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Well, the first is good for now, but one day you'll find something you want to buy, and just can't resist... :D As for the second, no, the padlock only refers to the fact that that particular web page was delivered as an encrypted page. It doesn't say anything about the networks security...

Well, if the traffic is unencrypted, they can also listen to it, read any email you're reading or sending, watch the same web pages you're watching and so on. If you enter your credit card information on an unencrypted web page, anyone listening in will get that too. I'd be careful about that...

Actually, it is. Any everyday drive can be formatted as a HFS+ volume. Partly true, anything beyond eight extents goes to the extents overflow file. Anyhow, still no explanation as to why defragmentation tools would introduce fragmentation. You are however completely missing the point. The...

The first way ist to log in as root. Bad idea, since you run the risk of messing things up in a bad way. The second way is to run Finder as root. Bad idea for the same reason. The third way is to run another file browser, like PathFinder (actually a lot more than a file browser, but I...

Not really, although it might seem as if they did in some cases (more below this paragraph). Defragmentation tools do two things: defragment all files, and move them so that all free space is contiguous. The very process of moving them to "get all blocks to line up nicely" is precisely what...

One of the big problems with 3rd party defragmentation tools is that they need updating as soon as there is a change in the system layout. The system is built on several files, and some of them get replaced on system updates. It is VERY difficult for a third party developer to keep track of...

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Yeah, you need to change the folders owner to "www", since it is actually Apache that does the writing in it (step 3 in the text I wrote in the linked document above).

No, the document I wrote deals with OS X Client. In OS X Server I'd go with the GUI tools. And, if you feel adventurous, you could even try that in OS X Client. Just copy the Workgroup Manager and Server Admin apps and try. I'm pretty sure I saw someone mentioning that they work on Client too...

Ahem. No. Defragging does not lead to fragmentation of files, exactly the opposite is true. It is seldom necessary in OS X though. The following is quoted from this page: http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/

You need to keep at least 10% free on you start up drive, if possible try to keep 15% free. Mac OS X uses virtual memory, which means it will use your hard drive to swap out chunks of from RAM when they aren't being used. If your hard drive gets too full, you'll start noticing a real slow...

XCode is the IDE, the application you use to write code. Carbon and Cocoa are two frameworks, or libaries if you will, with prebuilt objects you can use as is or extend. Carbon is an old framework to be used when you want applications to run in both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. To write...

Here's a link to a document I prepared ages ago on how to set up webdav on Mac OS X. The section on webmin is a bit dated, the version number is much higher now... It contains not only instructions on how to set up webdav, but also on how to make it secure, with SSL, user accounts and all...

Well, that doesn't really mean anything. It could be that he has set up one account, and then several aliases to that account, one of them with the address ending in "91". It could also be that there is a rule on the mail server, automatically forwarding all mail sent to your account (or...

Sure, but it might not be the right version, and besides, the problem is probably a missing or incorrect MIME setting. Reinstalling the Flash Player will correct it. It would be easy to correct the MIME setting if you know your way around the system, but the question implies that this is not the...

Yeah, it loads. It's not a QuickTime video, it's a Flash movie. You need a Flash plug-in, go to Macromedias site and download the latest version (Flash Player 7): http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

With WindowDragon you can drag ANYWHERE in the window to move or resize it, not just the edges. http://homepage.mac.com/tconkling/windowdragon/ And, you can't beat the price: absolutely free!:D

A lot of different Unix applications are separated from each other in order to make sure that something happening in one doesn't affect files belonging to another. To make this possible, they are simply installed under different accounts, and their respective files are then assigned to their...

...as much as I hate the frequent updates, sometimes it feels like they update twice a day, it does work with your scanner. The interface is horrid, but you can eventually get used to it, sort of.