Recent content by jeffg

I'm trying to connect an OS9.2 Mac to an OS10.2 mac through cross-over ethernet cable. I want to be able to run TCP/IP on it, since the whole point of this exercise is to play a game that doesn't have a "direct-connect" multi-player feature. I can't get any communication to work between the...

Just a word of caution: Once you enable the root account (i.e., giving root a password), DON'T log in as root. You can su to root in a shell all you like, but if you try running Finder as root, it will cause you nothing but pain. Basically, Finder writes a bunch of global temp files. Once...

Learn find. It's syntax is somewhat arcane, but it's a very powerful tool and you won't regret spending the time to learn it. There are few things you can't do by piping the output of find into xargs. :)

When you download source, there will probably be a file called INSTALL or README which tells how to compile and install the program. Usually, there is a shell script called configure that generates a makefile, so the normal sequence of operations is: sh configure make su make install...

tcsh I think you'll be hard pressed to find someone that likes a shell other tcsh or bash, though I know a couple of zsh zealots.

When I was running OS9.1, Palm Desktop (2.6.1 and later 2.6.3) worked fine both in Classic and when I booted directly to OS9. Ever since I upgraded to 9.2.1, Palm Desktop behaves very badly both in Classic and in native OS9. For instance, I can't open the "View Contacts" or "Task List"...

I have a 3-button Logitech mouse. Under OS9, it came with a control panel (MouseWare) that let me program buttons 2 and 3 to send any keystroke/click modifier I wanted, and all was good. Logitech does not yet support any such software for OSX, however, and MouseWare doesn't even run in...

Try creating a new user, logging in as the new user, and starting the terminal. If it works, then the problem is almost certainly with your shell and/or your shell init files.

If you want to use iTunes, it should work from there, too. That would be easier than trying to create an image with DiskCopy. You just create a playlist, then click on where the "Burn" button would be. The burn button will appear - you click on it, and away it goes. I got this working on...

Ah, you're right. Under 10.0.0, the remote login option enabled telnetd, so I mentally filed that under "never need to look there again." With 10.0.1, they made everything sane. Thanks.

Back when 10.0.0 came out, I downloaded and built ssh/sshd from the openssh source because it didn't come with 10.0.0. I read from somewhere on this list of how to start the sshd daemon when the machine boots. I remember that it's different than any other UNIX system on earth, but I lost the...

Apparently, it's more fundamental than the project builder. The link loader itself is broken by the update: % cc hello.c /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib load command 6 unknown cmd field cc -S works, so the compiler proper is OK, but the update has done something to the linker. Is...

I've got a problem that's weirder still. :) I have a LaCie Plextor CD-RW. It shows up in Apple System Profiler. In system profiler it says that apple disc burning is supported. I can burn data CDs in 10.1! (I couldn't burn anything under 10.0.x) I still can't burn audio CDs from iTunes...

Darwin is an open-source unix kernel that has been around for years. It's based on BSD unix which runs on everything under the sun, so most portability problems were worked out long ago. OSX is an apple-proprietary application. It probably wouldn't compile for x86 unless it was specifically...

Have you tried /usr/bin/ftp? It may not be fancy, but there's a lot fewer layers of software between you and the network than with the gui clients. Fewer things that could possibly messed up. :-)