Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition by Rob Griffiths The unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the opinion of the reader. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification This page was updated August 18, 2003. UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers: (11) Up to Speed; The text at the bottom of the box is cut-off. It ends with "turns an ordi- {16} 1st paragraph; It is possible to open the Displays preference panel on desktop Macs. Simply press option-F14 or option-F15. Also pressing just F14 or F15 will adjust your moniutors brightness. If the brightness is already controled by the monitor itself F14 andF15 won't work but option-F14 and option-F15 will. [45] hint 2-33; Hint 2-33 should have a cross-reference to the box on p 297 (which is in a strange place!) [107] Couple of places; You say that the Unicode characters are described as four-digit numbers, but they are in fact described as four-to-six-character hex values. They are definitely not digits. The example of 2318 is a hex value, not the number 2318. You can enter up to six characters (Unicode goes beyond the 64K limit). Also, ASCII only defines 128 characters, not 256. You were probably thinking of ISO 8859-1. [189] 3rd paragraph of hint 8-17; I think the "... should move the iTunes folder ..." was intended to be ""... should copy the iTunes folder ..." (copy instead of move). Otherwise, the next sentence (which talks about removing the original iTunes folder) doesn't make sense. [324] 3rd paragraph of hint 14-11; Should have a cross-reference to the extensive discussion of Drag Thing on pp 303-305 (366) first command; There is supposed to be a space between "chris" and "/Volumes" in the first command on this page (the one starting with "sudo") [373] figure 15-8; The caption to fig 15-8 says "You can even see that this person's MacReporter program asked for the page." I don't understand this comment at all - it seems perhaps to be referring to a previous version of the figure. {400} last line of code snippet of step 2; The last line of the code snippet in step 2 says "... is now marked as UP." This is inconsistent with the description of the echo statement that appears on p 401 (paragraph 5). {418} box "Variables"; The first sentence of the box "Variables" refers to hint 16-26 when it shoud be refering to hint 16-25 The third sentence in the box "Variables", says: "... cd then checks to see if it's a defined variable (...) in .dirs" This is incorrect. The last two words ("in .dirs") should be omitted. The shell does not look for variables being defined in any file or other - it just checks if the variable has been defined (somehow) and checks if the value of the variable is a directory path starting with '/'. I think the confusion arose because hint 16-25 is about defining these sorts of variables - but the box is explaining the beheviour of 'cd' in general. {425} step 4 of hint 16-31; Step 4 of hint 16-31 says to "Type cd /usr/local/bin to tell Terminal where to find links ..." I don't understand why you say this, Although it doesn't really hurt, it is not really a good idea to go into that directory just to run a browser. But the main point is that this is not necessary (and hence the "to tell Terminal where to find links" is rather misleading) since the previous step included a call to 'rehash' and I believe that the book is assuming that /usr/local/bin is in the user's PATH. So the whole phrase quoted above should be omitted. {430} step 10; It is the "httpd/users" sub-directory that should be listed - not the "httpd" directory. [432] paragraph 2 of hint 16-35; The phrase "Most providers block these servers simply by turning off all ports below 1024" seems to be misleading at least, if not incorrect. (435) command in step 6; The command in step 6 is supposed to have section between backticks. But it looks like they are regular single-quotes - not backticks. (typographical error)