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I'll second that. Even if it doesn't crash your mac, I think a LOT of the really crazy problems out there with OS X are from faulty reads from the installer CD. Why oh why isn't there a checksum utility to see if any of the standard files are wonky?

yeah, Mac OS X drops packets on a flood ping. Seriously, yell at Apple. I have a dual G4 running OS X, a 233MHz laptop running OS X, and a 400MHz G4 running openBSD. openBSD doesn't drop any packets and has a faster turnaround time. Mac OS X drops packets. On a perfect network with high...

well, the priveleges on nfs mounts are ALL user ID based. If you haven't specified a user you may be mounting as root. Default security specs on Solaris map root to somebody else, often "nobody." So, you could map root to root and mount the drive as root, and make sure all your UIDs match...

hmmmm, I've had issues if I don't specify the share when connecting, but in general it just seems to be flaky. What domain are you authenticating against when you try to gain access to the Windows box? it's usually a three tiered window when you authenticate. Also, just for clarity...

a low specific heat compared to what?!? It's conductor, and it has a lower specific heat than water ... you can't make computers out of water. I think it is a concern, but here's my take. I had a bad processor in my Ti 667 laptop, and had it replaced under warranty. (yay Apple, like 3 days...

are you guys really mac users? ;-) The key that closes a paragraph is the return key, not the enter key. The enter key is located on the number pad of extended keyboards. The location of that key, and its icon, are consistent with recent laptop keyboards' enter key. What is that arrow doing...

it doesn't matter if they kill it, it's already dead to me. Unlike many of you who think microsoft is yucky and you talk about it idly, I boycott microsoft actively. This means that I can now get one less product. I simply refuse to let any dollar that has any other choice go to...

it's not powerbook specific. This has been the functionality of the keyboard under laptop control for as long as Mac OS X has been shipping. The Apple key is the Windows key. That goofy group of keys above the arrow keys need to be there for completeness even if they are ridiculous to get to...

in my experience if you are set to DHCP, then your machine will not self assign unless your DHCP server fails to hand out an address. Check the network traffic to make sure that your server is doing what you expect it to. :-)

f the disk utility. Just select the disk in the Finder and hit Apple-I. Format is one of the pieces of info supplied when you get info on a volume. I've been running OS X including 10.2.4 on a G3 233 Wallstreet, and a 233 iMac. They both run wuite well, although the laptop is a little...

In fact, in the back of my mind, I've been drawing up the specs for an entire protocol, like ftp or http for this. It's called CAWD. Centrally Authenticated - Widely Distributed I haven't gone into details as to the transmission method, that parts not really so important. The only...

My machine's name has been Chimera for a couple of years now. I was annoyed by the sudden ambiguity of the name I had chosen first. Good, step off my machine's name. pheh. ;-)

it's not about speed, it's about availability. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you're looking for benchmarks to justify your computer you'll end up buying a PC. Or at the very least you wouldn't spring for the dual. But I'm going to tell you that the big difference I feel, and...

you silly guys. They sell software that opens ports and mimics services simply to catch people doing silly stuff. What they do with this information is ... a moral gray area. But the point is that there probably isn't a telnet server running on that box. If there is it had better well be IP...

If you simply mean that pine is using your username as the return address, I'm pretty sure you can set that inside of Pine. This sounds like a Pine based issue, not an OS X based issue. I'd look into Pine, it's all sorts of configurable. Unless you know more about Pine than I do. I used to...

mind numbing duality, Mac OS 8 and maybe up to 9 I don't recall clearly, stored it's sound level in PRAM. This is the setting that is used to determine how loud to make the startup chime. Stands to reason since the startup chime sounds well before the computer tries to actually read data...

512 to 768 if you play with large files in photoshop, to insert them in your already open Illustrator files, while capturing video as a background process. That should be enough RAM, but the swap and rapid access needs of p-shop and video editing, you may want to put some cash toward a couple...

it's a matter of cost now or cost later. The dual is going to be a good bit faster and significantly more responsive under P-shop. Games, they'll mostly ignore the second processor and only the graphics card will matter if current gaming trends are indicative. Though with Intel pushing...

That's actually something that Mac OS X is not good at. At least not yet. This is something that you've simply chosen the wrong unix to do. Every other Unix, including NeXTStep included the ability to run things remotely but display locally. Mac OS X lacks this, or more precisely Aqua lacks...

If you want real terminal on a network, the network is the computer kind of networking, you need to live on a client server model. That being said, your server doesn't necessarily need to be of a Mac OS X Server variety. However, synching multiple machines without have a single...