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This is possible in Leopard. Plug in the thumb... 707 Views / 7 Replies  
This is possible in Leopard. Plug in the thumb drive. Create a new user and point the system to the thumb drive as the user's home folder. To login on another Mac, make sure it's at the login screen...
Posted by someone_else, on Jun 2, 2008 at 03:21 AM, in macOS
Stone Design is releasing an app on the 29th that... 852 Views / 3 Replies  
Stone Design is releasing an app on the 29th that will allow you apply all kinds of Core Image effects to pictures.

http://www.stone.com/pr/Announcing_iMaginator.html

As for CoreData, I think...
Posted by someone_else, on Apr 22, 2005 at 05:15 PM, in macOS
That's not a kernel panic, so if the machine did... 529 Views / 3 Replies  
That's not a kernel panic, so if the machine did actually lock up, then that's the wrong thing to look at. The panic log file is located in /Library/Logs/panic.log.

The OP's log is a normal...
Posted by someone_else, on Mar 22, 2005 at 02:01 AM, in macOS
Actually, if you read Giampaolo's book Practical... 2,209 Views / 27 Replies  
Actually, if you read Giampaolo's book Practical Filesystem Design (using BeFS), you will find it's the other way around. The search meta-data was moved INTO the filesystem because storing it...
Posted by someone_else, on Jan 17, 2005 at 05:59 PM, in macOS
Re: Are any linux filesystems locally mountable on OS X? 591 Views / 4 Replies  
Ext2 For OS X (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/)

Status is listed as "Production/Stable".

HTH.
Posted by someone_else, on Sep 28, 2004 at 09:52 AM, in macOS
Poll: My login pass is 36.2, while my PGP phrase is... 2,400 Views / 59 Replies  
My login pass is 36.2, while my PGP phrase is 130.6. :D
Posted by someone_else, on Sep 25, 2004 at 11:41 PM, in macOS
Re: are there any application can recover the lost Data? 743 Views / 7 Replies  
If you are talking about recovering a damaged HFS filesystem, then Prosoft's Data Rescue (http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php) is probably your best bet. Only caveat is, it requires a...
Posted by someone_else, on Sep 23, 2004 at 11:57 AM, in macOS
Re: Help me decipher a panic log. 625 Views / 5 Replies  
The backtrace is a trap hanlder to handle machine exceptions, which then calls panic.

0x1eda4 <panic+472>: lwz r0,-32212(r29)
0x91634 <doexception+592>: lwz r0,136(r1)
0x90da0...
Posted by someone_else, on Sep 16, 2004 at 11:09 AM, in macOS
Right, and that is where GNUStep would come in.... 1,385 Views / 21 Replies  
Right, and that is where GNUStep would come in. All of the OS X Cocoa hackers would jump to that and bring it damn close to where Cocoa is now within a short time period. So you take Darwin and...
Posted by someone_else, on Sep 10, 2004 at 06:06 PM, in macOS
Right, but with a 32b app, you could fetch two... 1,176 Views / 16 Replies  
Right, but with a 32b app, you could fetch two address at once, so with 64b ptrs, your throughput is halved (theoretically of course).



