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Search: Posts Made By: John A ; Forum: OS X and child forums
Forum: OS X Aug 1st, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 576
Posted By John A
Sorry, we don't support illegal activities on this forum. Either go to the store and buy a DVD of Leopard legally, or find your answer elsewhere.
Forum: OS X Jul 14th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 542
Posted By John A
Do you have the install log? The problem most likely stems from the fact that you're using a machine-specific disk (rather than the retail version of Leopard). Other people with this issue have...
Forum: OS X Jun 25th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 450
Posted By John A
Sorry, we don't condone piracy here.
Forum: OS X Jun 16th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 576
Posted By John A
When you delete a file, most of the time only the inode is deleted, not the actual data. As long as you don't add files to the drive and overwrite it, the data should still be there.

You can often...
Forum: OS X May 27th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 700
Posted By John A
Most likely you weren't running the program as a privileged user. Mac OS X requires administrative privileges to bind on ports < 1024.
Forum: OS X Apr 27th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 649
Posted By John A
Use a terminal command:
find /Users/someone/Music -iname '*.mp3' -exec cp '{}' somefolder \;

The command above will copy all files in /Users/someone/Music that end in .mp3 to the folder...
Forum: OS X Mar 23rd, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 954
Posted By John A
It sounds like you aren't dealing with all levels of permissions. In UNIX operating systems, there are three levels:

- owner permissions
- group permissions
- everyone permissions

My guess...
Forum: OS X Mar 1st, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 838
Posted By John A
>Did I read somewhere about restarting holding down T, for target?
Target Disk Mode is exclusive to Firewire. Networking with a Cat5 cable isn't difficult though.
Forum: OS X Feb 27th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 2,179
Posted By John A
I think there's a thread in the Linux section created a few weeks ago about this same issue; apparently Ubuntu has some issues with booting from the CD on older Macs. My suggestion would be to look...
Forum: OS X Feb 25th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 2,179
Posted By John A
>I know the linux iso disk is good because my new Macbook will boot to it
Then of course it won't boot on your PowerMac. MacBooks use a completely different architecture than the old PowerPC chips;...
Forum: OS X Jan 29th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 2,708
Posted By John A
>I am quite certain that defagging cannot be done on Macs.
Fragmentation isn't as big a deal as it used to be. With large hard drives, hard drive caching, and more intelligent filesystems, data...
Forum: OS X Jan 27th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 23,620
Posted By John A
>Apparently Mac the Ripper is no longer available.
You can get it from MacUpdate (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14414).
Forum: OS X Jan 9th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,172
Posted By John A
>Is there a similar thing to ffmpeg for OSX?
ffmpeg can run on OS X.

