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Rather strange problem I'm having with 10.2 (fully patched). My LoginItems pref pane no longer shows up. The apps that are supposed to open at login do open, but the pane itself does not. I still see it in /System/Library/PreferencePanes. The permissions seem fine and none of the contents have...

cron is not starting on my system. I can start the process manually, but it is not coming up at login. /System/Library/StartupItems/Cron exists and hasn't been modified. I did delete all my Login Items a couple of months back, but I don't recall cron being in there. And when I add it, it does...

Can someone please write a screen lock app? It's amazing that Apple didn't include one (I believe the PB had something, but not anymore).

Has anyone used Keyspan's "High Speed USB Serial Adapter" to console into a Unix box from a OS X system?

Where is this beach? Obviously some nice warm relaxing pacific island. Somewhere I need to be really soon. Anyone?

As a Unix engineer and closet Mac user, I was going to give serious consideration to using Mac OS X as my desktop OS (and ignore the cracks from my coworkers). The beta seems fine enough to replace NT, but then I realised something pretty important. There are no serial ports on Powerbooks! How...

So, NetInfo, huh? Hm. I'm a Solaris Admin (very little BSD) and I'm a little hazy on how to turn services off in OS X. No inet.conf (okay, there is, but it's not used) and I can't find the start scripts for services like nfs, sendmail (are they turned off by listing them in /etc/hostconfig?). I...

I grabbed a G4 from MIS and installed OSX PB on it. My assumption is that the original hard drive was named Untitled because that is what I'm stuck with. Is there any way to rename the drive without booting into MacOS 9? The Inspector does not let me change the name.