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Typical. See Below [B] Heh, and they... 2,202 Views / 36 Replies  
Typical. See Below

[B]

Heh, and they still live like that when working as H1-Bs. On another not so funny note, did you notice the MSNBC article, recently re-referenced on /. about an owner of...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 21, 2004 at 12:54 PM, in Developer Center
Actually, its not that OSX is a bad gaming... 3,225 Views / 70 Replies  
Actually, its not that OSX is a bad gaming platform its just that so few good games get ported to OSX that it makes little difference.

e.g. my favorite multiplayer FPS is halflife (TFC/DoD) but it...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jul 25, 2003 at 12:03 PM, in Gaming
... actually: grep <options> pattern file ... 761 Views / 9 Replies  
... actually:
grep <options> pattern file
would be more accurate.

in any event you may also be interested in the r switch, which will recursively traverse directories:

grep -ri finder *
...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jul 25, 2003 at 11:41 AM, in macOS
you should also consider applying a little elbow... 783 Views / 5 Replies  
you should also consider applying a little elbow grease of your own by googling for the shell that you're interested in. Basically, ANY UNIX documentation will apply, be it from UNIX, *BSD, SOlaris,...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jul 25, 2003 at 11:33 AM, in macOS
...you SHOULD also be able to escape the... 2,594 Views / 4 Replies  
...you SHOULD also be able to escape the interpreted character by adding a backslash, \, in front of them:
curl http://\{site,host\}.host\[1-5\].com -o "#1_#2"

ls Temporary\ Folder

etc.
...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jul 25, 2003 at 11:25 AM, in macOS
you might want to man du and sort identify... 639 Views / 6 Replies  
you might want to man du and sort

identify the large users that can safely have files removed from the respective directories and or the entire directory structure itself.

If it is a common...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jul 11, 2003 at 06:48 PM, in macOS
...er... why not just install a native linux on a... 929 Views / 10 Replies  
...er... why not just install a native linux on a spare partition, 2-3G should do for a nice install... of course there is also the problem of needing a second partition for virtual memory, most...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Mar 22, 2003 at 03:45 AM, in macOS
Re: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 822 Views / 6 Replies  
at a guess I would say YDL3 will be available on the ftp server when they ship the boxed version in mid April.

Yes, it does use yaboot requiring a MacOS (Classic type, <X). I am sure that you...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Mar 22, 2003 at 03:11 AM, in macOS
alternatives: 1- Thoth, great for binaries,... 3,694 Views / 16 Replies  
alternatives:
1- Thoth, great for binaries, crap for text, the interface is a prime example of how NOT to implement one on a mac, crashes fairly frequently

2 - Netscape, sort of outlook...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Mar 5, 2003 at 07:54 PM, in Applications
I've got an ibook 2001/500 that I installed linux... 758 Views / 10 Replies  
I've got an ibook 2001/500 that I installed linux on because OSX was just too dog slow on it, whereas it was usable on the same speed Pismo.

In any event you should be able to get PPC linux...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Feb 23, 2003 at 05:51 PM, in Gaming
Re: Counter Strike on Macs 3,297 Views / 36 Replies  
the most consistent versiont hat I have heard was:

a) Halflife mac was ready to go golden master

b) the idiots couldn't get the multiplayer version to talk to the winblows version

c) Sierra...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Feb 23, 2003 at 05:39 PM, in Gaming
Re: Mac OS 11 2,880 Views / 40 Replies  
uh, exactly how would using the same POS processor architecture encourage people to switch?!

Hell, the ONLY reason I bought more macs(after 10 years of x86 hell) was because they did NOT use the...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Feb 13, 2003 at 11:41 PM, in macOS
...sniff... no resedit... 1,368 Views / 26 Replies  
...sniff... no resedit...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Feb 7, 2003 at 06:49 PM, in macOS
Re: YDL 2.3 on 2002 Opaque iBook (700mhz) 663 Views / 5 Replies  
er... did you download the IIRC December dated YDL2.3 ISO?

if not, and hopefully you have a cd-rw, download it, burn a cd(you'll need toast, or nero, or cdr-tools on some other unix box, etc.)
...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jan 30, 2003 at 02:43 PM, in macOS
Re: Throne of Bhaal and Heart of Winter KIA 770 Views / 11 Replies  
free clue: it probably would help your sales ALOT if the ports actually came out within a resonable time frame of the windoze version, eg. 1 mo, and w/o the 10-15$ mac surcharge, and half the...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jan 9, 2003 at 01:51 AM, in Gaming
Re: No friggin toolset for NWN 1,136 Views / 30 Replies  
yep, NWN w/o the toolset is sort of like a car on cinder blocks, no wheels, and no engine to boot.

scratch yet another purchase. Off to buy the windoze version we go.
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jan 9, 2003 at 01:40 AM, in Gaming
ad blocking 15,381 Views / 248 Replies  
Try:
www.privoxy.org IIRC

...and I'd hazard a possible Apple standard system addition at this rate.

