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Hey there, looks like you're a little turned... 1,031 Views / 5 Replies  
Hey there, looks like you're a little turned around... When you use Putty to SSH to your Mac, it is as if you are sitting on your Mac typing on your Mac. So when you scp a file to macmini.dyndns.org...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 23, 2006 at 07:52 PM, in macOS
That sucks, dude. One of my Mac OS X Panther... 547 Views / 1 Replies  
That sucks, dude. One of my Mac OS X Panther server was hacked in 2005... I locked the server down pretty well, but the hackers got in via a stupid SSH bot checking for simple username/password...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Apr 1, 2006 at 07:41 PM, in Developer Center
Yeah, you have that right as long as "user" is a... 836 Views / 3 Replies  
Yeah, you have that right as long as "user" is a legit user on host2.

One thing, though, you don't have to specify "user@host1" for the local machine, just use the path to the file:scp...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Mar 29, 2006 at 08:43 PM, in macOS
sftp and scp are pretty much the same, as they... 836 Views / 3 Replies  
sftp and scp are pretty much the same, as they both go over the SSH protocol. They're both just as secure as SSH, but for some reason sftp is really slow... I'd definitely use scp. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Mar 28, 2006 at 06:17 PM, in macOS
You're alright, man. Check out /etc/system.log... 1,007 Views / 1 Replies  
You're alright, man. Check out /etc/system.log and you'll be able to see the attempts a little more clearly... I get those day in and day out on every public-facing server I manage. Those...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Mar 27, 2006 at 03:32 AM, in macOS
A few less characters... ;) 1,339 Views / 14 Replies  
A few less characters... ;)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Mar 27, 2006 at 03:28 AM, in macOS
Yep, if your current user is an admin, use sudo... 1,339 Views / 14 Replies  
Yep, if your current user is an admin, use sudo passwd root. For the record, and anyone reading this after the fact, users in the "admin" group are allowed to issue commands with root's effective...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Mar 23, 2006 at 03:29 PM, in macOS
I've tried to open those up before and you can... 5,180 Views / 6 Replies  
I've tried to open those up before and you can really tell that they weren't designed for being upgraded/worked on after they leave Lacie's factory... I really think Lacie works to make them hard for...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Mar 4, 2006 at 01:51 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
There exists a system-wide profile, /etc/profile,... 939 Views / 3 Replies  
There exists a system-wide profile, /etc/profile, but yah, you should create your own .profile in your home directory because it will get processed after the system one does. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Feb 26, 2006 at 12:41 PM, in macOS
There are probably a hundred better ways to do... 820 Views / 2 Replies  
There are probably a hundred better ways to do this, but here's the first thing that popped in my head: say your script lived in a file called "tick.sh," you could run it like this to make it truly...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Feb 20, 2006 at 08:49 PM, in macOS
Oh come on, we've all had bad experiences with... 1,122 Views / 6 Replies  
Oh come on, we've all had bad experiences with software, especially Linux. Even iTunes installers erase hard drives sometimes... you don't have to go using anything experimental to get that...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Feb 19, 2006 at 03:56 PM, in macOS
Haha, totally true. I just get such a kick out... 3,938 Views / 6 Replies  
Haha, totally true. I just get such a kick out of the command line. Plus, Apple's GUI tools can only do so much. I've noticed they're limited when it comes to configuring Apache and the Firewall,...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Feb 19, 2006 at 03:53 PM, in macOS
Plus, the serveradmin command was pretty... 3,938 Views / 6 Replies  
Plus, the serveradmin command was pretty unintuitive the few times I tried to use it to control the firewall or afp. It seems like every time I try to use it the syntax varies so much from command...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Feb 17, 2006 at 05:20 PM, in macOS
Funny you mention it, because there is a... 3,938 Views / 6 Replies  
Funny you mention it, because there is a "service" command on Mac OS X. It's a pretty simple command with hardly any documentation, but it works similarly to what you described (though I've never...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Feb 14, 2006 at 02:31 PM, in macOS
Wow, that's really cool. I'm also surprised I... 1,940 Views / 20 Replies  
Wow, that's really cool. I'm also surprised I had never heard of that. Nice find, WJMoore. Too bad it hasn't had more activity lately. :\
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Feb 6, 2006 at 12:28 PM, in macOS
Wow, there you go, sounds like you do need a... 1,940 Views / 20 Replies  
Wow, there you go, sounds like you do need a Linux platform to develop on. Q runs the Damn Small Linux ISO pretty decently, but I'd hate to do any coding/debugging in there... give it a try with...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 30, 2006 at 01:21 PM, in macOS
What about dosemu (http://www.dosemu.org/)? ... 1,940 Views / 20 Replies  
What about dosemu (http://www.dosemu.org/)?

