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    Please help

    Hi all I have just done something foolish !!! :( I was copying my customised .cshrc file from my home directory to root's home when I manged to delete root's home directory rm -rf ~ !!!!!!! I know fully apprecaite the warnings that go with the rm -rf option !!!!! Please...
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    Pdisk and Disk utility

    When using pdisk I get an error saying map not writeable I have 2 OS X partition's One system 25GB one Swap 0.5GB I also having some free space left on my disk both after and before the above partitions (boot partitions) 6 GB Free .5 GB swap 25GB System 6GB Free When using...
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    Fink

    Hi all I've recently installed Fink on my Mac. Everything going fine until yesterday. I'm trying to use ethereal - now to use the GUI of this application I belive you need some sort of X Window manager. I manged to install all the libraries required to use tethereal but when I try...
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    ifconfig and IP leasing

    Hi all I have struggled an awful lot to find out much about how to discover "Lease Obtained" and "Lease Expires" information on MAC OS X. I have scoured the Internet through Google and no-one really seems to know ????? :rolleyes: Where IS the Leasing information contained for an...
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    Bash prompt and /etc/profile

    Hi All I havent been using OS X long (10.1.5), but I have some experience with Linux. Could someone please tell me where the bash startup scripts are stored on OS X. For example on Linux you had the "universal" file located at /etc/profile for all users and then the personalised scripts...
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    Partitioning

    Hi I recently partitioned my HDD and installed OS X. I have created 4 partitions 1 system 10 GB 2 swap 1GB 3 users 15GB 4 Free space - unformatted 12GB I have a G3 600 iMac with 256 MB RAM. The swap partition was created in the hope that it would speed everything up - and...
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    Partitioning

    Hi I recently partitioned my HDD and installed OS X. I have created 4 partitions 1 system 10 GB 2 swap 1GB 3 users 15GB 4 Free space - unformatted 12GB I have a G3 600 iMac with 256 MB RAM. The swap partition was created in the hope that it would speed everything up - and it did:D...
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    Internet Banking and Java Applets

    Hi I've just bought a MAC and am not that familiar with them so be gentle please I'm running OS 10.1.5 and have a little experience with Linux. I am having trouble getting to my bank's (www.co-operativebank.co.uk) website. The site uses a Java applet for the secure connection. I...
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