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The following strange problem started recently for me: On some (but not all) of the new trailers at http://www.apple.com/trailers/ , the sound is missing and so is the volume control that's usually at the lower left corner of the quicktime plugin rectangle. I've already tried: *...

Prior to installing 10.2.2, Mozilla 1.2b would typically consume about 9% of CPU when in the background and doing nothing. (Other apps were running at the same time, but they were also idle and in the background.) Most other apps consumed less that 2% while idle/backgrounded. After...

Ever since installing MacOS 10.2, my system log has been filling up with lines like these: Sep 16 07:28:23 Machine_Name /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/lib/postfix/smtp could not be launched prebound. Sep 16 07:28:23 Machine_Name /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding...

When I intalled MacOS 10.2 postfix (fink version) stopped working. After flailing around a bit, I got it going again. In hindsight, here's what I think needed to be done: (1) postfix's groups (and maybe also users) needed to be recreated. (See...

I was trying to install qmail and I discovered that the 'head' command (print initial lines of a file) got overwritten by the HTTP-related 'HEAD' command. (Yes, I am using the case-insensitive HFS+ file system.) What's the simplest/best way to get my 'head' back? I suppose I could write a...