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an alternative way to make your machines understand hostnames is to set up a name server on your LAN

if you want to use hostnames for network communicating, then the hostnames must be added to the /etc/hosts file, or the NetInfo equivalent. check out this thread on how to do that: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=19548&highlight=hostname i believe you would have to used...

DVDs were designed so that they could not be ripped. they have an encoding called CSS which prevents the files from being copied, or being useful if you manage to copy them. to rip a DVD this encryption has to be broken. some people did break that encryption, but the people who spread the...

or maybe you should ssh to the machine, and pico ~/Library/.StickiesDatabase

from the installation docs at fink s website: i downloaded the source, and tried it, and yes, it will prompt you to change the installation location right after you give it your password. default is /sw. as for why or why not, it hardly seems to matter to me, what directory you put...

well then, in OSX, you can see the OF settings by typing this: $ nvram -p the things to look for are input-device and output-device. on my G4 they are set to keyboard and screen, but if memory serves, on the 9600 they are set for serial-a or something. perhaps this also applies to...

what OS do you currently have on this machine? it is possible to force OSX to install. does the darwin CD show up in the startup disk preference pane or control panel? if we could get into open firmware, we might see an error message when trying to boot the CD. but from what i recall, OF...

1. darwin is not fully posix compliant, although it aims to be fairly posix compatible. at least this is the case a year ago. 2. install fink. it is a port of apt-get to darwin. its great. 3. i m not sure what you mean by, where is darwin kept. it resides on the hard drive. there...

where is this $10 rate for email only? all i could find on the website was $100 for a whole package. i don t need antivirus (can someone tell me about an OSX virus?), or backup (iDisk is pretty damn slow, even with a fast cable modem). so i don t want to pay $100 for services i won t use...

here is a thread: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19548

really though, network might be your best option. alternatively, you could plug it into a windows machine with two hard drives, and make one of the drives FAT. move all the files from the NTFS disk to the FAT disk, then plug the FAT disk into your mac. OSX reads FAT disks. maybe there...

here is a list of commercial DVDs that do not use CSS encryption. if you want to back up a DVD that is on this list, it should be possible: http://www.videolan.org/freedvd.html

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/speeddownload.html

now i see it: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/ but it looks like its only for people who have new computers...

i know there have been threads arguing about upgrade possibilities. right now i can t find anything on the website about 10.2 upgrade. so does this mean we re all buying full install versions? i wouldn t be surprised after the debacle that the 10.1 upgrade CD caused.

i just tried it using niutil, to answer the same question in a different thread in the OSX forum: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19724 it didn t work for me either. i can only assume that it doesn t work because of the lookup order?

i just noticed that there is a thread for this exact topic already in the UNIX forum, here http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19548 i will put any further posts on that thread.

good luck! let us know how it goes. in theory you should be able to do all that pretty easily by specifying mount points in the root netinfo server. in theory

yeah, the UNIX /etc/hosts file is only used in single user mode. so use netinfo. it looks something like this: niutil -create . /machines/www.microsoft.com niutil -createprop . /machines/www.microsoft.com ip_address 127.0.0.1 niutil -createprop . /machines/www.microsoft.com serves...

I m installing PHP with support for a GD graphics library (following instructions i got here at webmonkey) i successfully installed all the prerequisites, libjpeg, libpng, libgd, etc.. but when it came time to install PHP, the configure script failed. i told it this: ./configure...