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  1. macbri

    Network info

    Does it look like the thing on the left of this menu bar snapshot (attached)? If so, that's Little Snitch.
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    Help running .jar files

    Hi - Looks like SSW.jar needs Java SE 6, which is installed but probably not enabled by default. Open up /Utilities/Java Preferences and make sure Java SE 6 is enabled and top of the list (see screenshot).
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    bash function - open file with application

    ... or just put the function in your ~/.bash_profile
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    Converting date in terminal

    Ok this is a bit off on a tangent maybe, but what if you change the input string you get to match what the date command expects? Here's an example of one way to do just that, using sed (line wrapped with a trailing backslash for clarity): echo 20091101201023 | \ sed 's/\([0-9][0-9]\)/\1...
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    Reset all paths & environment variables to default

    If you have a .bashrc or .bash_profile in your home directory try moving them aside by naming them something else and see if that helps when you open a new terminal
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    Firefox stuck in Farsi...

    Might be easiest to un-install it and download the English version -- here's a direct link: http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.5.5&os=osx&lang=en-US
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    Anonymizer software for mac

    I agree. Don't give BS answers. Here's a screenshot showing tor, as part of the Vidalia package, running on a Mac:
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    Boot Camp Drivers install problems.

    You probably don't have XP service Pack 2. If you can't get a valid copy of WinXP SP2, check out this macosxhints forum thread for other options.
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    Mac OS X terminal help

    Is there a space in the folder name? If so, escape it with a backslash, or wrap the folder name in single quotes. For example, if a folder is called "My Stuff" you could do one of the following: cd My\ Stuff cd 'My Stuff'
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    tsch: using foreach on files or directories with spaces in names

    When you wrap the glob expression in double quotes, it expands to a single string. As a result, you're only executing the body of the loop once, meaning you're executing "du" once, producing the output you're seeing (e.g. "du dir1 dir2 dir3"). Instead, wrap the variable $dir in double quotes...
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    .bashrc help please

    Here's my setup (don't know when I set this up, but it works) Check that you have a .bash_profile and it contains: if [ -e ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi
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    GNU-Darwing on a MacBook?

    How about these? Debian: http://www.debian.org Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org There are some "gotchas", especially related to booting and partitioning. I'd recommend the lengthy but informative wiki which Debian maintain specifically for Macbooks: http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook Also have...
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    Snow Leopard calculating drive capacity in base 10

    Imagine if this was how Apple "recovered" the approx 7GB disk space between 10.5 and 10.6 ;)
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    Tegrity sessions in firefox and mac

    If you're using Safari, check if the plugin is listed by selecting Help -> Installed Plug-ins. If you're using Firefox, type the line below into the address bar and hit Enter. about:plugins In both cases, if the plugin is active, it should be listed as "VLC Multimedia Plugin". If you don't...
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    Tegrity sessions in firefox and mac

    The browser plugin is not installed as part of the VLC software but has to be installed separately. You can download it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html (look about 1/3 of the way down the page for "Latest Web browser plugins for 10.5 and later (release 1.0.1)". Once...
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    need help compiling in osx vs. Linux

    1) You can get precompiled NetCDF binaries here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/netcdf-4_0_1/index.jsp Although MPI won't be of any use on a single machine, you may need it to compile your code, you can get OpenMPI source code here: http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.3/...
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    unix command to disable software update

    softwareupdate --schedule off To see the other available options: softwareupdate -h
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    Official Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Thread & FAQ

    Hey Fryke - Can you comment on what version of Python is included, and whether it is 64-bit?
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    What Type of File Is It?

    Yup - exactly right. The "od" command basically lets you see arbitrary data in readable form. What it shows here is you have a very large basically empty file. It's got two bytes at the beginning (the "s" and "p") and everything after is null, or zero. (The "od" command will skip all...
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    setting the path in c shell

    You might want to set your path, and not just define an alias (2 different things). For the C shell the line would go something like this: set path = ($path /Applications/darwin) -or- setenv PATH ${PATH}:/Applications/darwin Can you post the .cshrc file so we can better see what...
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