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    This Is The Best Idea

    demo? i think the streaming server is released open source under the APLS. so you can get the full version of it for free. check it out.
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    microsoft and GNU

    well its probably not much money to microsoft, but to the FSF, which is a completely not for profit organisation, its a lot. i just can t figure why microsoft would want to contribute even a penny. it can only look bad for microsoft to do that. they publicly claim that the policies of the...
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    Optimizing is bad and fsck -y no longer works?

    i m a 9.5 too, solrac. *high five*
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    microsoft and GNU

    i just noticed something a little strange. so remember how microsoft thinks the GPL is like a cancer? and its unamerican? it may be their number one enemy. but check this out. you can find microsoft listed about halfway down the page. i can t figure out what kind of publicity stunt that...
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    Help - Fink and Imagemagick

    grr.... unfortunately, this didn t work either. first sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/web/php-4.1.2-1.* /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ this seems to have done the trick: % fink list | grep php php 4.1.2-1 HTML-embedded server-side...
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    where are dynamically linked libraries?

    i was just wondering. i m used to having to specify my location for dynamically linkable libraries sometimes in UNIX apps, or specifying them in /etc/ld.so.conf. and it seems like you can t help put trip over .DLL in every directory of any windows filesystem. but i have no idea where MacOSX...
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    Help - Fink and Imagemagick

    so you re saying that i should just fink install php? two questions: 1. how to i tell fink to download an unstable version? 2. how does fink know that i want that option enabled, since i am not going to tell it anything by means of parameters to configure?
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    Help - Fink and Imagemagick

    i want to install php, with support for GD. i found instructions on this webmonkey site. basically i have to pass the configure script a few flags, like this: ./configure --with-gd=/sw/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/sw/lib --with-zlib-dir=/sw/lib i couldn t figure out how to make fink pass...
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    problems with sendmail and mail.app

    for sendmail to work, you have to change some group ID permissions of some files. the out of the box set up doesn t work. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/02/26/terminal_three.html?page=3
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    File Extensions, love 'em or hate 'em?

    i used to be really annoyed that apple is ditching the metadata. i even signed that petition on arstechnica. and it was a really neat thing about MacOS. it was an elegant solution. and look at [url=http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19386]poor stephen[/url. if his...
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    Need for Speed

    i stand corrected. thanks testuser
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    recommend web technology?

    i m having a bit of trouble installing php. someone suggested i might try GraphViz with batik. i have never heard of these technologies, and am not sure what they are. do you have any opinions of these?
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    [HOWTO] - Setup PHP & MySQL

    i m looking for some help installing PHP. i am trying to install it with GD support, according to instructions from this article. i installed all the prerequisits fine, but when i configure PHP. like this: ./configure --with-gd=/sw/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/sw/lib --with-zlib-dir=/sw/lib i...
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    Would it be a good thing if Microsoft disappeared ?

    i don t think apple would become microsoft, the philosophies of the company are just to different. but it is possible i think the existence of the word format is bad for business. it ties businesses to one platform, it limits their flexibility. it forces businesses to upgrade when it might...
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    Help - Fink and Imagemagick

    hey, it worked great sao, thanks for the tip. now i need a little more fink help. i need to pass some custom flags to the configure script of the package i want fink to install. does fink support this? i didn t see anything about it in the man pages. or should i do that install...
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    Help - Fink and Imagemagick

    i was just having that same fink problem of not gzip format, and it was very annoying. i was about to post a new thread, when i read this one. now that s service! thanks sao. i ll do it now and get back to you.
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    keyboard shortcut toSystem Prferences Sound or Monitor Panel

    its not a CRT display, its an LCD, but you re right, it is a powermac, not a powerbook, so it has the apple pro keyboard, which means no brightness keys. i guess the powerbook has designated brightness keys? with this keyboard F14 and F15 control brightness.
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    cgi files

    how about just renaming it to EIS 2.1.sit?
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    keyboard shortcut toSystem Prferences Sound or Monitor Panel

    that s a neat trick. i didn t know that one. although the option+F15 (brightness key) didn t work for me, option+volume did.
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    Need for Speed

    MacWhiz: i m not sure what macs BeOS will run on, but i do believe that there exist macs that it will run on. i m not sure about this, but i think that the original BeBox was a motorola 68k box, and after they got out of the hardware business, they supported 68k macs, and x86 PCs. after a...
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