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The system ships with no valid root password, but will full sudo access for "administrative" users. If you wish to change this (rather than just continuing to use sudo, as already suggested) you can simply "sudo passwd root" and then su as you wish. To answer your primary question: that's all...

(I should just find the last time I posted this and copy and paste...) The use of a modern virtual memory system makes measurements of "free" ram much more difficult than simple systems like paleo-macos. Many people looking for a single number misunderstand this, and thus have an incorrect...

Two parts to this answer: the account you want isn't actually called "guest", and accounts aren't actually controlled by /etc/passwd. "guest" is samba's term for this class of account. The samba config file maps this to a particular user on the system. In the case of osx, /etc/smb.conf...

This feels like a permissions problem. It might be fixed by running Apple's filesystem permissions fixer thingy. (My apologies that I'm too lazy to give you a link at this moment.) Try this out, and see if things behave as expected: open up a terminal window and run: sudo...

Yep, it's also visible in Preview; the thumbnails will be in no clear order. Perhaps they end up sorted by FileID, inode, or something else not really user-visible?

APOP is increasingly unsupported by anything. Much of the problem is that it protects your password (at best), but not the actual content of your mail. The better solution is to handle imap, pop, and smtp over ssl. Very many current mail clients, including Mail.app, support this. From the...

You started with: cat ncf.html | grep -e '<input' | grep -e 'name=' Let me start off by pointing out a few details about what you have here already. Firstly, you don't need the cat; just supply the source filename as the final argument to the first grep. Secondly, you generally don't...

fryke, I'm afraid I have to disagree. Most of those examples just show that hardware gets better over time. One of them is a particularly special circumstance: the processor change, when ppc code was poorly optimized, even when you were lucky enough to have it at all. That's a far more...

Really? I was just having a conversation with several friends today about how much we all seem to enjoy Mail.app. In my experience, it comes closer to doing everything correctly than any other MUA. From what I've seen, drawers open on the side of the window which has space available onscreen...

"AppleTalk" is a somewhat ambiguous term. It's used to refer interchangeably to AFP (the high-layer protocol used for filesharing), and DDP (the low-layer protocol used for speaking over a network, traditionally to carry AFP). If I recall correctly, osx has always supported afp, you just only...

The tool you want is called dd ("data dumper"). It's a very generic tool for taking raw data from one place and putting it in another. "man dd" will give you exhaustive information on its usage. In short, the way to create an image file from a CD is something like 'dd if=/dev/disk1...

You are correct that it's probably impolite to leave sharp objects lying around. But at least in this particular case, I'd argue that anyone who does such a thing is probably better off without chown installed. =P

> Agenda for tomorrow: make customized, idiot proof chown. Easy! rm /usr/sbin/chown

Whoawhoawhoa, calm down there Solrac. It's entirely possible for root to run into such errors. In the most obvious and common circumstance, even root cannot alter or delete a file which is locked. You can unlock the file, and then do what you wish with it, but no amount of being root allows...

This has happened to me three or four times, starting very soon after I upgraded to 10.2. Quite irksome. As much as I love everything else about it, 10.2 now qualifies as "somewhat crashy" in my mind. This is a Powerbook 800. Sleeping always involves changing usb/display/network/power/audio...

You wouldn't need to reboot, a "sudo killall -HUP inetd" would do it for you. But I feel obligated to repeat one more time that telnet is a _very_bad_ idea, and there's almost certainly no good reason to use it instead of ssh.

(hazmat, even operations involving the shell are not case sensitive. That's all handled by the filesystem, not any process above it.) HFS+ is case-insensitive and case-preserving. While this is a feature rather than a bug, there's no way to change this behaviour. Your only option would be...

Really. I don't mean "I'm not sure how to fix that, but reinstalling would work," I mean "there is no way, short of manually setting the correct permissions on thirty-five thousand directories, to fix this problem." Apple's Repair Privileges utility won't do what you need. It's designed to...

What you're requesting results in far more work for designers, users, and application developers. The entire problem with the Web is that too many browsers have chosen to depart from standards and supply arbitrary "features". Netscape started it, Microsoft went even further, and now you find...

"sudo open" will always do the same thing as "open". The open command sends an event to your current login session, asking it to open the specified thing. So sudo'ing it will very nicely send an event from root... to your current login, and it'll still run as you. To run things as root, you...