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Which is it, ogg? Do you want to change your start directory in the terminal, or do you want to choose your system installation folder via the command line?

Can you boot up off the OS X install disc and run Disk Utility to try to repair the hard disk? If you could actually boot into OS X, I would suggest going into single user mode and doing an fsck -y as an alternate method. If that doesn't solve anything (it should be the quickest option), I...

You can change your home in NetInfo, which will also change your startup directory in the terminal. Alternately, you can add a cd command to your .*cshrc file or .bashrc file, whichever is applicable to your configuration. For instance, to default to the root level of your boot hard disk: echo...

Font smoothing can be turned off globally with MOX Optimize: http://versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13447&db=mac ($19.99 Shareware) TinkerTool can change your system font (not the menu font): http://versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11967&db=mac (free)

I'll go ahead and put in my usual plug for iTerm for a terminal emulator (tabbed shells, Cocoa interface, blinding scroll speed, anti-aliased fonts, etc.): http://iterm.sourceforge.net

Well, that's not entirely true, Brian. OS X can be shaved down to well below 600MB, so there is some excess fat that is capable of being trimmed. That said, this is a fairly advanced procedure and not to be performed by the faint of heart. You can safely remove the extra languages...

This has already been discussed at length in this thread: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24124 Moderators: Should this thread be merged with that one, or perhaps a HOWTO be created from that thread?

It's just a volume label. You can change it to whatever you like. The UNIX under layer still knows it as '/', despite whatever the volume label is. You can also change the name from the command line: diskutil rename / newname (This is especially handy for changing names of other volumes to...

That's a component of OpenSSL -- it's crypto library. Apparently, Virex 7.2 uses a fink-style layout for its crypto dependencies. The built in version of OpenSSL lives here: /usr/bin/openssl and is version: OpenSSL 0.9.6e 30 Jul 2002 Obviously, your new software maintains a policy of...

cabbage--you're on OS X Server, right? Can you do an niutil -read . /config/AppleFileServer or tell us what the OS X Server defaults are?

The usual lecture is "Don't enable root access. You don't need it and it is a security hazard anyway. There's a reason Apple shipped the OS with the root user disabled by default. Use the other (safer) facilities that are available like sudo or sudo -s for temporary root user access in the...

You can change the name in NetInfo Manager, but I think you would be better off creating a new Admin User account for yourself in the Accounts System Preferences pane. Log out, then log in with your new account. This way you won't share any legacy preferences or possibly incorrect settings from...

Convert it to an ISO (CD/DVD Master) image with hdiutil in the command line, or use Applications-> Utilities -> Disk Utility to make the conversion in the GUI.

Also, Mike Bombich has Delocalizer: http://www.bombich.com/software/local.html

Correct, only Mozilla and Netscape Mail support s/mime on Mac OS X (currently). It seems like the big push on the Mac front is GPG-encrypted mail rather than s/mime. It is arguably better (and more open), so I would look into that option if it is reasonable in your situation. One potential...

I'm curious: those who have access to Mac OS X Server, what is the AppleFileServer defaults? Here is the default configuration on the non-server version (which is very permissive, in my estimation. I can't believe the Server version would be this lax!):

There's also pure-ftpd: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25129

*thought the better of it.*

/etc/iftab is the file to which you refer. However, it is depreciated is OS X 10.2. See this thread for more information for setting the MTU in OS X 10.2: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26775

I just searched for "hide dock" and I got back all eight threads that I posted to. Obviously it wasn't just you who missed the first thread on the topic -- six other people missed it as well. At least you made the effort to search before posting. A lot of people don't go to that effort and just...