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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 151
Second paragraph -- Printing date March 200

"ScreenSaverEngine -background" is just too cool - except for one little problem...
It disables all (or at the ones I tried) of the special function keys under Panther.
I don't have Jaguar any more to try. For example, Expose' keys F9, F10, F11 no
longer work after running this. CMD-Option-8 no longer works, etc. The only way
I've found so far to recover is to log out and back in.

The same thing happens if I run it without "-background". It works fine when
activated normally through hot corners or a timeout.

AUTHOR: Quite possibly so - Panther wasn't available when the book was done.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 263
2nd paragraph immediately following figure

The Remote Desktop Server is apparently not included in Windows XP Home (although it
does include the client). Hence:

"Windows XP" should read "Windows XP Professional". The Mactopia RDC download page
explicitly says Windows XP Professional is required -- I also tried RDC to my XP Home
laptop, which failed.

"you can connect to all Windows versions that support Terminal Services" appears to
be incorrect, since XP Home includes Terminal Services (and it appears to be running
by default).

Anonymous   
Printed Page 271
Last paragraph

I believe "~/username/" should be "~username/"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 279
First paragraph

The first paragraph on pg 279 says "Depending on authorization set up by the FTP
server, you may upload files..." I believe this is incorrect - OS X desktop FTP
supports only read mode. Regardless of your permissions, you can't upload files by
dragging them to the desktop-mounted FTP server.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 357
2nd section of code, 3rd and 4th lines

./make
./sudo make install

should be:
make
sudo make install

Anonymous