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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 618105941143

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 501162147222

I have mine defaulting to only "Name contains"

Once you get these fixed, I think that you will find the next problem will be that once you hit Cmd-F to activate the Finder's find, the cursor will actually be in the Spotlight textbox, not the find textbox, ie you will need to hit tab or click in the find textbox.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 618105941143

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 501162147222

I have mine defaulting to only "Name contains"

Once you get these fixed, I think that you will find the next problem will be that once you hit Cmd-F to activate the Finder's find, the cursor will actually be in the Spotlight textbox, not the find textbox, ie you will need to hit tab or click in the find textbox.

The original article is slightly misleading: Spotlight in Tiger actually already supports AND/OR/NOT:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 503165951266

Spotlight can actually already do all the things you mentioned. Unfortunately the syntax is totally whacked. For instance. spaces matter when they shouldn't; e.g. "hello|world" is not the same as "hello | world". (The latter doesn't mean what you think it means.)

Anyone have a daylight saving fix for OS 9? 10.0? 10.1? 10.2? How about OS 8?

I'd guess that this procedure should work for any version of OS X.

Thats a well documented problem. You can edit the profile in iSync here. Then you'll have calendar syncs. But be aware dont go syncing more than 1 month content (check to make sure it may be 1 week of content, there is an option to how much far to sync calendar events). The reason iSync has it disabled is because Verizon's firmware crashes the phone as it cant handle more than 1 month of calendar schedules and thats a Verizon firmware issue not iCal or iSync. Of course Verizon has no motivation to fix this no love for the Apple crowd.

Just to add more anecdotal evidence -- I used a Mighty Mouse at work for awhile, and while it wasn't terrible, it was not really that great. The right/left click detection worked well, but the scroll ball kept gumming up and would no longer scroll (the ball would move but no movement was detected by the mouse.) Apple has directions for cleaning it, but those directions eventually stopped working. At least I'm not the only person to have this issue.

Oh, for crying out loud... if you're a power user, and confused, R-T-F-M! Or visit a web forum, like Mac OSX Hints or better, google's Mac search page. Or maybe you're not really a power user, just well-adapted to using windows--I've noted the distinction, people who understand how to do things with windows really well, but aren't clear on why it works that way.

I'm constantly amazed at how people switch to a graphic interface and command line that is widely reputed to be "better" and yet expect it to work just like the one they abandoned.

That's not really a security issue because Quicktime and Quicktime Pro are the same software.

Yes, it is a security issue, but only from Apple's point of view. Customers are getting something they didn't pay for. That's a hole in the implementation. The only truly secure implementation would be to not ship the feature in the lite version.

odds of the average user writing an applescript to fullscreen quicktime is basically nil compared to the odds of them downloading VLC

Not when it's easy to find and do. It's not much (if any) harder than downloading a dmg and copying the app.

Um, OS X has had read-only support for NTFS for quite some time. Here's an article regarding NTFS support in OS X.IV (Tiger). Writing and formatting are quite another matter.

Silverkeeper works great - I have it set up for most of the computers I support a work that don't use University network backups, and it's totally automated and will keep multiple copies on the external hard drive. A good review of it is on MacOSX Hints - http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040 421082847552

Sorry, that's not quite enough detail (working from memory). Here's the full thing: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 508000838365&query=menubar%2Bdate

Actually there is http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 50222125145

I haven't tried it since I know where /etc/password is and knew how to configure locate, which is apparently difficult for the OP even though it tells you how to when you first run it.

Instructions for putting the date in the menu bar here, here, or here.

It's not enabled by default, but a simple preference change allows you to drag widgets right out of Dashboard into your normal windowing system. I don't know why this is "developer" mode. This should be the default.

Okay, let me preface this by saying this is a shameless two-bit hack. I finally got around to buying 10.3 yesterday, and the lack of a horizontal scroll bar in the Finder windows has consumed several hours of my time trying to fix/break this bug/feature. The "feature" goes like this: if I click on the Home folder, which is a special folder (like Applications, Documents, etc.), the Finder roots me at that place and pulls the horizontal scroll bar from the bottom of the window. (Someone here already pointed out that a work around is typing "command-up arrow" a few times). My solution is a bit different, I discovered that clicking on non-special folders doesn't cause this rooting "feature" to activate. So what I did was make aliases of all the special folders that I was interested in, and put them in a directory out of the way someplace (e.g., in folder in my Library). Now after a little icon management to get the aliases looking like the original directories (see other tips on this site), I put the aliases in the Toolbar and Voila!, the horizontal scroll bar has returned in all its hierarchial glory. One thing though, I haven't figured out a way to get this to work with the Sidebar. When I try the system decides that I really mean the special folder itself and not the alias. This isn't a problem for me because I'm not using the Sidebar at the moment."

