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I've hooked up my old Windows98 to my iBook via ethernet cable and turned on the Windows sharing in OSX's prefs. Not great but I'm able to put precious files from here or there to here or there via ftp. Good. iBook has but one "real" ethernet port (RJ11 I think) and when I connect to the...

I've been messing around with 'ls -G' (directory with colour) and tried to redirect the output to a file and see if any colour info was retained. It didn't seem to. 'ls -G > file' 'cat file' Anybody know how to could keep the colour info, or if it's possible?

Hi, I've moved and changed my Internet service provider from a PPPoE DSL to a cable modem DHCP connection. Pretty much the same grub except my Privoxy isn't working anymore. I have configured a proxy at 127.0.0.1, port 8118, as usual. And made sure that it has been started. Even with...

I've got an annoying problem that won't let me go into most of my folders. When I try to open those folders, Finder seems to relaunch. It keeps doing the same thing with the same directories. It crashes with most folders that are nested 2 or 3 times in. But this pattern isn't constant...

I had Perl running fine with the terminal and thought it would be nice to experiment with a graphic interface and so downloaded Camel Bones. Welp, I got Camel Bones and tried the usual "Hello World" primer program to see if it would work. Sadly, I had over 70 parsing errors and stuff...

# xmodmap -e "keycode 74 = 6" does change my X keymap as shown with # xmodmap -pk | more which should correspond to my right arrow key mapped as number 6 (I'm messing around trying to make my arrow keys to work as directions would on a numeric keypad) Pressing the arrows there is no...

I suppose it's *something* configuration, eh?

Hmm. This game looks neat. I see it listed on the Fink site. However, when I try to find it as a package it's not around. What's up? I've updated the package list and scanned through it. Nothing. 62 games packages listed in Fink Commander and 18 listed in dselect - what's up with that...

I remember setting up and using xwindows on Linux systems. It was hard. Now I'm trying to get my OSX10.3 to work with it - it's impossible. I would love to just simply see an Xwindow GUI. Quite frankly, I've lost my patients. Sorry if it sounds like I'm ranting. My nerves are a little...

I'm back at trying to figure out X11 now and decided to install it from the OSX10.3 CD#3. The version number for X11 is 4.3.0. The Fink site says this: "10.3 users: You will need to install version 4.3.99.1-2 or later". So what's going on here? Is there a version number convention that I'm...

Anybody know how to change the US flag on the menu bar to a Canadian one without having the keyboard change to some strange frankophone configuration? Also, is there any way to change the text colour of the "Item Info" (activated when flagged in the Show View Options pop-up box). That...

I don't know when this started happening, perhaps my last system update of 10.3. Now I can't drag more than one icon at a time to move into another directory. When I try, all icons dissappear and come back unmoved and unselected. I got a 20G drive with 2G left and was thinking it might...

I love my iBook. I love OSX. And I love that it handles tech stuff without the crud that Windows throws at you. However, if I ever hear anybody tell me that Linux or Unix and all that GNU stuff is very user friendly and practically installs itself then my brain will melt. Almost every...

Umm. Maybe it's because I have a headache or because it's early, but I can't find the patch to update my 10.2.8 to the new 10.3. Software update is saying it's available for download and looking around the net isn't helping much. ::sleepy::

Does anybody know if it's easy to "hack" around a permission denied result when trying to get a streaming video. Like this for example http://www.exn.ca/news/video/exn2003/05/26/exn20030526-bc-geckofeet.asx Which is just way to choppy on the page it normally comes from (<a...

Yo, 'tsup, I've been slowly but surely getting a hang of this UNIX (or is it more like linux, hmm). Roaming around the Internet for info, however, shows that what we've got seems to have minor variations to what others have. For example, it took me like a week to discover that I needed to...

Hello, I've been trying to use AppleWorks paint program to make icons that I can copy then paste to a file or folder. It works fine, except I cannot get a transparent background - all my images are rectangular. Even if I "lasoo" grap the image. Anybody got a solution? Mike