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Can somebody explain me why /etc, /var and /tmp are just symbolic links for /private/...? Is there any good reason for this? I'm just thinking about moving the folders out of /private and replace the symlinks with the 'real' folder. Has anybody already tested this? Maybe some applications use...

I just would like to share my latest experiment with you because I haven't found any page in the internet explaining how to do this. Most pages even tell that it's impossible or recommend to use symlinks as a replacement. But first a warning: I can't provide longtime results or guarantee that...

I'm searching a good calendar and contact software a bit like iCal/Adressbook but without the limitations in these apps. At least good SyncML support is required. And it shouldn't bring with it any frameworks or librarys. And it shouldn't use any component provided by iCal, iSync or...

Ok, I've searched the net for hours now and as far as I can see OS X simply can't do this but maybe I'm just to stupid to search correct. There are several things I would like to activate or use in OS X/Darwin. First I would like to activate noatime for a second harddisk. Any way to do...

Now after I've got my second harddisk that should be used for dumb data storage with a lot of read/write access I would like to enable the noatime option for this volume. But i noticed that this option seams to be silently discarded by the mount command. For example if I try this the...

I just searched a bit in the new Proteus4 Beta and recognized that it use imservices under the GPL License. And because I haven't anything better to do I started reading a bit in this license and found: So my english is maybe not the best and all those license's and law's are always a...

I've just found a very interesting artice regarding chat logs... I think you should read this: http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/233 As far as I understand this means that you are nor allowed to create a log or history from an chat session (AIM, ICQ..) or even screenshots from the...

Just would like to know if anyone her knows SmarterChild or even use it every day? I'm just searched for a bot I can use under OS X with AIM and found SmarterChild instead: http://www.smarterchild.com/index.pl It's a bot out there who can answer you many questions, search the web for you...

Hi, I just heard that the Mac (PC and Linux too) demo of UT2004 will be released today :) I think you can download it here in a few hours: http://www.unrealtournament.com/news/view.php?id=1389 Update: Just found this info on the games4mac.de page: Quote: "The UT 2004 Demo will be...

Has anyone noticed that the woman in the 1984 ad form apple wears an iPod? http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984/ Has Apple retouched this ad or have they just made a completely new one? I think this can't be the original or did Apple have plans for the iPod so early ;)

I've just noted that all the Apple online stores (us, uk, de..) are offline.

Hi everyone, can you tell me what I must do in order to get named automaticlly started in 10.2? The configuration of named is ok and when starting it using ndc start everything works perfect. Under 10.1.5 I have created the files 'named' and 'StartupParameter.plist' in a folder called...

Hi everybody, I try to get sendmail run on my computer. For that reason I've worked through O'Reilly's sendmail book and set up my sendmail.cf file as described. Directory permissions are all set as required and a working DNS server is also set up. But when I start sendmail (for example...

Hello, i try to run my own DNS/Bind Server for faster Querys and to use domainnames for my router and webserver. The Bind-server itself is installed and running well. When setting the nameserver entry in resolv.conf to my own ip (192.168.1.10) and restart named everything is ok. All the...