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Go to the Apple Store. Apple offers several tower G4s that boot into Mac OS 9.

Carbon Copy Cloner will let you move your boot disk around while you repartition your drives - if that's the course you want to take. You can't RAID two different-sized drives together, so forget about that. On the other hand, if you feel like getting a second 80GB drive and selling your...

Reinstall the system and then download and run the 10.2.6 Combo Updater. This latest version of Mac OS X is exceedingly stable. Before you reinstall the system run Disk Utility and do a Repair Permissions on your startup disk. Also, if you can boot off another disk and run DiskWarrior all the...

Yeah, I'd say go for it. A system reinstall is going to set you back a day but the result is going to be a more stable and responsive system. I recently had to reinstall and it had a certain amount of suckage because I have a lot of customized elements, but the system has been a bit quicker...

Virtual PC should be great on the G5. The main bottleneck for VPC on existing Mac hardware is the memory bandwidth, and on the G5 the bandwidth is amazing.

Apple offers G4s that boot into Mac OS 9 right now. This Link might take you there unless it's a session-based thing. In any case go to the Apple Store site and you'll see a link for G4 "Supports both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9."

What is the type of file your program makes? You cannot forcibly take over the default opener for file types which already have a handler. However, if your file is unique you could give it a unique type and extension that no other programs understand. That said, if you're setting the file's...

I'm a Konfabulator expert! Anarchie has it right.

Hmm, I've never tried debugging perl like that, but in most input sessions a CTRL-D usually signifies the end of input.

Everything noted here except the bit about losing sudo after a system update is covered in... man sudo ! "By default, sudo requires that users authenticate themselves with a password (NOTE: by default this is the user's password, not the root password)." So me give good advice.

I keep a script around for those odd occasions when the trash won't empty, either because of a permissions problem or because the file has its "immutable" flags set. I call it "nuke": #!/bin/sh chflags -R nouchg,noschg ~/.Trash/* rm -rf ~/.Trash/* I keep it in my ~/bin folder where I can...

And.... Pressing Command-Shift-V in the Terminal will copy and paste whatever text is currently selected without polluting the clipboard.

Hmm, take a look at StepWise and Apple's Unix Page for a start.

One essential thing is to install the X11 developer package which Apple provides. It is located in the margin of Apple's main X11 download page. Once you have this installed you should be able to build a lot of X11 packages. One that I have enjoyed playing with was X-Cruise, a 3D file browser.

Why do you expect a randomly created file that happens to be named "issues" and happens to be in /etc should do anything at all? I'm just curious where you heard that /etc/issues was a meaningful file. I've used a bunch of Unix systems and never heard of this file. Things in /etc don't...

I believe you have /etc/issues. I don't see this file on my system, and I can't imagine why you do.

iTunes has a built-in function called Consolidate Library. It removes duplicates. Find it in the Advanced menu.

Well, maybe you can ask these guys.

What exactly is an .ace file? Where did it come from? Are you referring to the dump file produced by the ACeDB program? Or is it an Eiffel frozen project file? Or is it a Consed file? Or is it some other type of file?

man sudo