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  • [quote]Originally posted by hekal: Go figure
    in XP Error Comment by hekal May 2002
  • Hmmm IDE drives No on-board video.. PCI card??? What kinda crap is that.. Put an on-board RAID controller and SCSI drives.
    in Tuesday's announcement will be more than just server hardware. Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by MacGP: [code] #!/bin/sh while [ 1 ] do /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit done save this as a file, let's say, 'keepup' then, make it executable: chmod a+x keepup And run it: ./keepup T…
    in In search of AppleScript or Cocoa Developer Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Aslan: I think... not 100% sure but... I think it was in 10.1.2 that they repaired custom drive icons. (they were broken previous to this update) Funny, I didn't even realize it was fixed till my friend pointed …
    in Custom HD Icons Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by EmAn: Couldn't you always use a custom icon? I could not in 10.0.x. Last time I tried was like 10.1.0 and I could not.
    in Custom HD Icons Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX: In 10.2 you can make it so a user can only run specific programs the admin allows. In 10.1, though, I suspect you might could chmod the program so only the admin can run it. I've never tried this, tho…
    in Disabling keychain Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX: Mac users are some of the most critical computer users when it comes to interface design and the general "feel" of programs. Because of this critical eye, the Mac experience is usually far more pleasant than …
    in OSX = NeXTStep Comment by hekal May 2002
  • Neither, until it supports Yahoo/MSN.
    in what will iChat be replacing on your os X system?? Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by kim kap sol: I don't understand why they would fake something like this... Cuz SpyMac is full of crap
    in Jaguar screen shots please Comment by hekal May 2002
  • In modern times, OS9 is a joke of an OS. What makes OS X more vulnerable is that it's a Unix-based OS. There are exploits found for zlib, sudo, apache, openssh, etc... if you watch all the cert advisories and keep on top of things you will not see a…
    in Is OS 9 more secure than OS X? Comment by hekal May 2002
  • I don't see that happening. You can code Obj-C for Windows, but I am not seeing Cocoa APIs coming anytime soon.
    in Whither cocoa for windows? Comment by hekal May 2002
  • Oh well, I boughtg the O'Reilly. I will complete the book and move on.
    in Cocoa Programming Comment by hekal May 2002
  • Thanks for the advice guys. After I finish O'Reilly I will pick up Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX and give it a whirl. I am determined to learn Cocoa and ObjC.
    in Cocoa Programming Comment by hekal May 2002
  • I will go through all of this book, and then move on to more. The book does seem like it's geared to the more experienced programmer. I can pick this up, no problem. I just need some good resources. Carbon sux javascript: x() Eek!
    in Cocoa Programming Comment by hekal May 2002
  • Thanks for the input. Do not fear, I am not giving up on Obj-C. There are several utilties I want and it looks as if I will need to code them myself.
    in Cocoa Programming Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Canuck: But, to be fair its all been done before. Apple just integrated, it didn't innovate. I agree to a point. Was it not Apple engineers who developed NeXT, the system on which X is based? NeXT was far ahead …
    in New to Mac & OSX; What is all the fuss about? Comment by hekal May 2002
  • Fear the Jedi threading powers of BeOS.
    in Multithreading Comment by hekal May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by BRussell: I don't think this thread is pointless at all. Jagwire = built-in P2P filesharing. It's like they bought the Gnutella network and made it standard on all Macs. It's going to be a golden age of piracy among …
    in Peer to Peer sharing Comment by hekal May 2002
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    in FreeBSD 4.4: What does this mean for OS X? Comment by hekal May 2002
  • Never heard of 10.0.1.5. I am running 10.1.4. Using username "gary". gary@hekal's password: Welcome to Darwin! [hekalmac:~] gary% ls -l /System/Library/StartupItems/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 264 Sep 7 2001 Accounting …
    in restarting networking daemons without restarting Comment by hekal May 2002