Ugh. Maybe not "nasty", but confusing. HyperTransport is...
Posted by someone_else, on Sep 2, 2004 at 04:38 PM, in macOS
All things being equal, a 64b CPU will actually... 1,176 Views / 16 Replies  
All things being equal, a 64b CPU will actually be a little slower than an equiv 32b CPU. 64b is the twice the size of 32b, this means that twice the amount of data has to be passed to/from the CPU...
Posted by someone_else, on Sep 1, 2004 at 10:19 AM, in macOS
Yep. I used to admin HP-UX boxes with 4 cpu's,... 636 Views / 6 Replies  
Yep. I used to admin HP-UX boxes with 4 cpu's, and even their costly management tool (Glance) reports 100% for each processor, so you could see 400% usage. This is normal in the Unix world. Solaris...
Posted by someone_else, on Aug 18, 2004 at 12:15 AM, in macOS
That particular benefit is availabe now.... 1,619 Views / 43 Replies  
That particular benefit is availabe now. Opertations on long long's (64 bit ints) can see a big performance boost in Panther if you enable the G5 only compiler switches. Not really worth it though,...
Posted by someone_else, on Aug 16, 2004 at 04:08 PM, in macOS
No, OS X is very effiient. That 10MB (or more... 1,925 Views / 19 Replies  
No, OS X is very effiient. That 10MB (or more depending on your mem. size) always free is for the kernel, it has nothing to do with "quick access" or "instantly available" pages. Accessing a page...
Posted by someone_else, on Aug 12, 2004 at 11:53 PM, in macOS
Read Graymalkin's post again. He hit the nail on... 1,925 Views / 19 Replies  
Read Graymalkin's post again. He hit the nail on the head. It's called the Inactive list. If a new app is launched, then the pages will be pulled from the Inactive list, but until that time there...
Posted by someone_else, on Aug 12, 2004 at 10:30 PM, in macOS
Wow. That's a pretty asinine statement. Why would... 1,925 Views / 19 Replies  
Wow. That's a pretty asinine statement. Why would you feel ripped off because all of your memory is being put to use? I'd feel ripped off if it wasn't being used. I mean what reason is there to have...
Posted by someone_else, on Aug 12, 2004 at 02:34 PM, in macOS
MenuMeters... 1,121 Views / 12 Replies  
MenuMeters <http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/>, is also an excellent free, open-source utility that will show you how much disk backing store is in use. It sits in your Menu Bar, and...
Posted by someone_else, on Aug 1, 2004 at 02:24 PM, in macOS
A processes VM really means next to nothing.... 1,121 Views / 12 Replies  
A processes VM really means next to nothing. There could be sparse holes in a processes VM map that actually have no backing, plus any shared libs are included in that #. The only # that means...
Posted by someone_else, on Jul 31, 2004 at 05:25 PM, in macOS
Re: System backup before screen replacement 487 Views / 3 Replies  
Backup your home directory and /Library at the least. If as you said, you have Apache stuff, then back that up too. Then burn it all to a DVD. This should be everything you need to restore your...
Posted by someone_else, on Jul 28, 2004 at 03:22 PM, in macOS
SCSI has command queuing, where it can issue... 1,930 Views / 48 Replies  
SCSI has command queuing, where it can issue multiple requests w/o waiting for a response from each one. Therefore, there can be multiple outstanding requests on the SCSI bus. With ATA there can be...
Posted by someone_else, on Jul 28, 2004 at 12:31 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
This sounds like a bug to me. Did you report this... 982 Views / 16 Replies  
This sounds like a bug to me. Did you report this to Apple? [email protected]
Posted by someone_else, on May 10, 2004 at 03:00 PM, in macOS
You can do this simple task for free from the... 5,787 Views / 9 Replies  
You can do this simple task for free from the Terminal.

First, create a new text only file, then paste in the following:


#!/bin/sh

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin

find "$@" -type f -name .DS_Store...
Posted by someone_else, on May 7, 2004 at 03:17 PM, in macOS
In NT, the Admin user is root. That's why there... 5,049 Views / 95 Replies  
In NT, the Admin user is root. That's why there is so much damage too be done by running as Admin. In OS X, Admin != root. So a virus could not replace system files, but it could still delete all...
Posted by someone_else, on Apr 26, 2004 at 03:52 PM, in macOS
I'd say you have some bad RAM. A DAR is a data... 568 Views / 3 Replies  
I'd say you have some bad RAM. A DAR is a data access panic, basically the kernel tried to access a bad address. I don't see any drivers involved in the panic, so it looks the the kernel proper...
Posted by someone_else, on Apr 5, 2004 at 01:06 PM, in macOS
Re: Why must I eject drives? 892 Views / 10 Replies  
Actually, you could never safely remove a disk from Windows either. DOS was usually okay, but from Win 95 and on you were always supposed to "eject" a drive.

