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Now I'll be patronizing: Have you tried...	3,965 Views / 43 Replies
Now I'll be patronizing: Have you tried editing the /etc/hostconfig file and changing the flag after "SSHSERVER" ? Because that tends to turn the SSH server on or off (after a reboot) from the...
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 20, 2002 at 09:43 PM, in macOS

Yeah, I was hoping to be able to avoid running a...	1,345 Views / 6 Replies
Yeah, I was hoping to be able to avoid running a mail server daemon. But if that's the way it must be, I'll live. I do wonder if maybe the ability is still there, but the GUI pref is gone. I'll...
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 16, 2002 at 02:48 PM, in macOS

Nope	1,345 Views / 6 Replies
A symbolic link from the INBOX.mbox/mbox file of a dummy account to my UNIX inbox (var/mail/zpincus) doesn't really work. I mad the link, and then when I clicked on the the mailbox in question...
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 16, 2002 at 02:06 PM, in macOS

I'll look into that, or maybe moving the mail...	1,345 Views / 6 Replies
I'll look into that, or maybe moving the mail delivery folder to my main inbox... But this seems like a real step back. In 10.1, you could just select the "UNIX Mailbox" option and it would work....
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 16, 2002 at 01:20 PM, in macOS

Can't check local UNIX mail in Jag Mail.app?	1,345 Views / 6 Replies
In mail from 10.1 and below, I recall an option to have mail read in from the local UNIX mailboxes (in /var/mail). This was useful when you had mail sent directly to your computer via sendmail. I...
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 16, 2002 at 06:01 AM, in macOS

Thank you. Some people just don't get the picture...	1,683 Views / 21 Replies
Thank you. Some people just don't get the picture until you show them a picture. That animation is quite good, by the way.
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 15, 2002 at 06:53 PM, in macOS

Unless this is new with 10.2, you in fact...	731 Views / 8 Replies
Unless this is new with 10.2, you in fact cannot open apps as other users with the "open" program in the command line. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get this working, and did a lot of...
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47 PM, in macOS

I get this too. I think it has to do with...	883 Views / 6 Replies
I get this too. I think it has to do with when you have moving elements on a transparent window that has a drop shadow. I found this out because I have used the "transparent dock" program to...
Posted by zpincus, on Aug 6, 2002 at 03:10 PM, in macOS

Woah - The Apple home page no longer lists...	1,752 Views / 106 Replies
Woah - The Apple home page no longer lists "MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Support" on the feature list for QT6! Now that line in the graphic has been replaced by "Flash 5 Support" -- this is very strange. ...
Posted by zpincus, on Jul 15, 2002 at 08:18 PM, in macOS

Thanks for the help... It's not the dreaded...	546 Views / 7 Replies
Thanks for the help... It's not the dreaded "print center quit" problem (just the "greyed add button") so I'm not sure the repair util will help, but I'll try that. I'm not sure what lookmark...
Posted by zpincus, on Jul 9, 2002 at 04:17 PM, in macOS

Strange Print Center problem -- never heard of this before!	546 Views / 7 Replies
I've never seen mention of this particular print center problem. Can anyone help? The setup: My sister has a 600 (700?) iBook with a combo drive and a USB Lexmark Z22 printer (the kind that came...
Posted by zpincus, on Jul 9, 2002 at 01:55 PM, in macOS

I'm sorry, for free solutions, you still need...	537 Views / 4 Replies
I'm sorry, for free solutions, you still need classic. RasMol and SwissPDB (http://www.expasy.ch/spdbv/) still work great under classic. I don't know when or if anyone will port them. ...
Posted by zpincus, on Jun 5, 2002 at 07:30 PM, in macOS

Lost in all this grammar nonsense is the fact...	586 Views / 34 Replies
Lost in all this grammar nonsense is the fact that if Apple is calling it "Jaguar" that might mean EVEN THEY don't know whether it will wind up being 10.2 or 10.5? Notice how catty the text has...
Posted by zpincus, on Apr 17, 2002 at 12:46 AM, in macOS

If all you really need to do is have an item or...	460 Views / 2 Replies
If all you really need to do is have an item or script execute at logout (as opposed to shutdown per se) check out: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOve...
Posted by zpincus, on Apr 13, 2002 at 12:41 AM, in macOS

How to save quicktime movies that don't want to be saved:	690 Views / 15 Replies
There are a few threads about saving trailers, etc. The most general method of saving quicktime movies without QT Pro and without digging through temp files is to find the URL of the movie in the...
Posted by zpincus, on Apr 2, 2002 at 08:47 PM, in macOS

Here is someone's advice about turning off menu...	755 Views / 23 Replies
Here is someone's advice about turning off menu blinking. I cannot for the life of me remember where I found this information! I just have a text file called "No OS X Menu Flash" on my desktop,...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 19, 2002 at 02:30 AM, in macOS

