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Nice poof - visual and yet not so cartoony! -rob.

There's a site out there with other alternate poofs AND docks, and instructions for both -- I think they take submissions, too, so you could send yours in: http://homepage.mac.com/PoofDock/ -rob.

Works great in 4K73 on a desktop Mac. Not sure why it wouldn't work in the final. Not sure about portables, as I don't have one to test. -rob.

Go to Alsoft's website (www.alsoft.com) and download the utility they have their called "Fix Invisible"or somesuch. It's a fairly common bug in the PB... I also had luck just by lauching Disk First Aid and asking it to scan the disk; when I quit, it was visible again. Odd, but there was no...

jackd - interesting ... i wonder if apple leaked a bad 4K78 to the hotline sites, and that's what this guy got his hands on? ;-) either way, we'll find out in about 11 days! -rob.

Well, before the AppleInsider boards went down today, someone posted what I would consider a fairly definitive shot that proves 4K78 is not the GM or even the last FC build. On the sharing prefs panel, there are four text strings which clearly don't belong: CAPTION_AFP_IS_OFF...

From build 4K73... >>But it now behaves like Mac OS 9 in that when you click on something it spawns a second window<< If you've got the "shelf" displayed, a double-click opens the folder in the same window. If you hide the "shelf," then you get a new window with the double-click...

Last night, as my first-ever attempt at compiling anything on OS X, I downloaded and compiled the "fileutils" package from GNU's website. The main reason I did this was to get a better 'df' command, which shows disk usage from the command line. The PB doesn't support the '-h' flag, which...

If you've never left your OS X box running for a week or so, the locate and whatis commands will not work. There's a cron job that updates them, but it runs weekly (if I recall correctly). To force the databases to be instantly created, do the following (don't type the stuff in the {}; those...

MacWrite - I'm sure you've heard this before, but logging in as root is very dangerous. A much better solution to using BBedit is a program called Pseudo. This neat little drag-and-drop app will open whatever you drop on it as root. So drop BBedit on Pseudo, and edit away in relative safety...

SSH was included (but not activated) in the Public Beta; it appears to have been removed from later builds (export restrictions?). However, OpenSSH is easily installed and there are good instructions on stepwise.com for doing so. -rob.

I think it's a safe bet that they WILL develop them -- if they don't, then they're basically giving up on all future Mac printer sales. That seems like a reasonably good sized chunk of business to just throw away. A more interesting question is when they'll develop them. My money's on...

rene - my understanding is that, by default, the root account is simply not enabled. all it takes to enable it is a quick trip to netinfo, and you have full access back. other forums on the net have pointed out that you can't really ship a unix without a root account, so it will be there...

Or could it possibly be simply left over from when NEXT was available on Intel? Nah, that's too simple an explanation ... think about it - if it's new, why would there be an option to boot to DOS - nobody needs that nowadays. And on the OS X on Intel front, please keep hoping for it only if...

Here's an easy terminal fix for the hidden file problem: defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles True Next time you login, you should see everything. -rob.

OS X PB definitely drops keystrokes on my machine. I'm hoping it's a combination of a beta OS along with my setup -- my USB devices go to a switchbox, and then to two Macs and a PC. I hope it's fixed in the final - it's just a bit more than slightly annoying! -rob.

A couple of users on the Mac OS X Hints site (which I run) posted a step-by-step on how to move the swap to another drive. It's not trivial, but not overly complicated either... Here's the article: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20001215021440138 Hope this helps... -rob.

Easier to manufacture, and much more predictable parts content. Apple is in control of 100% of the core OS. They may have to wait for some third party stuff they want to bundle on the CD, but that becomes an easy decision -- ship the OS, then press a new version if any third-party stuff was...

I don't think it's windowshade (at least it's not in the Finder). It's the button that shows/hides the "shelf" and navigation features for finder windows. Once the features are hidden, opening a folder opens a new window ala OS 9. Not sure how it will function inside an app, though. Maybe...

>>>Its a lot like changing the hot keys on us. Whats up with cmd-n now making a new window in list view? Why on earth did they change it?<<< After I&#039;d used OS X for a while, it became very obvious why they assigned cmd-N to &#039;New Finder Window&#039; and shift-cmd-N to &#039;New...