Mac Systems

where are my console message????!!!! ##@@$$#$%#!
What is it with the console window and not updating when I write messages to it.... It seems like buffers aren't being flushed somewhere and I don't get my log message until a much later date.... ... 5 Nov 2009 20:06

remote copy to /usr/local/bin
If root is not enabled (other than by sudo), is it possible to scp a file to a root-owned folder? If so, could you please provide an example? Thanks a bunch. ... 6 Nov 2009 18:08

Magic Mouse review
In article <michelle-70E131.20342302112009(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: The mouse doesn't move the pointer on the screen as fast as previous mouses do; that's my biggest complaint about it. It's fast enough for use, but not as fast as I'd like it to be. ... 3 Nov 2009 22:41

Quicktime 10: undock the control pane ?
With Quicktime 10, the control pane (pause, play, rewind etc) is placed inside the movie area. Is there a way to move this outside the movie area like on quicktime 7 ? If not, is there a trick to make the OS open up quicktime 7 instead of 10 for any/all file types handled by quicktime ? Woukld renaming Quick... 2 Nov 2009 00:18

Snow Leopard upgrade experience
Updated my main mac from 10.5.11 (required to run the server admin tools for my brand spanking new Xserve to be delivered tomorow morning :-) First the good news (and this time in bytes to remove that confusion about what a kilobyte/megabyte is). Before: 294 895 489 024 bytes used. After : 281 475 276 800 by... 5 Nov 2009 16:45

OS X 10.6 can't mount DVD-Rs adhering to ISO 9660 (1999) ?!
Hi I recently bought a Mac and realized, to my horror, that it can't mount any of my data DVD-Rs, which were recorded using the ISO 9660:1999 format standard. Indeed, the Wikipedia seems to suggest that OS X does not support the format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#Operating_system_support Is th... 8 Nov 2009 21:51

black screen
about once a week miniMac gives me black screen and returns to normal after only a few seconds... what might cause this?...any reason to be concerned?...mini Mac is five years old and this black screen event started about three weeks ago ... 2 Nov 2009 08:59

Audio Midi Setup: Getting Dolby 5.1 set for digital out
This is still with leopard for a day or two. But the mac pro won't change :-) I have toslink cables from the Mac to the stereo. With VLC, I can watch a 5.1 movie by setting the Audio Device to "Digital - encoded" (or some text akin to that). The stereo automatically notices the change in sound format and switc... 1 Nov 2009 13:17

SOLVED: sharing ical database between accounts?
On 2009-10-30 16:01:30 -0700, thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> said: Anyone know of a reliable method of sharing iCal database between two accounts on the same machine? thanks. There is a more up to date example of using webDAV to publish to local apache2 server. The example is for a program Omnifo... 31 Oct 2009 18:49

sharing ical database between accounts?
Anyone know of a reliable method of sharing iCal database between two accounts on the same machine? thanks. -- thepixelfreak ... 1 Nov 2009 07:47