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And don't forget Pseudo, which can "sudo" any graphical app without recourse to the CLI, if that's your bag. (Note... strobe makes a very important point... do not pseudo desktop.app! Some people have had success with it, but for me, it did what strobe described, wreaking havoc on everything...

Here is darwinfo.org's basics of netinfo. Also you can check the man pages for niutil (the main net info browser) and the other ni* programs. If you are most comfortable with editing the UNIX-style config files, the niload utility translates these into the netinfo database for you... it's...

Put your apps where ever you want... some of the CLI utilities (so far) only look for apps in /applications and ~/applications, but the the GUI part doesn't really care. Hopefully, there will be tools to make partitions mount where ever.. I really want to be able to mount a partition at...

...if all you do is run altivec-enhanced photoshop filters all day. While the g3/4 core may do more per clock cycle, it isn't doing twice as much. A 1.5 Ghz P3 can, unfortunately, spank our beloved machines in pretty much anything but the most vector-heavy, altivec-enhanced applications. Sorry...

As far as the actual server tools included in OS X server*, all of them are the rock solid opensource server/php/sql implementations that basically every free UNIX has been running for many years. Apple just included pretty GIU's for admin. (No small step, mind you.) So the thought that Apple...

No offense, but where did you even get this idea? Apple has had personal web sharing on previous OS's, I can't see why they wouldn't have a web server on OS X, and it certainly seems to be apache, from all accounts. Apache is still there in the newer builds, too. OS X server is just going to...

I hear that the iMacs are much more subtle in person... the pictures look very garish because all of the transluscency and different depths of the colored elements is flattened. I'm pretty sure they will sell just fine to their target market. As far as the G3 issue, remember that until the...

Need some details man! My crystal ball suggests that maybe you're using a newer version than the PB? If so then no root is enabled, and you need to do that in NetInfoManager (or better yet, just use the sudo command -- much safer). If not, search these fora and the others for how to get back...

A good window manager makes X11 pretty decent. At my school, you walk in to the UNIX lab, and all the boxes are running Windowmaker or something similar, and there is a toolbar with buttons to click on for emacs, xterm, etc. It is really easy. Not to mention the fact that having a mouse and...

Heh heh. I wish. Luna my arse.

On a locked floppy, the little slider is supposed to prevent writes via some hardware mechanism. This does not apply to individual locked files on a hard drive at all. Locking something in software so that even root can't get to it strikes me as relatively new. Zach

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The reinstalling is really the easiest thing to do. (Not totally PC-ish, either -- most Mac-fix-it advice is to reinstall when you have a problem as severe as no system booting!) Especially in OS X when a reinstall doesn't touch anything you've done to the system, so there's no recovery period...

Does that worked even to delete locked files of a different user? While handy, it also worries me a bit. Also, the fact that root cannot delete some files is a bit annoying... could someone who knows the CLI tell me if rm works on locked files? (I'd do it, but I no longer have PB installed.)...

Here is the offending line from the generic cshrc that prevented me from seing core dumps on the solaris machines at school... I don't know how similar the BSD/darwin commands will be, though. limit coredumpsize 0 # don't write core dumps Zach

Is there a "nocoredump" or "coredump=0" or similar line somewhere in the environemnt variables? It is entirely likely that this might be a "feature" of one of the generic user startup scripts that your shell reads. I don't have PB any more, but I know that at my school on the UNIX boxes the...

More information please! What instruction does the startup freeze on when you do "verbose" mode startup (holding v)? You can startup in "single user mode" by holding "s" but you really need to know what you are doing to fix anything from there -- all you get is the NIX command line, with...

X windows is a very primitive display layer -- most of the functionality is left to the applications to implement. The move to base the graphics layer off the NeXT roots (like basically everything else) was a pretty smart one -- Quartz allows applications a lot more flexibility with the...

OK, there are two main hangups for many apps. 1) Configure don't work. The config scripts can't recognize darwin, and even explicitly running ./configure -Apple-Darwin-PPC or whatever permutation doesn't always get it right. But, Apple inclided all the necessary files for the config scripts...

you need portreflector (or similar name) to access dialup connections within classic. search for it on versiontracker. zach [edit: yes it is a wierd PB thing -- in newer builds this isn't a problem.]