Recent content by Marion Delgado

It has ceased to work since putting in Jaguar. In two books, one an ibook and one a Titanium G4 PB. It always gives the error "Last Attempt: Failed. Error occurred while checking." No logs, no explanation. I tried downloading and installing the very latest Security Update but that...

What's wrong with CGI: slower, uses more memory, probably more likely to be misprogrammed and insecure. Puts more of a strain on the host computer than Java or Javascript does (of course the compiled server modules share that problem). There are a lot of things right about CGI, especially...

HOWEVER: Make sure you have first started X up. Presumably XDarwin, but I think Tenon's commercial XonX would handle it fine. if it gives a "display" error, do this first: setenv DISPLAY :0.0 That is a bad sign, often, however.

Moving text is precisely what editors like BBEdit and Tex-Edit Plus do infinitely faster than vi. In fact the only slow editor i have right now is AbiWord. It shows a telling ignorance of clippings and drag and drop that "moving text" (vs. long regex subs or duplicated macros) would be the...

I have lately been able to compile it on several macs

some variation of this is required: then if you do: ps -Uroot you should see a safe_mysqld or mysqld process.

mine is 'bbedit.' And I use the free lite version. I also use Tex-Edit Plus which i got ages ago because it's very applescriptable. My command for that is teplus. A handy trick with apple event aware apps: you can set /usr/bin/osascript and run a script to set up your target app.

I have never gotten esdcat, esdplay etc. to work on my 330 MHz PowerPC G3 iMac (256 M RAM). I run OS 10.1.2 and OS 9.2.2. I have always installed esd with fink. On the iMac, esd starts up with the distinctive esd starting sounds, but is unavailable. This is the error I get when I use...