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10.3.9 broke my hdiutil-based backup script!	800 Views / 1 Replies
Hi, Wondering if anyone else has the same problem, or could try this out... Every week I have a wee script that runs the command-line equivalent of a "New image from device" in Disk Utility. ...
Posted by ducasi, on Apr 18, 2005 at 05:32 PM, in macOS

Safari 1.3 and Named Anchors	539 Views / 2 Replies
Hi, I've found that the new Safari often doesn't jump to named anchors given as part of a URL. I've found it a particular problem in some vBulletin boards I read quite often. Could people check...
Posted by ducasi, on Apr 18, 2005 at 05:05 PM, in Applications

Compatibility with Sony DCR-TRV460	831 Views / 0 Replies
Hi, I just bought a Sony DCR-TRV460E, but I cannot use it with iMovie. Neither the computer (a Mac G4 running 10.3.6) nor the firewire cable or port are not at fault, as I can see my old...
Posted by ducasi, on Jan 13, 2005 at 11:33 AM, in Art & Graphic Design

Um... How about "am" and "pm"??? Frankly...	4,103 Views / 137 Replies
Um... How about "am" and "pm"??? Frankly there are more potentially confusing and ambiguous things in modern life than the 12 hour clock. Fortunately, being humans (most of us) we are good at...
Posted by ducasi, on Oct 19, 2003 at 07:00 AM, in macOS

We do do it for minutes, seconds, days, months...	4,103 Views / 137 Replies
We do do it for minutes, seconds, days, months and years. When I say "10 o'clock", it's ambiguous. It could either be "10am" or "10pm". When I say "10 past", it's also ambiguous - 10 past what? ...
Posted by ducasi, on Oct 18, 2003 at 11:11 AM, in macOS

justinkim said it for me - every port I open I...	3,965 Views / 41 Replies
justinkim said it for me - every port I open I will want to make available through my firewall. In effect, I'm firewalling all the closed ports and opening up all the open ports. Really, a total...
Posted by ducasi, on Sep 16, 2003 at 05:16 PM, in macOS

That's me. How does Apple's firewall protect...	3,965 Views / 41 Replies
That's me. How does Apple's firewall protect me?
Posted by ducasi, on Sep 15, 2003 at 06:46 PM, in macOS

Mac OS X Firewall Considered Useless	3,965 Views / 41 Replies
Hi, Conventional wisdom is to "turn your firewall on immediately". I recently saw a message in this forum that said as much (which I'd reference if search worked!), I've seen people criticise...
Posted by ducasi, on Sep 15, 2003 at 05:27 PM, in macOS

Strange symlinks in package?	1,816 Views / 33 Replies
Hi, It looks like Apple left some symbolic links (unix-style aliases) pointing to the wrong places in their installation. What I don't know is if this is a problem! If you want to see them,...
Posted by ducasi, on Sep 9, 2003 at 06:49 AM, in macOS

Sorry about that. I thought we were discussing...	1,998 Views / 43 Replies
Sorry about that. I thought we were discussing why, in this case, the update needed a reboot, while on other unix OSes you might have gotten away without one. I think it's a combination of...
Posted by ducasi, on Aug 18, 2003 at 04:51 AM, in macOS

Well I'm not so sure - each image needs to be...	1,998 Views / 43 Replies
Well I'm not so sure - each image needs to be reboot. That is the kernel has to be halted and reloaded. Other images will continue to run in the meantime... Assuming the hardware supports...
Posted by ducasi, on Aug 17, 2003 at 02:44 PM, in macOS

Nonsense. Almost every patch for Solaris...	1,998 Views / 43 Replies
Nonsense. Almost every patch for Solaris tells you to "Install in Single User Mode. Reboot immediately after patch is installed." Here's the READMEs for the most recent kernel and storage...
Posted by ducasi, on Aug 16, 2003 at 06:49 PM, in macOS

Oh dear, so much ignorance in one thread! ...	6,098 Views / 121 Replies
Oh dear, so much ignorance in one thread! First, about tar & gzip... the "z" flag for tar does the gzipping as a separate process, the same way as if you manually tar and then gzip. One big...
Posted by ducasi, on Aug 16, 2003 at 09:09 AM, in macOS

wrong silly	2,552 Views / 55 Replies
But.... Safari never appears in SU if you haven't manually installed it. There goes that argument. I agree that Software Update should be kept purely for updates, not for new extra features....
Posted by ducasi, on Apr 20, 2003 at 07:26 PM, in macOS

Poll: unlikely to survive...	2,220 Views / 39 Replies
I think Chimera could be great. I use it as the main browser on my work mac, and I like it a lot. But... From day 1 it was an afterthought - it had the support of the handful of people who...
Posted by ducasi, on Jan 20, 2003 at 03:47 PM, in Applications

Apple are right to stick with a one-button mouse....	608 Views / 21 Replies
Apple are right to stick with a one-button mouse. It's a straightforward realisation of the KISS principle. I'm used to using 3-button mice with Suns and 2-button mice with Microsoft's operating...
Posted by ducasi, on Jul 28, 2002 at 09:26 AM, in macOS