I concede that HYPERCARD is/was an awesome user editable application development tool. Smalltalk is/was similar in the sense that every user of a Smalltalk application had the entire Smalltalk environment and the opportunity (if not skill) to change anything.

You might enjoy http://www.fscript.org/ and its object browser and object injection capabilities. In fact, f-script plus Interface Builder should make any HYPERCARD programmer who wants to make serious (user editable)applications simply ecstatic.

There are many interactive scripting environments today including Python, Ruby, Tcl, Perl, and more. You can even use Interface Builder with them. If user editable application logic is what you want, any of the scripting environments will suite you. http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/ http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/doc/

However, Interface Builder absolutely DOES enable end users to manipulate any aspect of the user interface. If you have a Mac, open any of the Next Interface Builder (NIB) files for Cocoa applications from Apple or third parties in Interface Builder and edit away. Add, remove, rearrange any GUI components. Change the menus and short cuts, add menus, add new windows, change what objects do, enlarge fonts, create your own localization,... You can even add your own custom objects that didn't exist when the application was compiled into the mix.

In practice, people don't do this for three reasons:
1) They don't know they can
2) It is easy to break things or degrade the application's functionality (which was true of HYPERCARD as well)
3) Apple and some third parties cleverly remove the data.classes file from within the nib (a nib is actually a directory of files). However, you can re-introduce a blank data.classes from any source, and Interface Builder will let you open and edit the nib. You need to open the nib "files" with "Show Package Contents" http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060 720091325592

References:
Add custom objects as end user: http://www.lorax.com/FreeStuff/TextExtras.html
Add localizations and changing nibs: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Co nceptual/BPInternational/Articles/InternatSupport. html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.advoc acy/browse_frm/thread/bb63e0fdbc1a6ad4/18a92b75f44 ecf64?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#18a92b75f44ecf64
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.misc/ browse_frm/thread/a9961e36d73960c8/a60ebfdef5c355e b?lnk=st&q=&rnum=2#a60ebfdef5c355eb
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.progr ammer/browse_frm/thread/fa4dd3e06dddfaec/3ac62f070 2daf32e?lnk=st&q=&rnum=9#3ac62f0702daf32e

"One thing that you might be able to help me with is maybe a utility along the lines of partition magic to configure partitions"

I assume you mean resizing partitions on the fly? OSX has a partition utility that's very easy. But only for reformatting, IIRC. A Google search finds this: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20041 130014827278 Maybe it's what you are looking for.

Well, if you're foolish enough to give yourself privileges to your home directory, you deserve what you get. This is exactly why every file on my system is readable only by root.

Please tell me your files aren't writable by root, too. Talk about a security hole. All that's needed for malicious code to screw up your system is root access! I don't know about Linux or other insecure operating systems, but OS X can be properly secured with a simple: "sudo schg -R /"

I can't imagine why anyone would ever need to modify files outside of single-user mode anyway.

This works for all Cocoa apps:
http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html

But the Finder isn't Cocoa. You can set Desktop and folder font size in the Finder's view settings, but if you want to change the font size in the menu, you'll need to wait for 10.5 or play with the following -- It can change the scaling of any application, including the Finder:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060 119152725322&query=Quartz%2Bdebug%2Bmenu

I would have a terminal server but it is not my call so we don't get the budget for one ;).

As for the usb to serial connector, I read this and it pretty much works for me. I say pretty much as some solaris install get layed out incorrectly

Hmmm. Did not know that. Apparently compliance isn't so good though and support for it isn't built into OS X (as of the writing of the article). Has this changed?

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040 426151111599

I have had digital cable in the past, from Adelphia, and there was no firewire port. Was this illegal

It's illegal if 1. you asked for a cable box with FireWire and 2. Adelphia denied it.

or was the regulation relatively recent, or is it not really a regulation?

The FCC's requirement went into effect in April 2004.

