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If Aspyr can't provide me with the game that I...	3,755 Views / 106 Replies
If Aspyr can't provide me with the game that I want (eg, Raven Sheild with PC<->Mac netplay), why should I buy a game I don't want (Raven Sheild as Aspyr sells it)? I appreciate that people put a...
Posted by rantweasel, on May 6, 2004 at 04:14 PM, in Gaming

Yes, if you have any services running (like a web...	3,961 Views / 41 Replies
Yes, if you have any services running (like a web server, a mail server, etc). If you don't run any servers, then it doesn't matter what sort of firewall you have, there wont be any place to attack....
Posted by rantweasel, on Sep 15, 2003 at 07:21 PM, in macOS

man date Yes indeedy, and it's a good...	801 Views / 12 Replies
man date Yes indeedy, and it's a good idea. You may want to put it in a loop instead of just asking again (in other words, while group != 'A' or 'B' or 'C', keep prompting reading group),...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jul 22, 2003 at 03:56 PM, in macOS

Maybe nothing. First, find out what your...	6,445 Views / 82 Replies
Maybe nothing. First, find out what your roommate's computer is set to. If the roomie's computer is set to full duplex, then you should try to set yours to full duplex as well. Duplex mismatches...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jul 14, 2003 at 05:21 PM, in macOS

You are under no obligation to put it in any...	866 Views / 13 Replies
You are under no obligation to put it in any particular place, but for convenience's sake, tidyness, and being able to find all of your admin scripts later, it's a good idea to pick on spot and stick...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jul 14, 2003 at 04:00 PM, in macOS

Don't you mean Media Access Control?</pedantic> ...	6,445 Views / 82 Replies
Don't you mean Media Access Control?</pedantic> Noting, of course, that the RFCs where ethernet is defined refer to it in such a manner, or as a 48-bit IEEE 802 address, or as a hardware address... ...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jul 11, 2003 at 03:33 PM, in macOS

Re: UNIX-OS X- longhorn, question for a dummy	2,103 Views / 33 Replies
Operating systems are like shoes - what fits you might not fit me, what works for running track might not work for tap dancing, etc. A UNIX basis for an OS is not a guarantee that it will be...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jul 1, 2003 at 09:23 PM, in macOS

Re: What is Linux can do but OSX can not do?	2,315 Views / 42 Replies
What can OS X do that linux can't? Run Photoshop. No, the Gimp is not the same. It's useful and neat, but it's not the same, and it's not a drop in replacement. Run Quark. Run MS Office. Manage...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jun 13, 2003 at 03:04 PM, in macOS

What are the permissions for your home directory?...	1,363 Views / 9 Replies
What are the permissions for your home directory? If it's world readable, it's world readable. mathias
Posted by rantweasel, on Jun 6, 2003 at 04:43 PM, in macOS

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wont vnc only accept...	888 Views / 15 Replies
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wont vnc only accept a connection on 5901 if it already has a connection on 5900? Try tunnelling remote 5901 to local 5900, temporarily removing another tunnel if need...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jun 6, 2003 at 04:38 PM, in macOS

Are you sure that you're listening on the right...	888 Views / 15 Replies
Are you sure that you're listening on the right port on the other side? Based on what you've written, I think you are forwarding port 5900 on the client to port 5901 on the server, right? ...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jun 4, 2003 at 02:38 PM, in macOS

Re: Can Someone Explain VPN vs. SSH?	12,481 Views / 10 Replies
SSH has nothing to do with telnet. It was designed to be a replacement for RSH (remote shell), although both function similarly to telnet from a user point of view.</pedantic> VPNs are virtual...
Posted by rantweasel, on May 13, 2003 at 06:33 PM, in macOS

While that may be humor that is acceptable in...	2,123 Views / 38 Replies
While that may be humor that is acceptable in Texas, the rest of the world has realized that homophobia, like racism and sexism, is pointless, stupid, and cruel. The world is moving on without that...
Posted by rantweasel, on Apr 29, 2003 at 06:11 PM, in MacNN Lounge

Re: LINUX on VPC ?????	934 Views / 10 Replies
In addition to what has already been said about why run linux when you already have OS X, you'll get much better performance running some form of PPC linux than running linux on VPC, and even better...
Posted by rantweasel, on Mar 13, 2003 at 07:21 PM, in macOS

Apple was one company that didn't, because all of...	912 Views / 10 Replies
Apple was one company that didn't, because all of the old MacOSes, like UNIX & OS X, count the date in seconds since the beginning of 1970. This means that the OS never tracks the year with a 2...
Posted by rantweasel, on Mar 4, 2003 at 08:28 PM, in macOS

Yeah, but that's not what journaling deals with. ...	1,035 Views / 18 Replies
Yeah, but that's not what journaling deals with. Journaling makes it easier for fsck to see the state of the disk when recovering from an unexpected crash/power loss. It tracks the states of open...
Posted by rantweasel, on Feb 27, 2003 at 07:01 PM, in macOS

