I doubt I'm the first one to think of this, but color coding several regularly used Finder windows can improve their visual difference when they are minimized to the Dock.
Just select the window's view options from the View menu, select color for background (or picture if you so desire), and choose away! I use colors from my desktop pic so everything is color coordinated.
An anonymous tipster told me he had the Citrix java client running on X. Citrix is a remote access server that's used in many offices (including mine!), and it usually runs on an NT box. There's a Mac client, but I couldn't get it to run in Classic.
The tipster (sorry, no name given) stated that he had it working, but that it needed a couple of scripts to work right (which he would provide via email). Unfortunately, the email address he provided didn't work! With a bit of digging on Citrix site, however, I figured out the scripts (not too hard!), and now have a working client!
So if you'd like a native Citrix java client for remote access to your corporate network, read the rest of this article...
You can easily share your Omniweb bookmarks with others across your network.
Omniweb stores bookmarks in a standard HTML file, which can be read by any browser on any OS. In Omniweb, choose Omniweb::Preferences::Bookmark on the menu and change the location of your bookmarksfile to file:///~/sites/bookmarks.html
Provided of course that you have switched on the Apache webserver, your bookmarks can now be accessed at http://yourmachine/~yourname/bookmarks.html. If you haven't yet built any HTML pages, you might even name the file index.html and it becomes the default file, so http://yourmachine/~yourname brings it up. You can still edit the file by simply maintaining your bookmarks in Omniweb, no HTML required.
I use this trick to access my bookmarks from Opera on NT4.
P.S. would love to login here, but can't, probably because I have switched off cookies. Oh well .Cubist
[Editor's note - yes, cookies are required for a login ID. Sorry!]
I have compiled a bunch of hints about the Unix underpinnings of OS X, including how to get Sendmail running, making finger work, tons of links, and lots of other useful information.
[Editor's note: Ian has taken his web site off line, but the collection of tips has been posted in the body of this article. If you'd like to see the collection, simply read the rest of this article. There's minimal HTML markup, but there's a lot of good info here. Happy reading!]
I often have several terminal sessions going - a "man" page window for reading about some command that I'm trying to use in another window, a "top" window showing current processes, and perhaps an "ssh" window for connecting to another host. By default, each window has the same properties - title, background, font size and color, etc. This can make it somewhat tricky to remember which window is which.
However, Terminal has a "save" command which will let you save the changes in any given window to a file. This lets you set up customized looks for different tasks. Simply open a window, set all the properties you like, then hit Save and give it a name and location. Now, when you double-click that file in the finder, that window will open with your customzized settings. I've set custom titles, fonts, and colors for my main 'terminal' tasks (top, ssh, man, and general default) and saved them each for quick and easy access.
Since my 'top' window is always running top, wouldn't it be nice if you could just double-click the terminal file and have top come up already running? Thanks to a tip on the X4U mailing list, you can! Read the rest of the article for the details.
Everyone is talking about installing GIMP,an image editor in the X-Windows environment [Editor - Which requires a long, complicated install of first X-Windows then the Gimp], but another quite good application is TIFFany 3, from caffeinesoft. Written in Cocoa. They are also building a server for imageprocessing in batchmode (T3-server) and some other small apps.
Background first: These symptoms did not occur until I updated to OS X 10.0.1.
I'm working on a iBook 466/192MB - OS X 10.0.1 and 9.1 on a single partition.
When I select OS X in the Startup Disk Control Panel (while in OS 9.1) I am warned that there is no system folder selected and that unpredictable things may happen.
If I reboot, OS X boots fine. Selecting Classic in the System Preferences provokes the notice that there is no MacOS 9.1 or later installed anywhere (I've got three now) so Classic cannot start. I've reinstalled OS X (& the update - 10.0.1), reinstalled 9.1 and rebuilt the desktop (in 9.1, not Classic). I can still select OS 9.1 as the startup disk from System Preferences.
I'm at a loss here. I need Classic to run some everyday stuff. Any ideas?
This is the result of a few hours worth of digging around, chasing after a loooong setup delay on SSH connections with (if I recall correctly) both the 2.3 SSH in 10.0.1 and the 2.5 SSH available from Scott Anguish.
If any of you have been experiencing long (dozens of seconds) waits in starting up SSH connections, it looks like 'arp' is being called with a parameter order that Apple's arp utility isn't handling as expected (Apple's utility wants 'arp -n -a' when SSH is using 'arp -a -n'). [Found this out by running ssh -v -v, after a bit of packet sniffing and DNS experimentation.]
Read the rest of this article if you'd like a workaround to speed up your SSH connections!