I'm not sure if dosemu works on Mac OS X, I've only used it on x86 Linux.
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 30, 2006 at 01:17 PM, in macOS
Mac OS X and X11 will do most things that you'd... 1,940 Views / 20 Replies  
Mac OS X and X11 will do most things that you'd ever need a Linux box for. I guess if you're a developer or a hacker and you want to test, for example, some of the intricacies of the Linux kernel or...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 29, 2006 at 06:36 PM, in macOS
Wow, great points... thanks for the rundown. 2,676 Views / 14 Replies  
Wow, great points... thanks for the rundown.
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 29, 2006 at 06:05 PM, in macOS
Sold. Thanks. :) 514 Views / 1 Replies  
Sold. Thanks. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 26, 2006 at 06:57 PM, in Marketplace
FS: Original Airport Card 514 Views / 1 Replies  
Selling an original Airport card from my old Pismo. Selling at $80 because I believe that is a fair price (it's not your fault that your computer doesn't support one of those snazzy Extreme cards...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 26, 2006 at 06:26 PM, in Marketplace
Well, I wouldn't do that exactly... just make the... 967 Views / 7 Replies  
Well, I wouldn't do that exactly... just make the "Directory" directive for your music directory, like Mithras said.

Also, if you're restarting "Personal Web Sharing" from System Preferences, you...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 24, 2006 at 01:32 AM, in macOS
That's probably what fink is complaining about. ... 724 Views / 3 Replies  
That's probably what fink is complaining about. Try selecting 4.0 with: sudo gcc_select 4.0
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 23, 2006 at 09:00 PM, in macOS
What does gcc_select tell you?ssku-c-223-202:~... 724 Views / 3 Replies  
What does gcc_select tell you?ssku-c-223-202:~ root# gcc_select
Current default compiler:
gcc version 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061)I'm running Mac OS X 10.4, so it may be...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 23, 2006 at 08:21 PM, in macOS
Ok good. I wouldn't pay too much information to... 876 Views / 6 Replies  
Ok good. I wouldn't pay too much information to permissions repair, just set your /Applications to something like this:[theman@thefro: ~]$ ls -ld /Applications
drwxrwxr-x 106 root admin 3604 Jan...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 13, 2006 at 10:48 AM, in macOS
Is your user an admin? 876 Views / 6 Replies  
Is your user an admin?
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 12, 2006 at 12:20 PM, in macOS
I hadn't seen it either... That's wonderful. :) 896 Views / 9 Replies  
I hadn't seen it either... That's wonderful. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 9, 2006 at 12:36 PM, in MacNN Lounge
For the record, you can do the same thing in... 505 Views / 4 Replies  
For the record, you can do the same thing in Entourage through:

Entourage -> Preferences -> Compose -> Clear List

I'm in Entourage 2004. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 5, 2006 at 06:44 PM, in Applications
At least you're honest; we can't say that much... 1,027 Views / 16 Replies  
At least you're honest; we can't say that much about Walmart executives.
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 5, 2006 at 04:24 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Allow me to demystify "admin" for you. Being an... 843 Views / 4 Replies  
Allow me to demystify "admin" for you. Being an "admin" on a Mac OS X system merely means that your user is a member of the "admin" group. You can see this by opening the Terminal.app located in...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 5, 2006 at 04:07 PM, in macOS
Regardless of the fraudulent poll, Walmart is a... 1,027 Views / 16 Replies  
Regardless of the fraudulent poll, Walmart is a horrible company that makes its money at the expense of taxpayers, inhumane labor practices all over the world, and the ignorance of its shoppers. Not...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 5, 2006 at 03:02 PM, in Political/War Lounge
I just thought I'd chime in... that's freakin'... 2,533 Views / 78 Replies  
I just thought I'd chime in... that's freakin' sick.
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 11:06 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I guess I really meant "if I had more time." I... 899 Views / 15 Replies  
I guess I really meant "if I had more time." I don't even use the GUI tools for my OS X servers (only Workgroup Manager), but it's sure nice having updates come from an automatic source and when...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 10:28 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Client: Yes Server: Usually no Like... 899 Views / 15 Replies  
Client: Yes
Server: Usually no