Re: iChat, Firewal, How ?	881 Views / 11 Replies
That's not Apple's problem. You've told OS X to not let iChat traffic out, and it's doing what you want. What you need is to learn more about what ports you need open (I suspect that you don't need...
Posted by rantweasel, on Feb 14, 2003 at 05:01 PM, in macOS

Re: ssh -X	978 Views / 10 Replies
Make sure that your DISPLAY variable is set before you ssh to the other computer. In the terminal, just "echo $DISPLAY". If it isn't set, set it to either "localhost:0.0" or "<whatever the fully...
Posted by rantweasel, on Feb 6, 2003 at 07:41 PM, in macOS

Re: Why does iMac/OS X drop ethernet connection on power glitch	730 Views / 7 Replies
The Mac isn't doing anything wrong here, I suspect. Your lack of UPS for the Linksys, on the other hand, is probably to blame. I'd suggest that it is losing NAT table state or the like when it...
Posted by rantweasel, on Feb 4, 2003 at 06:59 PM, in macOS

Ports are generally blocked on a directional...	679 Views / 8 Replies
Ports are generally blocked on a directional basis by routers and firewalls, and you have to remember that ports do not necessarily match up on both sides of a connection. Blocking web server...
Posted by rantweasel, on Feb 4, 2003 at 06:53 PM, in macOS

The single biggest non-bug source of security...	638 Views / 5 Replies
The single biggest non-bug source of security problems with computers today is software developers who listen when someone says "That's too inconvenient, I don't want to have to do it that way". The...
Posted by rantweasel, on Feb 4, 2003 at 06:47 PM, in macOS

Re: Trying to setup a server	679 Views / 8 Replies
If your network administrator is blocking your ability to do something for security reasons, then you should listen to them. Do not annoy the network administrator or you will find yourself without...
Posted by rantweasel, on Feb 4, 2003 at 06:18 PM, in macOS

Actually, if I was a superhero, I'd be Captain...	1,922 Views / 25 Replies
Actually, if I was a superhero, I'd be Captain Pedantic... :D
Posted by rantweasel, on Jan 29, 2003 at 07:10 PM, in macOS

Have you looked at the nice Sun compatible...	1,922 Views / 25 Replies
Have you looked at the nice Sun compatible laptops? They make the tiBooks look lame, and they've been available for years. There are some OSF1/Tru64 laptop options out there as well, IIRC. If they...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jan 23, 2003 at 07:26 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: Re: User level access control in X	667 Views / 6 Replies
Netinfo. It runs most of the stuff that you'd find in /etc on most other Unix hosts, such as /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, /etc/services, /etc/protocols, etc. There's a whole mess of Netinfo references...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jan 14, 2003 at 06:32 PM, in macOS

You can even limit it to a single user and...	1,242 Views / 4 Replies
You can even limit it to a single user and command, so that user bob can log in and run shutdown as root, but nothing else. Read the manual page for the exact sytax - it should be something along...
Posted by rantweasel, on Jan 14, 2003 at 06:18 PM, in macOS

Re: Shell scripting question	596 Views / 3 Replies
Set up public key authentication. Read the manual page for ssh-keygen for details.
Posted by rantweasel, on Jan 13, 2003 at 09:42 PM, in macOS

There's a simple way to do this in the terminal -...	554 Views / 3 Replies
There's a simple way to do this in the terminal - du. 1 - Open a terminal window 2 - switch to your home directory cd ~ 3 - run the disk usage command on the contents current directory...
Posted by rantweasel, on Dec 18, 2002 at 07:52 PM, in macOS

Re: Why aren't permissions fixed by cron?	542 Views / 2 Replies
Because it's generally not a problem if you don't break the permissions first. If you spend a lot of time logged in as root, or if you install poorly written software, you might run into this...
Posted by rantweasel, on Dec 17, 2002 at 05:48 PM, in macOS

Re: Booting OSX to the command line	746 Views / 4 Replies
You could try mucking about with the /etc/rc scripts and the SystemStarter stuff in /System/Library, but you might kill your OS. I'd think that if you move everything in /System/Library/StartupItems...
Posted by rantweasel, on Dec 10, 2002 at 05:06 PM, in macOS

Re: software/hardware biometrics package for os x	531 Views / 2 Replies
You're probably best off with a combination of smart card (or other token) and password. Biometrics suck, for the most part. See Google...
Posted by rantweasel, on Dec 9, 2002 at 06:13 PM, in macOS

If you're using SSH, there's an even easier (and...	702 Views / 9 Replies
If you're using SSH, there's an even easier (and more secure, to boot) method. You'll need to make sure that you're using X11 forwarding with ssh - this can be done by editing your ssh_config file...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 27, 2002 at 05:15 PM, in macOS

Re: Can't quit a process, what to do?	759 Views / 5 Replies
What does the ps command return? kill -9 should kill any non-zombie process, but nothing is 100%. Is the process still showing up when you run ps? mathias
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 27, 2002 at 04:59 PM, in macOS

general unix books...	1,138 Views / 13 Replies
Well, if you want a general Unix book, you can't get any better than the Kernighan and Pike "The Unix Programming Environment". It's dated, and it's written for AT&T UNIX rather than a BSD, but it...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 27, 2002 at 04:55 PM, in macOS

