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If it wasn't for linux, I doubt UNIX would be anywhere. People would have given up in unix a long time ago. I agree. If it wasn't for Linux, there would be far less visibility for Unix in general. As far as I'm concerned, Linux is "unix-like" enough to be considered a Unix, and it's pretty...

I sure wish Apple would quit disabling neat features like this in OS X. I'm really hurting for something faster and and less bloated than aqua that will allow me to get work done. If I could get the airport and sound working properly under NetBSD, MacOSX would be gone in a flash. As a new...

I tried command-click and command-drag and I like it! It's better than dragging a folder from Finder to a Terminal only to have the Finder window automatically raise and obscure the Terminal window. OTOH, having to press command is slightly less elegant than simply leaving the window in the...

:eek: omg, IT'S BALATRO! :D Wish I could tell you if Diablo 2 worked at all in OSX, but like you my copy's PC-only. It sure would be nice to have an RPG sort of game that ran well in OSX. Myth II is still lots of fun but it only works in OS 9.

I didn't make it up. It's from one of those big "unix humor" lists floating around on the web.

Try these in tcsh:<pre> % \(- (-: Command not found % %blow %blow: No such job. % [got a light? [got: No match. % if I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have? Too many ('s. % How would you rate Finder's slowness? Unmatched '. % cd ~God Unknown user: God...

I'm no Mac hater. MacOS has a great traditional UI that works very well. I accept it for what it is, a finely polished and functional UI. Unfortunately, any time someone whispers about something GUI-related that doesn't jive with the MacOS party line, a hundred frothing Mac zealots jump out...

You are wrong. Nearly every windowmanager that came after TWM includes FFM. It's perfectly OK not to like FFM, just don't put your foot in your mouth.

For some introductory lessons online, try <a href="http://www.codewarrioru.com/CodeWarriorU">http://www.codewarrioru.com/CodeWarriorU</a>. Metrowerks' website has classes and tutorials in C and C++. You can get into <a...

There probably aren't any major issues with making an active window that's not in front. I dunno how Aqua manages that stuff. I have my other GUIs set up so that right clicking a window's title bar will lower the window if it's raised or raise it if it's lowered. Autoraise is turned off...

Sounds like Apple has painted themselves into a corner if Aqua can't handle that. That's why you do sloppy focus-follows-mouse instead of strict FFM. Say you've got a Terminal in focus and you move the mouse cursor out of the Terminal window and on to the desktop. Focus would remain with...

Yes, by all means, go for it. Textbased games are still lots of fun. Like Endian suggests, read all about Frotz and Inform at www.ifarchive.org. You can create fairly complex games with Inform, but I suspect you'll have trouble drawing ascii-graphic maps or doing any kind of text-GUI with...

Oh come on. A lot of people happen to like FFM. You'd rather exclude it just because it's not your cup of tea? Gee, that'll sure help to attract new users to OS X.

Is there any way to enable FFM?

Has anyone gotten ports working under Darwin-ppc or Mac OS X?

It's possible to customize the colors any way you wish. You can even configure ls to highlight files of a certain type. Make a configuration file in your home dir. Give it a name like <tt>.dircolors</tt> or something to identify it. What follows below is an example config: <pre> COLOR...

It's easy to move the Dock. DockingManeuvers is a nice frontend, but you can do it yourself and learn a bit about the Dock's inner workings at the same time. <ol> <li>Open <tt>/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/DockMenus.plist</tt> in any text editor...

Thanks! OS X just arrived in the mail yesterday, heh. I gotta spend some quality time with the manpages yet.

Which configs store group information? Comments in /etc/group say that it is only used for single user mode (which seems rather oxymoronic) and that some daemon handles user and group permissions. Weird. Pardon me if I haven't noticed some obvious new utility, but there doesn't seem to be...

Your version of <tt>ls</tt> should be installed in /usr/local/bin, not /bin, and not /usr/bin. Source for <tt>ls</tt> is available several places, depending what flavor you prefer. I'd recommend getting gnu fileutils and textutils and building everything there. <tt>make install</tt> will...