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My Jaguar partition is still on 10.2.6, as I have the Gigabit Ethernet Dual 450, and was spooked after learning of the first 10.2.8 update that killed the ethernet .kext file, and left users without a net-enabled machine. I do have a few other machines online, but didn't bother doing it or the re-released update, as everything works fine with 10.2.6.

My current Panther install (I usually Carbon Copy Clone my main boot drive to an external firewire drive, then do an upgrade install on that drive to the newer system version; done for 10.1->10.2 and 10.2->10.3 once I see what's what in terms of settings, apps running or needing fresh prefs files, etc. I do a clean install on a blank partition and start building my 'new' machine, it's more fun that way) is running great, with my all my apps looking nicer, running (it seems) a bit faster, and acting more nicely with things like Expose.

I have discovered Another Launcher, a great replacement for every quickeys-type app ever made. It's a great donation-ware app. My main apps are the ones I sweat over, wondering whether they will work with the new system, and both Reason (save for a few drop-down menus going cleartext until clicked, hasn't affected anything else, I can run the same amount of tracks/effects) and RTCW MP Test2 (can finally command-tab out of it when needed) are seemingly healthy.

Today I had a kernel panic upon boot, the same thing I saw a G4 come in for in the service dept. at work (also today), so I'll be keeping an eye out for anything interesting going on.

In all seriousness, there seems to be some misconception that iTunes can't play ogg files. Well, I'm not sure about on the PC, but there is a plugin for the Mac that plays ogg files just fine.

As a Mac user (of the Classic variety) and now a Mac admin, I'm happy to have you, and I welcome you and your perspective to the Mac family. While the UNIX part of the New Mac is an interesting cultural shift for me, it's a learning experience that I'm excited to go through. While I'm sorry that you were scared away from the Mac forum you attempted, I think that there are others that cater to the "Mac-Classic user learning to use UNIX" that are very interested to glean UNIX knowledge; one of which is at Mac OS X Hints, and another at AFP548.

There are certainly two--maybe three, if you count the "Mac Classic users who want to learn Unix"--cultures, but I think Apple has done a pretty good job allowing each to work as they prefer. Except for NetInfo, but that's getting better. :)

I check all these daily:

MacInTouch
MacNN
MacMinute
MacFixIt
Mac OS X Hints
MacSurfer

Great software update resources:

VersionTracker
MacUpdate
OS X freshmeat

Other great sites:

O'Reilly Mac DevCenter
O'Reilly Mac OS X Page
Apple Mac OS X downloads
Apple Third Party Products Guide

Developer sites:

Mac OS X Developer Home Page
Mac OS X Developer Documentation
Darwin
OpenDarwin
fink

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Once again, you can find the answer to this question on MacOSXHints:

10.3: Enable Disctinctive Ring fax answering.

You can do this with Safari as well.

You can do it in OS X.

I have no idea how to actually record panther speech straight to a file.

Use the "say" command.

I am trying the "test" and all I get is:


Please wait while loading the script

You are stuck on this page ?
It means that your browser is not vulnerable, sorry, or maybe, not so
sorry, it's how the things should be !!!.
You can press the back button now :)


I am running Safari 1.1.1 (v100.1). Could it be because
of This Hint?

MissingMediaBurner 0.6.2

macosxhints - 10.3: Add support for any third-party CD-R burner

can be found here.

Not that slashdot should be a purely GNU/Linux preserve. There are better place to ask this question though; Mac OS X Hints Forums and Mac Fixit Forums spring to mind.

It's much too difficult to change the default browser.

Launching applications? Setting preferences? What do they think we are, rocket scientists?

POSIX compliance

Doesn't being case insensitive violate POSIX? Or has that been fixed?

yes

As usual, MacInTouch is doing a great job of staying on top of the issues. Also, Mac OS X Hints has been flooded with loads of new Panther hints the past few days.

FWIW, the guy who wrote Lite Switch X for Proteron was a student at BYU. He was hired after graduation this past year by Apple. He would never say exactly what he has been working on there, but I'm sure that this was his contribution.

PPC 7457 performance tweak for new PowerBooks

The second comment down is the one with good information from this discussion. Here is the choice quote:

The BTIC is a 128-entry, four-way set-associative cache that contains the most recently used branch target instructions (up to four instructions per entry) for b and bc branches. When a taken branch instruction of this type hits in the BTIC, the instructions arrive in the instruction queue a cycle sooner than they would arrive from the instruction cache. Due to an error in the processor, the BTIC may provide corrupted instructions and should not be enabled.

