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I've been trying to do open -p commands on my Mac, but so far it's failing. [localhost:~] me% open -p see Sep 07 23:59:23 open[535] No such file: /Users/me/-p Sep 07 23:59:23 open[535] LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -10814 for application (null) path /Users/me/see. Sep 07 23:59:23...

Is there a terminal app that does AppleEvents? I'm pretty keen on AppleEvents and have been working with it on Radio Userland. Apparently there's a Perl module for this, but I'm pretty clumsy at Perl. Can anyone help?:confused:

Changing <pre>if [ "${CRASHREPORTER:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then</pre> to <pre>if [ "${CRASHREPORTER:=-YES-}" = "-YES-" ]; then</pre> in /System/Library/StartupItems/CrashReporter/CrashReporter will enable crashreporter, which records all crashes at /usr/libexec/CrashReporter.

I wonder if anyone noticed this but Sherlock includes English substitutions for the same words with different tenses. Check /Library/Find/English Substitutions. Editing this file can further refine your searches if you're particular over tenses. If you're wondering why Sherlock won't...

By the way, /usr is a directory of the parent directory of the parent directory of /Users. So...

i logged in as root then tried the command, but then it didn't work after i closed the window on which i had made the alias. and then i decided to slot in a file at /usr/(whatever)/tsch/aliases but it refused to budge because of not enough credidentials. hmm.

I don't know about you, but everytime I use ftp on the gui (eg BBEdit, transmit), it's really very slow, so I always use the ftp command in the terminal. no harm done.

I was installing LimeWire on my Mac on Mac OS X 10.0.3 but it doesn't work! When I change to /Applications as the installation directory the LimeWire installer chokes and says that i do not have enough system credidentials. Then I enabled root and tried again. It didn't work. In fact...

I remembered from somewhere that OS X won't install on a partition more than 8GB, so I partitioned my HD into 12 and 8GB portions. Yay. Last night the Mac refused to boot up again: because of network file sharing. Until I popped in the Mac OS X install CD and installed the base components of...

well, i did try verbose mode and zapping the pram last night. the thing is that the os couldn't identify the hard disk. i tried installing x on x as well yesterday before posting the thread but apparently it didn't work too so i went to buy a new hard disk. now i can't install mac os x...

My iMac Rev. C is being a serious bitch -- it won't start up. I have no idea why. I normally use it at night when it's connected to the Ethernet line, but now (without the Ethernet) it is not working. I just booted the Mac and have been waiting for the past 10-20 minutes for the smiley...

I realised that I couldn't get the Dock to fill up the whole of the bottom part of the screen. This isn't irritating, but I find it more UI-ly to get it to do that. And apparently there hasn't been a hack to this yet. Doh. Can anyone help?:confused:

no, actually an equaliser IS a visual representation of audio. the directions are pretty confusing, so do it like this: open up the itunes equaliser window then use either of these keys: Q, W, A, S, Z, X it'll bring up three lines of words that describes the kinds of effects used in the...

I'm pretty sure I've heard of this option key thing somewhere. It seems that in Mac OS 9 on Revs. A,Band C iMacs, this option closes all windows on login. On later machines though, I'm not sure. I've used this option key thing on my Rev. C iMac/OS X Final and it works!