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1) OS X PB can't mount PD formatted Zip's -- are you sure yours is Mac formatted? (I only ask because all mine are PC disks...) But then it should ask if you want to format it, huh? Hmm. 2) Select a document in the finder and "Get Info" on it. Then go to the "Applications" pane and select a...

Hey -- re-read that paragraph! It specifies quite clearly that (despite the "do not consider" sentence) that Apple can and may use any good idea you send them. And Vroom's point about "unsolicited" is important. And if you listened to Jobs's keynote, you would have heard a lot about the...

Thanks a lot! (Sorry for not searching first...) Any idea if mount sends the passwords securely? Or is it cleartext (ugh!)? I have heard tell that it is possible to encrypt any TCP stream... but I'm not sure how to do so. Any ideas? Zach

I didn't know you could mount AFP disks! That's something i'd like to do -- does it just go through the mount command? (Once I get this done, I'll tell you if I have the same problem...) Zach

OS X doesn't support ext2 natively. UFS is the UNIX filesystem that OS X supports. ext2 is more of a LINIX filesystem that some unices support, IIRC. (And I may be wrong about the last part, but I am sure OS X won't install on / read from ext2) Zach

First I would like to mention that people now have XFree86 running side-by-side with aqua. It's pretty cool (and hopefully only getting better). Basically, there is a hotkey to switch from X11 back to OS X, and then to go back, you click on a docked application. Way faster than VNC...

Well strobe thinks this is an idiot idea, but I really would like to see a VNC Server for quartz. This probably entais finding a way to get at the quartz framebuffer, then porting code. So probably not a terribly interesting project, unless you're totally into VNC. And here are some ideas for...

This brings up a lot of interesting things. <TT> [axlotl:~] zpincus% defaults read com.apple.finder DesktopViewOptions { ArrangeBy = grid; BackgroundFlags = 0; BackgroundPictureURL = "file://localhost/omega/pictures+movies/Desktops/fezpower_1024.jpg"; BackgroundType =...

Where would Apple have been using symlinks? The dock uses some wierd plist mechanism that is neither link nor alias to keep track of its files. The OS 9 finder has the same problem with misplacing sherlock (I did this intentionally so when I hit command-F the old (fast, commercial-free) find...

unzip 5.22 is installed on my machine and works fine. But I installed the dev tools, and I can't remember if it was there before. I assume you have checked if it is there? Zach

You need a piece of software called "Portreflector" or similar (look on versiontracker) to make modem connections available to classic apps. Zach

The fact that the sherlock location seems to be hard-coded into desktop.app does strike me as a bit of a bug... but then again, I think that the same problem appears in OS 9. I looked through all the plist files, but none contain a path to sherlock, so I can't help there. I do want to note...

Logging in as >console from the login screen (no password) takes you to the console login. But if it doesn't accept your root password in the terminal, it won't from the console login... Make sure you're typing the password correctly and that the caps lock is off. If it still doesn't accept...

Strobe -- A lot of people find virtual workspaces very useful. Just like a lot of people find a desktop littered with drives and files useful. People think in different ways, and that needs to be respected. There's really no reason to suggest that other people's workflows are somehow improper...

Strobe -- I know this, and I think my last post made that pretty clear. My question was if you knew the status of SOM in OS X, and if Contextual Menu Modules were SOMObjects or depended on SOM some other way. If you have an answer, or remember where you saw that CMM's could be carbonized, I...

I may be way off, but I thought CMMs were instances of SOMObjects, the last vestiges of the OpenDoc libraries liscensed from IBM. I further thought that SOMObjects were to be banished from OS X... But I am not entirely sure on either count. Strobe, I remember a few posts you made about trying...

Typing open -a appname will open an application named appname if it is in the Applications folder (I don't know if open can find apps in subfolders thereof.) Just typing ./Stickies.app doesn't work because "Stickies.app" is a folder that contains the application and its resources. (You could...

AFAIK, OS X by default natively supports HFS, HFS+ and UFS. Check the Darwin developer info or CVS tree at Apple to see if anyone has built in other FS capabilities. I don't know of any, but that certainly doesn't mean they aren't there. Zach

I just configured OS X to print to an Appletalk printer over an ethernet network. I assure you that Appletalk printing IS supported. (Localtalk printing, however, is not.) Anyhow, could you tell me your setup and where the problem lies? (Good idea: Go into OS 9 -- does the printer show up in...

I'm afraid I can't help you, but I must indicate that networked laser printing, unlike local (USB or localtalk) printing, should work in the beta. This is because the laser printing is based a lot off the UNIX lpr command, which is properly implemented, AFAIK. If you hve any "fancy" printing...