Search results

reviving this old thread - how do you rename a drive so that it starts with a period? i tried renaming it in /Volumes but nothing changed and i couldn't unmount it until i had changed the name back. Failing that... I dont mind (in fact i probably prefer) having the drive unmounted as it...

sounds like you have open firmware password enabled on your computer. This means you cant boot into single user mode and wont be able to use any of the start up commands. When you start up hold down option. If you get a picture of a padlock and a password field you have indeed got open...

apache is due to be updated from 1.3.27 to 1.3.31 i think. That is the last release that will be made in the 1.3 line of apache webservers - its all version 2 now

curl does: user agent cookies http authentication compression http referrer max transfer rate supports http https ftp proxy support get/post on http sounds like i'm trying to sell you something... i'm not... honest!

i visit daily May 2001 = 345 posts 0.3ish posts a day i post on stuff i find interesting or things i can help with - its usually apathy that makes me not post as often as i visit

just use curl - it should already be installed

this is the same as mine - it means that user root and members of group admin may use sudo

how did you manage to read that file if you cant use sudo? -r--r----- 1 root wheel 341 13 Sep 2003 /etc/sudoers it should only be able to be read by root or wheel - and administrators in OS X are not in group wheel If your permissions are not as above then i suggest you do a repair...

you do not have to have root user enabled to use sudo - i use it all the time. You do however have to be a member of group admin i believe. if you check the sudoers file (which you cant because only the superuser can read it) i think it specifies which users or groups are allowed to use sudo...

i know its been round ages, we just happened to be talking about good office practical jokes at work and i remembered this one. I thought it was good then, and i think it good now! If you have something better, then please post it! Might be good to have a list of quality jokes to play on...

MS Word - Tools -> Auto Correct Options (not sure if works on the mac version - im at work at the mo) enter a normal word like "the" into the replace box and into the "with" box put something strange like - "the bosses wife is ugly" evey time they type "the" it will be magically repaced...

do you really need to use ditto? try using cp instead if the files you are moving dont have resource forks if the disks they are stored on are not hfs or hfs+ then they probably dont have resource forks - if they do there will be a hidden file named "._filename" where filename is the name of...

I just tried burning a disc from iphoto. I have to say im VERY disappointed in apple over this (non)feature. iPhoto just hung after the burn and had to be force quit (happened 2 times once with a cdr and the second with a cdrw). Then the disc wouldn't even mount properly - i had to go to...

you might want to open port 53 which is for dns lookups - essential for web browsing

Keyboard Maestro http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/ for mapping any applescript or various other built in commands to any keystroke - with settings for each application SubEthaEdit - just started using this - a great text-edit app for developers! Meunulator - a menubar (top right) calculator...

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to set up a intranet style DNS server. i played around with bind v8 via the webmin interface but had no luck. Then i remembered netinfo. Perfect - well almost. I duplicated the localhost entry under machines and renamed it to profx, saved the entry...

yeah but in New Zealand we get them every year. Still 16 years in the ground but there are 16 generations going all the time - always ready to pounch on your nice quite summer evenings... and mornings for that matter... infact i dont think they ever shut up. Stupid bugs...

as far as i know all macs have auto adjusting voltage power supplies so they will run off anything between 110V and 240V and between 50 and 60Hz its just a matter of getting the correct power cord from wall to mac! btw make sure you make the computer look used - if customs thinks you are...

sorry about what i said about the honda - this gets the ugly award. I honestly think the designer that though that making all the mitzis look the same up front should be shot. Its incedibly ugly. Especially the diamante (or should i say die-munted). Yuk.

shame its ugly!