Mac Systems

Latest Chrome Beta is available
A new version of Chrome!! We've already installed it--you know you want it! Try it out now? -- Wes Groleau Ostracism: A practice of sticking your head in the sand. ... 5 May 2010 19:23

help in single user mode...
My hard drive crashed... I'm in single user mode. I did the fsck and it gave an error indicating the drive was bed. I do an ls and I can see all my files. I need a few of them off the drive so I can put them on a new computer. I can't ftp .... apparently... Can I connect a usb key and mount it and try copying so... 6 May 2010 18:44

No Firewire on iPad!!!???
In article <LTbpn.43244$sx5.42367(a)newsfe16.iad>, OP <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote: "sbt" <dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote in message news:200320101508101764%dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid... In article <kqbpn.43237$sx5.6395(a)newsfe16.iad>, OP <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I gu... 5 May 2010 02:47

Tiger for what key needs?
I've helped a couple of people that needed an upgrade to Tiger. One has a printer that needs it, and also Facebook (she thinks) does. Another needed it to see certain photos coming in email. I think maybe Safari has a problem with anything earlier than Tiger, but I'm hazy on that. I myself have Snow Leopard. Doe... 5 May 2010 02:47

macports and OS-X upgrades
I know wireshark is installed on my machine because I can run it ! But the port command doesn't see *any* installed software on my mac. (and god knows Wireshark has tons of prerequisites). So I have to instll it from scratch all over again. Is it possible that upgrading from 10.5 to 10.6 resulted in the m... 6 May 2010 13:04

Confused Again...! ( Gawd! i hate M$ )
i saw another one of those OS7 ( for Wintel boxes ) and it seemed to be suggesting that Multitasking was a brand new idea...??? i know that the wintel machines have had multitasking for at least 10 years... So what was this about... Is M$ simply reminding their users that they can do this...??? eh? ... 3 May 2010 14:15

Apple co-branding
In article <C80383C0.44607%ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com>, George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Written by the largest nit-wit in this group... Ah, c'mon Kerby, that's my responsibility around here. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer ... 3 May 2010 15:21

Favourite computer history books?
I'm just re-reading Steven Levy's 'Hackers' and wondering what might be missing from my personal library of computer history. I love reading about the era (especially the amazing people and their achievements) that I _just_ missed (I'm 32 and only got my own computer when I was 20 :-\ ). Books like 'Hackers' and... 25 May 2010 11:18

Scanning to a multipage pdf?
Some time ago I was scanning documents to pdf format using a Brother multifunction printer. I was using the Brother Control Center II software. The way it worked was that I could add sidebars to the scanned documents. Then, I would pick one of the documents to receive the others. I would just drag the thumbnail... 3 May 2010 12:02

How to restore /etc/sudoers file?
Hi, I'm using Mac 10.6.3. I'm logged in as the "davea" user who has sudo privileges. However, I have corrupted my /etc/sudoers file and accidentally given it 710 permissions. I'm trying to change it back to 440, but I repeatedly get davea-mbp2:apache2 davea$ sudo chmod 440 /etc/sudoers sudo: /etc/sudoers i... 4 May 2010 15:41