• ditto (copy files with metadata, etc -- though in Tiger, the standard file utilities finally handle resource forks)
• open (open a document or application in the gui)
• osascript (execute an AppleScript -- ie, osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to pause')
• /Developer/Tools/SetFile (set obscure HFS+ file attributes -- only available if Xcode is installed)
• softwareupdate (commandline version of -- you guessed it -- Software Update)
• hdiutil (mount, unmount, and manage automounted disks and disk images)
• diskutil (commandline version of Disk Utility)

Which, if Fucktard Ellch would fess up to, nobody who owns an Apple Macbook would put in.

Some people would beg to differ.

By the way, nice use of profanity-laced ad hominem to help make your point. Wins debates every time!

It is NOT mandatory.

Turn down your sound (in the OS X volume control), or mute your speakers.

Restart.

Tada! No startup sound.

There are also applications and Applescripts that will do it automatically for you:
http://alphaomega.software.free.fr/startupchimesto pper/Startup%20Chime%20Stopper.html
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031 005165919533
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16780

By the way, the Apple startup sound is more akin to the PC Bios Boot-Beep. It's a hardware test, and it will play a different sound if there is a video card failure or ram failure, something which prevents the system from reaching the GUI.

No one buys a wireless adapter for a Mac laptop, because they all come with one. Not true. A couple of months ago I was asked by some starving-student acquaintances to help them set up wifi in their apartment. They had two older PowerBooks neither of which had wireless of any sort built into them. Faced with spending either $20 x 2 (on sale at Fry's) for USB adapters with an ralink rt2500 chipset and a c.$70 Linksys-WRT54G router versus c.$80 x 2 (now reduced to $50)for the apple brand cards and c.$200 for the Airport Extreme Base Station they decided to save the money and go with the $250 cheaper solution. Yes, the PowerBooks were "Airport Extreme Ready", but all that means is that they have the antenna built into the casing and a space inside for the card. I wouldn't mind betting there are quite a few people in a similar situation. I'm hoping that it's not the rt2500 driver that's compromised... that would suck as ralink have been pretty good about releasing open drivers.

You get such links as:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2006/qa1474.html
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=475 31

That's just the tip of the iceberg and I'm not going to do any more work proving that things have broken because with your attitude I don't see you admitting to a mistake.



  This is quite laughable. Both of these links have nothing to do with the fantasy that you are trying to propogate.

  Your credibility = 0

The GP complained that he'd seen Java apps break. You said you hadn't and that you couldn't imagine more complex apps. You were definitely implying he was a liar. This isn't a court of law so burdens of proof don't apply here. To me your intent was very clear.

No, I was clearly saying that complex apps obviously don't break with version changes.

In your latest post again you insist that because you haven't in your very limited experience seen Java apps break, that it's rare. It's not.

Yes, a very limited experience based on being a developer for 30 years and using Java since it came out.

You get such links as:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2006/qa1474.html
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=475 31

That's just the tip of the iceberg and I'm not going to do any more work proving that things have broken because with your attitude I don't see you admitting to a mistake.

Oh for goodness sake! This suggests that you really don't understand the issue! Those links you showed aren't the 'tip of the iceberg' - they are most of it. Of course things wont work if you compile specifically for a later version of the JRE and then expect it to run on them. That is a crazy as expecting an app compiled for MacOS/X to run on Mac OS 7!

This is not an issue of JRE upgrates breaking existing apps - it is an issue of using a JDK upgrade and not taking into account the fact that the compiler produces code for the equivalent JRE. There is nothing wrong with than, and a simple switch can change this.

Guess what happens if you use any 3rd party product that is in any way incompatible. You need to get another version of that product.

Only if that 3rd party product relies on a later JRE or JDK, in which case it is entirely reasonable.

Now you're obviously not interested in reality. In your mind because you haven't had the displeasure of working on something that's been badly broken by a JRE release all is good. Enjoy living your fantasy but don't force it down other people's throats or belittle them when they point out that they've seen it happen.

I haven't worked on something that has been badly broken by a JRE release, because few people have. You haven't shown any such thing. All you have shown what happens if someone compiles for a later JRE and tries to run it on an earlier one. Do you seriously expect all your clients to automatically upgrade to JRE 1.5? Of course not. It is your responsibility as a developer to take into account the versions of runtimes your clients use. If you update your compiler (javac), it is your fault if things break.