Very nice. I had tried and failed by several...	633 Views / 12 Replies
Very nice. I had tried and failed by several other methods. Launching the window server, then trying to launch other apps from a remote SSH session doesn't work... I'm glad to see that not only...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 13, 2002 at 05:53 AM, in macOS

I have been battling this problem for a while. ...	598 Views / 10 Replies
I have been battling this problem for a while. Here is the issue as I see it: If you copy a bundle (eg. .app, .PrefPane) from a disk image to anywhere else, and then select "show contents" on...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 11, 2002 at 09:17 PM, in macOS

Look into SharePoints...	403 Views / 6 Replies
Look into SharePoints (http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=12512&db=mac), which is a Pref Pane that allows you to create and manipulate the appleshare shares just like in OS 9. Here...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 7, 2002 at 07:49 PM, in macOS

Yes you can launch apps as the root user. No, you...	1,976 Views / 142 Replies
Yes you can launch apps as the root user. No, you cannot launch them as ANY OTHER user using this or any other method. The latter case would be more generically valuable. OS X simply will not allow...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 5, 2002 at 12:56 AM, in macOS

You arse. Reinstalling is NO LONGER easy. Apple...	573 Views / 17 Replies
You arse. Reinstalling is NO LONGER easy. Apple now suggests that to reinstall you have to erase the hard drive, install 10.0, install 10.1, install the security update, install the updater update,...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 3, 2002 at 05:14 PM, in macOS

Like I said, a firewall won't help you that much...	565 Views / 40 Replies
Like I said, a firewall won't help you that much against the hacker. Most often, crackers get access to your system through vulnerabilities in specific programs you are running. Say you have an...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 3, 2002 at 05:38 AM, in macOS

I in general find firewalls to be real overkill...	565 Views / 40 Replies
I in general find firewalls to be real overkill for personal use, and to not really provide much protection. OS X ships in a pretty buttoned-up state. Putting a firewall around a lot of closed...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 2, 2002 at 11:25 PM, in macOS

Regarding "switch users" and "virtual consoles" ...	1,976 Views / 142 Replies
Regarding "switch users" and "virtual consoles" These two features are really different sides of the same coin. Virtual consoles as an underlying implementation would allow for user-switching. ...
Posted by zpincus, on Mar 1, 2002 at 03:22 AM, in macOS

The installer probably changed the owner of...	622 Views / 5 Replies
The installer probably changed the owner of certain items in the folder. If some items (like the invisible file .DS_Store) are no longer writable by your user, then views don't get saved. Could...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 28, 2002 at 09:00 PM, in macOS

The best way to restart it is to log out and then...	1,572 Views / 12 Replies
The best way to restart it is to log out and then back in -- an application needs to be designed to handle a HUP gracefully, and I'm not sure that windowserver is. That said, "kill -HUP <pid#>"...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 27, 2002 at 06:13 PM, in macOS

Three cheers for CharlesS! thanks so much...	883 Views / 43 Replies
Three cheers for CharlesS! thanks so much for all the time you've put into this. For those of us who like o do things the hard way, or just like to know more about the guts of OS X,...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 24, 2002 at 03:56 PM, in macOS

A Better Way!!! Just add the aliases to the...	1,007 Views / 5 Replies
A Better Way!!! Just add the aliases to the NetInfo database using NetInfoManager (or niutil for CLI poobahs). There is a "directory"called /aliases in the NetInfo database that stores mail...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 23, 2002 at 05:32 PM, in macOS

cmd-drag to scroll inactive windows only works...	506 Views / 12 Replies
cmd-drag to scroll inactive windows only works for cocoa apps for me! Does the scroll wheel work for all kinds of apps? I can't scroll backgrounded explorer or finder windows with a command-drag,...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 23, 2002 at 02:54 PM, in macOS

Thanks Camelot! I saw that line in the...	1,007 Views / 5 Replies
Thanks Camelot! I saw that line in the sendmail.cf file, but I was a bit afraid to muck with it manually. Glad to know this can be done. Thanks for your time. Zach
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 21, 2002 at 05:04 PM, in macOS

Sendmail -- Can't make aliases work!	1,007 Views / 5 Replies
How do you make aliases work for sendmail? I have an aliases file in /etc/mail/aliases that looks correct. It contains only the line: webmaster: zpincus The permissions for sendmail to run...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 21, 2002 at 02:20 PM, in macOS

yeah, but that looked sucktastic. it didn't fix...	645 Views / 12 Replies
yeah, but that looked sucktastic. it didn't fix any of the problems with the preview except that you no longer saw it your icons still flew away from the mouse.
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 16, 2002 at 04:02 AM, in macOS

I have this problem too... But I have a...	805 Views / 28 Replies
I have this problem too... But I have a Beige G3! Approx. every eleven days, when I wake the mac up in the morning, the screen comes on, but it only displays a gray screen. The machine is...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 09:56 PM, in macOS

