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Yeah, I'm not too big on the holy wars nonsense either. I just want a shell with convenient interactive features, and I'll do all the programming with perl. ;-) I'll just stick with tcsh for now. Frankly I think it's got bash beaten in terms of an interactive shell. And it might be a little bit...

That's just the thing, I don't want to get used to it. The beeping is extremely irritating, and pressing tab twice is almost equally so. Am I to understand that there's no way to configure this in bash? Guess I'd better go download the source... Heh.

How do I configure it? I want it to behave as in tsch, i.e. no obnoxious beeping on ambiguity, and automatically listing all possible matches without hitting tab twice. I can't find any good documentation on setting this up.

Can you boot from the OS 9 CD, run Disk Utility, and choose Update Drivers? Or is the small partition for it not there?

I nominate that for Best Post Ever. And Giaguara, that reminds me of Ghostbusters. ;-) Jeanine: "Do you have any hobbies?" Egon: "I collect spores, molds, and fungus."

It shouldn't. The virus will be completely Windows based (most likely,) and even if copied to your OS X filesystem, couldn't even do anything since the OS/CPU can't run it anyway. Unless of course someone actually designed a virus to leverage the OS integration of Virtual PC to get a...

Okay, startup scripts removed. I'll see if it's all better next time I reboot. Thanks.

So I had Brickhouse installed for a little while to configure ipfw. Now I don't want it anymore, but the Firewall in the Sharing prefs tells me other firewall software is running. I've tried every method I can think of to disable Brickhouse completely, but I've apparently missed something. Do...

Alright, thanks for the input. I'll probably just do the ol' educational discount thing, too. It's not like I need it immediately.

Well, how about Mouse Keys in the Universal Access Preferences? It'll let you at least use the numeric keypad as a mouse.

Here's the scenario: I'm sitting in class, my iBook is connected to the campus network via 802.11b, and around 6:30 PM, the signal disappears. Attempts to reconnect fail with the usual message - "There was an error joining the selected AirPort network." Since then, I haven't been able to connect...

Good point. Does 'sudo passwd root' work as expected?

Hmm, if you do it from single user mode, you'll have to remount the root disk to read/write mode (I'm pretty sure it tells you how right on the console.) And will you have to bring up Netinfo manually to even change the password? In any case, I'm sure it could be simplified to a sequence of...

Weird. Mine always heads left. I'm tempted to just chmod a-w the sound prefs file, like the a-x fix_prebinding I did (long story,) but then I wouldn't be able to change the volume. Argh. Too bad you can't change permissions on byte ranges inside the file.

Well, at least we know it's not an isolated issue. That's a good start.

Yeah, ftp is great for what it is, but the whole idea of passive clients just doesn't work with modern security. Frankly I think active mode should be made the default for anything outside the subnet. Maybe I'll have to do a little source code hacking. ;-)

This is extremely weird, and just as annoying. On my iBook, pretty much since the first version of OS X, the audio balance will reset itself off center making things sound horrible. I can go and change it, but like clockwork, it will be off again in a few days. Today, it was almost completely at...

Basically, I see exactly what you see, but the input box only shows up when using some really old app that probably isn't fully supported by the IM. So far, I haven't been able to figure out what toggles this. I've seen the input bar show up in some Cocoa apps that normally don't need it...

Hmm, I usually only see the input box show up when I'm entering text into some old Carbon app. Try disabling font and keyboard synchronization in the input menu tab's Options button. Maybe it's just getting confused. If I think of anything else, I'll let you know, but it's hard to configure the...

Try active ftp. Start up the ftp client, connect to the server, and use the command "passive." That will make your client connect to the server on port 20, rather than having the server connect back to you with the data connection. Passive ftp behind a firewall is a pain in the ass. Take it from...