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About the install DVD: The main install package is an alias. I was able to get to a directory full of sub-packages by selecting the install package icon, and hitting Command-R. All those packages looked complicated, so I went with the full install. I've only played with Garage band, and...

Thanks, Mindbend! That was a useful answer. What I want to do with Soundtrack is lay down bass and drum line with refrain/chorus changes, and then overlay a vocal and guitar track from another source. The result would be a studio-quality song.

I've read all the product info, and watched all the quicktimes about the interface. It certainly does look cool. One thing escapes me, however: Since Soundtrack adjusts the KEY of the instruments, it looks like a whole soundtrack is in just one note -- G, A, &etc. Does anybody know if it's...

mntamago -- thanks for the pointer about the shell script! I'll see if it works for my current problems with commandline mysql access. I had to follow the exact same steps you did after upgrading to Jaguar (reinstall mysql, chown to mysql user, rebuild mysql user in netinfo, &etc.). I guess...

The trace /btp trap garbage is related to commandline access. For me it's only ever manifested on the commandline, indeed, I can't even import: ./mysql DBNAME < /path/to/dumpfile which really hurts. I use easysql.php (found on hotscripts.com) as a sort of drop-in database management script...

:( dyld: ./bin/mysql Undefined symbols: ./bin/mysql undefined reference to _BC expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib ./bin/mysql undefined reference to _PC expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib ./bin/mysql undefined reference to _UP expected to be defined in...

In fact, I did install MySQL onto Jaguar using Marc's instructions. :) MySQL works fine... just not from the command line. I've been doing searches (google and this site), and this BPT/trap thing is apparently showing up with some other OSS installations. Apple moved around some libraries...

New install of 10.2, re-installed mysql. Like others, I get this when trying to access from commandline: dyld: ./bin/mysql Undefined symbols: ./bin/mysql undefined reference to _BC expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib ./bin/mysql undefined reference to _PC expected to be...

At the prompt, type: rm -fr dirname rm = remove file (unlike rmdir, which is remove empty dir) -r = recursive -f = force, interpret everything as a file, even directories dirname = the directory you want to kill Now, the -f tag is extremely dangerous, because with a command like rm...

5:25PM up 1 day, 7:56, 6 users, load averages: 1.95, 1.68, 1.66 Uptime gives you current time, time (days and hours) system has been up, number of users, and load averages over last 1, 5, and 15 messages. If a person has more than 1 users in the uptime output, that's usually still okay...

Regardless how byzantine and backwards Apple's distro methodology is -- all I can say is that 10.1 rocks. Very. DVD of "The Gift" is playing in the background. Onscreen brightness and volume controls. I'd broken some things over the last few months: Sound works again; booting to 9 works...

[Wednesday] faxed an order to Apple for uptodate program. [Thursday] discovered my debit card account empty. [Monday] received uptodate package. Very happy. Going to install it soon. The brown padded paper envelope contained: Welcome to Mac OS X booklet/guide. License agreement 3 more...

That was just my version of a funny joke. (You know how everybody sees a screenshot, and says, "What's this program?" "Where'd you get that background?" "What's that icon?" and on and on.) So I asked about calculator. Haha. Okay so it's not so funny. :)

Great screenshot, but what's that small application you're running on the right side? It has the buttons with 1-9, and has 1.239e+11 in the output window. I've never seen that one before.

Actually, I feel the same way sometimes. BSD is time-tested, stable, respectable, and some systems have uptimes that pre-date Microsoft. :) I wonder how my silly little windows manager / graphics layer is able to humiliate the rest of the system. But then I remember that this OS has only been...