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| Re: Any Scientists Here?
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Look I don't want to sound like I'm sucking up to a Micro$oft product (but I actually think Word is pretty damn good) but here's a few tips. The keyboard shortcut for subscript is command-= (i.e....
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| Posted by dagaz, on Feb 13, 2004 at 06:21 AM, in Applications |
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| Re: OS X Guru Challenge: Help Me Delete This File
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Did you try sudo rm -f /Previous\ System\ 1/Users/shalliol/Library/Application\ Support/Direct\ Connect/dcLists/* ? The best bet would be to type the first few letters of each directory then use tab...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Dec 17, 2003 at 04:01 PM, in macOS |
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| WakeUp...
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WakeUp (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17998) does the trick for me, and its free.
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| Posted by dagaz, on Dec 12, 2003 at 08:07 AM, in macOS |
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| My alltime favourite forum site is...
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My alltime favourite forum site is http://forums.osxfaq.com I've learnt so much from that forum. The OSXFAQ homepage (http://www.osxfaq.com) is really cool too, they have links to all the latest...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 27, 2003 at 02:50 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| Re: Disk Utility Crash
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There's a freeware application out there called "Repair Disk Utility's Permissions", try versiontracker.
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 25, 2003 at 09:52 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: upgrade or clean install Panther
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Yes, when you partition the drive you have the option to format the drive or partition as UFS (Unix File System). I had a UFS partition running for a while but saw no great advantage to it and I'm...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 24, 2003 at 04:59 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| In Safari go Safari > Preferences > Tabs and then...
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In Safari go Safari > Preferences > Tabs and then enable tabbed browsing (Its also available in Netscape 7, camino, mozilla etc). In Safari instead of just clicking on a link hold down the Apple key...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 24, 2003 at 04:56 PM, in macOS |
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| Before panicking try all the usual...
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Before panicking try all the usual troubleshooting steps - repair permisssions, run fsck, zap PRAM, reset NVRAM. Besides, you had a good backup of all your data right?
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 24, 2003 at 04:29 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| I haven't yet installed Panther so this is more...
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I haven't yet installed Panther so this is more of a question back, maybe you need to update your firmare? I know that a firmware update was neccessary for most computers before installing Jag.
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 22, 2003 at 09:45 PM, in macOS |
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| Yeah its quirky but its no big deal. You just...
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Yeah its quirky but its no big deal. You just have to let the dock become hidden once or twice and then it goes back to normal behaviour. I'm pretty sure I mainly notice it when there's a lot going...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 22, 2003 at 08:08 AM, in macOS |
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| I've never tried the halt command. To shut my...
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I've never tried the halt command. To shut my computer down from a shell I normally type "sudo shutdown -h now". But thanks for that, I'll have to look into halt. I've never once had a problem...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 21, 2003 at 08:53 AM, in Mac Desktops |
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| I'm guessing you're using 10.3 and you've got...
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I'm guessing you're using 10.3 and you've got journalling turned on. If it was me I'd boot into single user mode (Apple-S after startup chime) then type "fsck -yf" at the prompt. Keep doing this...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 21, 2003 at 01:46 AM, in macOS |
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| Forgot to mention in my post above that you can...
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Forgot to mention in my post above that you can also change the time the different scripts will run by editing the file /etc/crontab. This is a hidden system file so you can't access it from the...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 05:55 PM, in macOS |
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| With the Terminal you can unlock a whole heap of...
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With the Terminal you can unlock a whole heap of "hidden" features of OS X. Two really good introductions to using Unix in OS X are:
1)http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 05:50 PM, in macOS |
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| If you leave your computer on 24/7 (and I don't...
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If you leave your computer on 24/7 (and I don't mean sleeping) you don't have to worry about using this as MacJanitor is just a graphical front end for three processes that operate normally on Mac OS...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 04:46 PM, in macOS |
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| This is very wierd that Unix doesn't see the...
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This is very wierd that Unix doesn't see the files but the GUI does, normally its the other way around and I've never heard of this before. Perhaps a complete restart is in order, while you're at it...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 04:21 PM, in macOS |
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| You need a Jaguar (10.2) install CD or DVD. ...
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You need a Jaguar (10.2) install CD or DVD. Assuming you have one of these you would do an Archive and Install. Following this you would then have to download and install the Combo 10.2.8 updater.
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 09:04 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Can you do a "ls -al ~/.Trash/" and paste the...
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Can you do a "ls -al ~/.Trash/" and paste the results back into here?
Or you may just want to check out this link (http://osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/HowTo/Trash/page2.ws) and work it out...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 05:00 AM, in macOS |
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| I'm not sure if this is what you did or not, but...
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I'm not sure if this is what you did or not, but you'll notice in my post above I used the flag "-rf" which is both recursive and forced. If that doesn't do it repair permissions and try again.
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 02:46 AM, in macOS |
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| For a folder you have to add the "r" command...
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For a folder you have to add the "r" command (recursive) to the "rm" command (remove). So, for example, if the folder you wish to delete is in your trash you would type "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*"...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 20, 2003 at 02:34 AM, in macOS |
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| Try trashing...
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Try trashing com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist from Home/Library/Preferences.
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 16, 2003 at 04:42 PM, in macOS |
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| Or you can do this in the terminal by typing the...
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Or you can do this in the terminal by typing the chmod command (change modes).e.g. chmod g+w ~/Desktop/Media will change the permissions for group (g) to include write (+w).BTW there's a space both...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 14, 2003 at 12:16 AM, in macOS |
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| What version of stuffit are you using? The first...
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What version of stuffit are you using? The first version 8 was very flaky which is why there is now an update. If you can access the terminal type in sudo shutdown -h now. If you can't you might...
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| Posted by dagaz, on Nov 14, 2003 at 12:04 AM, in macOS |
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