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Where is the .xinitrc ? I'm looking for the file that launches the xterm at startup and can't find it, they must have renamed it. I know I can create my own .xinitrc in my home directory but that's not what I'm trying to do. Someone know where is the defaults one ? Thanks

No... I'm not saying that apple shouldn't do something... I say that going x86 comes with downsides. 1- Getting in trouble with a powerful enemy : microsoft witch has control on an important part of OSX : office. As of now, OSX wouldn't have survived without office or without photoshop. 2-...

yep... crash with a new message I never seen before... a very aquaish translucent window in the center of the screen with a background image looking like the power button saying that I need to restart my computer... it was after waking the computer from sleep. I think my HD is dying.. also...

If you want a reference to what I said, try looking at http://www.arstechnica.com . I think it's somewhere on this site that I've read the best article on the subject. The computer industry moved from 4 to 8 to 16 to 32 bits computer because the applications ( as in usage, not program )...

I have a few points I wanted to make here and there while reading : 1- One person said that moving to a x86 architecture would require the major application makers like adobe, microsoft, macromedia... to commit to port their application. This is true and it's the problem here. Microsoft...

In single user mode, i did a few fsck and it doesn't fix my problem, it always report : Missing thread record ( id = 2662642 ) Invalid volume file count ( it should be 253943 instead of 253944 ) Invalid volume file count ( it should be 253944 instead of 253943 ) It changes the...

basicaly, periodic is a script in /usr/sbin/ that run the content of /etc/periodic/"whatever is passed to periodic"/ in crontab, "periodic daily" is called on a daily basis and periodic when passed "daily" run the scripts in /etc/periodic/daily/ same for weekly and monthly periodic.conf...

is there a way to connect a vnc server under a different login than the person on the console ? Like a virtual terminal, but with the gui.

is it normal I can't use the "open" command while in an ssh session ? it says : kCGErrorFailure : initCGDisplayState: No display interlock Bus error is there some workaround ? what I want to do it open -a "Disk copy" myVirtualPCdiskImage when i'm not home to get my files.

How do you change the group a user belong to ? in netinfo, I created a "ftp" group, gave it an unused gid ( 500 ) and set passwd to * and then changed my ftp user gid property to 500. is there more I have to do cause even after reboot, my ftp user still belong the the old group

vp5 is only a very small improvement ( in term of speed ). it is still way slower in osx than in os9 but at least, the full screen mode now works in X.

in the sharing control panel, there is a checkbox for enabling remote login. How do I use it ?

What you wrote there in very similar to my setup any it work perfectly for me. Are you sure your pub directory is owned by you and not ftp ? ( ls -l in terminal in the /Users/ftp folder ) and that only the owner has full rights ? go to /User folder chown -R [youruser] ftp chmod -R 755 ftp...

the tags in my previous post got removed by the html parser so look an this attached file for what the end of your "info.plist" file should look like

If you don't care about the menubar either, you can add the lines : <key>NSUIElement</key> <string>1</string> at the end of the "info.plist" file, just before </dict> </plist> This will turn the application to a background only process. It will not have a menubar, no dock icon, not...

I don't know if i'm the only one to see this. Every programs in Realbasic have screwy colors in the menu ( this picture is an example ). Every version of osx ( up to 10.1.1 ) had this problem. Anyone have a solution for me ?