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Whoa! I'm just parroting back what snazz wrote: if you unmount a disk partition by dragging it to the trash, it doesn't show on the desktop but is still available in column view. I haven't tested this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it works. snazz, is this correct? Can you drag a partition to...

snazz is talking about individual partitions. From what you've typed, snazz, you've got the answer already--drag to the trash. It won't show on the desktop but will still be accessible. AppleScript should do nicely for automating this process. I have a dedicated swap partition on my hard disk...

Yes, it does; it's just that it can't do anything that will occupy any hardware on which OS X runs for more than a fraction of a second. All Cocoa applications will show the dot.

Get Pacifist. It's a .pkg viewer; with it, you can selectively install the individual components .pkg files. Get it at http://www.versiontracker.com or http://www.download.com. Share and enjoy!

The 57,600kbps algorithms are the last ones ever for analog modems; since the telecom infrastructure isn't stable above 53,000kbps, no further development of modem (remember, modem = MOdulator/DEModulator; this is an digital-analog-digital process. The phrases "DSL modem" and "cable modem" are...

Anytime the black dot appears in any application, it signifies an active process.

The down side of a touchpad is that without it protruding from the surface of the mouse, the it couldn't also function as button as scrollwheels do. A two-button mouse with a scrollwheel that is also a third button would be very nice for X windowing systems. I traded in my blueberry keyboard...

Wrong, lethe. Analog phone lines are limited in both directions by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to 53kbps; the "56k" modem standard is actually 57.6kbps in both directions, but this can only be achieved on a local connection, i.e., one that doesn't go through the phone company...

Clicking on a shortcut in the dock causes XDarwin to start up and nothing else. knussear, are you saying that if I install XDarwin AND Orobor the dock should be fine?

BSDimwit, the Dock doesn't work with XFree86 installed. When you click on an item in the Dock, it launches XFree86 instead and then does nothing. This didn't happen with the XTools demo, but I categorically refuse to pay $200, plus $100/year, for X windows. Do you know of any others, or have any...

Just the "f*uck!" I meant to type "f*ck."

LOL! Typo!

Right, dricci, but I don't want to have to do that monkeyf*uck--I wish Apple would let ALL the display's possible resolutions, not just those which it "recommends," to be displayed under the menubar displays icon. 640x480/117Hz is a perfectly good resolution, especially with NTSC (TV, DVD, DV...

Does anyone have an AppleScript that changes the screen resolution in OS X to 640x480/117Hz?

If for any reason anyone would like my patented bright, shiny PDF of the rm manual pages, just let me know and I'll e-mail it to you. My address is chenly@mn.rr.com. Share and enjoy!

I never typed what's quoted above! Check my post! fsck is a filesystem consistency check and interactive repair program; see the manual pages.

FSCK all of you! Actually, fsck is the BSD command-line disk utility. Login to your machines as the superuser and type man fsck at the command prompt to learn all about it. If anyone would like, I have a a nice, shiny PDF of this man page for free distribution. Share and enjoy!

Get Pacifist. It's an OS X package viewer. With it, you can *EASILY* browse through the OS X .pkg file (or any other) and pick and choose individual components to your heart's content. As for MS, I have no idea why they don't make IE 5.x available for Mac OS X via download, although I would...

Emptying the trash = rm of all files in the .Trash folder.

Don't use AVI2MOV to convert the files; use the Divx Validator application which installs with the alpha software.