The GP complained that he'd seen Java apps break. You said you hadn't and that you couldn't imagine more complex apps. You were definitely implying he was a liar. This isn't a court of law so burdens of proof don't apply here. To me your intent was very clear.

In your latest post again you insist that because you haven't in your very limited experience seen Java apps break, that it's rare. It's not.

Google for the following phrase:
java 1.5 breaks application

You get such links as:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2006/qa1474.html
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=475 31

That's just the tip of the iceberg and I'm not going to do any more work proving that things have broken because with your attitude I don't see you admitting to a mistake.

Guess what happens if you use any 3rd party product that is in any way incompatible. You need to get another version of that product.

Now you're obviously not interested in reality. In your mind because you haven't had the displeasure of working on something that's been badly broken by a JRE release all is good. Enjoy living your fantasy but don't force it down other people's throats or belittle them when they point out that they've seen it happen.

I have a mostly linux-centric background - where going to Google is the best way to answer a problem. When I first started working with Macs, it took me a long time to realize that Apple actually has a very good support site. There are a few exceptions where you can get better support information elsewhere (macosxhints, bombich), but overall, the information on the Apple site is great.

It took me even longer to realize that AppleCare is worth having and that calling Apple on the phone will will get your problem fixed. When people ask me for help with a Mac problem I always ask if the computer is still supported, if it is, I just tell them to call Apple. Strange to say, but most of the time they will probably get the same level of support from Apple that they would get from me, and it is a lot cheaper than my going rate.

There are 2 separate file optimizations going on here.

The first is automatic file defragmentation. When a file is opened, if it is highly fragmented (8+ fragments) and under 20MB in size, it is defragmented. This works by just moving the file to a new, arbitrary, location. This only happens on Journaled HFS+ volumes.

The second is the "Adaptive Hot File Clustering". Over a period of days, the OS keeps track of files that are read frequently - these are files under 10MB, and which are never written to. At the end of each tracking cycle, the "hottest" files (the files that have been read the most times) are moved to a "hotband" on the disk - this is a part of the disk which is particularly fast given the physical disk characteristics (currently sized at 5MB per GB). "Cold" files are evicted to make room. As a side effect of being moved into the hotband, files are defragmented. Currently, AHFC only works on the boot volume, and only for Journaled HFS+ volumes over 10GB.

I'm pretty sure you're just trolling and trying to picking a fight now. I was going to say, "interesting point", but instead how about a "grow up". However, I decided to google it to see what you were talking about. One minute of googling reveals that you don't know what you're talking about.

Your comparison is factually wrong. Q2DE is built in to Tiger, but disabled by default. There are no reasons for the user to enable it really, but it's there if you want to play with it. That is, if you have a ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX or better.

So basically, you're 100% incorrect. Apple has not dropped Q2DE nor has it failed to launch it on time. It's there in Tiger. Furthermore, it is the future, as Quickdraw is officially deprecated.

Ars Tiger article - Quartz 2D Extreme section
Mac OS X Hints - enabling Quartz 2D Extreme in Tiger

Go ahead and hate Apple all you want. I couldn't care less if I tried. Just get a grip on the facts instead of making things up.

Try this tip: Listen to an old fashioned typwriter while typing.

There's a emulator called SheepShaver which will emulate a PowerPC Mac running System 7.5 thru 9.0.4, and it has been ported for Intel Macs.

Here's a support thread with guys talking about the practicalities of using it as a Classic environment on their Intel Macs:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060 509180914879

i only figured something was wrong when my bandwidth and processor usage kept spiking. i did run top, but i didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. i ran "lsof | grep ESTABLISHED" to see what was connected to what, and that's how i figured out what ports to tcpdump. to get rid of it, i just removed the compromised account.

as far as how they got in... have you ever looked at your ssh auth logs? i had a stupid username/password combo. i've noticed an increase in brute force attacks whenever i used bit torrent. but... correlation != causation so i don't know for sure. of course, i'd still get attacked even if i wasn't using bit torrent. i got tired of the attacks (which really takes a toll on my tibook) so i eventually just disabled ssh port forwarding on my router.

you can restore ssh logging using this hint and see for yourself.

I have heard this "windows is more configurable than OS X" mantra far too many times and I think it is missing any merit.

Try this with a Windows app: Right click on the executable, Show Package Contents, navigate to the interface .nib file, open it in Project Builder, modify it, save it, and relaunch the application with your hacked interface.

