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Seems you have solved this problem (XDarwin) already. You might want to know that Fink lets you compile all XDarwin (it takes a while) from scratch and it works great. I have not noticed the encoding problems you mention though I have encountered some 'locale' problems as well as non-english...

Yeah. Welcome to the thriving Mac community! When using Fink, you will have the option to dwl readily available binaries or let it compile the stuff if you have the developer tools installed (recommended if you like to work on UNIX stuff). :D OTOH, as rightfully stated, you can also...

I think many people have successfully installed it on plain vanilla Jaguar. Take a look at the excellent tutorial series on this subject on O'Reilly website (can't remember where). I suppose Oracle might want to tell you that for a production machine you really need OSX Server (otherwise...

Yes, I wonder why this has not been done this time, as it fixes those pesky bugs that effectively limits its operation. True, but that leaves the options of either not using QT or using QT beta. In my experience, I would risk using the beta as it supposedly introduces little extra...

I am currently finishing a project that involves a whole bunch of PCs capturing DV streams to AVI and then editing them in QT6. Yeah, I would like to migrate all our corporate IT strategy to Mac, but sadly that won't happen any time soon. All is running perfectly until the .AVI files exceed...

YES YES YES YES!!! About time, I was desperate after this multiyear wait. Finally my hard-earned Director skills will shine on MacOSX!!! OS9, good riddance!!! An about-time-at-last QT6 support (hello MPEG4). dani++

You might have to upgrade to the latest X11 point release. I had done it before upgrading to 10.2.2 and have noticed no problems whatsoever. On the Fink site they recommend doing that for 10.2.2 as well. dani++

Menubar PTH utils: PTHCPUMonitor, PTHiTunesNotifier, PTHClock and PTHPasteboard - a must! Neat network monitor: 'Net Monitor' from Guy Meyer, also a must have. Developer/coder program: jEdit (a little slow, but powerful, extensible and multiplatform). Fink/FinkCommander: if you want to...

Hey, I have had this problem for so long... It seems keyboard mapping support for international keyboards is incomplete and/or unsupported in XDarwin. Myself, I use a ISO Spanish keyboard (works perfect with the ISO selection in OSX) that fails to work on XDarwin. Seesh, one has to manage...

Same here. I have never heard of the cron process to be restarted to accept new changes. Something is wrong in the procedure you are using. dani

Good advice given here. A lockup a day is still too high for MacOSX, I use it daily and almost never crashes. I compile lots of UNIX apps via Fink quite often, but it really doesn't make any difference (it doesn't crash). The only kernel panics I've had are with QuakeIII (bug in OpenGL...

The MacOSX permissions systems to the rescue. Any given particular file or directory in the filesystem has three settable access 'flags'. Any of them can be modified and set independly. They are: - 'owner': the creator of the file, associated to your username, so you can set the file to...

New filesystem! WOW! I am amazed, why didn't anyone think of a FS with metadata before! That's incredible! Once again MicroSoft was first with an idea and implementation! I am pretty sure they'll release an spec and a reference opensource implementation so filesharing over the Internet will...

Also, any network-activity-monitor GUI Aqua utility can help you on that. I personally use 'Net Monitor', it is highly customizable. Those utils tell you of the general in/out network activity. For example, if someone is uploading to your machine you will see a spike of inbound traffic. Net...

Not sure, but isn't Rendezvous (zeroconf) limited to the local subnet by design? (Rendezvous FAQ) In fact, Rendezvous is designed as a true (as in Apple) plug-n-play LAN tool, not a plug-n-play Internet. :p dani++

Yes, RBrowser supports this feature, but only as a client, so both servers have to support this feature as well for it to work. As far as I know, FTP does not or is not really designed for this particular (server-to-server) usage, whereas SCP or sftp are (secure copy and/or secure ftp). Both...

You can also try out the nifty 'ncftp' CLI ftp client. Its workings are similar to the plain vanilla 'ftp', but slightly more intuitive. dani++

Check out www.gnufoo.org, there is a really cool 'cat' hack!!! Compile or download it and append: to .login Enjoy!!! To be fair, I saw this trick on macosxhints.com first. But it is rather cool!!! dani++ [other useful stuff: issuing a make; echo 'make done'| cat -a would...

UNIX joke beware!!! Seriously, posting wrong or devastating terminal commands that cognoscenti find hilarious is really dangerous. This is a thing that in most mature technical forums is never done as n00b users and all sorts of people will take the commands seriously and execute them. A...

Automatic translation ??? :) :) :) BTW I am Spanish as well, from Barcelona. Saludos desde la ciudad más bonita del Mediterráneo, donde luce el sol sobre el mar y las montañas. :) dani++