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by user database, i assume you mean the /etc/passwd file. that is where linux stores all the account information. you can make OSX use the same file, and you could just copy the file over from the linux box. then you change lookupd to check for login information in /etc/passwd if it doesn t...

here is a howto thread for that stuff. http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=14983&highlight=talk

well, this thread seemed pretty fairly divided between kensington and logitech. i just got a logitech wheelmouse. it s pretty good. i like having that scroll wheel, and right-click. i also got a logitech gamepad. that didn t go as well. no software support.

well i bought a gamepad. a logitech wingman. i m using that carvware software, called gamepad companion, and its not really usable. doesn t work too well. i wonder if i should return it. maybe i can find a windows computer to use it on... weep

according to what testuser says, if you use realbasic, you cannot run things from the terminal. if you want to run things from the terminal, follow his first tip. then you would run a program from the terminal thus: bwbasic 10 input "What is the radius of the circle"; r 20 pi=3.14159...

ahh... remember ProDOS? the OS for the apple ][. it had a built in BASIC interpreter. in fact that is the machine i learned to program in. this thread brings me back.

here is the thread with testusers script. the only problem with this setup as i see it, is you want an unprivileged user to edit these files, and by default that directory, and its files are all owned by root. i don t think it would be too bad to just change the permissions. testuser will...

i believe testuser has written some nice scripts to create ftp-only users using the OSX built-in ftp server. look for his thread on ftp users, it should be what you need. if you need to modify it to suit your needs, i m sure he will be able to help.

maybe you could hack the CD like the way they did the update CD. there is a little executable somewhere on the CD which checks the disk. if you want to force it to install, just remove that file and burn a new image. no guarantees that your system will work, however. or maybe you should...

haven t tried it on OSX, but this might be what you want: http://www.gnu.org/software/gyve/gyve.html

i would really like to see that inconsistent behavior of disk device names be fixed. i use fstab to mount my home directory, and to move my swap file, but whenever the disk changes, my swapfile has to go back to the boot disk. so i would like to see that fixed in jaguar. do you have any...

using either NetInfoManager.app, or niutil, whichever you are more comfortable with, create an entry in the netinfo database in the SharePoints directory of the config directory of the machine. the entry should have two properties: one is the name, and the value should be whatever you want the...

well in case anyone is interested, if you need to buy a card with an ADC port retail, the nVidia Geforce Titanium retail version has one ADC port and one DVI port. the retail versions of the ATI cards still only have DVI ports.

well, considering 10.2 is coming in about a month or two, that might be a little unrealistic to expect them to buy out a company, and have it integrated, and finish debugging the beta software before the end of the summer. how about OS11...?

the linux fdisk program seems to be able to format a volume to any filesystem. at least it has something like 100 choices

i guess i should also mention NetBSD, and OpenBSD. they both run on macs, and are well respected. they are not as popular as linux, but good OSes nevertheless.

FWB makes a software called HDT (or maybe it was HDK) stands for hard disk toolkit. it can resize HFS partitions.

AMEN! aqua is a lot nicer than xfree86. very beautiful to look at, but also intelligently designed, and object oriented from the ground up. X does have one functionality that i wish Aqua had: the client-server model. i think it is a wonderful thing to be able to xhost your display to...

OK. my reply was a little excited last night. so lets make it an intelligent conversation instead of an argument, or an unintelligible my-OS-is-better-than-your-OS flame war. well i have only been using linux for 3 or 4 years, so i m a little new. i ll bet that in the early days of...

apple likes to tout their platform as a premier platform for java development, because they provide a native java API to the OS. it is the only OS (other than solaris from sun) that does anything like this. however, the browser situation for OSX is presently in a pretty sorry state. that is...