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I've been using OS X since Public Beta, and this is the first time I've seen such an Interface Goblin. I thought it was noteworthy ;)

Open the attached JPEG image and notice the window's close-button widget. This is weird ::alien::

Web Form elements that are uniform with the OS's GUI (Aqua!) and that are uniform between all sites dramatically increases usability for most users. Consistency in interface makes for more reliable and predictable functionality from the end users point-of-view. Apple is doing a Good Thing by...

Hi there... I recently bought a fabulous Sony-Ericsson T68i GSM/GPRS/Bluetooth wireless phone. It has features which allow the recording of sound from its built in microphone and the recording of an actual phone call. Once recorded, I can transfer the sound file to my desktop via Bluetooth...

Just ran across this interesting blog dicussion about Quark vs InDesign. Quark Taking A Dive, at Typographi.ca: December 10, 2002 Make sure to follow the link to "Comments"... they are the most interesting part! Mars :)

No, not too late. The Installer displays the Read Me just before (or maybe it's after) the EULA. Nothing has been installed at that point, so the install can be easily cancelled. Mars :)

If I'm not mistaken, the Read Me for every installer of Mac OS X I have used says to install any firmware upgrades *before* installation. Read Me's exist for this purpose! Although, if it's any consolation, it does seen a bit outrageous that a machine could suffer hardware damage from an OS...

I encode all my MP3's =>192Kbps. So, my 13GB collection is markedly fewer actual tracks than one might suspect. Mars :)

Read the man pages for: quotaon quota That should get you started. Mars :)

Does anyone know how Mail.app auto-populates its pop-up menu of SMTP servers for an account? (the setting "Outgoing Mail Server" in Preferences...: Account: Edit/Add Account) Is that Rendezvous in action?

Yes, BBEdit has supported user authentication to open hidden/system files for many months through the "Open Hidden..." command :)

RiscIt, Jaguar adds a MySQL user of it's own. So, it seems to destroy the permissions on anything that was owned by a "mysql" user before the upgrade. To fix it, simply chown any files that were owned by your MySQL user to "mysql". That fixed it for me! Mars :)

I have been using OpenLDAP in OS 10.1.5 for weeks as the backend directory server for a Web-based application. Now, I have OS 10.2. It comes with OpenLDAP! But when I start up slapd (the LDAP daemon), I get this error: /etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 19: could not open datasource...

Both of those Hard Drives ended up being faulty. One of them catastrophically failed recently...and those errors finally stopped with the installation of a new HD. The other seems to have a faulty ATA controller on the logic board. By best guess at this point...those 0x8 (UNDEFINED)...

The OS X 10.2 Jaguar update finally resolved this problem with Mail! Yeah!!!

dhtmlkitchen, you missed the point of the thread starter: Think Different. :) Is this why you're griping? Apple can't be blamed for poorly debugged 3rd party hardware drivers. Besides, why did you buy a Mac if you have all of these complaints against them?

Because PHP is an Apache module, it runs as the same uid as Apache, "www". In order to instantiate PHP as the user's uid you could install the PHP CGI binary and execute it using cgiwrap [as mentioned in my post above]. You can grab the CGI version of PHP at...

I forgot to mention... This is the whole reason I dove into cgiwrap to begin with: Since cgiwrap executes cgi-scripts as the user's uid instead of the Webserver's uid, the users' scripts can read and write files without them having to be world or group readable/writable. Mars :)

cgi-wrap is an old-skool executable wrapper. It allows individual users to execute cgi scripts in their own cgi-bin as their user id (uid). Download the newest cgi-wrap from: http://download.sourceforge.net/cgiwrap/ The cgi-wrap home page is: http://cgiwrap.unixtools.org/ Follow the...

Now that I have updated to OS 10.1.5, everytime my machine wakes up from sleep, the network no longer functions and applications will not open (they just bounce for a while in the Dock...and then die quietly). Inevitably, the machine must be rebooted and it hangs at a blue screen on shutdown...