So here's what I desperately want: Make the...	645 Views / 12 Replies
So here's what I desperately want: Make the "preview" a drawer or something that hangs off the edge of a finder window (like the mailboxes in Mail). Then ANY finder view (not just column) can have...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 09:41 PM, in macOS

Have you replaced any icons? I got a lot of...	571 Views / 6 Replies
Have you replaced any icons? I got a lot of those errors after I edited some system files to make the toolbar icons less ugly. The logs won't fill up to fast. If your computer is on at night,...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 09:35 PM, in macOS

I have a free web ADC membership (enough to DL...	654 Views / 14 Replies
I have a free web ADC membership (enough to DL the dev tools, no more.) Can I get to RadarWeb through that? OR do I need something less free to do that? Zach
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 09:33 PM, in macOS

That's what I figured.. it was just that in the...	654 Views / 14 Replies
That's what I figured.. it was just that in the last week at least, there had been an average of probably 10 per day... then four days with absolute zilch made me wonder. False alarm.
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 05:08 AM, in macOS

Here's what I mean: ...	723 Views / 7 Replies
Here's what I mean: http://www.stanford.edu/~zpincus/OSXerrors/ScreenJunk.jpg You can see that the little square seems to have come from the proteus window. It appears to have something to...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 04:17 AM, in macOS

Darwin Bugtracker not updated -- Does this mean anything?	654 Views / 14 Replies
I follow the bugs filed against Darwin and the developer responses to those bugs at www.opensource.apple.com/bugs (http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs) -- this is a nice way to get inside info about...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 03:46 AM, in macOS

Strange Aqua error -- Little squares of garbage appear on my screen	723 Views / 7 Replies
OK, does anyone else see this wierd error: Every once in a while (3x per day or so), when I switch apps, a little (~1 cm^2) box appears on my screen somewhere. It appears to have a little bit of...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 12:08 AM, in macOS

Really? What were moki's explanation for not...	730 Views / 19 Replies
Really? What were moki's explanation for not needing to defrag X? I don't really buy that. But that still doesn't invalidate the fact that prebinding isn't reset by defragging. This I know on my...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 12:03 AM, in macOS

This happens to me all the time. I hate it, but I...	553 Views / 23 Replies
This happens to me all the time. I hate it, but I thought it had to do with the Kensington drivers I'm using. I guess it's a bigger problem. It seems to happen most when the system is loaded (as...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 15, 2002 at 12:00 AM, in macOS

I thought that in a thread a while ago, moki made...	730 Views / 19 Replies
I thought that in a thread a while ago, moki made it clear that disk-defragmentation (on a sub-file level) had nothing to do with prebinding (which operates on the file level). That is, prebiding...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 14, 2002 at 01:41 PM, in macOS

Oh... I thought that had been settled a while...	594 Views / 25 Replies
Oh... I thought that had been settled a while back in this thread. The "Finder" dock icon is a completely different beast than any other dock icons -- you can't move it, or drag it off the dock... it...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 14, 2002 at 04:17 AM, in macOS

Milinneium, this is the supidest debate ever....	1,550 Views / 52 Replies
Milinneium, this is the supidest debate ever. Talk about your tempest in a teapot. Ad homs and all over whether a directory that nobody even has write privilidges to (by default) should be hidden or...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 14, 2002 at 02:58 AM, in macOS

From Page 100 of Apple's System Overview PDF...	594 Views / 25 Replies
From Page 100 of Apple's System Overview PDF (included with Dev Tools documentation, available online too.) And there was much rejoycing. I have no idea what this does to the finder icon. ...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 14, 2002 at 12:10 AM, in macOS

*Let's clear up a few things here. MPEG-4 is not...*	794 Views / 33 Replies
Let's clear up a few things here. MPEG-4 is not about high-quality video/audio. Sorenson has that covered pretty well. MPEG-4 is a reasonably good quality, very low-bitrate standard that will allow...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 13, 2002 at 11:56 PM, in macOS

No no no, wrong. Most of Apple's customer...	630 Views / 12 Replies
No no no, wrong. Most of Apple's customer base probably still uses modems. And the settings that OS X ships with are a robust comprimise between being good for modem users and not blowing goats...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 13, 2002 at 11:43 PM, in macOS

Yeah... it was a stupid way to lose a lot of...	668 Views / 29 Replies
Yeah... it was a stupid way to lose a lot of files. You just sort of get used to clicking "ok" on dialog boxes that pop up when you try to eject a disk ("The disk [name] has items in use.", etc.) I...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 11, 2002 at 06:13 AM, in macOS

Not quite. You can right-click on any file/folder...	668 Views / 29 Replies
Not quite. You can right-click on any file/folder in any column and that right-click is in fact noticed as a click -- the selection moves to the file/folder clicked (this is how the rest of the views...
Posted by zpincus, on Feb 10, 2002 at 08:55 PM, in macOS

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