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The move to a modern vm system is a huge conceptual leap for people used to the old macos model, so this is going to continue to be an issue for many people for years. Which is not helped by the fact that it takes a long time to explain. So please forgive me if I ramble on: The first...

Okay, that looks good. The "unknown" in the group field isn't actually a problem; if it really were an undefined GID, it would just show you that numerically. And in any event, it's executable by non-group-members. So at least from a cursory ls, your /bin/tcsh looks fine. The next two steps...

Hm. I just built 0.44, and it seems to be doing the same thing as the 0.42 I built a year ago: it builds, and runs, but it fails so thoroughly to detect the window size that none of the columns line up. This is usable, but rather ugly and hard to read. The hard-coded windowsize variant is...

Yes, but only by resorting to some awful hackery. I wasn't able to get it to play nice with any of the several curses variants which I installed (which it uses to set everything up in a manner appropriate to your window size). So I finally just gave up and yanked out the window-size-finding...

There's likely to be a problem either with your shell init files (as described above) or your shell itself. Fortunately, you can ask Terminal.app to use a different shell, for just such occasions. Terminal->Preferences->Shell->Use this shell: /bin/sh This will give you a very basic...

Supposedly the multiple desktop apis are being changed, and still in flux. It's been asserted that they'll be finalized and made public in March or 10.2, whichever comes first, or second. I've been awaiting multiple desktops eagerly myself; it's the only thing I miss from X11.

I've been trying to set up some non-geek here with easy access to a local smb share. I don't really expect him to remember smb://domain;user:password@sever/share every day; but that shouldn't be a problem, right? I'll just make an alias to the share! Turns out, not such a good idea. Tried a...

There appears to be some uncertainty of how much risk is posed. Several members of the openssh-dev list have confirmed the availability of a buffer overflow, but opinions differ as to whether it could be leveraged into arbitrary root code. The only specific and confirmed vulnerability cited...

So far as I know, it's simply not possible. X11 doesn't include an alpha channel, and thus doesn't allow for true transparency of objects. However, many terminals are capable of something hackily similar; they set their background to be the appropriate subset of the desktop pattern, possibly...

I'm afraid that's not what I had meant. I'm familiar with the ways to get ls to use different particular ansi codes for different things, and that does indeed work normally with Terminal.app. What I want, however, is to be able to change the actual colors which Terminal.app uses to depict...

Firstly, I should point out that there have been discussions on the openssh-dev list regarding probable remote-root exploits in all versions below 3. So you should immediately either upgrade to >=3, or turn of "Allow remote logins" in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. Attempting to do...

I use Terminal.app far more than all other applications combined; this makes me painfully aware of just how bad it is. ¥ It deals poorly with extremely large font sizes. ¥ Its implementation of ansi color is just blatantly broken. ¥ There is no way (that I've found) to configure the...

The builtin screensaver prefereences allow you to set it to require your password to unlock. You can lock the display manually (rather than waiting for a timeout) by either using hotcorners, or simply manually running the ScreenSaverEngine.

Yeah, Apple has chosen to not include any software licensed under the GPL in their distribution. Perhaps they're concerned about any small possibility that it might obligate them to publish the source to anything else. What I've _really_ been missing is a way to define the actual colors...

There are many drives out there capable of 35-45MB/sec sustained transfers; to say nothing of cached bursts. Copy files from one such drive to another, and you could exceed 66MB/sec pretty easily. And, of course, one can assume that drives are only going to get faster. My real question has...

Another great omniweb feature: shortcuts, especially the default shortcut. I have my default shortcut set to "http://www.google.com/search?q=%@". So just typing random words into the address bar takes me to the google results page for that search. This works incredibly well with the already...

There appears to be a single system-wide clipboard which is globally readable and writable; this represents a huge security hole. A user can not only read anything which any other user places on the clipboard, they can replace it with content of their choosing. Even if no one is behaving in a...

Sadly, the Finder experiences a segfault when the total size of all desktops seems to exceed around ten million pixels. I ran into this when I put a third display on my machine, each running at 1600x1200; the Finder died almost immediately, and continued to generate segfaults upon further...

Sorry, I guess I should've also posted this here a few weeks ago: The "Cannot connect to the Internet" error one sometimes gets from Software Update is due to a small bug in it, and has an easy workaround. The workaround: visit www.apple.com in a browser, and Software Update will...

nidump group / > group Edit the group file this will have created. The format is pretty straightforward, and documented in "man 5 group". After you've changed what you want: niload -m group / < group