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    New to carbon

    I am wrinting a program that does some calculations, and what I want is if the value is above a certain value, then change the color of the output from black to red. I can not find any way to do this. Thanks Bob
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    Can't change terminal preferences

    Make sure that you include the preceding dot when deleting: > rm .gislock*
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    comparisons between ipfw, ipchain and, iptable

    ipfw(8) means the eighth section of the man pages: # man 8 ipfw Its user commands. Section 3 are libraries, etc...
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    nfs password

    NFS does not support username/passwords.
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    Best ethernet modem

    Ethernet is a protocol, IEEE 802.3. To connect to a network (LAN/MAN/WAN) using ethernet, you need a Network Interface Card, NIC. A modem is a device that, put simply, will connect to a dial in system, using PPP/SLIP/etc... If you want to dial into something, cable or DSL, you will need a...
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    Evolution

    Has anybody been sucessful in installing evolution on OS X with X11, through fink?
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    fink and xemacs

    See if libdl.0.dylib is in /sw/lib, if not, then link it from /usr/lib
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    how to run ethereal

    en0 is the onboard NIC en1 is the wireless NIC lo0 is the loopback device gif0 is a tunnel device stf0 is a IPv6 to IPv4 tunnel device fw0 is the firewall device ppp0 would be a ppp device You want to monitor the active NIC, if you are hard wired, then en0, wireless then en1.
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    AirPort ?

    I use an airport extreme so that I can take advantage of WPA Encryption, and since I am eventually going to employ a radius authentication system. The airport extreme supports 11b/g so as long as you have a b/g card it will work. I would definetly recommend the airport extreme.
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    A second Firewall, just "pass-through".

    What you can do is this: Int --> Cbl Mdm --> (DHCP) Router (10.0.0.1) --> (10.0.0.2) NetBarrier (192.168.1.1) --> Hub --> Other Then have the Netbarrier set to share connections, but has 2 static IP's. The default gateway for the NetBarrier will be 10.0.0.1, and the default gateway for...
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    Adding GD to existing PHP

    Thats why you need to recompile PHP, to add the functions that GD provide into the php binary.
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    port problems

    Try this: In /etc/services add the following: ftp-data 2120/udp ftp-data 2120/tcp ftp 2121/udp ftp 2121/tcp Then comment out the following ftp-data 20/udp ftp-data 20/tcp ftp 21/udp ftp 21/tcp Then: sudo killall...
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    Adding GD to existing PHP

    You need to recompile PHP with GD support. Thats the best way other than hacking it together.
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    wireless router/print server

    Apple's Airport base station will act as a printer server, and I do believe its compatible with OS9/X. Mine has a USB connection in which you plug the printer into.
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    Airport - no signal, error when connecting?

    Make sure that when you click on the signal meter in the menu bar, that it says the SSID above other... Make sure you have Automatic set as your location.
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    512+128MB Ram enough?

    The more RAM you have in the system, the less the system has to use the swap. Modern kernels will keep as much in RAM as possible, but will swap out processes such as extra httpd, services that are not used very often, in order to allow high use processes in RAM. So more RAM, the less...
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    automatic backups onto samba drive?

    Try this: tar -cf /backup/backup.`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.tar /what /to/backup /here for full backups The for increments: find -x /mnt/point -type f -newermm /backup/time_file -print >> /tmp/file_to_back will print all files newer than /backup/time_file on /mnt/point mount point. tar...
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    Using the Terminal to ping a port number?

    Ping uses ICMP Packets, first type 8, ECHO, then the response, type 0, ECHO_REPLY, these packets are datagrams, and therefor can not attach to ports since they act on layer 1 and 2, but do not go up to layer 3 or above, so they will stay in the NIC and not go into the TCP/IP Stack in the kernel...
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    mySQL/Panther woes - "Can't open privilege tables"

    By default, MySQL Wants to use /var/db/mysql as the database directory. You can over ride this with: --data-dir=/path/to/mysql Ex: 87582 p2- IW 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql --datadir=/usr/mysql --pid-file=/usr/mysql/dakota.pid 87605 p2- S 0:01.55...
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