If you don't like how OS X looks, there are plenty of ways to change it. But people who don't even give Macs a chance from the get-go don't look very hard.

You miss your Internet Exploiter hacks and think Safari must be accepted as-is? Again, you aren't looking very hard.

At least the OS X network preferences/settings are all in one place, as opposed to Windows.

Even the OS X Terminal is way more powerful than Windows' built-in command line! (MS Command Shell notwithstanding, since it's a beta). The irony must be lost on some.

Windows is not lookin' so much more "configurable" now, is it? ;) I admit it's neat that you can interact with any windows app or dll via COM (as long as it's registered correctly! yay registry! not!)- Applescript serves that purpose on Macs but it's a little different.

I've got an e815 from Verizon and I love it too. Apparently if you want the full bluetooth functionality on a Mac though, you have to first hack it on a PC.

It's not against their ToS to use it as a modem to connect to a dialup ISP, it's just not very efficient, I haven't tried it myself but I've heard of people only getting 11k connections, with a theoretical max of 14.4k.

It is sort-of against their ToS to use it to connect to their high-speed (144k) service. You run the risk that you *may* incur by-the-byte usage fees if you don't subscribe to the data plan. Reports vary about whether or not you'll ever be charged for this. I know some people who use it sparingly and never get charged. Others report that this only uses cell minutes off a NationalAccess plan as long as you're on a 1x network and not evdo.

If you're feeling lucky: Use ##DIALUP on the phone to enable dial-up networking, and you can connect by dialing #777 - Username: yourcellnumber@vzw3g.com / password: vzw

I have a PC, but I found this thread that talks about using Verizon dialup on a Mac:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?p=2614216
Which points to:
http://stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/000189 .php
and
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 501151747917
Both of which have more info on using an e815 (or a v710, the e815's even more crippled little sibling) on a Mac, and with Bluetooth.

See this hint.

Short version:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.0

Replace 1.0 with .5 for tiny, 2 for big.

http://www.softpedia.com/
http://www.macosxhints.com/ and
http://insidemacgames.com/
are all sites I've found to be helpful...

As far as must have OSX software, I would recommend:
Adium, Comic Life, Flip4Mac, Inquisitor (awesome extension of safaris search box), RockNES, SNES9x, and SCUMMVM.

Dude, learn to use Google.

As a side note, Apple invented (for all intents and purposes, etc.) the concept of subpixel rendering back in the '80s, and it's been included in the OS since at least Jaguar.

Rob at MacOSXHints.com (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006 0111071001306) has cleared this up with Apple. There's no story here, move on.

Rob over at mac hints seems to think that the original analysis is wrong and that "that absolutely no information is being collected from the MiniStore". http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060 111071001306/

Check out the update on Macosxhints.com. Apple contacted them directly to let them know that iTunes is not collecting any information... btw, if they are recommending songs based on genre, artist, etc that is gathered locally and not stored in some Apple super-spyware database someplace then to get a list of songs from the Music Store it's going to have network traffic...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060 111071001306/

Were you holding down the comma key? Or the Option Key?

Can the feature even be turned off by those dilligent enough to do so? (Short of resorting to firewalling?)

Yup. I was able to shut it off moments after seeing it on.. I didn't even know what it was doing there, why I couldn't shut it off or that it was even watching what I was playing. I just went into options, parental controls, and shut off the music store because I don't use it anyway, if I want to buy something from the ITMS I'll just go enable it and purchase, then disable it again..

Also I saw an article today here at macosxhints.com (via slashbox) which explains how to do it too:
"Thankfully, there's an easy workaround. Kirk McElhearn used tcpdump to verify that if you simply disable the mini store (Edit: Hide Ministore, or just Shift-Command-M), then no data is transmitted. So that's the hint -- if you value the privacy of your listening habits, then hide the mini store. "

-matt

Modems are no longer as nessary as they use to be.

they're mighty useful if you want to fax something and don't feel like bothering with an eFax account.

Alternatively, they could just use their Bluetooth phone to send and receive faxes from their Mac.

You can also enable the debug menu in Safari which easily lets you change the user agent. But use sparingly.

You can also enable the debug menu in Safari which easily lets you change the user agent. But use sparingly.

You can also enable the debug menu in Safari which easily lets you change the user agent. But use sparingly.