Recent content by shrill

Everytime you visit a web site or send an email, your IP address will be transmitted so the other side knows where to send information back to. There's not too much you can do about it. The most practical option would be to use some kind of proxy server that you can trust (maybe your ISP has...

This is an error message that Word gave me the other day. I just thought I would share.

If you have an X server running on your mac, you could probably shell into your mac and run X windows apps (e.g., gimp) from a remote client, but you couldn't run regular Carbon or Cocoa mac applications. They would have to be hosted in the X11 environment in order to be served across a network...

Wow, it's funny that you mention that, because I think there's a problem with the door mechanism on my Quicksilver G4 .. the combo drive just doesn't open quite right. Maybe I'll tell Apple :D

Well there are a bunch of ways: There's an invisible bit that's part of the directory structure. You set it, and the file will be invisible to both OS X and OS 9. Additionally in OS X you can make a file invisible the UNIX way by starting it's name with a period. If you have the OS...

Yeah, I'll bite. I need another Mac Plus.

I just installed 10.2.2 - The Icons on my Desktop are supposed to auto-align to the "grid." Everything works as expected unless I drag something off or near the left edge of the screen. The icon floats into it's grid position, but as if to make room, the Finder moves every other icon on the...

You'll need a real disk utility like Norton disk doctor or Tech Tool or something. Apple's Disk Utility seems to have the bare minimum of functionality, this is one of those places where it falls short. Incidentally, an 'overlapped extent' means that the computer has stored the extents (also...

Hmm, I wonder if you could mount the volume manually? Does X just spit it out after you put it in?

It's probably a bad movie - you didn't want to watch it anyway - Jaguar is just helping you realize it. :p Certain DVDs don't play well on computers, especially old ones and unrated ones. If it works in OS 9, it could be that the OS 9 DVD code includes a hack to make that kind of DVD...

You probably want one browser running at 56k and another running at 512k and have them load a page at the same kind so you can compare, yeah? I don't know of anything that would do that system-wide. There are download managers that have incoming bandwidth limits on them. It would be cool if a...

Imagine a titanium g4 powerbook who's screen opens, then rotates and closes so the screen is facing up when it's closed. Writing on it is no more difficult than on a clipboard. Web pads are *really* neat. I'd love to see apple come out with a PB 1400 sized one with a flip-around screen that...

Handwriting recognition is nice when you have one of these: http://www.sonicblue.com/b2b/progear/default.asp. However, Apple was probably just looking for something to do with old Newton technology.

Here's the short answer: go out and invest in an answering machine that can record your phone calls. It's probably cheaper, and certainly faster than any of my suggestions below. Plus, if you really want messages in your mac, you can hold your mic up to the answering machine as you play back...