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I suppose I'll know soon enough, but I found it a gross misstep for Apple to fill in the Full Name of the user in a connect to server dialog box when what computers almost always want is the username. It's why we have usernames after all. Many of my users have been replacing their full names...

don't know how many other people are really utilizing X Server. I'd probably do better to gripe in another forum for server admins, but hey, I like you guys. So here's the scoop. X Server comes with several admin utilities, all of which work over TCP/IP. This allows you to configure a...

So I'm looking for an aftermarket add-on or upgrade card for my mac. So I might go for a dual head AGP card to replace my original Radeon, or I might get a PCI card to run my second monitor. Since my ATI XClaim 128 went south I really miss the second montitor deal. Anyway, I wen to ATI...

Is there a way to remove words that the dictionary accepts from it's list of accepted words? I have some typos that I wish it would catch but it doesn't. It likes the word geed. I don't. That's my common typo for good. I never ever ever ever want to use the word geed. Dictionary editing...

It has come to my attention that the "rating" mechanism is being ignored by the vast majority of the people here. That's fine. I've been ignoring it till now. But it's there, and the people who use it seem to be using it either as a joke or as a means to falsely inflate their credibility...

not that I'm recommending anyone do this ... ever. But here's how I crashed mac OS 10.2 on my dual G4 450 tower. First, be a dumbass and open the computer case while it's running... that doesn't hurt anything mind you, but these two things are essential to the process. Two, notice how...

.DRM_Home is now a hidden file on the root of my HD. It sits there benignly and empty right next to a .DS_Store file. Anyone know what this is, where it came from, why it's there? I'm ridiculously opposed to DRM with its current political philosophy getting integrated into hardware, but the...

Does any know if the touted NFS resharing over AFP feature of X.2 server keeps resource forks intact? I thought NFS only understood flat file systems. But then, what good is AFP sharing if it totally mangles your classic apps and some of your current ones, and possibly some documents?

I have a SERIOUS project. My university is moving its network file space from NT (with crappy appletalk support) to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) box that only shares via CIFS (windows) and NFS. The current solution we're working on is netatalk and NFS so that a UNIX box can proxy...

So I used to be able to make my second monitor (PCI ATI Xclaim VR 128) into my primary monitor, then launch DVD player, and play DVD's simulcast to the TV in the living room. (I have a cable amp and lots of cable for this. This is how my son and I watch DVD's) After the "Upgrade" this...

Here's as good a place as any for me to go off I guess. I have my views, and I of course think I am right. Here's what I'd change about Apple's OS, Hardware, and developers, if I was omnipotent or something... Hardware: - 3rd IDE bus inside the box, SCSI has little benefit anymore, except...

Hi, this may better belong somewhere else, but I like it here, so I thought I'd ask here first: I am accessing the standard preferences file, which is documented to not be thread safe. So I want to keep all access to the prefs going through one process, so that it can't possibly try to...

Preface: I got tired of the ranting that was going on in another thread, and wanted to continue the talks with a more refined and enlightened focus, as it's one of the best discussions I've ever had in person, and now it's been the best discussion I've seen in this forum. Regulations: But you...

Preface: I got tired of the ranting that was going on in another thread, and wanted to continue the talks with a more refined and enlightened focus, as it's one of the best discussions I've ever had in person, and now it's been the best discussion I've seen in this forum. Regulations: But you...

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but doesn't the "speaker out" looking deal in the back of the iLamp look EXACTLY like the mystery port on the iPod? Powered proprietary speaker connection backwards compatible with standard 1/8" stereo jacks? Just looking for confirmation here, I'm having trouble...

Is there a way for me to speed up my mouse and keep acceleration off. I've noticed that at higher mouse speeds in the prefs, accelleration seems to come on by default. I hate it. It makes my mousing difficult. It slows me down by an order of magnitude as I can no longer accurately predict...

I'm in java, so maybe you cocoa programmers aren't having this issue, but I am. Any clue when this will be solved? All I do is drop a comboBox, (the text field looking thing under the popUpButton in Interface Builder) into a window, and I run the app with the debugger on ... and I get errors...

I feel like I mentioned this long ago, but I never got an answer. I'm running 10.1 on a dual 450, and if I flood ping anything else on the network, my machine states that I'm getting back 50% of the pings. All other machines report ~100%. tcpdump shows what looks like 100%. I also...

Why in the hell does my mouse jump back to the default tracking speed? I haven't had an application crash, logout, or run a full screen app in days. And my mouse decided it needed to be slow again. Is it just me? I hate when it's just me. My girlfriend always says it's just me, and I hate...

My install has shown a couple of signs of being flaky on this box, so I just want to know if this affects anyone else... I can't ssh out. It gives me some whacked out crazy crap about version mismatch. I need tu update ssh on my server anyway, I'll probably fix it by hand, but Just wanted...