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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but ideas are a dime a dozen. Most software projects, even if they seem simple, take hundreds of hours of work. Thus, it's somewhat niave to think someone is just sitting around bored enough to take your project. I'm not trying to shoot you down - just...

My OS X installs have always worked great. Then a few weeks ago, I started getting spinning beachballs of death in the Finder. It was very frustrating. I'll shorten the long story and just say that I eventually traced it down to an external Firewire drive. Apparantly the controller chip...

You need to describe your IP addressing more. Are you getting addresses via DHCP from the provider? Or are you handing out your own addresses with the SMC and doing NAT? Wade

The most common database used is MySQL, because it's free and well-documented. However, if this database is truly going to be *HUGE*, then I'd suggest you spend a lot of time doing research before you choose a database. A lot depends on what your definition of huge is. A hundred thousand...

This article appears to point to the problem. http://docs.info.apple.com/article2.html?artnum=75425&sessionID=anonymous%7C11906871&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a80%2f Have you been messing with directories? Wade

The problem appears to be your Netinfo database. Wade

I'm not an expert on the subject, but if you want basic terminal graphics, libraries such as ncurses are your best bet. If you want to get into drawing into a window, check out Quickdraw. Wade

You need to install the developer tools. Go to developer.apple.com and create a free online ADC account. Then you can download the developer tools. Make sure you get the latest if you're running 10.2. Wade

Your panic clearly points to the kernel extension written by Netlock. (i.e. VPN software) Contact them to see if an upgrade is available. If one is not, remove the software. Wade

What the author of this statement doesn't realize is that it's one of the most important files on the box. It's like trying to boot OS 9 after someone has deleted your System file. Wade

I just use the built-in editors for Project Builder and CodeWarrior. They're not the most feature-rich in the world, but they're functional. Also, have you looked at Text Wrangler, also by Bare Bones? It's not as full-featured as BBEdit, but a lot cheaper. Finally, lots of people (and I...

You can't run around statically assigning DHCP addresses. You'll get an address conflict and things with either not work at all, or will be very unreliable. To fix your problem, you need to buy a router that has Network Address Translation (NAT) capability. Then you let your ISP assign its...

I believe that's hold down the mouse button while you power on. Wade

Actually the problem is with the employer's email program. They're the ones that aren't impressive. There's nothing to overlook. Mail works fine if the receiving Mail program understands the AppleDouble format. Any good mail program should. If it doesn't, you have to deal with the issue...

Incidentally, even at its current speed, I too LOVE OS X. My Mac has power it's never had before. If a window does pop open with quite the same speed, I'm OK with that, especially knowing it's going to get better. Wade

You want a wild, unsubstiated, guess? I think at WWDC, Apple is going to show us that they've hooked OpenGL into the Quartz engine so that OpenGL now does all the Aqua drawing, meaning of course, that it would be accelerated. Based on a few "teaser" emails from Apple people, that's what I...

It's supported as of the 10.1 developer tools. See the project builder release notes for details. Wade

Hmm..I'm not sure how the function could be moving. What's the function written in? If it's C++, is it static? How's it declared and how are you passing it? Wade

One other interesting note about MacOS X: Most of the files in /dev are created dynamically. For example, when you plug in a USB device, a /dev file may be created, and it will be removed when the device is removed. Wade

Oh, great review there. They tested multiprocessor machines against a dual-processor Mac running OS 9, which can't use the second processor. Given that, the Mac actually performed pretty well. I'd suggest they repeat that review with OS X. Wade