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AppleScript's only inbuilt means of providing an on screen display of a result is via a rather ugly "display dialog" that must be dismissed. For many of my AppleScripts I just want a quick notification of the result that goes away by itself after a time I can set, can be placed in any of nine...

Quicksilver has become such a part of my working day that when I sit down at any other machine I'm disappointed that Command-Space and a few characters isn't opening the application I want, or that Command-Space-"=" isn't waiting for my formula for a calculation. I even start a number of...

I didn't know about the update - Glad to hear about it. Not so cool is that their are three docs with the OS X version that are locked - now there's a PITA. First you gotta blow away the old ones, then copy the new, insead of just dragging the new over the old.

Now the question is: Has anyone tried to use wormhole outside a LAN?

I haven't tried this, no. The Rage 128 is exactly where Apple put it - I've never had occasion to move it. I don't understand why this should work, though.

As I recall (a long time ago) it was an upgrade so I wouldn't have to reload all of my applications. I haven't had this problem before and it began just after I ran a set of cleanup operations that included prebinding. Your theory then is that somehow I've got a Jaguar artifact left over that...

Machine: B&W G3 ziffed to G4 running Panther fully updated. Dual CRT displays, the master (with the menu bar) on the built-in Rage 128 and the other on a Villagetronic MPDD Pro PCI card. Problem: After repairing permissions or optimizing, the machine will not restart in Panther. The display...

I didn't simply delete the account and create another because I wasn't sure how to move all the old user's files to the new account, get permissions all up to snuff, have all the applications remain accessible, keep Apache, PHP, and MySQL functioning properly, and have SSH work without having to...

I have stupidly used the same account name on two OS X machines (one Jaguar the other Panther), and obviously that leads to confusion when connecting from one to the other. Is there a way to change the name and shortname of either from the terminal? It's not possible from the Accounts...

Thanks; It's clear that I should stay away from the Terminal. Cat worked fine, but trying to remove the file simply got me a no such file response even though I had copied the file name from the message. In vi I just got tildes with nothing following, but I think it was creating a new file so...

As a relative newbie to this, I'm twice confused. 1) Which machine am I sitting at when I do this - the remote host or the client? In which of them is the change needed? 2) In a terminal session (client), if I type: vi .ssh/known_hosts, I get a page of tildes, but nothing else, presumably...

Having recently moved the system on a remote machine to another HD, now when I try to start an SSH session I get this message: ********* IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that...

One problem with transferring a directory of files from OS X to XP is that all the .filename and ._ stuff goes with it and confuses XP (you can't delete them there). The solution I favor is Wormhole -> http://www.crystalfiresw.com/products/wormhole.html, an application that runs on both X and...

I want to use an upgraded Beige G3 desktop as a low-traffic server running Apache/MySQL/PHP/pMachine and also as my gateway machine (10base-T to cable modem, 100base-T to LAN) running IPNetRouterX/IPNetSentry. Jaguar is a relatively straightforward install on a Beige but Panther requires the...

If you're thinking of a Blog with Apache 2.0, be aware that MySQL, PHP, and pMachine for examples are not yet fully compatible with it. There are still glitches. See: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/ for example.