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I'm sure there are other ways, but the one with which I'm familiar involves getting netinfo to dump unix-style config files, editing them, and feeding them back to it. So do something like: nidump passwd / > passwd Then edit the passwd file this will have created, adding in the required...

Cocoa apps interact more smoothly with the unix side of the OS. A cocoa application can be viewed as a process, can be sent standard unix signals and expected to know what to do with them. All carbon applications simply show up as "LaunchCFMApp"; the only thing you can do is kill them, and...

By multiple desktops, he's not referring to having multiple instances of the Desktop.app running; that doesn't get you anything beyond having the two of them stomp on one another's preference files. The trick to which he (or was it she, actually? Don't remember, and can't see from this page...

The only thing that's seriously, constantly, painfully hampering my comfort with os10 is the lack of multiple desktops/workspaces. I've looked around at bit at the usual places, bu haven't seen even a project in progress to make this available. I hope that someone can tell me that I'm...

Could be one (or both) of two issues: First, the nfs server could be exporting the volume 'rootsquash'. This usually remaps the root user to 'nobody', which may not have read permissions there. This could be solved either by being a user with the same uid as a user on the server with...

When you type a command/program name without specifying its full location, _only_ your path is searched for that program. And by default, your path does _not_ include your current directory. So to run something that's "right in front of you," you need to be a bit more explicit: in this case...

Few configure scripts really use that for much. And since none of them will currently know what osX is, it matters all the less. I've usually been specifying --host=ppc-darwin, or ppc-freebsd. Doesn't much matter.