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I want to write a script for merging mp3 collections. i have 2 large mp3 collections on my computer, one is mine, the other i got from my brother. i started writing it in bourne a while ago, but was unable to get it to accommodate spaces in filenames. with a recent thread from shatfield and...

i m having a weird problem with OSX lately. everytime i leave the system for a little while, when the machine goes to sleep and the screen goes black, it logs me out. when i return to my computer, the whole screen remains black, except for the password field which shows up as soon as i start...

a nice article on PPC assembly for any who are interested

i know there have been threads arguing about upgrade possibilities. right now i can t find anything on the website about 10.2 upgrade. so does this mean we re all buying full install versions? i wouldn t be surprised after the debacle that the 10.1 upgrade CD caused.

I m installing PHP with support for a GD graphics library (following instructions i got here at webmonkey) i successfully installed all the prerequisites, libjpeg, libpng, libgd, etc.. but when it came time to install PHP, the configure script failed. i told it this: ./configure...

i just noticed something a little strange. so remember how microsoft thinks the GPL is like a cancer? and its unamerican? it may be their number one enemy. but check this out. you can find microsoft listed about halfway down the page. i can t figure out what kind of publicity stunt that...

i was just wondering. i m used to having to specify my location for dynamically linkable libraries sometimes in UNIX apps, or specifying them in /etc/ld.so.conf. and it seems like you can t help put trip over .DLL in every directory of any windows filesystem. but i have no idea where MacOSX...

i need to draw some diagrams, and put them on a web. they need to be dynamic, so simple pictures won t suffice. is there a web markup language that has any kind of functionality like this? i mostly need trees, with boxes with text, and connecting lines. can CSS do this?

i am a little annoyed to find that my posts on trip s programming contest thread in the programming forum have been deleted by him. it is true that my posts were critical, so i understand if he was annoyed. but they were not rude, and were in fact an honest answer to his question which was...

i got this response from tech support at gravis:

take a look at HPs website concerning OSX support for scanners. in december it said support is coming in early spring. by march it said late spring. now it says summer 02. so what s the deal with HP? why haven t they written drivers for OSX?

so everyone is talking about upgrading graphics cards, they all want to be able to run quartz extreme. now my problem is, i have an ADC apple flat panel display, so i would need to get a card with an ADC port in it. i have not been able to find these cards for sale from any retailer, or on...

OK, i admit, when i posted this thread, the tortoise was only at 997, but i have to go to bed, and i won t be here tomorrow. OK, really i just wanted to be the first to congratulate nkuvu on getting 1000. i know, i jumped the gun! deal. nkuvu helps make this place useful, with lots of...

OK, so i know how to quote someone else using the quote tag. but a lot of the time when people quote, there is also a line in italics telling whom they quoted. how do you get that? do you just type it in and put it in italics?

i have been wondering about this for a while. i just read that mathematica was originally developed on NeXTSTEP. and if you look at wolframs website, you will see that they still list NeXTSTEP as a supported OS. this would lead me to believe that it would be very easy for them to turn...

hey, so we had our funeral for OS9, when can i expect to get firmware updates for OSX? mine is horribly out of date, but i need OS9 to update, and i haven t even seen a copy of OS9 in almost a year! 4.2.8 firmware is newest, and i m running 4.2.5! i hope apple gives us firmware upgrades for...

hey i just noticed that the new UNIX/Darwin forum has no admin. if he has no objections, i nominate testuser. whattaya think?

is it possible to get a script to log me in to, say, a telnet session? i had thought that something along the lines of % telnet host < script might work. i would have login and pass as the first two lines, and then a list of commands to execute on the remote host. it seems that i should be...