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Yep, that's what Duality has always done for me. The only way I've gotten it to work is to log completely out of the gui, and log back in as root. Since you mention su, I'd imagine you have a defined root password, as do I. I wonder if that might be part of the problem? I've tried the...

On the linux side, man 5 exports. That'll give you the syntax for the /etc/exports file; once you've created that appropriately, exportfs -a will export the things listed there. The only os10-specific catch is that you'll need to use the "insecure" option in the /etc/exports entry. (Which...

Proxies are handled globally, not per-application. This also allows them to easily change for different locations. System Preferences->Network->Proxies

You can actually skip the step of using Preview.app. Select Print->Output Options->Save as File->PDF, and you can do what you wish directly from the first application. This doesn't work in applications which have nonstandard Print dialogs (like Terminal.app), but neither does the Preview.app...

Yep. The general preferences file which Terminal.app uses for windows lives at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist , and it's the same format as the .term files. If you have the settings you want in a .term file, just copy it over the plist file. (Ideally while Terminal.app isn't...

Unfortunately, XDarwin preserves the sucky X11 clipboard mechanism. Which means that pasting is done with button3 (which Xdarwin frequently maps to command-click), and copying is an implicit part of selecting. So be careful with your selecting, or even manipulating windows; a jitter of a single...

HFS+ is almost certainly the right choice, unless you basically plan to use only Darwin. Many Mac applications (even current ones, not just Classic apps) make assumptions about things like case-insensitivity. You will run into a number of small things which break or which you cannot install...

Just add /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app to the Dock; clicking on it will launch the screensaver like any other application. It's important to note that the timer-based screensaver doesn't check to see whether an instance is already...

fink's default is to place everything it installs into /sw, so as to avoid stepping on "normal" system files. Unless you changed this, you'll end up with both installed. Which one gets used when you type "ssh" depends upon your $PATH.

Or, if you'd like to parse through a lot more output: /usr/sbin/AppleSystemProfiler

Does the address start with 10., 192.168., or 172.18.? If so, those are private, non-routed ip addresses; they're reused for many closed networks. Some device upstream from you is translating those into real-world, routable addresses, which is how you're getting to the internet. You'd...

I, uh, assume you mean TinyFugue? In that case, yeah, the stock version seems to build without any problems. Just open it up and run the unixmake script, and it appears to do the right thing. Didn't look around for a binary distribution, but the compile is pretty trivial.

Yes, there are always a few situations in which telnet really isn't any riskier than ssh. But they tend to be more rare than people ever seem to think. And given that ssh is just as easy, it usually seems best to just recommend its use for everything.

I'd strongly recommend using ssh instead of telnet; it gives you all the same functionality and more, and provides strong encryption for the entire session. People have a tendency to consider telnet 'safe enough' on extremely small networks. Bollocks! There are many instances in which it's...

I'd recommend that you only keep /, swap, and /tmp as separate partitions. The tradition of having things like /usr on a separate partition is an anachronistic holdover from the days when disks were very small. The only reason to have /tmp be separate is to be able to apply different mount...

Or, if you're into hot hot Terminal action, just: sudo passwd root Which basically ends up doing the same thing. Use whichever is more comfortable for you.

This should probably be moved to a different thread, but... Quick background: ssh is a tool for creating encrypted tunnels between machines, and routing connections through those tunnels. The most common use is just to send a single interactive shell login through there, but you can do the...

Well, the linux behaviour is actually consistent with this: Mem: 126720K av, 124032K used, 2688K free, 0K shrd, 5284K buff It's still basically using all but the last couple megs of ram, that just happens to be a much lower total amount. And omniweb's choice to map the whole file it's...

My monitor and my mac seem to disagree about what refresh rate the monitor can handle at 1600x1200. I'm inclined to suspect this is the monitor's fault; it probably describes itself as being a bit more capable than it is. That's not a big deal. I'm happy to just select the second-to-last...

Using pserver is actually a rather bad idea. It does everything in the clear, so you're giving away all your passwords and content to anyone who cares to listen. And as you point out, it's actually more work to set up pserver than to just do it the right way. You can get the same...