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...And even then, might as well have no root password... the thing's one big security hole. I've said it a million times, IRIX is the best desktop UNIX around (or was until OSX) and it can shovel more data than a politician shovels horse puckey, but security? What's that? -alex.

Just to expand slightly on RacerX's comment: Aside from the discontinued Visual Workstation series, which was Intel based and ran NT or Linux, SGI boxes are based on the MIPS processor line (a true RISC processor) and run IRIX, SGI's System V flavor of UNIX. L8r, -alex. PS: RacerX: I...

A couple more things about SGI (which is a big part of my bread and butter right now). twyg is right on about the dev tools, especially for 3D. Remember, these are the folks who brought us OpenGL. The other big thing about SGI hardware is the ridiculous amount of main bus bandwidth. SGI...

that's great! If you're comfortable building UNIX source this should be cake. Just keep in mind: the goal here is to set up lpr/lpd printing, in effect making your computer/printer into a network attatched lpr printer, then just set up Print Center to point to an lpr printer at localhost To look...

Ah yes... RIP. If memory serves, it's Raster Image Processor. Basically it's a tool that converts from one bitmap format to another (in your case, hopefully from postscript to HP's PCL4). -alex.

Well, let me preface this by saying that this solution will require downloading and compiling source code. If this scares you, this may not be the way to go. If, on the other hand, it's old hat to you, or you're willing to give it a go.... That being said. Start by looking at...

If you are reasonably comfortable on the command line, you could try using the ghostscript drivers. Basically, this printer, as an HP product, expects input as PCL4.0 (the 4.0 version of HP's page description language). Ghostscript is a free postscript emulator that also acts as a RIP between...

This is true if you wish to administrate an NT/wintookie network (ie be the Domain server, CIFS server, and all that other nonsense). To do this you will need SAMBA or possibly Dave (think it does that.. might just be a client, don't know, don't care too much). However, it should be noted that...

Well... fine except for the 9.0 "Mysterious total data loss issue." But of course that was fixed in 9.0.1 (if you were really quick) and 9.0.2 for the rest of the world, so it doesn't really negate your point, but saying 9.0 was fine is a little funny if you recall all those people whose drives...

hmm..... let's go with 08/26. (that's 26/08 for those accross the pond). -alex.

Ed, I believe what voice is referring to is "tabbed browsing." This actually really is pretty nifty. Rather than open multiple windows to browse multiple sites, you have multiple panes, tabbed at the top, each holding a rendered web page. It's been around in the open source browser world for...

Two other things to add to the fray: 1) C'mon people, I'm no fan of MS, but are they really any more evil than Sony? Sony products have an amazing way of self-destructing three hours after the warranty runs out (I grant you that's an incredible piece of engineering in and of itself, but it's...

Fascintating... I stand corrected. -alex.

Search versiontracker for NFSManager. That should do what you want. to the best of my knowledge there is no way to nfs mount filesystems from the "Connect to Server..." dialog. Hope this helps... -alex.

I admit it, I've loved UNIX almost as long as I've loved Mac OS. I'm solidly in the first option. In fact, let me just restate for the record:WOOHOO!! ...but. I can understand how some mac users might find the BSD subsystem less than lovable. Just wondering how John and Jane Macuser (or at...

I admit it, I've loved UNIX almost as long as I've loved Mac OS. I'm solidly in the first option. In fact, let me just restate for the record:WOOHOO!! ...but. I can understand how some mac users might find the BSD subsystem less than lovable. Just wondering how John and Jane Macuser (or at...

GadgetLover: /Applications would usually be: -rwxr-xr-x accross the board. If you think about it, it means that the owner can do whatver they want, and everyone else can read and execute (that is to say: run) applications to their hearts' delight, but can't write (aka change,delete) anything...

mindbend: may I suggest running your sync program as root? This can be done by logging in as root (not recommended, but not really the end of the world if you're careful). If root login is not enabled on your machine, search this site for "enabling root login." I seem to recall reading about...

Great! Glad it's working for you! About getting SSL... I can't find the openSSL libraries or headers anywhere, does OSX not have them? If not, you can use fink to install openSSL (find fink at versiontracker.com) then just do a: make osx SSLTYPE=unix though you may have to add an...

Alright, I think I may have an answer for you: After playing around with the source on OSX, it seems that the stepwise PERL hack tries to hard code your home directory. For whatever reason, this doesn't seem to work. Rather, you should hard code your mail directory. I can't give you funky...