postscript, does it?

$HOME is your home directory. When you start up a Terminal session, that's where you begin. Type pwd to see where that is. Once you're in your Terminal session, type mkdir bin to create the $HOME/bin directory, then copy your script in with, perhaps, cp source destination. Good luck!

We've been working on it. The latest mystery is why the graphic is in color, but the favicon is in greyscale. Thanks, though, Bob! :)

Everyone rants about tabs, but I gotta say that I'd much rather have autofill and proper tabbing of form elements fixed (try it: in IE you can use the tab key to step through each and every element on a form, including pop-ups, buttons, checkboxes, etc. In Safari, you can only tab from text area...

Quick update: I have found that some material prints quickly (for example, the printer test page from the HP LaserJet Utility running in Classic prints in just seconds, and the full-screen graphic at spymac prints in about 15 seconds). I also read up on the HP Communications issue from 10.2.2...

My graphic designer has built me a neato favicon.ico for my Web site, and I am testing it by dropping it on http://www.chatter.net/ (the rest of that site is ugly and out of date), but I can't get it to show up. Anyknow know what I might be doing wrong? You can certainly...