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I'm still wary of TextEdit not getting the UNIX-style hard returns correct -- any word on this? (Or for that matter, accidentally making an important file an RTF file! Bad news...) I use pico and emacs just to be sure what I see is what I save. But I'm not sure that TextEdit messes up -- I'm...

you heve to go to Apple's developer site (free registration required) and download their 70meg (ouch...) developer tools. Note that you must not unstuff it with the version of stuffit expander that shipped with PB -- instead use v6.0 or just the CLI tar/gzip tools. This includes cc (a gcc...

You might want to take a gander at this thread at MacNN. A main Applescript guy at Apple listens to and answers questions and suggestions about the future of Applescript on OS X. The thread is really long, but it is very interesting, and the Apple guy really knows his stuff, and cares a lot...

Apple is predominantly a hardware company. If it ported its OS over to Intel, it would be taking a huge bite out of its profits -- and the gains in OS sales are certainly not guaranteed to make up for a revenue hit like that. Anyhow, Apple innovation has always been spurred by the fact that...

Here's a start, but I'm no scripting master. Terminal services take the hilighted text and use that as a parameter passed to a CLI program. For example, I believe the "count words" service just takes the text and sends it to some permutation of grep, etc. Looking in the terminal prefs under...

good question. On the PB release, it was entirely possible for this to work. On new releases, not only is it broken, but there is error-checking that seems to imply that Apple has taken steps to (for the time being) prevent X from booting on older systems. (according to macosrumors.com -- not...

I ran into this problem, too. Running the CD as master on one IDE bus and the drive I wanted to install to as master on the other pretty much fixed it when I installed the PB. However, when I tried to install 4K17, this didn't work. Then I remembered about how somtimes IDE can be fussy about...

AFAIK, the one selling is the "international release" of the old PB (Build number 2E14?) A leaked version similar to the MWSF version is 4K17 (and 4K29), which have been circulating as of late -- but they are pretty unstable and hardly suitable for use, much less for Apple to ship as a...

v on the public beta command-v on 4K17 s and command-s for single user mode (respectively). Zach

have you run "strings" on the dock executable yet? A lot of the other hacks that were "broken" in the new builds still work, with minor modifications to the text of the hack. (Like the all the hacks on desktop.app don't work because now its finder.app.) Anyhow, strings dumps out all the...

Do you have the link to that story? According to this one, the opposite is true, and in fact the Apple guy talking sounds pretty clueless about the problems with the MWSF dock iteration. Read on: Look into!? This is a totally obvious thing to do! They should have been all over that... It...

I asked for exactly the same things a few days ago, VGZ. Uncanny. (Or perhaps not... did we both read the wincent review?) Anyhow, my thinking now is that 4K17 isn't even as advanced as the MWSF version (can't drag preferences.app items into the dock, for example), and I'm sure many features...

4K17's classic doesn't play nice with OS 9.1... Though I'm not sure why the install wouldn't have moved the system folder to the "OS 9 folder" unless maybe it doesn't even look for systems > 9.0.4. My suggestion is making a new partition for 4K17 (you really need to do this -- 4K17 is a...

Have you tried running disk first aid (both the X version in X and the 9 version off the CD)? If you have Norton, give that a whirl (though make sure you have the latest version -- check these fora for some reported problems with Norton and OS X.) There's probably some little thing wrong the...

OK, so I've been reading all about build 4K17, in which the root password is NOT the sam as the password you type in. In fact, the only way to get root access is to open NetInfoManager, and forcably delete the encrypted root password and paste in a copy of the encrypted (but known) admin...

IIRC, the permissions for the applications folder are such that only root can modify it. (There needs to bea little "unlock" button on it or something in final.) Anyhow, my details might not be exactly right, but that's close. You need to change the folder permissions to allow your user to...

Did you mount the disk image before you burned it? (but you get what you pay for. real developer seed CDs don't have this problem). Anyhow, if you mounted the image, it is broken. Maybe you can fix it, or maybe you have to find another fresh copy. This problem has been noted since at least...

There's been some discussion of whether "classic" will come bundled with OSX or you'll need a separate OS 9 install to run it. Either case, OS X will be standalone unless you want classic. But given the amount of effort and PR Apple's been putting into "OS X Runs Classic Applications" and the...

Lots of people do this all of the time. 99% of them lose for the simple reason that it is not possible to prove that Apple (or whatever company) wasn't already thinking the same thing. There's a large body of law about unsolicited submissions, etc, and most of it does NOT side with the submitter...

http://www.darwinfo.org and http://www.mrcla.com/XonX have good primers. Basically you go to Xfree's website, download binaries or source, and then follow the directions for installing. You need to be pretty comfortable with the terminal and BSD, and you also need the developer tools from...