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Many techniques were developed for moving the swap directory in OS X 10.1.x and several applications were even written for that expressed purposes. None of those techniques or applications work very cleanly in OS X 10.2.x (resulting in .vm 1 or duplicate mounts and other oddities); but that's...

I thought our old posts would reflect our new names in the database, but this doesn't seem to be the case with me (everything still shows as being by 'G. Peretz'). Also, I logged out in Chimera as an experiment and now I cannot log back in with either my old or new user name. [It's a good...

If you think iTunes is the best way to rip an audio CD at full fidelity, think again. While iTunes is a great all around audio library management tool, it is very ineffecient when it comes to actually ripping audio discs to AIFF files. (It is Altivec optimized so it makes for quite a workout for...

Here is how to create a 100MB drive image, backup data to it, and then burn it onto a CD (directly in the commandline, with only the built-in tools). One possible application: This could be easily modified and incorporated into a script that will backup your Entourage mail databases every week...

If you need to create a personal backup copy of a CD-ROM or DVD, it's fairly simple to do so in the terminal. First, insert the CD-ROM/DVD to be copied into your drive. When the Finder mounts it, take note of the path (especially the title of the disc). (You can also get this information via df...

AppleSystemProfiler | grep Applications >> ~/installedApps.txt It launches the GUI version of Apple System Profiler, but then it pipes the results of the "Applications" tab through a grep seach and then outputs the result to a text file in your home directory. Simple and clean. (Leave off the...

Issue this command to selectively empty the trash: rm "/Users/yourusername/.Trash/nameoffiletodelete" (Change rm to rm -rf if you want to delete a folder instead of a single file.) If you want, you could add an alias to your .*shrc file that would allow you to specify the filename without...

Say you want to find out how big your MP3 collection is. It's relatively easy to find all the .mp3 files on a drive and calculate the total amount of disk space they collectively occupy, all from one command. We want to run a find command, then pipe the output to du via xargs. (The -0 flag...

What is Qpopper? Qpopper is the most widely-used server for the POP3 protocol (this allows users to access their mail using any POP3 client). Qpopper supports the latest standards, and includes a large number of optional features. Qpopper is normally used with standard UNIX mail transfer and...

Your uptime can be as long as your machine has physical power (providing you have no errant kernel extensions or something else that causes a kernel panic). Simply learn the power of SystemStarter You can leave the kernel and core operating system running and just restart the various...

Apple's decision to switch ftp daemons from ftpd in 10.1 to lukemftpd in 10.2 is of questionable merit. Their lack of updated documentation to reflect that decision is truly lamentable. Most users upgrading from 10.1.x are left hobbled or with malfunctioning ftp servers (especially in regards to...

First, it is always a good idea to read the existing information about the user: niutil -read . /users/userx The output will be generally similar to this: authentication_authority: ;basic; ;LocalWindowsHash; picture: /Library/User Pictures/Animals/Butterfly.tif _shadow_passwd: hint...

How to install Webmin on Mac OS X 10.1.x or 10.2.x Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms, you can setup user accounts, Apache, internet services, DNS, file sharing and so on. Webmin consists of a simple web...

Rather than deal with the new FTP daemon in OS X 10.2 (lukemftpd) and its lack of- and mis-documentation, I opted to go with a different daemon altogether. Instead, I chose Pure-ftpd (http://www.pureftpd.org/), which seemed to have the right feature set and flexibility to meet my needs (chroot...