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i agree wholeheartedly. as soon as a product becomes OS X ready, i plonk down my cash. case in point BBEdit. (they rock for getting that out nice and quick) NauSeuM

on any RedHat linux system prior to 6 cat /etc/passwd don't even have to be an 'administrator' :) security is what the user/owner makes of it. *shrug* NauSeuM

the important colour i needed was syntax highlighting in vim (Vi IMproved) i found a resource about this on the net (see bottom for URL) and from there i have put: <pre> d0|vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100:\ :pa#64:Co#8:Sf=\E[3%dm:Sb=\E[4%dm:op=\E[m:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:\...

that is not entirely true. in fact, only an ADMINISTRATOR can gain sudo access to root. admittedly not the security setup i would have on any of my servers, but you have to admit, if a user is an ADMINISTRATOR, requiring sudo for root style actions is really only a formality. in all of...

hehe.. TerminalOpaqueness is the first thing i have found that will bring iTunes to its knees .. defaults write com.apple.terminal TerminalOpaqueness .9 dragged the newly transparent terminal around the screen.. cause iTunes to STOP PLAYING while i was dragging.. hehehe plus, it...

i have had no trouble compiling the openssl/openssh on OS X 10.0 i used the Darwin tarballs pointed to by the stepwise article, but i just untarred them and 'made' them. didn't bother with most of stepwise's instructions. sudo tsch tar zxfv OpenSSL-0.9.5a-3.1.tar.gz cd...

try: man hostname ;) as for ssh, i will have tarballs of openSSL and openSSH on my site RealSoonNow(tm) cheers, NauSeuM

this is unbelievable. in the later builds, the applemenu has returned. from the login screen, if you click where the applemenu normally is (top left corner of the screen) it drops down even though there is no menubar on this screen. the applemenu has an item for launching the 'System...

there's a great GPL file encryption program i use in UN*X called 'cruft'. http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/cruft-0.2.tar.gz i haven't tried compiling it in OSXPB yet, but i doubt VERY highly that there would be any problem. it works on the very simple but very clever...

I have only just downloaded the development tools this morning, so i have not tried yet. it will be one of the first things i try, however. i'll post again with success or failure ;) cheers, NauSeuM

hehe.. well. that was the point i was clumsily trying to make. "out of the box" - MacOS X PB is way more secure than any other UN*X defaults to. OSXPB has ftp, telnet, ssh, apache and so on disabled by default. linux, freebsd, solaris and irix (the 4 UN*X OS's i have experience with)...

i had seen a post about that and tried it. it appears that the monitors control panel when run from withing classic doesn't load the monitor plugin or whatever needed to have the brightness and contrast controls. it just doesn't have those parts of the control panel when started from classic...

The brightness of my iMac's screen in MacOS X PB is actually literally painful. i am beginning to think i will have to give up on OS X and go back to my other UN*X boxes and OS 9 on the iMac. this i REALLY don't want to do, but i can't get headaches every night either. it seems...

apache have a servlet engine (and standalone java based webserver if your needs are light) called tomcat (part of the apache jakarta project)... jakarta.apache.org. i have yet to try to compile the mod_jserv required to integrate this into a MacOSX apache server, but it runs fine as a...

someone mentioned ipchains (linux's firewall rules this month...) BSD (and MacOSX) already have a firewall rules system. ipfw - controlling utility for IP firewall in fact, someone else on this board has already detailed some of the use of this utility (still very command line and UN*X...