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    force NIC into 100baseTX?

    Howdy. The pci network card in my beige g3 is only being recognized as 10baseT, and it's capable of 100baseTX. Does anyone know how to force the card to run at full speed? I've tried ifconfig en1 media 100baseTX but it replies with ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Operation not supported. FYI, the nic is...
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    backing up osx

    does anyone know of a backup solution where i could use my aps dat (scsi) with OS X? I also have the option of attaching the dat to a linux machine and backing up over the network, if there's a client that osx could run. Obviously not restrospect... Justin
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    Tk ported to Mac OS X, so how do we start compiling these apps

    http://darwin.org/news/index.html 16 October 2001 - Tk ported to Mac OS X v10.1 Apple announces a native port of Tk version 8.4a4 for Mac OS X 10.1. Tk is a rapid application GUI toolkit used by Tcl, Perl, and Python. The Tk release allows script developers to run existing GUI applications...
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    getting rid of some of the visual effects

    Any ideas on how to do this? They're pretty nifty looking, but I'd rather have a more responsive system (G3/300). I want to get rid of: the fancy minimizes the bouncing icons in the dock (contrary to what i said above, these are NOT nifty... red blicking arrow, that's all i want) all the...
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    forgot password for stuffit archive

    I know no one's gonna believe me when I say this, but I had an important document that I didn't want anyone to read so I used stuffit dropstuff 6.5 to encryt and password protect it. Yes I forgot the password. Everyone knew all my normal passwords so I had thought up something creative...
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    logging out of aqua in terminal

    Hi. Is there a way to log out a user via terminal and take them back to the OS X login screen? I'm writing a shell script to logout a user if he has been on for more than a certain amount of time, and to disable usage during certain hours. Thanks, Justin
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    limited the time a user can login per day

    Hi. Is there a program or a way to limit the amount of time a user can be logged in per day? For instance, I want Susan to only be able to be logged in for 4 hours a day. Even better, she can only be logged in between 6am and 11pm. Any thoughts? Thanks, justin
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    weird lines showing up on desktop -- seen this before?

    See these little lines? At first there was only one, then more have gradually started appearing. I'm running 10.1. http://dvc.homeip.net/desktop.jpg Any ideas??? It's bizarre. Justin
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    getting an unsupported cdrw to work w/ 10.1 burning

    Yes, this is my question. I have a yamaha 4260 scsi cdrw that I would looove to get working under OS X (I'm running 5G48 right now). So far it isn't supported, and I'm afraid Apple isn't gonna do much to support old SCSI devices (they'd better). So anybody have any ideas on how to modify a...
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    for you linux/bsd junkies out there....

    What's the best way to grep the results of a find? I'm assuming you pipe the results into grep, but I don't know how to do that :) For instance, I want to grep "test" RESULTSOFFIND where RESULTSOFFIND is find / -name * -print Any suggestions? =) Justin
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    always boot in verbose

    Anybody know how to set up OS X to always boot in verbose, w/o having to hit "v" at startup? Someone suggested sudo nvram boot-args="-v" but I'm getting an error as I do that. Any other ways? Justin
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