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Hi everyone, My grandfather does not remember his password on a Mac computer. I am trying to figure it out for him, because his gmail account logs in automatically. Is there some way I can get the password for him, is it saved somewhere? Regards, Ted

Hi everyone, I am trying to use textmate from commandline as: mate file.txt but it doesn't work anymore after adding /sw/lib to my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is annoying because I want to be able add "/sw/lib" to my path as I have some programs there I want to use. How can I fix this issue...

I cannot change where the Home directory of java is pointing to. I go to java preferences and set it to work with Java 6, but it keeps setting me to Java 5 when I set the JAVA_HOME='/Library/Java/Home' in my .Profile file. Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build...

Hi everyone, I have created a new user to install and work with hadoop. I find it annoying though that I cannot put stuff in the gui while I am in hadoop's home directory. Is there a way to allow my default user account to have access and permission on the user hadoop. Any help...

Hi everyone, I am using google chrome in my macbook pro, but the whenever I search something in google and click on some of the links I get redirected to annoying pages like...

Hi everyone, I need to play a sound from command line, but without actually opening itunes or any of the sort. Anyone know how to do this? Ted.

Hi everyone, I need to convert a bunch of images with that are gif to png. I would like to do this in a batch instead of doing the process all myself. Any help appreciated, Ted.

Trying to send mail with the following script, I substitute $1 with the email address I want to send the email to. #!/bin/bash # script to send simple email # email subject SUBJECT="SET-EMAIL-SUBJECT" # Email To ? EMAIL="$1" # Email text/message EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt"...

Hi everyone, I want to upgrade ruby from 1.8.6 to 1.9.1. I've tried searching for a package on fink, but I only find version 1.8.6. I've also thought about building 1.9.1 from source, but I'm afraid it might screw up a lot of things. Ted.

Hi everyone, Is it possible to setup keychain access to work with sshagent such that I'm not requested password when I try to ssh to machines that I have already entered password for? I've heard of this SSHKeyChain tool, but I'm not sure if I need it for this. Ted.

Hi everyone, I connect to a computer through ssh, but I want to download a file through the commandline on that computer, found in an ftp website: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ how to I do this? Ted

Hi everyone, I connect to a computer through ssh, but I want to download a file through the commandline on that computer, found in an ftp website: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ how to I do this? Ted

I dont' get why the unix underneath mac, copies files with in a folder when I do the following command, and why it copies the folder without the '/'. I just want it to copy the folder, and if I wanted to copy the files I'd explicitly would say InputX/*. I often forget to remove the '/' when I'm...

Hi everyone, How do I get rid of the Volume that is created on my machine? I mounted some machine, and then it creates /Volume/mac However, I have unmounted but that is still there, and I'd like to get rid of it. Naix:Volumes Naix$ ls total 6 4 Macintosh HD@ 2 0 mac/...

Hi everyone, I'm able to compile from eclipse and run from it, but when I try to run the class file from command line I get this error: $java ../flatfiles/BinParser Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ///flatfiles/BinParser I've tried Naix:flatfiles Naix$...

Hi everyone, I wanted to know if there is a software for mac similar to the Internet Download Manager for windows, that will allow me to download youtube, and pause and resume downloads. Also is there a sw that will allow me to download music from my ipod to my computer. I just had that...

Hi everyone, If I want to erase a presentation file completely so that it is not traceable even with sophisticated software. Would erasing its content and saving it as an empty file, and then erasing it.. do the job? I am aware that if you erase a file, it'll still exist on your system...

Hi everyone, I want to be able to share some files in a network between a PC with Vista Home Premium and a Mac Leopard X 10.5, how can I do that? Anyone know of a good guide for doing that? Ed.

Hi everyone, I have been trying to connect to the wireless network at my university, and somehow I am able to get the gateway, the ip address, the mask, and the DNS Servers, all the right paremeters. I confirmed that they were correct. But somehow I still get not internet... I mean I try...