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One thing that bugs me all the time which I haven't been able to figure out is buggy line wrapping in console windows such as Terminal. This is not a Terminal-specific issue, it happens pretty much all over, including XTerm. When I type in a long line, instead of wrapping over to the next...

I've been searching for a bluetooth wireless trackball to go with my powerbook. The wireless trackballs that I'm finding online all seem to have adaptors that plug in to your computer. I've got built-in bluetooth, I don't want some adaptor dangling from my powerbook. Does anyone have any...

With the Panther upgrade, something has changed with Terminal.app. When I display a file using more, less, man, or similar utils, the displayed text disappears when the program ends (e.g. pressing 'q' in man). I've seen this in linux terminals and it's always bugged the hell out of me, and now...

I was just setting up a new OS X laptop. While doing this, I mounted two partitions of another computer using AppleTalk. Now, when I log on to my account on the laptop, a bunch of AppleTalk connection dialog windows appear asking for my password. Unfortunately, those dialog boxes don't have...

When I use history shortcuts in the terminal, such as !$ to get the last word of the previous line, those shortcuts do not get expanded in history. I thought that 'set autoexpand' in my cshrc file would do it, but apparently not. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here is an...

I've figured out that the weird problems I've occasionally been having on my OS X computer are due to the lookupd daemon dying. Symptoms are: terminal asks for password (which it rejects), anything else requiring authentication doesn't work, programs like web browsers and email programs don't...

I've just started experiencing a strange and serious bug. When I came to my computer yesterday and tried to use the Terminal, it asked me for my password instead of just starting a session. When I entered my password, it didn't recognize it. I tried changing the password in the Users...

I have been unable to change the "Open with application" default setting for generic files. I would like to set it to BBEdit, so I select BBEdit in the Info window (where, btw, the Type and Creator are listed as "Document" and "Not available", respectively). That works fine. But when I...

Every once in a while I get 4 horizontal black lines going through some of my icons. I've seen this happen with BBEdit files and with hard drive icons. With the BBEdit files, if I select them and go to the Info window and rechoose BBEdit as the application (it is already chosen, so this...

I haven't found any mention of this anywhere, but perhaps someone knows what may be going on. I just updated to OS X 10.1. Twice in the last two days, iTunes has frozen while playing a CD. The odd thing is that I can't force quit it and when I run ps -ax on the console (or use the...

Is there a way to custom map a file extension to a specific app? For example, if I want to open all .xyz files with my XYZ app. If I open the Get Info window, it lets me choose an application based on the Type/Creator (which in this case is ????/None), but not based on the file extension. I...

I've been using OS X for a while now and this new problem has suddenly come up. What happens is that when I switch to a classic app, the letter 'l' is being typed repeatedly. Launching classic Key Caps, shows the letters 'e' and 'l' depressed. Pressing 'l' stops the typing in the classic app...

What is the difference between the /Library/ directory and the /System/Library/ directory? I have, for example, a perl/ directory in both places. If I'm installing a new perl module, which location should I put it in?

I've tried to follow instructions from a couple places, and I've got XDarwin running pretty well, but I've been unable to get it working in rootless mode. I've got the latest download (XAqua0.6). If someone can point me towards some already patched files, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Here's one that's been bugging me: I set the Startup Options in the Advanced panel of the Classic Control panel to us a key combination, but after I close the System Prefs and go back, it's always reverted to "Turn off extensions". I tried grepping through all the pref files and the defaults...

This is the first unix system I've been on that doesn't have the standard 'head' command to view the top of a file. Instead, the head command on OS X does an HTTP head request. Is there some other head-like binary, or do I need to roll my own?