The guys over at nslog.com have discovered how to search the Apple Music Store directly. This is very cool! Hope they don't mind me reprinting the info. The basic URL looks like this:

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZsearch .woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.
search.DirectAction/advancedsearchResults?...

Note that the above should be one line (no extra spaces; shown on two to narrow the display), and you enter your search term instead of the "...". Click on the link and it will open in iTunes. For example, to search for "Maggie's Farm" by Bob Dylan, you'd use songTerm=Maggie's Farm&artistTerm=Bob Dylan as the search terms after the question mark (depending on your browser, you may have to use %20 instead of the spaces). Click this link for a clickable link test.

Rather than steal the glory of nslog in discovering this, I would recommend you visit the nslog.com site as linked above for more detailed info. Be sure and look at the Last Played page that apparently lists the last played items on their iTunes, and they have changed the links to be clickable links to the Apple Music Store.

Where the heck are points when you need them? Others have answered, but they can't be seen for lack of points. Guess I'll have to go Karma Whore instead.

It's unclear right at this hour if you can play Ogg Vobis on the Windows version of iTunes. You certainly can get the Mac version to do it. The fine folks at Mac OS X Hints have an article with links to everything you need.

Then again, over at SourceForge one can find a QuickTime component to support Ogg. Hmm, iTunes runs on QT... SourcForge has a Ogg QT component for Win32... maybe this works after all? As I said, there may be some kinks in the Windows version right now but I'm willing to bet that we'll see them knocked out in short order (even if not by Apple).

That still doesn't mean you can directly play Ogg files on an iPod. You can play them to some degree if you install uCLinux on your iPod first. From there you could use an Ogg player for Linux. Sure it's a hack, but it's not impossible. And what kind of geek are you if you can't get worked up over a kluge like that? Sheesh.

Where the heck are points when you need them? Others have answered, but they can't be seen for lack of points. Guess I'll have to go Karma Whore instead.

It's unclear right at this hour if you can play Ogg Vobis on the Windows version of iTunes. You certainly can get the Mac version to do it. The fine folks at Mac OS X Hints have an article with links to everything you need.

Then again, over at SourceForge one can find a QuickTime component to support Ogg. Hmm, iTunes runs on QT... SourcForge has a Ogg QT component for Win32... maybe this works after all? As I said, there may be some kinks in the Windows version right now but I'm willing to bet that we'll see them knocked out in short order (even if not by Apple).

That still doesn't mean you can directly play Ogg files on an iPod. You can play them to some degree if you install uCLinux on your iPod first. From there you could use an Ogg player for Linux. Sure it's a hack, but it's not impossible. And what kind of geek are you if you can't get worked up over a kluge like that? Sheesh.

I think this is what you're looking for: Linux box as an iTunes music server

Is it possible to use rendezvous so I don't have to deal with mounting the samba share and all that?

Check out this daapd howto - a iTunes server for Linux.

There's another similar project on Sourceforge, but I can't remember what it's called

This hint at MacOSXHints.com has a comment regarding ripping from multiple disks. I know it is a Mac OSX site, and all that - but it might help. I dunno...

Yes, it does, just buy virtual PC. I've heard that it is fairly usable even on a 400MHz iBook, especially if you install a haxie that lets you quit the finder. I haven't tried it though, so don't take my word for it.

I could reasonably be described as a 'Mac fanatic' I guess, but I won't flame you. I will point out that if your dual G5 is that slow at copying a mere 17 meg file, there must be something wrong. My new 1 GHz G4 eMac is blindingly instantaneous when copying files. Check out Mac OS X Hints or Macfixit for some tips on speeding up your machine. Or get one of the many excellent O'Reilly Mac books.

I am a Mac OS X user and recently read an interesting hint on the Mac OS X Hints website.

It appears that simply blocking sitefinder.versign.com leads to a rather unpleasant 'timeout' error in a browser: a long wait prior to a timeout is hardly better than an instant appearance of VeriSign's SiteFinder service.

However, one of the users, in the comments on the hint, noted that "[w]hen you type an incorrect URL, the Verisign DNS server actually returns an IP address, which is that of sitefinder-idn.verisign.com."

He continues, "Blocking the sitefinder-idn.verisign.com server in the manner recommended in this hint would save a fraction of a second but the main problem with this hint is that it suggests blocking the response when a far more efficient method would be to block the outgoing request. The system tells the browser that permission is denied for this request and the browser passes that information along immediately. Thus, the rule I use is:

sudo ipfw add 1170 deny tcp from any to 64.94.110.11 setup

I have been using this rule without any noticeable problems. Perhaps it might be of use to others?

