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not at my mac for the moment, but in freebsd 4.6 its ping -c 5 the 5 being the number of times you want it to attempt the ping. If this doesn't work on your mac, check out the manpage man ping

I can see how using a .mac email address can be a symbolic gesture of support for apple, but how many of you people really use it? Didn't everyone get an email address when they signed up with their ISP? I admit that I signed up for my itools account when I bought my powerbook, but I already...

Are you running your own DNS server? If so you could add the microsoft.com zone to your name server and then assign its ip # there... Or add it to your /etc/host file (well its equivelent in the netinfo database) and assuming your computer is setup to check the hosts file before DNS, then it...

vi has been around since the dawn of epoch time. It was one of the first editors used by UNIX hackers from days gone by. While it has been updated over the years to work on every flavor of *NIX out there, a look at its origins explain alot when you consider how unintuitive it is. The first...

Find the appropriate log file that contains the information you are seeking and then bust out that oh so cool terminal app that has been overlooked by so many. Lets assume that the we want to look in /var/log/SYSLOG for the ssh info you are seeking. type the following cat...

but often times, perception becomes reality. I guess time will tell on whether or not Joe Schmo PC user will take the bait and make the jump to the Mac. In theory I liked the idea of apples ad campaign, but in excution I feel the author of the article had some valid points. 3.5% market share...

Found this article on the register... I tend to agree with it... what do you think? http://www.theregus.com/content/39/25261.html

zsh should be able to run most bourne shell scripts... according to zsh's website. It too is a superset of bourne shell with some nifty command line editing and globbing features... give it a try with zsh... if it doesn't work, get bash from apples website.

just tell it to run it via the command line (make sure that its executable) download your script.sh chmod 755 script.sh (makes it executable) ./script.sh will run it. If you save it in a directory that is in your $PATH variable, you don't need the ./ in front of the name. Or you can...

type netstat -n | grep ESTABLISHED and that will show you all the established connections your machine has at the moment. From the port number its using you can probably discern which program is using your network.

try export DISPLAY=yourcomputersip:0 as an aside... to search for stuff in manpages, hit the / (slash) key then type a keyword hit return... should find what you are looking for.

If you were to put numbers in each box to show which desktop was being represented, the user would remember where he was using mozilla and where he had photoshop open. If you look at KDE or Windowmaker, they don't show you previews and the switching flies. One caviat to this though, you would...

Your program shows great promise, but coming from an X-windows world, its pretty slow when changing from one desktop to another. Another minor grip I have is that the boxes that you draw in the title bar only toggles whether or not you see the pager boxes. I would prefer that you made an...

Not all printers that are connected to windows boxes are postscript printers... in fact, most aren't. This in my opinion is one of Mac OSX's greatest faults at the moment. Postscript is great and all, but when the majority of printers out there aren't postscript, its a bit elitist to exclude...

For those of you with 10.2 installed, does it have cups included or not. If so, have you gotten it to work with IPP://myprinthost.com:631/hpdeskjet yet? Internet Printing Protocol. Are they building its functionality into the print manager or are they just making you set it up as you would...

Search the forums for your answer... its in there, I found it myself. Basically it involves setting up your windows box as a lpd printer server, then redirecting postscript output from your mac through a ghostscript filter on your pc, which in turn passes its output to your normal printer...

I have an smc access point and my tibook with and airport card in it, works just fine with it. My friend has a mac and a pc and both can connect to his airport base station as well... tis the beauty of the 802.11b standard :)

When you type kill 531, you are basically asking nicely for to the computer to please shutdown the pid 531. Try Kill -9 841 and let your computer know who the superuser really is :)

sudo chown root:wheel /usr Once that is done then set the permissions with this command sudo chmod 755 /usr The example he gave was to show you how they were supposed to be setup...

I have always wonder what the heck Anti-Aliasing actually means. I might know, but didn't know what it was called.