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Zammy - thanks for reposting the pic inline for me. Funny, I could have sworn that's exactly what I did, but it put in a link instead. Must have been having a braindead day.

The one thing, for my purposes, that curl lacks, is the ability to parse html itself. wget can download an html page, parse it for links, and recurse down those links - allowing you to spider a whole website looking for broken links, or download a complete web page with all necessary...

No, you're not there yet. Let me get this straight - correct whatever I get wrong please - the two computers are in one network, but your user is outside of this network. - "ssh.mynetwork.com" is an externally reachable ssh server that the user can reach through the firewall, and that can...

Tommy - yeah, they're loud. So are Sun and IBM servers. I don't like that part so much. I don't really know about relative power consumption vs XServes. Yes, you should have redundancy with entirely separate computers (if you can afford it), no question. But I also think it's nice to have...

curl with the -O flag (capital o, not zero) flag will save the file to disk rather than sending it to stdout.

Depends entirely on the method Apple uses to prevent OS X from running on random x86 PCs. We really don't know what they're going to do yet. Heck, between now and 2007, Jobs might have decided to let OS X run on any PC, so XPostFacto wouldn't be necessary. After all, Apple denied that they...

Er - what is he trying to do exactly? He wants to connect two Macs on the same network? Then why would you have to do anything at your firewall? Never mind the "-c blowfish" stuff - that's about selecting a cipher.

I'd certainly buy a Dell server with OS X on it. Their desktops are pretty uninspiring - but when it comes to servers, you want precisely the Soviet-style construction that Dell is all about. That, and their servers actually have dual power supplies. Why the XServes don't, I doubt I'll ever...

Not that I disagree with any of the above, but I will just point out that the Unix commandline, IMO, is way way way more user friendly than the Windows commandline. Part of the reason you often need the commandline in most Unices, is that it really is a complete user environment - you can do...

Annoying to me - my B&W G3 is about 6 or 7 years old now, and it's starting to be time to replace it. And I will want a computer that I will be able to keep for another 6 or 7 years when I replace this one. So, the dilemma - do I wait for Intel hardware, so I can be relatively sure it will...

I'm fond of SubEthaEdit (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/). I don't actually use the collaborative editing part, but it's a cool idea...

Why should it be a bug? You can option-drag to make a copy, which is handy. I'd consider it missing functionality that you can't {modifier}-drag to make an alias...

How the furken furken do you get it to display the image directly?

well, a symlink is a link to an absolute or relative file path, not to a file - unlike aliases, which survive if you move the original around. Take away or move the original, and the symlink breaks. Restore a symlink on a system where the original is missing, and it will break.

If by "It's possible" you mean "there are products that will claim to do this", they you're right. If by "It's possible" you mean "it fundamentally is, was, or ever will be possible to control by technological what happens to a document once it's in someone else's hands", then no, it's not...

No, an emulator is precisely what you won't need - an emulator imitates different hardware. What you will need is something like Wine: a library and system call compatibility layer. Anyway, I don't see what's so improbable about Apple bringing back the clones - it's not beem hurting...

I doubt that will really be the case. You can run Darwin on an ordinary PC right now - not "any cheap-o Intel box", as the device driver support is rather limited, but the Darwin kernel will boot from a bog-standard PC, with a bog-standard PC BIOS. And, the point of a kernel being to provide...

If you want features like that, email is probably the way to go. The drop box is really just a folder on a file system - there's only so much you can do with that.

Actually, I don't think that should be a problem: A file in a sticky directory may only be removed or renamed by a user if the user has write permission for the directory and the user is the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the super-user. So - a file can be deleted by...

Does anyone know of a gizmo similar to this, that's OS X compatible? (product described thoroughly here) http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MAGIC-MIRROR-N&cat=NET (company product home here, not so thoroughly described) http://antsys.com.my/mmu2000xp.html Basically, it's the...