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I still use internal FAX modem of MacOSX, but I sometimes faced a sending problem after Leopard. Apple reported this problem. It says turn off receive option in System Preferences, or reboot system after turning off receive option.

This is not so useful solution, they should fix it even if it is for minor users like me.

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Tranmit4 integrated with MacFuse.

This integrateion let you feel smooth on seemlessly mounting FTP server in your Finder.
I like also the icon of mounted volume. genarated by Transmit4, but do not like the menu icon on the right side of menu bar.

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I have used Path Finder almost for Cut & Paste in file browsing, but I found defaults command for adding cut & paste to MacOSX Finder.

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AllowCutForItems -bool yes
$ defaults write com.apple.finder AllowPasteForItems -bool yes
$ killall Finder

I like several convenient functions of Path Finder which are hidden or Finder.app doesn't have. Path Finder is sometimes unstable and I have to refresh its file browser after files are created of edited. This malfunction were irritating me so often.

This commands are so useful for me to discard Path Finder and switch back to default Finder.app.

I misunderstood this. It only moves a file into .Trash. And Paste doesn't work.

Then, later, I found another little utility "pathsnagger" for alternate fuction of Path Finder.
It enables copying file path in context menu.

Here is a note for no transparent image in transparent box element.


<style type="text/css">
<!--
#imageFrame { background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7); filter: alpha(opacity=70); }
#imageFrame img { position: relative; }
-->
</div>

<div id="imageFrame">
<img src="example.jpg" />
</div>


"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);" is for FF3.x, Safari3.x, 4.x.

"filter: alpha(opacity=70)" and "position: relative" of img tag are for IE8.

And only IE6 and IE7 need "background-color: #FFF;" after "background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);", so you have to detect useragent and write css by javascript.


function uacsssw() {
 if(navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE 6/) || navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE 7/)){
  document.write(
   '<style type="text/css">'+
   '<!--'+
   '#imageFrame { background-color: #FFF; }'+
   '-->'+
   '</style>'
  )
 }
 if(navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox\/2/)){
  document.write(
   '<style type="text/css">'+
   '<!--'+
   '#imageFrame { background-color: #FFF; }'+
   '-->'+
   '</style>'
  )
 }
}


You have to insert this function after style definition.

Because FireFox2 can not overwrite transparent tag of outside box element on image object, I gave it up... Please let me know if you know any trick for FF2.

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An error of FreeBSD on VMware Fusion "lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer" was sometimes annoying me.

When bunch of this error stacks, virtual machine stacks too.After upgrading Fusion 3, it seems to run more stable, but this error still occurs.

I had been looking for solution to resolve this problem for several months and I found two solutions. The one is installing VMware tools and using vmxnet for Network interface, and another is editing .vmx file and add alternate NIC statement (e1000) in it.

VMware tools for fusion supports ony FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0. Unfortunatelly I am using 6.2, so my environment was rejected by its installer.

I decieded to change NIC to e1000, and as a result it runs without problems.

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Lightobox2 can't work on area tag as default.

To solve this problem, it needs replace imageLink.rel with Element.readAttribute($(imageLink),"rel") in prototype.js.

Detail:
insert the line below in line 194.

if (!target.rel) target.rel=Element.readAttribute($(target), "rel");

Quote from discussion in Pat &Alex Blogging.

Snow Leopard report

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Apple released MacOSX new version 10.6, code name "Snow Leopard".

Refined 64bit support and Grand Central Dispatch apparently make user experience faster than ever.

It is worth to upgrade if you use 64bit cpu. Even if your CPU is core solo or core duo, it is better to install Snow Leopard.

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I did forget that rsync with --delete option deleted data in the backup directory while rsync is building first index.

After I reconstructed my backup RAID on the server in my local network, I executed rsync --delete then it deleted all backup data. It was too late when I was aware of it.

It is better to do it with --dry-run when you rsync at first time.

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After installing php5 from ports, php error said "preg_match" was undefined.

This is because I forgot check install option "PCRE" while making port. Just make clean, rmconfig, and reinstall with PCRE, then restart Apache.

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Errors occured while compiling autoconf-2.62 of FreeBSD ports,

"autoconf-2.62.texi:1723: Unknown command `'.".

To solve this problem, remove old version of makeinfo from /usr/bin/makeinfo, and install new version of makeinfo by installing textinfo from ports (/usr/ports/print/textinfo).