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,...	3,140 Views / 208 Replies
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by KidRed: <strong>As for...
Posted by ducasi, on Jul 6, 2002 at 03:24 PM, in macOS

I have another problem with the installer,...	2,303 Views / 136 Replies
I have another problem with the installer, besides that it wants to quit all your applications (like, not even the system updates do that, and they're usually replacing the kernel...) and that's code...
Posted by ducasi, on Jun 17, 2002 at 02:24 PM, in Applications

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,...	2,067 Views / 147 Replies
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by tetzel1517: <strong>...
Posted by ducasi, on Jun 5, 2002 at 04:19 AM, in macOS

<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/"...	1,144 Views / 74 Replies
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Register</a> has posted <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25451.html" target="_blank">their thoughts</a> on this matter. ...
Posted by ducasi, on May 27, 2002 at 10:51 AM, in macOS

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,...	482 Views / 9 Replies
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">You need member status first - minimum of 50...
Posted by ducasi, on May 26, 2002 at 07:10 PM, in MacNN Lounge

It will be 10.2 and it will be paid for. ...	2,026 Views / 104 Replies
It will be 10.2 and it will be paid for. Apple have invested too much in the "10" thing to jump to 10.5 so soon. Also, the Darwin version numbers want it to be .2 It will be paid as Apple want...
Posted by ducasi, on May 26, 2002 at 06:45 PM, in macOS

Here's mine: 7:38PM up 30 days, 11:20, 5...	1,648 Views / 78 Replies
Here's mine: 7:38PM up 30 days, 11:20, 5 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.15, 0.00 I think this is probably a record for my G4. 10.1.3 and 10.1.4 seem to have improved the stability of the...
Posted by ducasi, on May 18, 2002 at 03:09 PM, in macOS

Up till now, Chimera has had one and a bit people...	1,144 Views / 74 Replies
Up till now, Chimera has had one and a bit people working on it, and already it looks good, and has the potential to be something really sweet. If Apple takes it on now, give it, say, 5 engineers,...
Posted by ducasi, on May 18, 2002 at 06:41 AM, in macOS

Is Apple going to dump IE?	1,144 Views / 74 Replies
Did anyone else wonder why Apple is gonig to wait until "late summer" before releasing Jaquar, rather than at the MacWorld Expo? You might argue "because they need the extra time to finish it",...
Posted by ducasi, on May 17, 2002 at 08:54 AM, in macOS

If you need to restart to free up this memory,...	451 Views / 18 Replies
If you need to restart to free up this memory, then it's a bug in Mac OS X, not in Omniweb. Memory is allocated for a process mostly in its own address space, but partly in the kernel space. When...
Posted by ducasi, on May 12, 2002 at 06:02 PM, in macOS

It saves your uptime because you haven't actually...	451 Views / 18 Replies
It saves your uptime because you haven't actually shutdown. Although you are restarting most (almost all) normal active processes, it's still the same kernel image running. Frankly, until Mac OS...
Posted by ducasi, on May 12, 2002 at 05:38 PM, in macOS

Well your memory is faulty. I was on the ADC...	577 Views / 25 Replies
Well your memory is faulty. I was on the ADC web site earlier today, and either cos I'd forgotten my password, or else the T&C's had changed, I had to "Agree" to a non-disclosure clause in the...
Posted by ducasi, on Mar 30, 2002 at 10:20 AM, in macOS

Here's how.... 1) Get your home directory in...	414 Views / 6 Replies
Here's how.... 1) Get your home directory in the finder (command-option-H). 2) hit "command-up-arrow" to get to "Users", where you will see a house icon for your home directory 3) hold down the...
Posted by ducasi, on Mar 16, 2002 at 02:56 PM, in macOS

Am I a Unix veteran? I've been a unix user for...	840 Views / 29 Replies
Am I a Unix veteran? I've been a unix user for over 15 years and an admin for over 8 years. The only times I've "rm -rf /"-ed, I meant it, and I aint lying. Quite often you'll be reinstalling...
Posted by ducasi, on Mar 16, 2002 at 01:58 PM, in macOS

Can someone post the URL to the package on...	908 Views / 53 Replies
Can someone post the URL to the package on Apple's server? (If you use a proxy server you might be able to capture the URL.) Does it still refuse to launch if you don't have Apple-supplied DVD...
Posted by ducasi, on Mar 2, 2002 at 04:47 PM, in macOS

While not disagreeing with the sentiment, I think...	3,571 Views / 210 Replies
While not disagreeing with the sentiment, I think you'll find that Angus_D is AKA Finlay Dobbie (not Dobble) but is definately not AKA edddeduck (or even eddieduck). eddieduck (presumable named...
Posted by ducasi, on Feb 24, 2002 at 01:09 PM, in macOS

Little chance of uptime records	377 Views / 0 Replies
Hi, After reading about the (hoped) resolution of the PPP bug, I am concerned that Apple never actually runs Mac OS X for any length of time between reboots, and as a result are not finding the...
Posted by ducasi, on Feb 23, 2002 at 08:31 PM, in macOS

