Recent content by whyre

Alright, I do have an mds in that folder, but sudo running it results in an instant kill. $ sudo ./mds Killed $ and it's not a "service" that service recognises. $ sudo service mds start No such service mds $ So I'll see if I can find some more info on getting mds to...

What I've found so far: Wiki's Spotlight page - mds is launched by Launchd. Launchd can launch daemons listed in the LaunchDaemons folders underneath Library. # ls /System/Library/LaunchDaemons bootps.plist com.apple.KernelEventAgent.plist com.apple.atrun.plist...

Aye, I've tried the mdutil command, both to erase to force a reindex and attempts to turn it on/off via -i but I get the errors listed in my previous post. I'm unable to drag or add anything into the privacy tab of spotlight preferences. I have repaired permissions from my install DVD a few...

That seems to have fixed it, only issue left is a broken spotlight. #mdutil -E / /: Error, no index found for volume. #mdutil -i on / /: Could not set indexing status for volume. So I'll look around a bit and start a new thread if need be...

Corrupt files. TextEdit.app and System Preferences.app. Noticed in the console.log everytime I executed TextEdit: 2007-08-29 21:38:02.854 TextEdit[9990] *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x72, 0x65, 0x74, 0x75, 0x72, 0x6e, 0x20, 0x70) 2007-08-29...

Aww, thats no fun - I do that with windows. I'm gonna continue to dig around and see if I can learn a thing or two. I should at least find out where the settings for the system preferences are with enough luck. I'll post if I find anything of interest. :D

Thanks. Manually downloaded and installed combo update PPC 10.4.10. No change after the reboot, System Prefences is still in its stunted form, and TextEdit is still far too shy. Any other ideas? :)

This is interesting - I was emptying just a handful of documents (28) from my Trash and the whole system became sluggish, a dialog came up and said the trash couldn't be emptied because it was inuse, but didn't remove the empty trash bar and the system was non-responsive so I shut it down...

Well, I did find a solution: Dump iSync and use Missing Sync 5.x Downloaded the trial, and it seems starting with the 5.x series of Missing Sync, they have their own conduits that bypass the kludgy iSync - and it works as advertised for me. It's not a free solution, but it works - for...

I've searched here and elsewhere on the web looking for a reason why exactly I can't get iSync to see my HotSync software is properly installed. All I've come across are people who have the same issue, and no explaination, I'm guessing that's a giant 'shrug' from the world at large, but I...

Ah, I understood what you were saying, but for some reason I was under the impression that a user could read a directory or file under another directory they could not read. I've created an experiment to test this to find this is not the case... maybe I was thinking of an ACL system or...

Okay, I'll give that a shot when I get back to my laptop. However, I do have a question on why a+rx flag must be set all the way down, when the ~/Sites directory works without ~ being a+rx? Is there something specially configured for ~/Sites that allows apache to display the contents?

I'm using 10.3.6, attempting to set up the Personal Web Sharing with sym links to share some directories and files. Specifically, I have some music under iTunes of my own creation I'd like to share. To the best of my understanding, the doc root is /Library/WebServer/Documents I've created...

For some odd reason my wife's enter key on her iBook doesn't always respond when pressed, occured rather suddenly while she was typing a letter. Sometimes it has to be pressed multiple times, other times it works every 2 or 3. Not sure how to check if something has come loose or somehow...

Well, I think it all comes down to quality. The further we continue throughout time, the less quality seems to be a concern. Fewer and fewer individuals take pride in their work, so there are fewer craftsmen, and therefore less craftmanship. "It's just a job" to a growing number of...