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Mac OS X Hints

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 11
Up to Speed

The text at the bottom of the box is cut-off. It ends with "turns an ordi-

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 45
hint 2-33

Hint 2-33 should have a cross-reference to the box on p 297 (which is in a strange place!)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 324
3rd paragraph of hint 14-11

Should have a cross-reference to the extensive discussion of Drag Thing on pp 303-305

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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")

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 430
step 10

It is the "httpd/users" sub-directory that should be listed - not the "httpd"
directory.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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)

 Anonymous