Like someone said, poor database performance, and poor performance in general. Tom's Hardware (I think) has done some comprehensive tests on this. Interesting...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 06:48 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I have impeccable aim, so I don't think it's a... 7,137 Views / 175 Replies  
I have impeccable aim, so I don't think it's a big deal either. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 06:17 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Then we disagree, that's ok with me. I guess... 1,295 Views / 46 Replies  
Then we disagree, that's ok with me. I guess there's hope in the fact that there is a growing dislike of George W. Bush among people on both sides of the spectrum. :)

Aren't all threads in the...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 05:52 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Hah, Texas would gain majority in the new country... 1,295 Views / 46 Replies  
Hah, Texas would gain majority in the new country and then bomb the other country and invade.
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 04:10 PM, in Political/War Lounge
I think PETA is another issue, but I'll speak to... 1,295 Views / 46 Replies  
I think PETA is another issue, but I'll speak to the Greenpeace bit... I guess they do get pretty radical sometimes. Ripping out entire fields of genetically altered crops in the UK is pretty...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 04:08 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Yep, screw ClearChannel and their ~1200 radio... 1,068 Views / 24 Replies  
Yep, screw ClearChannel and their ~1200 radio stations of mainstream garbage.

I'm down. Corporate America needs to back off.
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 03:48 PM, in Political/War Lounge
I'd much rather see Texas kicked out of the... 1,295 Views / 46 Replies  
I'd much rather see Texas kicked out of the union than NUKED. All seriousness aside...

nuke(Texas);
post_count++;

Treehuggers don't care for violence as a means for problem solving. You...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 01:24 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Look into `last` and `lsof`... tcpdump, as... 903 Views / 2 Replies  
Look into `last` and `lsof`...

tcpdump, as the previous poster commented, is a nice tool, however there are others like it that are more robust. Tools of that nature tune into a packet filtering...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 4, 2006 at 12:59 PM, in Developer Center
OpenOSX repackages open source programs and sells... 3,152 Views / 44 Replies  
OpenOSX repackages open source programs and sells them as their own (they've come under scrutiny for this in the past). And yes, they use Bochs. See here:
http://openosx.com/wintel/
Gotcha. It...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 3, 2006 at 01:56 PM, in Applications
"RDC" (Remote Desktop Connection) is not an... 3,152 Views / 44 Replies  
"RDC" (Remote Desktop Connection) is not an emulator. It is an application that allows you to connect to a machine running Terminal Services (Windows 2000, XP, etc) and allows you to control the...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Jan 3, 2006 at 12:51 PM, in Applications
You could just maximize your Terminal.app... 1,223 Views / 10 Replies  
You could just maximize your Terminal.app window... Or how about enabling SSH (it's called Remote Login in the Sharing preferences pane of System Preferences) and connecting from another machine? ...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 28, 2005 at 11:43 PM, in macOS
Poll: The question should have been "PPC iBook in a... 1,916 Views / 30 Replies  
The question should have been "PPC iBook in a month or Intel iBook in a month"... Hah. Either way, you'll get a new iBook. I'd wait until Macworld and see if the new Intel iBooks are nice, and then...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 21, 2005 at 11:32 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Moved from Mods to GUI Customization, people here... 1,350 Views / 5 Replies  
Moved from Mods to GUI Customization, people here might have more of an idea about this one... :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 16, 2005 at 02:42 PM, in GUI Customization
Well I've never heard of `makewhatis` but I've... 970 Views / 6 Replies  
Well I've never heard of `makewhatis` but I've got one in /usr/libexec/ (Mac OS X 10.4.3). :)

Similar to the $PATH environment variable, used by the shell to search for executable programs, `man`...
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 14, 2005 at 02:51 PM, in macOS
What those guys said. :) 2,102 Views / 25 Replies  
What those guys said. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 14, 2005 at 02:18 PM, in macOS
N-Ball is sick. Traktor Beam is freakin'... 638 Views / 5 Replies  
N-Ball is sick.

Traktor Beam is freakin' sweet.

Virus Out is a really neat idea and well-done.

Some awesome games this year. :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 2, 2005 at 05:44 AM, in Gaming
Poll: Yeah and by then, if Apple's support is waning,... 746 Views / 5 Replies  
Yeah and by then, if Apple's support is waning, one of the BSDs or Linux distributions will run extremely optimally on it anyways... :)
Posted by [APi]TheMan, on Dec 2, 2005 at 04:38 AM, in Mac Desktops
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