Search results

I've written a perl script that uses hfspax to make backups, incremental or full. Though, if you want to make a full backup there's not much advantage over hfspax + gzip. Besides multi-level incremental backups, it also lets you exclude files based on name (exact string or regular) or file...

There's cksum, md5, and sum, which are all pretty similar. 'man cksum' will describe all three.

Here's what I would try: In your terminal type 'ifconfig -a'. You'll see an entry for 'loO', ignore that. You should have at least one other entry. I've got an ethernet connection, so mine is 'en0'. If you're on a modem, you'll see something else. I assume that the host id is either...

I have been unable to change the "Open with application" default setting for generic files. I would like to set it to BBEdit, so I select BBEdit in the Info window (where, btw, the Type and Creator are listed as "Document" and "Not available", respectively). That works fine. But when I...

Have you tried removing the Terminal preferences file? How long does Terminal take to load if you create a brand new user and launch it as that user?

The best emacs trick I've found is to type esc-x psychoanalyze-pinhead (that's the escape key, followed by the 'x' key, followed by the text 'psychoanalyze-pinhead'). That runs eliza against zippy the pinhead quotes. Press control-c control-c when you've had enough.

Every once in a while I get 4 horizontal black lines going through some of my icons. I've seen this happen with BBEdit files and with hard drive icons. With the BBEdit files, if I select them and go to the Info window and rechoose BBEdit as the application (it is already chosen, so this...

I haven't found any mention of this anywhere, but perhaps someone knows what may be going on. I just updated to OS X 10.1. Twice in the last two days, iTunes has frozen while playing a CD. The odd thing is that I can't force quit it and when I run ps -ax on the console (or use the...

I'm using an ATI Rage 128 and a Rage 128 Pro without any problems.

Is there a way to custom map a file extension to a specific app? For example, if I want to open all .xyz files with my XYZ app. If I open the Get Info window, it lets me choose an application based on the Type/Creator (which in this case is ????/None), but not based on the file extension. I...

I haven't done the side by side comparison, but from my own experience, OS X on my dual G4 400 at work blows away performance on all the G3s I've seen. I think both the G4 chip and the dual processors (which the cpu monitor shows are used very effectively) are important speed factors for OS X.

I tried connecting an external USB floppy drive on the off chance that it would work and, what do you know, the floppy showed up on the desktop. I was very surprised considering that this thing needs extensions to be loaded on the OS 9 side to work. However, it wasn't without its...

It only stops if I hit the 'l' key, but it comes back each time I switch back to a classic app. Except now it's stopped happening again. Hopefully it won't be back soon.

I've been using OS X for a while now and this new problem has suddenly come up. What happens is that when I switch to a classic app, the letter 'l' is being typed repeatedly. Launching classic Key Caps, shows the letters 'e' and 'l' depressed. Pressing 'l' stops the typing in the classic app...

What is the difference between the /Library/ directory and the /System/Library/ directory? I have, for example, a perl/ directory in both places. If I'm installing a new perl module, which location should I put it in?

The benefit of using the syntax listed above, is you can add additional flags for gzip such as this: tar -cvf <dir> | gzip -c --best > <dir.tgz> which gives you the maximal compression out of gzip.

The benefit of using the syntax listed above, is you can add additional flags for gzip such as this: tar -cvf <dir> | gzip -c --best > <dir.tgz> which gives you the maximal compression out of gzip.

I've tried to follow instructions from a couple places, and I've got XDarwin running pretty well, but I've been unable to get it working in rootless mode. I've got the latest download (XAqua0.6). If someone can point me towards some already patched files, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Same exact thing happened to me. It was the perl LWP bundle that did it. And I wasn't able to find it on the CD. If you email me, I can send you the binary. Remove the x's to email: xgene02@xsmalltime.xcom

Here's one that's been bugging me: I set the Startup Options in the Advanced panel of the Classic Control panel to us a key combination, but after I close the System Prefs and go back, it's always reverted to "Turn off extensions". I tried grepping through all the pref files and the defaults...