I am a Mac OS X user and recently read an interesting hint on the Mac OS X Hints website.

It appears that simply blocking sitefinder.versign.com leads to a rather unpleasant 'timeout' error in a browser: a long wait prior to a timeout is hardly better than an instant appearance of VeriSign's SiteFinder service.

However, one of the users, in the comments on the hint, noted that "[w]hen you type an incorrect URL, the Verisign DNS server actually returns an IP address, which is that of sitefinder-idn.verisign.com."

He continues, "Blocking the sitefinder-idn.verisign.com server in the manner recommended in this hint would save a fraction of a second but the main problem with this hint is that it suggests blocking the response when a far more efficient method would be to block the outgoing request. The system tells the browser that permission is denied for this request and the browser passes that information along immediately. Thus, the rule I use is:

sudo ipfw add 1170 deny tcp from any to 64.94.110.11 setup

I have been using this rule without any noticeable problems. Perhaps it might be of use to others?

BTW - where did you hear Borland dropped Mac support because of language adherence? I've never heard that. I heard more that people were simply picking Eclipse or Project Builder over JBuilder. I'm not sure why. What little I've played with it JBuilder seemed pretty nice, although my Java friends all seem to dislike its auto-code generation.

Admittedly Borland has been pushing their .NET plans a lot. I'm not sure if that will end up working for them though. As nice as their product is, it doesn't offer that much more compelling than Visual Studio other than their UML integration. (Which admittedly is pretty damn cool - but I wonder how many in practice use UML)

nicl . -create /users/yourusernamehere shell "/bin/tcsh"

or whatever shell you want to stick in between the quotes, or use the NetInfo Utility to go and tweak it in a GUI...

Maybe that's a typo. (I don't have my OSX laptop with me to double check at the moment). But how I did this very same thing, was the way described in this article. The command they describe in the article reads:

niutil -createprop . /users/joebob shell /bin/bash

That article I linked to above also has info on how to do it the GUI way with the netinfo utility. Trying to do it the standard Linux "chsh" way or or the "vipw" way gets you nowhere as OSX is yp based (yp is another name for NIS).

Although I hear they may be moving to openldap for future releases of the MacOS as part of their "Open Directory" initiative. OD looks like it may be a nice alternative to the Windoze version of the same thing. Of course, MS pretty much got their idea for AD from Novell's directory services. Can't them boys think up anythin' on they own?

Funny, when I started this post I think I was ontopic. What were we talking about again?

:0B:
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virus

The idea is courtesy from the macosx forum

FYI-- MacOSXHints.com published a set of filter instructions that would filter out this crap. I prefer some of the strategies in the comments, but for non-vulnerable machines, I guess this is the only thing to do.

FYI-- MacOSXHints.com published a set of filter instructions that would filter out this crap. I prefer some of the strategies in the comments, but for non-vulnerable machines, I guess this is the only thing to do.

Apple document outlining some great OSX key shortcuts:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=754 59
This info was on MacOSXHints.com today.

(2) Form Spell Check (I'm Soaking in it)

I write my posts, etc., in text editors first, and then paste things in. I find text editors are more stable (and manipulate text better) than Web browsers. (And OmniWeb does like to crash, you know.)

(3) Self Updating Bookmarks Through The Dock

What do you mean? Are you cluttering up your Dock with bookmarks? More info, please. :)

(4) Self-Fixing Bookmarks

I seem to recall typing "www.slashdot.org" for a bookmark and Camino asking if I wanted to redirect it permanently to "slashdot.org" once the URL resolved.

(5) Superior Cookie Management (Three Levels)

No more complex than Mozilla. Deny, accept, accept and discard at end of session. You can also whitelist/blacklist sites so you don't get cookies from anywhere you don't want to get them from.

(6) Programmable Address Bar Searches (Google, VersionTracker.. etc)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s -- Create a new bookmark with that as the location and the title as "google". Type "google string" to search what you want from the URL bar, exactly like OmniWeb. Repeat for other sites with %s as your variable.

(7) Ad Blocking (And Yes OmniWeb Has Pop-up Blocking Too)

Hey.

(9) Extensive Source View, Edit, Publishing Capabilities

You haven't seen Hydra, I take it.

(10) Fully Voice Activated Interface and Link Navigation

Voice recognition sucks on computers, and you look dumb when you do it. Not a feature.

(11) Speakable Pages (Useful When Your Eyes Just Can't Read Anymore)

Other browsers do this, too, via the Services menu. Highlight text and click "Start Speaking".