BTW: safari speed is ok, on simple sites. Possibly matching chimera, but cerrtainly NOT...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Jan 8, 2003 at 10:36 PM, in macOS
yeah, have to say Chimera is the best, but there... 1,151 Views / 10 Replies  
yeah, have to say Chimera is the best, but there seems to be a wee bit of a problem with some flash content, but no big loss as flash usually sucks anyways. Last couple of nightly builds have been...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 12, 2002 at 11:06 PM, in Applications
there *USED* to be a program called RealVCR or... 686 Views / 2 Replies  
there *USED* to be a program called RealVCR or something like that, but IIRC, Real killed.

IIRC it was a Windoze program, but MAY have had a Linux/source release and MAY still be floating around...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 12, 2002 at 10:59 PM, in Applications
oh well. To me at least, that means its really... 1,347 Views / 22 Replies  
oh well. To me at least, that means its really going to be slow & incompatible compared to almost every other mac browser out there... sigh...

...at least Chimera isn't half bad...

(It's...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 12, 2002 at 10:47 PM, in Applications
Poll: Same with me & I actually registered my copy of... 1,667 Views / 24 Replies  
Same with me & I actually registered my copy of OW! Several years ago to boot!

Anyways, my other main complaint with OW is that they keep hacking OW4 to sort of work with some page that someone...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 8, 2002 at 09:30 PM, in Applications
omniweb redux 1,347 Views / 22 Replies  
So, I read the now closed Omniweb thread, and realized that I haven't bothered with it in something like 7 or 8 mos. now.
So, I decided to grab 4.1.1, as I never bothered to before since I wasn;t...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 8, 2002 at 09:12 PM, in Applications
...and mine looks like this when idle: 443... 1,050 Views / 13 Replies  
...and mine looks like this when idle:
443 Navigator 0.0% 1:00.85 6 95 367 16.1M 27.1M 33.5M 92.8M

It could be something related to a plugin or an fscked webpage.

BTW: I'm...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 8, 2002 at 08:53 PM, in Applications
Re: Re: update: Apple Carbon Sound Manager. 1,888 Views / 29 Replies  
Its alot easier for the lazy update packager to force us to reboot than killall -HUP <soundmanager>, or kextunload <soundmodule> kextload <newesoundmodule>. In theory the only thing that we should...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 7, 2002 at 12:46 AM, in macOS
sorry to resurrect this, but: I've gotten my... 1,491 Views / 15 Replies  
sorry to resurrect this, but:
I've gotten my original IIcx back up and running. It originally had 1M RAM & 170M external SCSI drive(noisy!) & FDHD & a RasterOps true color video board, woohoo...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 5, 2002 at 03:18 PM, in Mac Desktops
Poll: Re: Where's the command line? 960 Views / 14 Replies  
ditto
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 1, 2002 at 04:13 PM, in Applications
You ARE a glutton for punishment. I EVEN found... 3,026 Views / 64 Replies  
You ARE a glutton for punishment. I EVEN found OSX WAY WAY WAY too slow on an ibook2/500 & so dumped it in favor of linux & mol. (Not a recomended solution for everyone as, inevitably, some...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Dec 1, 2002 at 04:00 PM, in macOS
Re: Learning C++ and CORBA on MacOSX 658 Views / 2 Replies  
well, you'd be better off on the strictly *NIX/X side where there is:
ORBit

The GNOME project makes use of it in various ways, as does KDE, I believe. So source from those projects would...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 26, 2002 at 08:41 PM, in Developer Center
VS is not that bad. As a matter of fact, I think... 1,926 Views / 47 Replies  
VS is not that bad. As a matter of fact, I think it is the best IDE available on windoze.

I never cared much for extensive use of pregenerated code. MS code is pretty kludgey to begin with, and...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 26, 2002 at 08:29 PM, in Developer Center
...well I've just performed an install of YDL2.3... 775 Views / 5 Replies  
...well I've just performed an install of YDL2.3 on my iBook (ice.)

(I got sick of slow as a long dead dog OSX on it.)

I had previously had a SuSE PPC distro installed on it, but it had many...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 22, 2002 at 02:15 PM, in macOS
Re: hmm not threads its file descriptors! 682 Views / 5 Replies  
erm... try a:
man sysctl
in a terminal window.

also try issuing a sysctl -a, as not all MIBs are documented.

...now you can use sysctl to "tune" (modify) a good deal of these parameters. I...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 13, 2002 at 08:57 PM, in Developer Center
ircle: nice try, color support sucks if you're on... 909 Views / 19 Replies  
ircle: nice try, color support sucks if you're on channels where most people use color...

snak: approximately equal to ircle, with MUCH better color support than ircle's.

athena: gack

fire:...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 12, 2002 at 07:31 PM, in macOS
...it's also documented on the fink page & MANY... 710 Views / 9 Replies  
...it's also documented on the fink page & MANY MANY times in the mailing lists.

better go read up on fink + Jaguar... as I suspect that you're also going to have other problems since you missed...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 12, 2002 at 11:59 AM, in macOS
This is only because the vast majority of... 2,327 Views / 51 Replies  
This is only because the vast majority of developers are too lazy to modify their apps to take advantage of carbon & OSX. Most carbon apps seem to be of the hack it until it runs under OSX variety....
Posted by cutterjohn, on Nov 9, 2002 at 11:53 AM, in Applications
Re: I thought this battery bug was squashed 1,239 Views / 22 Replies  
yes, I still get that annoying bug occasionally on both a Pismo & a dual USB iBook.

