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Compared to the other platforms N6/Mozilla runs on, the classic Mac OS has a really anemic memory manager, so this makes sense. I would expect that as the Carbonized version of the Mozilla codebase matures, the OSX version will far surpass the classic version's stability for this very reason.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this any different from the way OSX works normally? You can already telnet in and su to root (though I wouldn't recommend telnet -- more on this below) as it is.. Why delete the root user (most Unices won't let you delete UID 0, anyway)? Warning to...

I use a program called BetterConsole from Subsume Technologies (http://www.subsume.com). I can be set to monitor any number of log files. Very nice. I also modified my Apache configuration file to break the log down into accesses, referers, errors, etc.)

Has anyone heard anything about any of the more advanced filesystems (JFS, ReiserFS, etc.) being ported to OSX? It would be really nice to hsve a good journaling filesystem option...

As I recall from my unsuccessful attempt to get an early release of Darwin running on my old S900, the (semi-insurmountable?) problem is that the S900 identifies itself as a Power Macintosh 8500 (or 8600... I don't remember exactly), which would be OK except for the fact that the 8500/8600 has...

I used Cyberdog for about a year and a half, and only gave it up once it was clear the web browser was never going to evolve any further. I loved the mailer, too, although its best feature did make it into Mail.app -- V-Twin searches of indexed mailboxes.

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One of my faves -- you could always make your terminal transparent, like this: http://www.freeke.org/images/TransparentTerminal.png. You can find directions for doing that at http://www.macosxhints.com. The AOL IM client that person was running is called Fire. It works well. You can...

You could always restart the machine, holding down the "S" key while you do. The machine will then boot into whats called "single-user" mode. Once it's booted, you'll be at the command prompt. Type "/sbin/fsck -y" and watch the messages it outputs. Run fsck multiple times until it reports no...

In what appears to be an interface oversight, (i.e. file a bug report in Mac OS X feedback) there's no way to start using Mail.app for a given username without initially setting it up for either a POP or IMAP account. I just used a throwaway account with a service that offers free POP mail...

Are you by any chance logging in as root via the GUI? Those look like output from root's cronjobs... They get mailed to root nightly if you have sendmail running.

The Fizilla changes are being merged into the Mozilla trunk, going by the conversation in the Mozilla newsgroups, so I imagine we'll see a carbonized Netscape 6.something eventually.

Take a look (from the Terminal) at /var/log/mail.log You should be able to see from that whether the mail servers you're trying to send to are rejecting your posts or whatever... Sendmail can be very picky about having a fully-qualified domain name, among other things.

I recall reading somewhere that, in the PB, Cocoa apps can use the mousewheel but Carbon apps can't.

A blurb at http://www.freeamp.org says that they're working on "a Mac version", but details are few and far between -- are they working with the Carbon API, for example? The one killer feature I need Freeamp for is the support for RealJukebox .RMP files for downloading full albums from services...

> This is a wild guess on my part (I know next to nothing > about Sendmail), but it seems like you could get your mail > configuring Mail as if your domain were on a remote > machine, i.e., configure the e-mail settings in the > Internet preference panel with your incoming mail server > as...

I've got sendmail up and running on my machine, and overall it works well enough so that I'm now sending mail directly through it rather than going through someone else's SMTP server. It also works for receiving mail -- all mail sent to valid accounts on my host (freeke.org) gets delivered...

Okay, I've got MAILSERVER=-YES- set in /etc/hostconfig. That didn't work, so when I try to start it manually by running the startup script at /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail it craps out with the following error: [samantha:Library/StartupItems/Sendmail] root#...

Its a free Scour Exchange client for OS X. Versiontracker is your friend. :) -d.w.

I'm on a teeny-tiny network using DHCP (3 boxes behind a Linksys router/firewall), and I managed to change my hostname by editing /etc/hostconfig (as root.) Just change the HOSTNAME entry to the name you want. My prompt now looks like this: [samantha:~] dwalker%