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Short answer: no, there is nothing that will reset the system short of reinstalling. This is one of the inherent problems with used machines: you don't know how thoroughly the previous owner trashed the system. Sometimes the damage is so great that it is an impetus for them to purchase a new...

There are two truly great e-mail list managers: ezmlm (including ezmlm-idx, an extended version) and GNU Mailman. Both will run on top of the world's finest MTA, qmail.

You need a null modem cable; for more info, check this and read the first few results. I recommend trying to find a null modem adapter (or the specific cable) rather than trying to build your own cable. Soldering those mini-DIN connectors is a PITA. If you insist on "rolling your own", all...

Well, it sounds like you have ample RAM, even though you don't explain how you are using your system (e.g., running A|W Maya with all of the Office X apps open at the same time as Internet Exploder/Mozilla). There's so much skankware out there that it could really be anything. You're probably...

My guess is that you're using some poorly written software that is leaking memory and that you don't have much memory to start with. Thus, your system is paging to disk and the drive is filling up with swap files (located in /var/vm). OS X does not have a defragmentation feature. It still...

What does on this website?

No contest: NcFTP. Been using it since 1995 on a variety of *nix boxes. I don't know where one can get a compiled binary, but I don't care since I compile my own.

The summary at the EGD website (which I located using Google) adequately answers the questions above. In short, EGD on OS X has limited usefulness since /dev/random already exists.

Let the games commence! Looks like no tabbed browsing, so I guess I'm sticking with Chimera for now. download (form, 2.9MB)

Of disk space, not memory. I was talking memory. But what does it matter? Disk is cheap. In any case, anyone who actually uses Emacs never thinks of it as simply a text editor. It is, in fact, a way of life. You can read mail and news, have a compile going, running an ftp session, checking...

Ahahahahahaha!!!! That's hilarious! (Or at least a hilarious troll.) GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 compiled on my system from the 2003-02-08 CVS sources is taking up 9MB of memory with one shell buffer. On the other hand, Apple Terminal 1.3.1 is taking up almost 13MB of memory. Granted vi's memory...

I forget, but it's not GNU Emacs, truly the most important UNIX program ever written. Which is probably reflected in this thread's sluggish response rate.

Excellent! You've walked into your own trap! Yahoo doesn't actually have a search engine. It partners with Google to provide search engine capabilities. It has searching capabilities of its own directory, but it doesn't even default to that anymore. Go ahead, go to Yahoo and type in a search...

Again, I will reiterate that I am referring to meaningful sites. Webcrawler was never recognized as a premier search engine, whenever it came about. Lycos and Excite certainly followed AltaVista. Hotbot was the great flash in the pan than never, er, panned out. Again I will reiterate that...

A search engine rather indiscriminately sniffs every single IP address on the Internet to analyze web site content. Said content is indexed by a database, typically related to text-based content on the site's hierarchy. A web directory is similar to your local phone company's Yellow Pages: a...

Yahoo has never claimed to have been a search engine, even since its days when pages were being served up from akebono.stanford.edu, an SGI Challenge S box (circa 1994). It has been (and continues to be) the premier WWW web directory. The first meaningful WWW search engine (post-gopher...

No offense to you, but I loathe client-side Java, so I avoid it like the bubonic plague. Why? Because Java is a big fat, smelly resource pig. I couldn't care less about server-side Java. Actually, I don't care about any sort of server-side technology, as long as it works (i.e., fast, reliable...

First problem: your methodology is all wrong. You should be benchmarking with the applications you use, not something else. If you're going to be primarily using C/C++/Java compilers, Apache, and PHP, test those out, not Mathematica calculating pi. If I were going to run a database server, I...

Restore from full backup or reinstall operating system.

I use command line zip or a tar/gzip combo (I prefer gnutar to Apple's standard tar). You can also retain resource forks by using hfstar. I prefer the command line tools; I have a shell script that archives my important files. If I weren't using an iBook, I'd probably run it as a weekly cronjob.