Craptacular? Art! Art! Cooler industrial...	1,046 Views / 13 Replies
Craptacular? Art! Art! Cooler industrial design than the iMac, either version! Art, I tell you! :D
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 26, 2002 at 06:13 PM, in macOS

Considered, maybe, but that doesn't make it true....	2,457 Views / 59 Replies
Considered, maybe, but that doesn't make it true. If you can win over the Unix userbase, you've won over network administrators, systems administrators, support types, programmers, etc. This means...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 22, 2002 at 04:34 PM, in macOS

Re: Permissions are going to be a problem for new users	844 Views / 10 Replies
Well, the short answer for you is to read the man pages for chmod, chown, chgrp, group (5), chflags, etc. The long answer is that Apple needs to provide better documentation on this, and add man...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 22, 2002 at 04:17 PM, in macOS

Well, you can always install Solaris x86 or one...	2,457 Views / 59 Replies
Well, you can always install Solaris x86 or one of the BSDs. Net\|Free\|Open are all far better than running a linux on intel - all the power, none of the extraneous crap. Also, ErOS...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 22, 2002 at 04:12 PM, in macOS

Re: help decipher	585 Views / 1 Replies
Well, take a look at this quickee explanation of arp (http://www.ethermanage.com/ethernet/10quickref/ch1qr_13.html). Basically, your computer is trying to figure out what MAC corresponds to that IP...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 13, 2002 at 06:52 PM, in macOS

No, it's really a bad plan. If you look into...	1,648 Views / 15 Replies
No, it's really a bad plan. If you look into most of the commercially available retina scanners and fingerprint readers, they are easily fooled. Usually by simple methods, too, like a silly putty...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 12, 2002 at 07:21 PM, in macOS

Re: Any Good UNIX Books?	731 Views / 5 Replies
Read the SINGLE BEST UNIX BOOK EVER! Kernighan and Pike's The UNIX Programming Environment. It's nearly 20 years old, but the fact that it was written by people who were involved with the...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 12, 2002 at 07:01 PM, in macOS

Dr Fun switched!	670 Views / 3 Replies
Absolutely the best switch parody ever. It's like... funny. See it atiBiblio (http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/index.html), or your favorite Dr Fun mirror.
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 8, 2002 at 12:04 AM, in macOS

Re: Educated advice needed.	686 Views / 4 Replies
Check out everyone's favorite (or favourite, I suppose) canadian BSD. OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) runs on pretty much any Mac that will run OS X, and because it's a BSD it's similar to the...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 7, 2002 at 06:42 PM, in macOS

Just yes. It's trivial, but the Finder doesn't...	570 Views / 3 Replies
Just yes. It's trivial, but the Finder doesn't provide you with the trivial interface. Other methods of accessing the data (ssh, ftp, some Finder add-ons and replacements) do make it trivial. From...
Posted by rantweasel, on Nov 5, 2002 at 08:14 PM, in macOS

Re: another funny Apple commercial spoof	2,031 Views / 28 Replies
Get over it. OS 9 sucked, and now it's dead. Really, what did you do when Apple switched from OS 8 to OS 9? Or 7 to 8? Or 6 to 7?
Posted by rantweasel, on Oct 28, 2002 at 05:55 PM, in macOS

Re: Tweaked my DSL line faster with sysctl?!?!?!?!?	2,090 Views / 10 Replies
It ships sort of half and half - it's not really great for either, but it's okay at both. Once you change the buffer sizes to something more suited to your network connection, you should notice a...
Posted by rantweasel, on Oct 24, 2002 at 04:55 PM, in macOS

Arafat is as much a terrorist as Sharon is a war...	2,482 Views / 55 Replies
Arafat is as much a terrorist as Sharon is a war criminal. Neither of them is more or less responsible or justified in their actions than the other.
Posted by rantweasel, on Oct 18, 2002 at 05:17 PM, in macOS

For 10mbps switches & hubs: The difference...	1,201 Views / 18 Replies
For 10mbps switches & hubs: The difference is that a hub repeats the same information back out each port - all of the ports are sharing the same 10mbps. With a switch, it listens to incoming...
Posted by rantweasel, on Aug 30, 2002 at 04:05 PM, in macOS

just for comparison....	505 Views / 4 Replies
I've been running OS X and UFS on my iBook since last september, and I have yet to run into disk errors or fragmentation (knock on wood). It's at the cost of classic, of course, but I suspect the...
Posted by rantweasel, on Aug 26, 2002 at 05:38 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: Its simple...	3,967 Views / 43 Replies
Well, yes. If you can't be bothered to learn how to set up an alias, then you really shouldn't be using the terminal. You can do a lot of damage via the CLI, and if reading directions or consulting...
Posted by rantweasel, on Aug 15, 2002 at 05:53 PM, in macOS

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