>or a codec pack like K-lite is for windows?
There's Perian (http://www.perian.org/).
Forum: OS X Jan 8th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,172
Posted By John A
>I would actually download VLC - it's an open source video player that
>will play ALL formats. Flip4Mac sucks imho....
That would work too, although for it to solve the problem, the original...
Forum: OS X Jan 1st, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,172
Posted By John A
You need to download Flip4Mac (http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm). The free trial version is adequate; as you only require decoding support.
Forum: OS X Nov 23rd, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 829
Posted By John A
Macs are actually very safe; it's the users that are dumb. This is actually old news for the most part, a Trojan that's already been around for a year now has just been upgraded to version 2.0. You...
Forum: OS X Nov 22nd, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 898
Posted By John A
>we arent supposed to talk about that here
It was meant to be a joke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park_episode)#Cultural_impact)...
Forum: OS X Nov 18th, 2008
Replies: 4
Solved: fstream library
Views: 914
Posted By John A
Well, then as your thread title says, you will need to use the fstream library from the STL. Reading in a .rtf is the same as reading in a normal text file; the only difference being that rtf...
Forum: OS X Nov 18th, 2008
Replies: 4
Solved: fstream library
Views: 914
Posted By John A
What language are you programming in?
Forum: OS X Nov 13th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 8,913
Posted By John A
Chances are, if you didn't download/install anything from those sites you should be fine. However, it wouldn't hurt to run a virus checker through your system just to be sure (use ClamXav like...
Forum: OS X Nov 2nd, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 2,623
Posted By John A
Did you mean 192.168.0.7? Because 192.168.07 is not a valid IP address.
Forum: OS X Sep 11th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,601
Posted By John A
Use Disk Utility to format one of the partitions as HFS+. It doesn't matter what partition type you use; you could even create two NTFS partitions.
Forum: OS X Sep 10th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,601
Posted By John A
You'll want to create two partitions: an HFS+ partition for the Mac data, and an NTFS partition for Windows. I'd recommend using Time Machine to keep your Mac data backed up onto the Mac partition,...
Forum: OS X Sep 10th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 505
Posted By John A
The first thing you should do is install the Apple Developer Tools. It's included on one of the installation discs that came with your Mac, or alternatively, you can download it from Apple's website....
Forum: OS X Sep 3rd, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 3,599
Posted By John A
If you hit the green jewel in the top left corner of the iTunes window, you'll notice that it shrinks to a minimal interface. If you want it completely gone, click the red jewel, which will hide the...
Forum: OS X Sep 2nd, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 5,132
Posted By John A
>It seems that OSX sees the drive as a network server.
OS X sees any device on the network with shared services as a network server. The "connect to server" window is just a way to connect directly...
Forum: OS X Aug 31st, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,170
Posted By John A
That's what happens when you use illegal copies of software.
Forum: OS X Aug 23rd, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 5,132
Posted By John A
Still wondering: how is this drive supposed to be mounted? If it's using Windows sharing, you'd need SMB, if it's file transfer protocol, you'd need ftp. It's hard to diagnose the problem when I...
Forum: OS X Aug 23rd, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 5,132
Posted By John A
How is the drive being shared over the network (i.e. what network protocol is the hard drive being shared over)? Do you have its IP address?
Forum: OS X Aug 21st, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,022
Posted By John A
Macs and Windows by default use their native file sharing protocols, which are different from each other. While Windows uses the SMB protocol, Macs tend to use AFP. And while Macs can connect fine to...
Forum: OS X Aug 20th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 2,529
Posted By John A
Word has it that PowerPC code from Leopard will be largely eliminated in the upcoming release of Snow Leopard. Whether this includes Rosetta or not isn't certain, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple...
Forum: OS X Aug 17th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,025
Posted By John A
DiskWarrior has a very high reputation in hard drive recovery.
Forum: OS X Aug 7th, 2008
Replies: 17
Views: 5,262
Posted By John A
>Why is making a kernal extension allowed then?
Because the kernel is open source. Apple obviously has a different licensing policy for their open source code. Where the open source ends and the...
Forum: OS X Aug 7th, 2008
Replies: 17
Views: 5,262
Posted By John A
Hmm, that only leaves, oh, software piracy. Remember that off-the-shelf copies of OS X have protection in place which prevents itself from running on non-Apple licensed computers (and even if you did...
Forum: OS X Aug 6th, 2008
Replies: 17
Views: 5,262
Posted By John A
Perhaps a machine labeled by Apple? Actually, the license that I pulled off the web was a bit old; here's the updated section 2.A from the Tiger license agreement:
Forum: OS X Aug 6th, 2008
Replies: 17
Views: 5,262
Posted By John A
Would reading some of the OS X software license agreement help spell things out a bit clearer for you?

Is your "hackintosh" an "Apple-labeled machine"? Nope, not by a long shot. Copy-protections...
Forum: OS X Aug 2nd, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 2,529
Posted By John A
>I thought that the intel based macs (towers or imacs) just came out in 2007,
>maybe late 2006.
The transition to Intel processors began mid 2005, and was completely finished by the end of summer...
Forum: OS X Aug 2nd, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 2,529
Posted By John A
You can run it (I've never run it personally on a Mac), but due to the Intel processor switchover that occurred a few years ago, Adobe CS2 can't run natively on your Mac, and will have to be emulated...
Forum: OS X Jul 31st, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2,803
Posted By John A
You're trying to open it before it's finished downloading. The .dmg.part is a temporary file that Safari uses when it's downloading a large file. Once the file is finished downloading, it removes the...
Forum: OS X Jul 28th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 871
Posted By John A
Depends. If you've used Windows-specific components in the project (for example, Windows forms), it won't be portable. However, if you've used purely .NET and cross-platform libraries, then you...
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