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MailFollowup and SL Security Update 0 59 (9/19/2012 11:37:26 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I've been using Greg Welch's MailFollowup plugin for a few months. Tonight a Security Update for Snow Leopard came out. After I installed it, when Mail started up it reported that it was disabling this in... Barry

Wrong icon for .html files 8 129 (5/23/2012 7:44:07 PM) comp.sys.mac.system My default app for opening web pages and local .html documents is Chrome. But when I download a .html file from the net, it gets a Firefox document icon. How can I change this? I'm not asking how to change... Barry

Replying to your own message in Mail 44 108 (3/16/2012 3:53:40 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps I'm still using Snow Leopard, I wonder if Apple has fixed this in Lion. This is one of the few things I think MS Entourage and Outlook get right. If I reply to a message in my Sent folder, Mail sends the repl... Barry

ssh ProxyCommand w/ failover 0 47 (1/29/2012 8:11:42 AM) comp.unix.questions My company requires SSH connections to our servers to go through our gateway machines, and I use ssh's ProxyCommand feature to automate this. ProxyCommand /usr/bin/ssh gw /bin/nc %h %p 2>/dev/null However, w... Barry

Mail still crashing 53 85 (1/4/2012 4:16:46 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps A couple of months ago I posted that Mail has been crashing every few days, always in [NSFont __isSystemFont]. It happens when I select a new message to view in the preview window -- the beachball will spin ... Barry

Turn off "Check Spelling as I Type" 17 66 (11/9/2011 5:24:01 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps It seems like every time I start using a new application, I find that it has "Check Spelling As I Type" enabled, and I get all those annoying red squiggles. They're not for misspellings, they're just jargon,... Barry

Mail.app: From address based on destination 19 67 (11/6/2011 1:48:49 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps In Mail's preferences, you have the following options for how it chooses the sending account: * Pick a particular default account * Account of selected mailbox I use Mail for both my personal email and email... Barry

Mail frequently crashes 2 68 (11/2/2011 4:07:11 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps Running Snow Leopard with all updates. About a week ago I added an IMAP account to Mail.app. Since then, almost daily it will crash when I'm in that account and move from one message to another (I have the ... Barry

PDF displays incorrectly in Preview and Safari 5 76 (10/16/2010 5:14:20 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps The program my bridge club uses to make hand records creates PDF files that display properly on Windows and Linux, and with Adobe Reader on the Mac. But when viewing them in Safari or Preview on the Mac, the... Barry

Sort order in Mail 3 170 (1/5/2010 8:03:19 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Mail remembers which column you're sorting each mailbox by, and I could have sworn it also remembered each mailbox's sort order. I sort most mailboxes by date, and I had Sent and Trash set to show most rec... Barry

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Quotes from a text into a commandline in bash 16 7 (6/1/2013 11:14:21 AM) comp.unix.shell I have the following script #!/bin/bash set -x #This works yad \ --list \ --geometry=400x200 \ --column=What:TEXT --column=command:TEXT \ "Turn movie(s) into pictures" TO_PICS "Turn pictures into mo... houghi (247)

Recent Wikipedia connect effort 12 4 (6/3/2013 4:34:41 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I am still having trouble getting to Wikipedia. By using network utility.app, I was able to track the string of computers through which my request ran. For most sites, It connection was made in less than a ... SalmonEgg (679)

methods calling each other as default 7 4 (6/3/2013 11:36:45 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, Suppose I have two methods for random variables, calculating the PDF (probability density function) and the log PDF. For specific distributions, I want to be able to define one of these and have the ... tkpapp (981)

Has this Apple security hole been fixed yet?? 12 5 (6/3/2013 8:22:39 PM) comp.sys.mac.system http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/22/4136242/major-security-hole-allows-apple-id-passwords-reset-with-email-date-of-birth Major security hole allows Apple passwords to be reset with only email address, da... jaybirdsong (31)

quick question 6 3 (6/6/2013 4:01:52 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps When PackageMaker generates error code 112, what does that mean? I'm not running it myself, so, I can't man page etc... Many thanks. ... lichunshen84 (225)

The design of a continuously running unix job 3 1 (6/6/2013 4:38:45 AM) comp.unix.shell Hi, I am trying to create a continuously running Unix job that will keep lookin= g at certain directory for any newly arrived files and then load these file= s to database and process them. The files may b... nickli2000 (9)

How do I run a command only in certain directories? 21 5 (6/7/2013 2:36:54 PM) comp.unix.shell Hi, I'm using Mac 10.7.5. with bash shell, although I'm open to using any shell= that solves this question. Given some top level directory, ~/workspace, I= want to run the command "mvn eclipse:eclipse" ... laredotornado (856)

plist question 7 1 (6/8/2013 8:29:29 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps This question has three parts. a) Would the following code register the plist with any Mac OS X (above 10.5) provided the user logs in as an admin user? sudo mv myappServer.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/ ... lichunshen84 (225)

=?UTF-8?Q?=22Apple=E2=80=99s?= Commitment to Customer Privacy" 96 0 (6/17/2013 2:22:17 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Two weeks ago, when technology companies were accused of indiscriminately sharing customer data with government agencies, Apple issued a clear response: We first heard of the government’s “Prism” progra... michelle14 (18621)

SSH problem: Doesn't exit when last X client closes. 5 0 (6/17/2013 5:45:09 PM) comp.unix.shell I'm using a command like: ssh -X -f name@host xterm Which causes ssh to do the following: 1) Prompt for password 2) go into background (i.e., return me to the shell prompt) 3) (After a ... gazelle3 (1608)