Do any of you get the Calculating... display when recharging & the battery is at 100% charge? (I show time left...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 31, 2002 at 02:08 AM, in macOS
...and don't forget sitescooper: ... 913 Views / 6 Replies  
...and don't forget sitescooper:
www.sitescooper.org

Works with virtually any web site, up to 3 levels of links retrievable IIRC.

comes with a bunch of pre-configured sites, but you have to...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 22, 2002 at 12:58 PM, in Applications
Re: OmniWeb or Chimera? 2,109 Views / 44 Replies  
technical BS aside:

Chimera:
looks to render just as nicely as OW

actually renders c. 99.99999% of web sites

fast

better CSS/javascript support
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 22, 2002 at 12:43 PM, in Applications
my sentiments exactly. WTF did Apple do in... 2,854 Views / 41 Replies  
my sentiments exactly.

WTF did Apple do in implementing journalling such that it takes such a performance hit?!

My guess is that since it is NOT a new file system but something tht sits on top...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 17, 2002 at 09:44 PM, in macOS
just FYI, I'm actually on a hybrid network... 1,139 Views / 25 Replies  
just FYI, I'm actually on a hybrid network 100BaseT + 802.11b (Linksys WAP11 for now).

The notebooks connect via 802.11b.

Speeds: I usually peak c. 250-300K/s then typically stall down to c....
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 7, 2002 at 04:15 PM, in macOS
Re: OSX networking still messed up 1,139 Views / 25 Replies  
I see the very same problem in a similar setup, although 802.11b is mixed in as well.

Additionally to the copy lag, I have noticed:

a) the mac seems to start copying WITHOUT bringing up the...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 5, 2002 at 12:00 PM, in macOS
Jordan Hubbard et. al. have a ports system... 1,425 Views / 20 Replies  
Jordan Hubbard et. al. have a ports system partially going for MacOSX/Darwin, written in Tcl/Tk. (Meant to be similar/identical to the FreeBSD ports system.)

Sorry I don't have the url handy, but...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 5, 2002 at 11:21 AM, in macOS
dude don't let the omni apologists catch you... 2,293 Views / 47 Replies  
dude don't let the omni apologists catch you saying that. they'll whine & pester you death, even if it is true. (Of course according to the semi hype, OW5 will cure all of this when it appears...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 1, 2002 at 05:28 AM, in macOS
only the Sony's with the internal MP3 decoder... 1,736 Views / 25 Replies  
only the Sony's with the internal MP3 decoder will not synch.

The other models SHOULD be recognized by the generic Palm desktop sw.

I believe that the problem with the MP3 decoder Sony's is...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 1, 2002 at 05:17 AM, in macOS
Re: So what is left for OSX? 4,274 Views / 105 Replies  
hmmm... what's left?

well at a bare minimum I would say that there needs to be something done about the filesystem to actually support case plus journalling or soft updates. Also, since Apple...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 1, 2002 at 01:08 AM, in macOS
Re: Re: trashed quake3 1,275 Views / 11 Replies  
ahhh... decided to snip everything...

also found out medics are quite useless as they are not really much faster than anyone other than HWs & Soldiers (Commados).

Pyros are also annoying...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Oct 1, 2002 at 12:29 AM, in Gaming
doh two posts in a row, but I think that this... 876 Views / 16 Replies  
doh two posts in a row, but I think that this needs to go out by itself:

While browsing through the Pismo G4 upgrade, I did come across one report where a heat sink not making proper contact with...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Sep 28, 2002 at 09:31 AM, in Mac Notebooks
So I guess that you've already discussed the... 876 Views / 16 Replies  
So I guess that you've already discussed the problem with the upgrade mfg's tech staff then eh?

In any event, yes, after having the battery of the Pismo out for a month then removing the...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Sep 28, 2002 at 09:20 AM, in Mac Notebooks
oic. in that case, I'd go look at the articles &... 876 Views / 16 Replies  
oic. in that case, I'd go look at the articles & upgrade db on xlr8yourmac & also contact the manufacturer of your upgrade. You could have gotten a faulty G4 or your cache can't handle whatever...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Sep 27, 2002 at 11:20 AM, in Mac Notebooks
that may be in your case but on G3/500 (2... 1,054 Views / 19 Replies  
that may be in your case but on G3/500 (2 notebooks) and a G4/500 OW is dog slow on broadband, and God forfend if you try dialup. Also just plain out fails to render a fair number of pages that I...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Sep 27, 2002 at 04:31 AM, in Applications
no, more likely just cheap/under spec(or poorly... 876 Views / 16 Replies  
no, more likely just cheap/under spec(or poorly specced) components...

I suppose that this could also be a heat related problem...
Posted by cutterjohn, on Sep 27, 2002 at 03:44 AM, in Mac Notebooks
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