(12) Browser Compatibility Settings

(13) JavaScript Compatibility Settings (Can Tie in or out With #11)

(14) JavaScript Bookmarklets

Don't even begin to pretend like other browsers don't have these features.

(15) Application Helper Settings For Downloads

This rocks harder.

(16) Network Activity Monitor (Similar to Mail.app's)

What activity are you monitoring?

(17) Much More that I'm Overlooking

Uh-huh.

I'm not saying Omni is a bad browser. It isn't. I used it for a long time, and loved it, but honestly, it doesn't have anything worth $30 that other browsers or programs have for free or less money.

I just browsed through the sample chapter and its full of usefull hints such as editing the book templates with Apple's developer tools. This is a great book for for people who are new to Macs or aren't tech-heads.

OTOH, any Mac geek can find all of this info easily at MacOSXHints.com

All you need to become a power user for an iApp is a bit of spare time, experimentation, and perhaps the help of Mac OS X Hints. You really shouldn't need a book, especially for a program as simple as iPhoto.

there's always the astronomy pic of the day

And for those of us with OSX, there's a macosxhints article that helps you rotate your desktop pic with the APotD

Here's at least one way do encrypt your home directory in Jaguar - a little less tricky is encrypting only particular directories like you speak of. I believe it is done by mounting an encrypted volume, so if you don't log in no other user will be able to see the directory contents.

I think in Panther they just made this feature accessible "to the rest of us" with no trickery to make it work. Perhaps they wanted to wait for a journaled file system to make this feature official, lest people accidentally corrupt a whole encrypted directory bundle...

If you turn on the Debug menu, one of its options is a list of alternate User Agents. Thanks to MacOS X Hints for a refresher (defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1).

Try reading this

I bought the book primarily because I use Rob's Site constantly and he's had a very plain policy on no advertising to put any of his editorial into doubt on the site.

The guy has a full-time job, he's got one of the best resources on the web to help with under-the-hood OS X action, and he's got principals I happen to dig. He also busts his ass on the site.

I bought my copy of the book to support him, period. I've got several more on order now to give as gifts to friends who are making the transition (art director and photographer types) who could use a guided tour under the hood of OS X that doesn't make them feel like morons or *cough* 'Dummies'. Let's face it -- the dummies, missing manual and like books are made for grandma. I'm trying to show these guys all the cool new stuff you can do once you peek under the hood to get them excited about the change instead of dreading it.

Just the simple fact that his site has a way to re-enable Sendmail within a day or so of a patch that cripples it is enough for me -- I've gotten my money's worth out of the osascript stuff already as well.

I'll happily spring for the Panther/Smeagol (dual personality?) version once it's released as well. It's the least I can do.

Those are the two big questions in my mind. I've submitted a few hints myself.

If there's a PDF version, then it should be searchable, making it FAR more useful.

Those are the two big questions in my mind. I've submitted a few hints myself.

If there's a PDF version, then it should be searchable, making it FAR more useful.

You can also try this hint, but I couldn't get it to work.

To the previous poster suggesting libdbx: it converts Outlook Exprees data files, not Outlook .pst files. For conversion of .pst files to mbox, you'll nedd libPST. Only problem is, the released version of libPST doesn't support little endian machines w/o a code rewrite. The maintainer did release an OS X friendly version (0.4) but M$ threatened with a cease and desist letter.

Hope some of my blabbing has helped...

Bob

Also, you can get the bluetooth adaptor from expansys and get your TCP/IP on (OSX Win32)

strange, the OSX solution is free. hmm.

If you enable the Debug menu there is a menu to masquerade as another browser. I haven't tried it, but it should do the trick.

Is it just me or do many of these appear to be tips rather than hacks? A tip is some obscure way how to do stuff. A hack is modifying binary files to do something. For instance, I consider this, and this to be tips, with the latter bordering on a hack; but this is a hack in my book. Of course, this is an "easier" hack than some, like taking out copy protection and the like. But we then border on a crack.

Is it just me or do many of these appear to be tips rather than hacks? A tip is some obscure way how to do stuff. A hack is modifying binary files to do something. For instance, I consider this, and this to be tips, with the latter bordering on a hack; but this is a hack in my book. Of course, this is an "easier" hack than some, like taking out copy protection and the like. But we then border on a crack.

Is it just me or do many of these appear to be tips rather than hacks? A tip is some obscure way how to do stuff. A hack is modifying binary files to do something. For instance, I consider this, and this to be tips, with the latter bordering on a hack; but this is a hack in my book. Of course, this is an "easier" hack than some, like taking out copy protection and the like. But we then border on a crack.