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Hello all, I'm trying to write a program, actually a pair of programs in perl. The first program should accept a commandline argument and write it to a file. The second program should loop over the lines in that file and process each one in turn, then delete it. It's your typical queue setup...

This is getting out of hand. The amount of whining on this board is so incredibly stupid. In a place where I used to come to enjoy some good rumors/news I now get depressed every day because the people on this board are so negative. The thread "New PowerMacs Released!" Should be a thread of...

my fink selfupdate-cvs seems to be broken. Anyone else have troubles with it? It stops here: cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm ### su failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error...

http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/business_plus/article/0,1713,BDC_2462_1263214,00.html Now this is how you sell people on Macintosh. I was so happy to see this in the business section of my paper this morning. Real people see this and know it's a real person, not a switch actor. It's a nice...

Nobody likes an evangelist. Mac users have this terrible reputation of being more persistent than some religious organizations or crack dealers. It's not our fault, we love our computers. We would like to see more people actually have fun with theirs. I think a big thorn in all of our sides...

Anyone know a command to change the screen resolution in Darwin? I use OS X in 800x600 but when I switch to darwin (and XWindows) it's unbearable. Usually I switch the resolution to 1024x768 before I sign out but when I forget it's a lot of wasted time to sign back in as myself, switch the...

Has anyone ever had troubles with something they installed via fink not working in pure darwin but then in XWindows rootless over OS X it works fine? I'm sure I haven't isolated the problem yet because sometimes it works and sometimes not but when I'm logged in as >console and I try to build...

If you don't like speculation or are gullible in general, leave now. This is a RUMOR thread :) so don't get your hopes up. According to this Register article the iMac flatscreens will have an updated version soon with wide screen. For some reason that doesn't sit right with me. I haven't...

I opened terminal today and found this: Just to clear things up, the worst nightmare part is my edited welcome line. I use Terminal so much that it is quite possible that I didn't see this simply because I open then start working, I don't read that part. What does it mean and how do I fix it?

I'm not sure if many people do this, but I have my aqua Mozilla and my Xwindows Mozilla so that when I log in as >console I have a decent browser. I had it all running but I tried it today and no dice. I think the problem is Chimera, since I looked at the .mozilla/Profile and the only one...

I love MegaTokyo but it was really great today. I guess we now know just how much abuse those little iBooks can take :) Your conscious uses one, shouldn't you? Update: The comic for the topic of this thread is here: http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=258 And yes, it...

I was hoping that we could get one single thread for all things having to do with getting OpenOffice to work and run properly. That way someone looking to download and use OpenOffice has a FAQ to turn to. Please leave criticisms and reviews of this Pre-Alpha software out of here so it's easy to...

I loved brushed metal. It was so new and flashy..... In OS 9. Today we paid our final respects to OS 9 but the awkward remnants of Platinum plus (as I like to call it) still linger. Aqua is the way to go. our windows don't need the brushed steal border because we have (at the price of very...

The included spelling dictionary works great for me and I use it all the time. There are a couple words that I spell consistently wrong and the dictionary doesn't bring up the right choices by right click. I've poked around and all I could find was the file holding the "learned" words. Is there...

I personally haven't spent too much time on this issue because I have homework to do, but my room mate would like to burn a direct copy of a music cd. How would he do this? In iTunes all you can do is rip it, which he can then burn but that takes a bunch of extra time converting back and forth...

I know I've seen this posted before but I don't know what it was called therefore can't search for it. It was a unix 'hack' by which I mean a tweak to a file that allowed you to change the welcome message in the terminal. I changed mine from "Welcome to Darwin!" to "Welcome to your worst...

I was wondering.... This page: http://www.palm.com/products/accessories/expansioncards/bluetooth/ Shows a add on to your palm which allows it to use bluetooth to connect to phones and stuff. Can it be used to hotsync to my computer? My cradle is wearing out and this might be the best...

Hey guys, I'm writting this from my dad's new iMac with the dvd burner :) it is so cool!

What's your favorite Myth? Here are two that I recently had to deal with to debunk some my girlfriend and her parents had. 1.) Macs have no software. Handed down from her father, she somehow thought that this was true. I asked her what she did with her computer and she said "Chat(AIM), Web...

For those of you who are film people like me, (or I hope to be) this sounds like big news: http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/03/20/0320apple.html I am especially excited that it sounds like all film is heading in the direction of the super OS. Funny that I didn't hear about this on any of...