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I would have to say the PowerBook 2400c.. That was the last of the sortof-sub-notebook machines that Apple did. It didn't have an internal optical drive, and was probably too small to fit one even today (a slot-loader might, but I doubt it) but who cares? In today's terms, it would have...

Not sure what you're trying to do here, but I'm guessing maybe diskutil is what you're after. The catch is that while diskutil, like its GUI counterpart, Disk Utility, can show disks that have been unmounted, it cannot show disks that have been ejected. There's a distinction between having a...

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The base station is not leasing a DHCP address to you. The 169.254.x.y address is a special condition that modern DHCP clients will use as a "last resort" if they're unable to get an address. As dlloyd says, though, make sure that it's set for DHCP, and not bootp, and it should work. The fact...

I have the 2100, and the first thing I did was to put the JetDirect card in (the printer). The JetDirect allows any of the machines on my network to print to the printer via ethernet; no odd cables/drivers needed - it just works. The only downside is that the card goes for about $110, but it...

Temporary outage? I can get in...

No. An internal modem is not neccessary to get an external device working like this. The 2 are completely independent devices. Adding an internal modem is a waste of time and money in this situation. You mentioned that it worked with your PowerBook, but not your desktop machine. There are a...

Depends on what's in the folder. If it's a bunch of .jpg's or .mp3's, it won't compress very much, if at all. Those files are already in a compressed form. The same is generally true of executables, but they'll often compress a little. The best compression is generally seen on files that have no...

zip/unzip are included, if you don't mind working in a shell. 'man zip' for details, but as an example, if I want to zip a directory with files in it, I might do something like 'zip -r zipfilename.zip directoryname' to zip up the directory and all its files.

Yep. It runs standalone. The server maintains a .pid file just as xinetd does - "sudo kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`" should do the trick...

MS did it by cheating. I know that sounds like a slam; it is not. Seriously, they cheated. What happened is, with either NT4 or Win2k (can't remember which), they moved much of the core graphics code (the rough equivelent of a windowserver) into kernel-space. This ensures that everything...

Two things I've found help a lot with percieved performance... 1. Memory. The more the better. Go into debt if you have to, but max out the memory on the machine. Well... maybe not go into debt, but you get the idea... The more memory you have, the less time the machine spends swapping things...

Yes. Deleting the OS9 partition will disable Classic. You could get a firewire drive and hang that off the machine. Alternately, you might think about upgrading the internal drive. Drives are cheap; pricewatch.com puts a 40GB drive at just over $100 these days...

I generally like it, but I'm with Bob... The fixed width (creating the margins) is not so good. Sizing the window down does not resize the tables either... hrm...

With the stories of upgrade pains around 10.2 that seem to have popped up here (I count at least 3 as of this writing), I thought I would share a happy story of upgrading an older machine to 10.2... I have a Wallstreet 250 PowerBook that has a broken screen. Had, actually - I removed it a...

FWIW, I've never had a problem with flashcard readers. I've run 4 or 5 different kinds past my mac without incident. Usually, what I do is plug the reader in first, wait 20 seconds, then plug the card into it. But I've also just jammed the reader in with a card already there, and that seems to...

Just a general recommendation or two.... Try to choose a camera made by a 'traditional' camera company, i.e. Minolta, Canon, Nikon, etc. The exception would be the aforementioned Sony's. The trick is that the traditional camera makers tend to use better optics than the computer companies...

There's one other element of the fast-drain that I've noticed lately that's a little curious... I use my PowerBook @ home with Airport, and occasionally @ work with ethernet. I have a second location set up to use only ethernet and a fixed address while I'm at work. It would seem that every...

Well, they say you learn something new every day... :) I've not messed with X11 forwarding with ssh, and I have to agree, that's much simpler than the manual setting of the DISPLAY variable. Sadly, I can't use that @ work, because the Unix admin folks disallow ssh. Instead, they use Keon...

That would be 'using it for evil'... :D