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    Eclipse for PHP Developers: how to open a PHP page

    PHP can be used both for web scripts and normal scripts. When you run PHP on Eclipse, I guess you have to tell what mode you are using it.
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    Microsoft Office for Mac & iWorks, which one is better?

    If you need only a program, you could use Apple's new App store. There the programs are sold separately.
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    playing sound from command line

    Answer to the first part: "open" command handles most of audio files. I tried an .au file (from some Java program) and it played on QuickTime Player. A mp3 file was played on ITunes. But on both cases the file was played by the program.
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    Lock & Unlock Files with the Terminal

    For some reason, OS X has a concept of "locked file". You can lock a file (or directory) by selecting its info screen (CMD-I or File->Info) and then clicking Locked button. Locked file is hard to remove (either rm or move to trash). To lock or unlock a file in terminal, use chflags command. To...
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    CD menu problem

    Have you read http://www.macdisk.com/cdstarten.php? Apple has dropped autostart from CDROMs. It seems you have to put HFS filesystem to the disk. The article mentions hybrid disks, i.e. the disk has two partitions: iso 9660 for Windows and HFS for mac.
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    Need to convert images in batch.

    ImageMagick is a set of programs (and libraries) to modify, create, edit etc images. With program "convert", you could convert a file to another. There is also program mogrify, that can make batch convert, like For more information (including how to install ImageMagick), check...
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    Copying folders without their included files

    If directory owners and rights does not matter, following might help. Let us assume that you have two directories, "source" and "target". You need to duplicate "source" directory's hierarchy on "target". Use terminal.app (or iTerm.app) 1. Let us assume that source and target are sibling...
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    External Hardrive Unrecognizable

    Since "invalid sibling link" most likely means that the problem is in file system, repairing is only thing you can do. Ok, you could try to take image copy of the disk (for example with dd command) and if the repairing failed, you could write the copy back to the disk and try something else...
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    IE PNG Fix

    I do not know about IE, but you might like to set the Develop menu on Safari (Safari->Preferences.... Advanced-tab and "Show Develop menu in menu bar"). I got about 60 errors (the number kept increasing) on the second page.
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    What are the best books for web scripting?

    Whatever book you select, use Web Inspector from Apple Safari. Select Develop menu, then "Show Web Inspector" (if you do not have the Develop menu enabled, select Preferences, Advanced and then "Show Develop menu in menu bar"). Not only does it help debug your own pages, it also shows how...
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    Think this might go here!

    I have no serial devices on my Mac (unless you count Bluetooth devices as such). Anyhow, you might like to check http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/resources/archives/avr/000749.shtml for a hint. Or, if you like to log from the terminal to your mac, I guess tset program might help.
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    From tech dummy

    Intel version of OS X comes with Rosetta, a system that lets you run PPC programs. It is quite good: I have a program I use daily (TigerLaunch). It occurred me to check if there is any update for it. It turn out I had run PPC version of it without my knowledge.
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    Perl to C to Perl

    It depends on what you are programming? I.e. are the programs console programs, graphical programs, web programs or what? Actually for all cases you might like to install Netbeans development environment. It was built for Java, but it supports several languages. I found JavaFX Script quite nice...
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    how to set up a second moniter.

    You might succeed in installing some Linux distribution onto the PC and using vnc to connect to your mac. The remote screen on your mac should work as a vnc server.
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    Adding to CLASSPATH on Snow Leopard

    If you are using Java from Terminal, you might like to edit .profile file on you home directory (or .zprofile, if your shell is zsh like I have) and add line to it.
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    What's filling up my hard drive?

    Start terminal.app. Type It will list all files that are created (or changed) during last day. I bet there are lots of that should be there, but you might find files that should not. That worked if there were several small files. But it there is one big file, try something like for files...
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    Xcode with C++

    I tried the same program. When compiling with "CC" command, I got lots of linker errors, but with "g++ hello.cc -o hello" the program compiled and works.
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    mounting a file

    Well, the step 2 is to unmount it by dragging the disk image to trash can after use. This does not remove the .dmg file, so if you have done with it, you have to drag it also to the trash can.
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    Install Windows on existing partition

    When I installed Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro, it partitioned the disk to three parts: the bootloader, OS X and Windows partition. It made this by shrinking the existing OS X partition. Since you already have three partitions, I guess Bootcamp cannot guess what partition to shrink, so it gives up.
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    /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:

    I have not program Fortran for years, but it seems that your program does not have program... That is, it has several subroutines but no main routine (or as ld says: )
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