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I have been put in charge of a mediawiki but do not have the sysop password. Is there any way for me to reset it if I have read/write access to the directory it is installed in? Attempts to contact the prior admin have not been successful.

I have the Harman/Kardon Soundstick II speakers and my computer plugged into a UPS yet somehow the power adapter still died which pisses me off. So.. after going on the harman/kardon website and getting a quote for the cost of the adapter I found it would cost me 40$ to get a new one...

I am attempting to run efence on os x using gcc4.0.1. I have compiled it and can link to it dynamically successfuly with the following issue: I do not know the gcc flag to set to prevent malloc from being dynamically linked to my binary and as a result, while efence appears to run, the...

I am attempting to restrict who can connect to my mac mini's airport in order to access it's ethernet connection. I do not want to do this via encryption however but rather by: 1. Restricting the mac addresses that can connect. 2. (preferrably) When a user connects, they are presented with a...

I have a mac mini, a spare 80gb 3.5 ide hard drive, and am looking at powered firewire enclosures to make use of said hard drive. Since I also have an iPod and would like to use both devices at the same time, I figured it might be a good idea to check if anyone has had problem with...

Well, I tried the free mac mini website and got the base 1.42Ghz Mac mini model out of it. Success, but not without cost :) I would really like to add the dvd-r drive to it and also the airport and bluetooth module however I am nowhere near an apple store and I don't have personal access to a...

I have a need to identify the iPod model a user plugs into the computer. I know I can parse this information from the files in iPod_Control however I would like to identify it via the firmware or however apple does it (without backwards engineering the iPod framework. Does anyone know how to...

I make the iPod-Linux OS X Installer and need to run a test program on a iPod shuffle and 6GB iPod mini. I am running these test in order to figure out how to identify what model iPod I am working with. Please reply to this post if you have one of these models and are interested in assisting...

I am attempting to connect an IBOutlet from a controller object to an NSMatrix which is in a box subview in Interface Builder. Unfourtunately when I attempt to connect these two, it either selects the box that contains the matrix (and a few other buttons) or the cells within the matrix. I can...

In order to enter the apple design awards do you need more than a free developer membership with apple? I think I have the knowledge, but I know I don't have the money. :D

I have a beige g3 running 10.3.6 and during a startup I had a kernel panic which led to some had drive corruption. After using diskWarrior under os 9 to fix that issue I attempted to boot up again only to get stuck with the message "Still waiting for root device" I am fairly certain that...

I have a screen saver that has a NSSlider in the configure sheet. This slider is attached to my screenSaver view via an action and an outlet. @interface MYfnsView : ScreenSaverView { IBOutlet id _theSliderOfDoom; @private int _sliderOfDoomValue; int _anotherIntVar; } -...

I have a program that launches a thread which includes the following (dumbed down) code: unichar *buffer; buffer = NSAllocateMemoryPages(50 * sizeof(unichar)); NSDeallocateMemoryPages(buffer, 50); unfortunately this causes a crash with the following text in the console: ***...

I know where the apple startup logo is in the bootx file, however I do not know where the image data is for the thing that spins under the apple logo. If the quartz graphics drivers are loaded then it would probably be a tiff file like the trash animation however I am not sure if this is the...

Has anyone sucessfully compiled Microwindows (http://www.microwindows.org/) for x11 under OS X? I have been trying but no dice so far. Cheers Jeff N.

Good evening, I have recently acquired a beige g3 that has the following specs: 266Mhz processor 192 MB ram 4.2GB 68pin scsi HD I can boot up off the os x install cd and have already erased it with the disk utility to hfs+ format. My problem is it seems to hang on the step "Preparing...

Currently I have two macs. The one that is connected to the internet (through 56k) runs 10.2.X and the other one runs 9.1 and is networked to this mac directly through the use of a ethernet crossover cable. I already can share files between the two but after finding the internet sharing...

I am a computer science student and, well, frankly this bothers me... Open up Mac OS X's calculator do: 168740 - 19.95 to get 168720 Now get a normal calculator and find the problem (hint: answer is 168720.05) If you do this in Mac OS X's calculator's advanced mode, it works out fine...

I have never been able to get talk to work. I always get a repeating [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] message. I have tried connecting locally by doing... [me:~] me% talk me ttyp2 [root:~] root% talk me ttyp2 [me:~] me% talk root ttyp2 And remotely with a friend who has red...