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Hee hee. Was anyone else out there a BeOS fan circa 1997 or so? It was this cool little OS that was making heaps of progress between releases, until (dum dum dum) they released an Intel version, and subsequently their engineers were stretched impossibly trying to support umpteen billion...

No answers, I'm afraid, but my volume keys (see configuration, below) _do_ work in OSX. Haven't tried the function keys yet.

I like the idea. If my CGI kung-fu was stronger, I'd start one myself.

This is the single coolest OSX related thing I've read all week. This makes a whole universe of BSD software more easily accessible to OSX users.

As alluded to earlier in the thread, the command line way of using this is the 'chflags' command. Deleting a locked file from the shell (as owner of the file or as root) happens like this: [samantha:~] dwalker% chflags nouchg driverlist.txt [samantha:~] dwalker% rm driverlist.txt...

I've used all manner of heavy duty standalone Java applications (Limewire, JBuilder, etc.) on OSX. Subjectively, it's one of fastest JVM implementations I've ever used. The problem is that the current OSX web browsers are sketchy running applets. I don't _think_ this is Apple's fault.

Hmm... I've tried setting mode on /var/mail to 755 and even 777, to no avail. I have a feeling I'm missing something really obvious, but so far no joy.

I decided to wipe my PB install and do a clean install for OSX final. I partitioned a 20Gig drive into 3 partitions; a 4 gig HFS+ partition for MacOS 9.1, a 10 gig HFS+ partition for my OSX install, apps, and home directories, and a 5 gig UFS partition to house any development I might...

I've got Sendmail working on 10.0 now. I copied my m4 files from my PB installation and the standard things (sending mail, accepting incoming mail) are working great. I think the problem I'm having is a Mail.app problem and not a sendmail problem. When I create a "UNIX mail" account in...

If you install the developer tools, you get gnutar (and gnumake, and a bunch of other stuff) by default. No need to resurrect your PB installation.

This would be a killer feature for me. I do Information Assurance (i.e security) for a living and it would be an immense feather in Apple's cap to deliver OS X with built-in IPSEC at this point in the game. Among other things, it would let me do more of my work from home in my pajamas... :).

If your "node" is sparsely populated (i.e. there aren't many people in your neighborhood who have the service), you can get really phenomenal burst speeds over a cable modem, particularly if the content happens to be cached close to you.

There's a neat little solution to this one... The devtools package comes with a carbonized version of SimpleText. Install the devtools, then just delete any copies of (classic) SimpleText you may have floating around.

NTP is a pretty heavy-duty protocol -- if you want to cause your eyes to glaze over take a look at the docs included at /Library/Documentation/Administration/Services/ntp It's designed to allow a server to keep an entire LAN in sync, thus in its default configuration it's pretty aggressive...

I use a black background and an amber foreground, with transparency set to 85 percent. It gives the visual impression of computing on a dark smoked glass table , which I personally happen to find quite aesthetically pleasing particularly when using a highly saturated background pic...

I managed to corrupt the iTools plugin that gets installed along with IE 5.5 during the initial OSX PB install. I'd really like to avoid having to reinstall over something this trivial. If someone could stuff/binhex/email the plugin to me at trapper@freeke.org I'd greatly appreciate it.

There is no IMAP server included in the PB, but the U of Washington IMAP server (included with the Pine sources) compiles fine on the PB. You\\\'ll have to do some work with inetd.conf to get it working, though.

I used the author's tips to tighten up my sendmail installation. Very good stuff.

Has anyone tried backing up their OSX installation with the dump and restore commands? Any caveats?

The mental picture I keep having is a guy in a khaki short suit, standing hip deep in a jungle river somewhere: "Crikey! This 'root user' sure has a nasty disposition! if I were to let her, she'd take my bleedin' hand right off! Look at the fury in her eyes! Phwooarrr!" (with...