The reason an eject is needed,...
Posted by someone_else, on Apr 5, 2004 at 12:57 PM, in macOS
Sounds like osxisfun and zim both need more... 1,689 Views / 35 Replies  
Sounds like osxisfun and zim both need more memory. Your system should never "feel" more responsive after a reboot, because after a clean start nothing is cached in memory. If it does "feel" faster,...
Posted by someone_else, on Mar 13, 2004 at 02:49 PM, in macOS
Well, you originally_said the problem happens... 728 Views / 6 Replies  
Well, you originally_said the problem happens when your monitor wakes up, and then I said:


The hardware I was speaking of was your monitor/graphics card.

HTH.
Posted by someone_else, on Feb 18, 2004 at 05:35 PM, in macOS
This could be bad RAM, but it could also be a... 728 Views / 6 Replies  
This could be bad RAM, but it could also be a bug. The DAR is very close to NULL (0) and any access to NULL will cause a kp.

This could also be some kind of other hardware problem. If you look at...
Posted by someone_else, on Feb 18, 2004 at 02:11 PM, in macOS
The kernel will always try to keep at least 10%... 1,229 Views / 4 Replies  
The kernel will always try to keep at least 10% of memory free for it's own use. If the kernel falis to get memory, then you will have much bigger problems than a slow system (ie a panic). So to...
Posted by someone_else, on Feb 6, 2004 at 01:52 PM, in macOS
This is a known problem with Mail since 10.3.0.... 577 Views / 5 Replies  
This is a known problem with Mail since 10.3.0. There is problem with the junk filter file getting corrupted. A temporary fix is to trash the ~/Library/Mail/LSMMap2 file and then restart Mail. You...
Posted by someone_else, on Feb 6, 2004 at 01:45 PM, in macOS
Ever since Panther, I've been having the Junk... 1,781 Views / 17 Replies  
Ever since Panther, I've been having the Junk mail crash problem, but even before that I was having the problem the thread author stated, where Mail would "hang" downloading messages. The problem was...
Posted by someone_else, on Jan 30, 2004 at 12:56 PM, in macOS
This panic does point to the LaunchBar folks, but... 1,170 Views / 6 Replies  
This panic does point to the LaunchBar folks, but it's not LB. They also make a product called "Little Snitch", which requires a kernel extension. I would guess this is the culprit.

Send your...
Posted by someone_else, on Jan 5, 2004 at 02:41 PM, in macOS
NTFS for Jaguar 767 Views / 1 Replies  
Found this at sourceforge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/

Read only, but it's something...
Posted by someone_else, on Aug 6, 2003 at 07:51 PM, in macOS
Hmmm. This reads like one of Grimm's fairy tales.... 1,294 Views / 13 Replies  
Hmmm. This reads like one of Grimm's fairy tales. You know... the one about something living under a bridge.
Posted by someone_else, on Jun 23, 2003 at 07:16 PM, in macOS
Re: Formatting and Block Allocation Sizes 735 Views / 8 Replies  
Don't do this unless you have a very good reason to. The best alloc. size is 4K because that matches the VM system page size of 4K. Since these match, disk txfr's are optimized. By lowering the block...
Posted by someone_else, on Jun 6, 2003 at 06:36 PM, in macOS
Re: Kernel Panic...Reboot...Lockup...Help!! 670 Views / 8 Replies  
Boot into su again and make sure the disk is clean.

/sbin/fsck -y

Repeat until it says no problems found.

Reboot.

Run the permissions checker again.
Posted by someone_else, on Jun 4, 2003 at 06:51 PM, in macOS
I forgot to mention that, and it is something to... 2,474 Views / 38 Replies  
I forgot to mention that, and it is something to try. You may have a bad CPU.

From Terminal:

sudo nvram boot-args="cpus=1"

Then reboot.

