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ISO to dmg (drive image) conversion You can accomplish this in the Terminal with this command: hdiutil convert "/path/to/name.iso" -format UDRW -o "/path/to/output.dmg"

Speed Chimera provides a graphical interface to most of the settings and hidden features listed at that site: http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=17113&db=mac

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1GB should be more than plenty. If you have 1GB of physical RAM, you often won't need more than 80MB allocated for swap space (for the default single swap file). You would have to do some serious pageouts to achieve an additional 1GB of virtual memory. If you have the disk space to spare, go for it.

Actually, your trash did empty with the initial command. The reason you thought it didn't work is because the Trash icon wasn't updated. (You can test this for yourself. Make sure your trash is empty. Then drag a file to it for removal. Then execute your first two commands in the Terminal. Then...

kendall-- Ever compare a before and after partition map in a disk defragmentation tool? HFS+ certainly gets fragmented. If your OS is small (like OS9 was) and you tend to write files in larger contiguous chunks (like media files -- audio, video, images), you might not tend to see much...

Do you have the newest version of Eudora for OS X? http://www.eudora.com/products/eudora/download/mac_osx.html The first step would be to download and install that. Then you could try copying all of your .mbox files to Eudora's default mail store location (find .mbx if you are unsure of the...

Under OS X 10.1.x, there is an option to "Ignore Permissions on this Drive". Get Info on the drive/volume in question and make sure that option is UNCHECKED.

Did you back up the default httpd.conf or a previous version before attempting your upgrades?? Line 240 of httpd.conf reads: LoadModule hfs_apple_module libexec/httpd/mod_hfs_apple.so (It is uncommented by default). If it is not that simple, here is the as-delivered httpd.conf file; install...

The swap directory is the location where OS X writes swapfiles (virtual memory pageouts). Swapfiles are created 80MB at a time by the system, and only when needed. If these are written to the same disk as everything else, your main disk will become fragmented after significant use (even though...

Yes, that was very, very bad. You will almost assuredly cause a kernel panic if you delete the swap files while they are still in use by the OS. That's why I wrote "Upon your next reboot..." Maybe I should have made a clearer warning, especially regarding the removal command...

/etc is just a symbolic link to /private/etc. If the user just deleted /etc, you can easily restore it at the shell: First, check the disk: /sbin/fsck -y repeat until you don't get any errors returned (1-3 times, usually). Next, mount the filesystem and restore the symbolic link /etc -->...

/etc is just a symbolic link to /private/etc. If the user just deleted /etc, you can easily restore it at the shell: First, check the disk: /sbin/fsck -y repeat until you don't get any errors returned (1-3 times, usually). Next, mount the filesystem and restore the symbolic link /etc -->...

gatorparrots% cat /etc/smb.conf ; Template configuration file for smbd. ; ============================================================================ ; For the format of this file and comprehensive descriptions of all the ; configuration option, please refer to the man page for smb.conf(5). ; ...

Has anyone successfully removed the Finder icon altogether from the Dock?

Did you try the old trick of pasting a blank line before the name? If you are wanting to create an Applications submenu in the Dock, I recommend the freeware Cocoa application YADAL (Yet Another Dock Application Launcher): http://orane.org.free.fr/#Yadal

Many techniques were developed for moving the swap directory in OS X 10.1.x and several applications were even written for that expressed purposes. None of those techniques or applications work very cleanly in OS X 10.2.x (resulting in .vm 1 or duplicate mounts and other oddities); but that's...

curl and wget don't have any problems with the downloads.

Techniques & practical application (in an approachable style): http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm

Mike Bombich has the solution for you (creating and deploying Mac OS X disk images with a pre-configured OS): http://www.bombich.com/mactips/netboot.html