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Comment on Rhapsody DR2 by Lukast

Lukast — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:08:26 +0000

Hi Michael, thank you very much for your guide, is really awsome. The guide is really easy to follow and now I have a Rhapsody DR2 install working 100%. Video, Mouse, Audio, Network (Bridged), CDROM, Floppy(virtual), Omniweb, OmniView, OmniPDF everything working in my Latitude D620 (WinXPSP3) on VMware Workstation v 5.0.0.13124.

Just a minor modification:

In step 7 for Omniweb to work, I had to decompress the contents from [CDROM]/RhapsodyDR2/Omni/OmniFrameworks.pkg/OmniFrameworks.tar.gz to /Local/Library/Frameworks

and also decompress the contents from [CDROM]/RhapsodyDR2/Omni/OmniComponents.pkg/OmniComponents.tar.gz to /Local/Library/Components

That’s it, now i have a piece of history at my fingertips. Thanks!

LuKasT

Comment on Embedding a command line tool within a Cocoa application by Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:23:22 +0000

You’re welcome. Before I posted to the forums I’d spent a few days searching on Google to work out how to do this. Another couple of hours poking at XCode resulted in the answer I posted here.

There may be other (or better) approaches, but this one seemed to work at the time of writing (2006). I’m not sure how much of the XCode interface has changed since then but the report from Scott S suggests that the interface is similar enough that the instructions still have use.

Comment on Embedding a command line tool within a Cocoa application by Scott S

Scott S — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:48:00 +0000

Just happened across this by way of Google. This answers an amazing amount of questions I’ve been trying like heck to find the answers to. A million thanks to you! Simply awesome.

Comment on Rhapsody DR2 by Marco

Marco — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:01:57 +0000

there are “ready” torrent HD images whith all the installed stuff? It will be amazing to fly back to that piece of history!…

Comment on Rhapsody DR2 by Giovanni Bertelli

Giovanni Bertelli — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:14:21 +0000

Hello! I really interested in finding rhapsody cds and floppies because i’d really like to work with it… Could you please send me the links to download them? Thank you very much bye!

Comment on Problems with the OS X 10.5.5 update and X11 by michael

michael — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:04:34 +0000

X11.app is not a system service on OS X. In the post I was generalizing since OS X runs a few services as the console user. (Where these services are more traditionally considered system services that are started by root in other Unix systems.) However I stand by my assertion that X11.app startup should not be breakable by the environment configured in the user's .profile (or other shell rc files). Without super-user access (and on systems where the admin has disabled chsh due to security concerns) then exec'ing the desired shell on the last line of the .profile is an accepted form. The ksh and zsh documentation has been suggesting this approach for many years. Version 1.17 of the "Unix shell differences and how to change your shell" posting [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/] notes that short of changing the system /etc/passwd file for the user, then code should be added to the shell rc file to overlay the new shell over the unwanted shell process. This overlaying is precisely what the exec call performs.

Comment on Problems with the OS X 10.5.5 update and X11 by Jeremy Huddleston

Jeremy Huddleston — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:27:50 +0000

1) You should not be exec-ing in your .profile. That is completely against form, and I’m surprised you haven’t run into problems before this. Your claim that this is a “commonly used technique” is flat out wrong. The more common and correct route is to just change your login shell.
2) X11.app is not a system service. It is not run as root. It is run as the user.

Comment on Apple’s new sales feature by Ros

Ros — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:37:23 +0000

When I received the call from the tele-marketer attempting to sell me Applecare, he used the typical persuasion technique – fear. Owning a Mac would be expensive. They walk the fine line between suggesting the Apple product is unreliable enough to require spending 200 bucks now so I won’t have to spend many hundreds later; and, it’s only $199 if I never used it. The thing I really took issue with was, I had to buy the Applecare now. Tomorrow would be too late. Two things sprang into my mind. One – this was a scam because no way a company like Apple would use such sleezy tactics; and Two, if Apple wants to sell Applecare badly enough to employ such tactics, it must be profitable, thus convincing me, odds are; additional insurance probably would not be needed. This telemarketer was so offensive, I almost asked him if this was same script all Apple telemarketers use, or was he just making up his patter as he want along? Perhaps they sit around the coffee room sharing success stories. Eitherway, it was not in my interest to open a dialogue. I hung up.
Now – in addition to all this, is trying to get your problem solved over the phone. Horror stories abound. Apple’s fortunes have rebounded and this; ‘treat the customer like shit’ is nothing more than the Apple Strut.
R

Comment on I’d like to buy a vowel… will the iPhone bring English to SMS? by Marcus East

Marcus East — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:12:31 +0000

Hi!

I share your views on the iPhone SMS application – it certainly has the potential to radically change the way that people view SMS, and to encourage them to use proper English.

My only problem is that my big fingers are a little big for the keyboard, so I’m hoping to check out the new Stylus that’s just been announced for the iPhone.

I only wish that I could find a good application for synching the messages on my PC, and composing them too – it was searching for that that brought me to your blog in the first place

Cheers!

Comment on Rhapsody DR2 by mfbernstein

mfbernstein — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:24:22 +0000

To properly install the Omni stuff, you can use the installer.sh command. ie:

$ installer.sh /RhapsodyDR2/Omni/OmniWeb.pkg

Note that OmniFrameworks and OmniComponents are required by all of the Omni apps.

For networking, if you’re using NAT, you can find out the router, DNS and subnet mask from “/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/vmnet8/dhcpd.conf”

Thanks for the guide.