Recent content by mathman

Not much. But if they ever get it working, it will blow the doors off a lot of stuff, like cryptography. If you're interested, Scientific American had an article on this in the last year, I think pretty recently. mark

So I type pico (space) /Users/.... ? I will try that. I really do appreciate the time you all are taking with this. I can handle quantum field theory just fine, but am dangerous around computers. mark

Thanks arden (and apologies to darkshadow for not following his/her directions correctly). I did forget the space. That worked, but when I get into the xml stuff, the AppleLanguages key only has: array string English /string /array (I am leaving off the angle brackets...

Darkshadow: Ok, I tried that. I get the following: Singleuser boot --fsck not done Root device is mounted read-only If you want to make modifications to files run '/sbin/fsck -y' and then '/sbin/mount -uw/' It then gives me sh-2.05a# So I typed the first sbin thing, and it...

I'd like to try using terminal (never done it before, but WTF...). But I don't know how to access terminal. I tried using Mac Help, but when I click on "open terminal for me," it comes back with something about this not being available/not installed. Is there a way of starting up in terminal...

I have a 17 inch imac g4/800/512 running jaguar. I know German, so I thought it would be interesting to have my stuff in German, so I went into System Preferences, then into International, and picked up the German and put it into first place, ahead of English. A little later, I had a...