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    need to retrieve automatically saved password

    Hi everyone, My grandfather does not remember his password on a Mac computer. I am trying to figure it out for him, because his gmail account logs in automatically. Is there some way I can get the password for him, is it saved somewhere? Regards, Ted
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    Trouble with textmate

    Hi everyone, I am trying to use textmate from commandline as: mate file.txt but it doesn't work anymore after adding /sw/lib to my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is annoying because I want to be able add "/sw/lib" to my path as I have some programs there I want to use. How can I fix this issue...
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    How do I make MacOS work with Java6

    Yeah I have changed the preferences, it looks like the picture in the attachment.
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    How do I make MacOS work with Java6

    No. I have regular leopard OSX. Ted
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    How do I make MacOS work with Java6

    I cannot change where the Home directory of java is pointing to. I go to java preferences and set it to work with Java 6, but it keeps setting me to Java 5 when I set the JAVA_HOME='/Library/Java/Home' in my .Profile file. Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build...
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    accessing another users folders on my macbook pro

    Hi everyone, I have created a new user to install and work with hadoop. I find it annoying though that I cannot put stuff in the gui while I am in hadoop's home directory. Is there a way to allow my default user account to have access and permission on the user hadoop. Any help...
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    Browser keeps redirecting me to other stupid pages

    Hi SatComer, I tried what you told me to, but I don't see how I can remove the ip addresses that are listed under the DNS; I cannot even select them. Unless you really mean DND, but there is no such tab from what I see. Anyway, I have also noticed that I do not get this problem when I am at...
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    Browser keeps redirecting me to other stupid pages

    I see the following DNS Servers: 213.109.65.43 213.109.72.201 Search Domains: phub.net.cable.rogers.com Some of the pages that seem to redirect me: http://apps.facebook.com/cityville/tracks.php?src=ads&aff=31&crt=CV_Acq_IntlTier1_Eng-Speaking_20101112_CA Anywhere else where the...
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    Browser keeps redirecting me to other stupid pages

    I think I did what you just described a while ago. I'll try that DNSTrojan removal tool. Thanks for your help. Actually, I just tried it. It does not detect a DNSChanger trojan, so it is probably a different bug. Ted.
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    Browser keeps redirecting me to other stupid pages

    Hi everyone, I am using google chrome in my macbook pro, but the whenever I search something in google and click on some of the links I get redirected to annoying pages like...
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    playing sound from command line

    Hi everyone, I need to play a sound from command line, but without actually opening itunes or any of the sort. Anyone know how to do this? Ted.
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    Need to convert images in batch.

    Hi everyone, I need to convert a bunch of images with that are gif to png. I would like to do this in a batch instead of doing the process all myself. Any help appreciated, Ted.
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    trying to send email through script

    Trying to send mail with the following script, I substitute $1 with the email address I want to send the email to. #!/bin/bash # script to send simple email # email subject SUBJECT="SET-EMAIL-SUBJECT" # Email To ? EMAIL="$1" # Email text/message EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt"...
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    How to upgrade ruby on MacOS

    Hi everyone, I want to upgrade ruby from 1.8.6 to 1.9.1. I've tried searching for a package on fink, but I only find version 1.8.6. I've also thought about building 1.9.1 from source, but I'm afraid it might screw up a lot of things. Ted.
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    passwordless ssh

    I did that before I started using SSH Keychain, but what I understand is that you have type it once for every terminal you start. (The agent must be running and the keys must be added to it. I'm not sure if this is done once, or every time you start the computer). Anyhow once I started using...
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    passwordless ssh

    Hi everyone, Is it possible to setup keychain access to work with sshagent such that I'm not requested password when I try to ssh to machines that I have already entered password for? I've heard of this SSHKeyChain tool, but I'm not sure if I need it for this. Ted.
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    downloading a file from command line

    Ah sorry, I posted it in the wrong forum, and then I couldn't find it within that forum. So I posted it in this one.
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    downloading a file from command line

    Hi everyone, I connect to a computer through ssh, but I want to download a file through the commandline on that computer, found in an ftp website: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ how to I do this? Ted
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    downloading a file from command line

    Hi everyone, I connect to a computer through ssh, but I want to download a file through the commandline on that computer, found in an ftp website: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ how to I do this? Ted
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    annoying unwanted behavior

    Mostly CentOS, Red Hat Linux.
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