About This Mac should note the change.
Posted by someone_else, on May 31, 2003 at 09:26 AM, in macOS
Go with your instinct here. OS X is VERY stable... 2,474 Views / 38 Replies  
Go with your instinct here. OS X is VERY stable even on MP machines. Kernel panics are due to one of two things. Bad hardware, or a crappy kernel driver. If you've elimanted all third party drivers,...
Posted by someone_else, on May 30, 2003 at 11:15 PM, in macOS
1920x1200. I love my C. HD. (Just wish I would've... 1,992 Views / 66 Replies  
1920x1200. I love my C. HD. (Just wish I would've waited a year to buy it; would've saved $2K...)
Posted by someone_else, on May 30, 2003 at 09:02 PM, in macOS
I don't get this. Why start from scratch when you... 2,538 Views / 61 Replies  
I don't get this. Why start from scratch when you can help an existing project that is free. I'm talking about Fire. It is probably the best IM client out there, and all of the source is free. If you...
Posted by someone_else, on May 28, 2003 at 08:11 PM, in Applications
Re: iTunes 4.01: LAN only sharing wtf !? 614 Views / 1 Replies  
Don't upgrade. There are more of us than record companies, and if no end users adopt the 4.0.1 upgrade then maybe Apple will get OUR message.

I still have iTunes 4.0 installer archived, and I'm...
Posted by someone_else, on May 27, 2003 at 09:25 PM, in macOS
"Tranlations Faults" is just the number of times... 675 Views / 2 Replies  
"Tranlations Faults" is just the number of times the vm_fault() routine has been called.

From the kernel code:

* Routine: vm_fault
* Purpose:
* Handle page faults, including...
Posted by someone_else, on May 25, 2003 at 09:46 AM, in macOS
Don't forget that the pagein/pageout numbers... 1,379 Views / 35 Replies  
Don't forget that the pagein/pageout numbers include memory mapped files. So some (and probably most with 512MB) of those pageout's are not due to VM swapping. Memory mapping is a common occurence in...
Posted by someone_else, on May 23, 2003 at 10:55 PM, in macOS
That's true for userland. It is very close to... 2,339 Views / 41 Replies  
That's true for userland. It is very close to FreeBSD 3.x/4.x. However the kernel BSD is closer to NetBSD than FreeBSD. Although with every rev. they are using more and more FreeBSD based code.
Posted by someone_else, on May 19, 2003 at 08:55 PM, in macOS
They can call it a "personality" and be... 2,339 Views / 41 Replies  
They can call it a "personality" and be technically correct since the BSD portion won't work w/o the Mach portion; of course Mach by itself is useless too (you couldn't run any applications w/o the...
Posted by someone_else, on May 17, 2003 at 11:33 PM, in macOS
This is wrong. The Darwin kernel is made up of... 2,339 Views / 41 Replies  
This is wrong. The Darwin kernel is made up of the Mach kernel and a BSD based kernel that sits "on top" of Mach. The BSD/Mach portions share the same address space (ie kernel space) and are included...
Posted by someone_else, on May 17, 2003 at 08:38 PM, in macOS
In Windows, right click on the N in the sys tray... 2,289 Views / 21 Replies  
In Windows, right click on the N in the sys tray and select "Connections" this will show you a list of active connections and what protocol they are using. Look for a server with the TCP protocol and...
Posted by someone_else, on May 5, 2003 at 06:26 PM, in macOS
NFA is okay, but there are still problems with... 2,289 Views / 21 Replies  
NFA is okay, but there are still problems with it.

1) There is currently a huge security hole that leaks info on the network. Supposedly this is being worked on for the next release.

2) There...
Posted by someone_else, on May 3, 2003 at 05:30 PM, in macOS
Anyone know of a way to have iTunes 4 update the... 1,158 Views / 13 Replies  
Anyone know of a way to have iTunes 4 update the cover art of ALL songs in an album when you drag & drop artwork onto one song?

Looked in the prefs and couldn't find anything. Having to select all...
Posted by someone_else, on May 2, 2003 at 07:52 PM, in Applications
The Mac OS X client is IP only, the OS 9 client... 2,289 Views / 21 Replies  
The Mac OS X client is IP only, the OS 9 client is IPX only. Two totally different network protocols.

Couple of things.
1. All of your servers (including the replica that holds your user info)...
Posted by someone_else, on May 2, 2003 at 07:47 PM, in macOS
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