I don't understand - the so-called PPP bug is...	3,571 Views / 210 Replies
I don't understand - the so-called PPP bug is actually in the serial driver - how does that affect a USB device? Does the Alcatel software pretend to the network code that it actually is a serial...
Posted by ducasi, on Feb 23, 2002 at 07:41 PM, in macOS

Hey, if I hold down the mouse on the menu I'm...	1,373 Views / 30 Replies
Hey, if I hold down the mouse on the menu I'm burning 100% of both of my CPUs. That it can take 100% of both my CPUs suggests that theres something more going on... maybe it's because...
Posted by ducasi, on Feb 23, 2002 at 06:52 PM, in macOS

RichardP, above, gives an example of one flaw,...	1,060 Views / 8 Replies
RichardP, above, gives an example of one flaw, but there are others. I have it turned on, but I have found it's not uncommon to have a visible application appear as hidden, and even a hidden...
Posted by ducasi, on Jan 15, 2002 at 07:17 PM, in macOS

Seems to me that MOSR is just as accurate as any...	782 Views / 18 Replies
Seems to me that MOSR is just as accurate as any other rumors site - not very. But at least it's better than Apple Insider (http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2)... What ever happened to ...
Posted by ducasi, on Jan 15, 2002 at 07:07 PM, in Mac Desktops

I'm wondering what QT and OpenGL have got to do...	1,127 Views / 85 Replies
I'm wondering what QT and OpenGL have got to do with each other... Perhaps it is that QT uses OpenGL to do zooming, i.e. full-screen from a 320x240 movie. Doing this in software can be quite slow,...
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 31, 2001 at 08:09 AM, in macOS

Indeed, getting back to the point, I'd say the...	832 Views / 55 Replies
Indeed, getting back to the point, I'd say the major flaw with the article is that many of the assumptions the author makes about Mac OS X are wrong. OK, some are trivial - Mac OS X does not ship...
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 22, 2001 at 11:37 AM, in macOS

Here's a good demo of the problem, and ligatures...	683 Views / 36 Replies
Here's a good demo of the problem, and ligatures in general... Open TextEdit, type "finally", select the text you just typed, set it to underlined and then use the font panel to switch to 64...
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 16, 2001 at 06:37 AM, in macOS

Bochs can run on lots of platforms. It has an X...	583 Views / 11 Replies
Bochs can run on lots of platforms. It has an X Windows System front end, but it also has a Win32 front-end, a Mac OS front end, and even a Mac OS X front end. Guess which one I was using! ;)
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 16, 2001 at 05:55 AM, in macOS

Hi, I downloaded bochs, compiled it up, and...	583 Views / 11 Replies
Hi, I downloaded bochs, compiled it up, and got it working! I must say I'm underwhelmed... Don't go looking here for a replacement for VPC. It's slow and has very limited hardware support. ...
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 15, 2001 at 08:10 PM, in macOS

See the original message for the whole quote. ...	801 Views / 34 Replies
See the original message for the whole quote. Firstly, just to clarify on a couple of incorrect assumptions you made: 1) "... on a computer that has no character generator, can somehow manage to...
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 12, 2001 at 07:55 PM, in macOS

Hi, I've been trying to figure out how easy...	1,172 Views / 16 Replies
Hi, I've been trying to figure out how easy it would be to "fix" this... So far what I've figured out is that the DVD Player's installer uses the Gestalt selector of "cdfl" to decide whether to...
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 4, 2001 at 06:11 PM, in macOS

Well.... Go look in this file... ...	617 Views / 13 Replies
Well.... Go look in this file... "/Applications/Formac Tevion.app/Contents/pbdevelopment.plist", and you'll see that the project code name is "ProTV_X". Doesn't mean you're any more right or...
Posted by ducasi, on Dec 1, 2001 at 03:15 PM, in macOS

People, People! Perhaps you should check...	494 Views / 22 Replies
People, People! Perhaps you should check what files it did update... It didn't update pax - it didn't update any CLI tools - so how could it possibly fix the "problems" with it? Doing a...
Posted by ducasi, on Nov 12, 2001 at 07:53 PM, in macOS

Hi, By discussing how to get around a copy...	675 Views / 46 Replies
Hi, By discussing how to get around a copy protection system, haven't you all broken the DCMA? Just wondering....
Posted by ducasi, on Oct 29, 2001 at 01:01 PM, in macOS

Hi, By discussing how to get around a copy...	1,458 Views / 57 Replies
Hi, By discussing how to get around a copy protection system, haven't you all broken the DCMA? Just wondering....
Posted by ducasi, on Oct 29, 2001 at 01:01 PM, in Applications

I don't think that Mac OS X will appear on Dell...	708 Views / 24 Replies
I don't think that Mac OS X will appear on Dell boxes any time soon, but I was curious to note that Apple's sexy new DVD player appears to have been ported to Pentium III, 4 and Athlon. (Do a...
Posted by ducasi, on Oct 14, 2001 at 04:23 PM, in macOS

Take a look at...	4,263 Views / 281 Replies
Take a look at /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRage128.kext/Contents/Info.plist Here's a snip... <key>IOClass</key> <string>ATIRage128</string> ...
Posted by ducasi, on Jul 15, 2001 at 01:33 PM, in macOS

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