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the console was completely shot; mouse pointer moved, but that was about it. Logging in via telnet (or ssh) worked, but not even killing all processes belonging to the logged in user helped to recover the console. shutdown -r now did, however, recover the machine. In my case it was a mix...

FTP server is a TiBook 500 (we're talking old here) FTP client is a win2k box transfer of a same file from Ti to win: 57671680 bytes in 7.50 seconds (7689.56 KB/s) 57671680 bytes in 4.94 seconds (11681.52 KB/s) First attempt was slower, because it was limited by the raw platter speed of...

I can get you one; you did not say that it has to actually work :)

AKA biod in Sun NFS implementation, is the readahead daemon for NFS client operations. Depending on the amount of concurrent NFS accesses, you want to have more or less of them; 4 will handle 4 concurrent accesses. OTOH, if you don't use NFS, you can turn the whole thing off When running...

are not ever stored on the system, not even encrypted. Instead, in modified DES encription scheme used by default in OS X, passwords are used to encrypt (20 times) one of 4096 known 8 byte strings; the result of this encryption is stored. On login, the same starting string is encrypted...

Get Horowitz and Hill "The Art of Electronics". It will help you devise the plans (and probably save your life, too). BTW, soldering gun is a dangerous weapon, intended for mass destruction of semiconductive parts. If you want to do anything other than solder resistors to each other in the...

As to why, it is probably because English is not Danish, and the orthography rules for punctuation differ. As to Oxford Dictionary vs. Chicago Manual of Style, it is probably because UK English is not US English, and the orthography rules for punctuation differ. Should I keep picking the nit?

No. But you sure can grep :)

Sorry for misleading you; it states that it is intended to work (i.e. that is the intended purpose of the keywords), but it does not work on OS X (lack of full driver support). Maybe that is the reason OS X keeps the ancient 4.2BSD manpage for ifconfig. Oddly enough, alias seems to work (and...

for media and mediaopt is okay, but the drivers seem to drop them on the floor (media with operation not supported, mediaopt silently) Bug submitted.

Complicated makefiles are sure sign of lacking frameworks. Let us examine a makefile needed to create an executable on OS X: PROG= myprog .include <bsd.prog.mk> will convert myprog.c into myprog, and myprog.1 into manpage myprog.1.gz If you need more source files: PROG= myprog...

would have helped if it were up to date; better manpage is on FreeBSD 3.2 and later. There are 2 new keywords: media and mediaopt. Both are recognized by OS X ifconfig, but the en interface driver does not support media change (i.e. speed and phy). mediaopt seems to be accepted, but...

Basically, only apps available in source can be executed on Darwin, unless somebody builds an emulation layer supporting non Darwing syscalls. If such layer is available, then given the availability of all needed emulated system libraries, one can run PPC binaries. Your CorelWord is a x86...

tar cf - sourcedir | ( cd $backupdir; tar xf - ) This will not be faster on big files, but on small files it will tend to read a bunch and write a bunch which is usually somewhat more efficient. Also, it will pick up symlinks as symlinks, rather than copies; gnutar will try to do the right...

use find startdir -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 rm -print0 and -0 in order to handle correctly filenames with whitespace in them. (both zero looking characters are indeed zeroes) startdir is the name of the directory where you want to have your search started; if /, it will...

Good; there is a lot of tedious work (and probably some actuall fun work) to get the useful front-end done right. Bad tedious/fun work ratio is probably the reason why nobody has done it (right; there have been attempts at it) yet. And, I will pretend that I did not see your postscriptum...

Sorry Joseph, I did not mean to hurt your feelings. If you want to do something really useful, how about extending this cvs frontend into a fully fledged CM tool, together with visual representation of branches and (wishful thinking) directory versioning, merge annotations, visual assistance in...

what's wrong with cvs login? how difficult is it to type?

That guy has not been around when &lt;deity of his choice&gt; has been passing brains. Sometimes I wonder whether free speech is such good an idea, especially considering young and/or easily impressionable. In their corrupt minds, these people will not even listen to the classical definition...

Well, son, when I was a your age in late eighties, we had all those marvellous things around: Amiga, Atari, Apple, BSD, acid rock, 286 PCs, (D)ARPAnet, Cray, SUNs, VAXen, MIPSen...you would not believe the variety