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Here's a good solution: Change this line in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf: Port 80 to Port 8000 This is good for getting you off the Code Red radar, as long as you don't mind having to give our your url in this form: http://www.somedomain.com:8000/

You can set the user's passwords arbitrarily with this command: niutil -createprop . /users/username passwd "`openssl passwd 'thePassword' `" (Creating a property in NetInfo will overwrite an existing property, so you can replace their unhashed passwords with hashed versions.)

I did that -- upgraded Perl to 5.8 and broke Fink in the process. Here is how to fix it: mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/Storable.pm /tmp mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/auto/Storable /tmp fink rebuild storable-pm http://archive.develooper.com/macosx@perl.org/msg02447.html It IS first necessary to do...

I thought our old posts would reflect our new names in the database, but this doesn't seem to be the case with me (everything still shows as being by 'G. Peretz'). Also, I logged out in Chimera as an experiment and now I cannot log back in with either my old or new user name. [It's a good...

Edit /etc/smb.conf. Change this line: server string = PowerMac G4 to change the description. Change this line: netbios name = supermac to change your NetBios name (how you appear in Windows' Network Neighborhood). Restart Windows Networking (via the File Sharing System Preferences...

Was it an HP driver?

Yes, that's exactly right. You can convert Audio CDs to .dmg files containing full audio resolution AIFFs. Then, convert the tracks to MP3 using iTunes, Sound Jam, or QuickTime Pro. You would accomplish the task more quickly and use less CPU power doing so (enabling you to work while it gets...

The -h in du -sh is for Human readable, meaning it will return the results in megabytes. I should have made it clear that this requires filetutils to be installed (Sorry about that!). They can be obtained here: http://homepage.mac.com/rgriff/file.html If you prefer to keep the default du...

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If you think iTunes is the best way to rip an audio CD at full fidelity, think again. While iTunes is a great all around audio library management tool, it is very ineffecient when it comes to actually ripping audio discs to AIFF files. (It is Altivec optimized so it makes for quite a workout for...

Here is a script to backup the Entourage mail database to a CD. I have mine as a cron task that runs every Friday before I leave work. The CD tray opens at the set time as if to say "Feed me"! Simply insert a CD and off it goes! Ahh, the power of Mac OS X. Please note that this script...

The termcap problem is unrelated but easily fixable. You can fix it by following the instructions on this thread: http://www.macfora.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7972 I recommend solution 4 in your case, since the termcap file already lives in: /usr/share/misc/termcap and a simple...

You can't hurt the programs, but you can mess up their configuration or preferences files. This is especially true of programs that maintain databases as their source of information. In other words, I wouldn't force quite Entourage or Suitcase or their ilk. (I have had significant problems with...

The 10.2.x client version uses the lukemftpd daemon. To fix it, you would have to download the source from Apple and recompile the ftpd binary: http://www.chezludo.com/ftpchroot.html It cannot be fixed by editing a configuration file. Once it is fixed (using the method described in the link...

Emergency eject: *Press the eject button on the keyboard. Once. Then repeatedly if once doesn't do it. *If that fails, restart and hold down the mouse button. This *should* eject all but the most stubborn of discs. *If that fails, restart to the Open Firmware prompt: Command+Option+O+F...

Open /Utilities/Terminal.app. Type: last to see the last logged-in users. To view the 50 most recent transfer entries in your FTP log: tail -50 /private/var/log/ftp.log

You may have to recompile the apps with undefined symbols using the new GCC version. Otherwise, do some hunting on the web and find a Mac OS X installer package of pine and lynx and reinstall them. Alternatively, fink 0.5a works with Jaguar and has the packages you want: fink install...

color ls is available as a Mac OS X installer package here: http://www.osxgnu.org/software/Fileutils/lsc/

ftpchroot is broken in 10.2. See the various threads on this forum for options on how to fix it.

A pid file may require root privileges in order to remove it: sudo rm /path/to/file rm -rf for directories (recursive force remove). For directories with root ownership, you will have to do: sudo rm -rf /path/to/dir