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    Programming in Java on Mac

    A very plausible defense for overweight IDEs vs. text editor/makefile Java development can be found in the vast number of features that an IDE offers for a new and even advanced Java programmer. Rather than doing it the hard way, taking three times as long and then bragging about it, as some do...
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    best program for java code

    No intention to start a Java IDE flame war here, but you should also check out Eclipse (www.eclipse.org). I imagine it mostly boils down to preference-- NetBeans vs. Eclipse vs. TextEdit/Terminal, but with disk space cheap these days, it doesn't hurt to explore a bunch of them (the free ones, of...
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    Change password via perl

    You can use the 'passwd' command, but you'll need to interact with it. To do that, you'll need perl's Expect module. I don't believe OS X's perl has Expect included, you'll probably have to install it (go to www.cpan.org for help installing Perl modules). To see if you have Expect installed, run...
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    Mounting shared MacOSX folders on PC

    Hi, You should try editing the file /private/etc/smb.conf. This is the main config file for Samba and where you'll set the various parameters its operation. An important one is 'WORKGROUP ='. Set this to your desired workgroup name and do a 'killall -HUP xinetd' from a terminal. Do a 'man...
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    Perl and mySQL problems

    Could it be that you don't have the Developer Tools package installed? It looks like it can't find the 'make' command. Just a guess. Go to http://developer.apple.com and you should find instructions on installing them. It's free.
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    Perl and mySQL problems

    I had similar trouble installing DBD::mysql using Webmin's perl module installer. You can do it by hand: (I have root enabled, i don't know how you're setup.) As root, run the command: perl -MCPAN -e'shell' Follow the instructions about setting up CPAN for the first time. You'll probably...
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