Mac Forum / General / General / August 2007

is there any command in order not to list backup files (i.e. those
ending ~) in the terminal ?
In linux there is an option ls -B if I remember correctly, but did not
find anyone in mac.

I have access to a VGA LCD screen/bezel unit which I'm hoping will fit
and function with my 15 inch Powerbook DVI. I realize that the LCD
units are different, but I'm wondering, aside from the lesser quality
or detail which I understand the VGA screen will provide, if it is

Hello, I want put my apple into the suspend to ram state over the
commandline interface. Anybody lnows how to do that?
For instance the computer is playing music and after two hours all
applications should stop and the computer should shutdown. Til now I am

I'm using the newsreader that's built in to OSX (10.3.9) and it's been
acting up lately. Many of the already read articles load again when I go
to fetch new headers from my subscribed group list. Some of them are two
or three days old. And in the morning, I get a bunch that are ...

All of a sudden YouTube and RealPlayer aren't making any sound. iTunes
works. QuickTime works. DVD Player works. System sound effects work.
But when I play a YouTube video or a RealPlayer music sample off of Amazon
they are silent. They worked fine yesterday, and I haven't updated ...

daemon>" to stop my daemon successfully.
Also, I can run "sudo myprogram" where myprogram forks/execs
"launchctl stop <my daemon>"; and my daemon stops successfully.

Is there an adapter available that would enable the use of a 17"
studio display monitor from a G5 to be used as a second monitor on a
mac book pro?
The monitor has the single cable that connects to the G5 for both

In Mac's TCO, Tom Stiller wrote:
"I think I see.  /You/ have no use for such a feature, so no-one else
could possibly have one.  Very considerate, I must say."
Let's not get technical. Mac users don't deal with concepts, they deal

In the thread "I've got to be an Apple believer too!", Jochem Huhmann
asked:
"What programs do you use for listening to music files and streams, to
create movies and DVDs and to organize your photos? I'm just curious."

Hi. I have a Dell UltraScan P1110 Monitor. I want to connect it to my
MacBook Pro so I can have two displays runnning at the same time (mainly
for use with audio production software). Anyways, the cable for the
monitor is a HD-15 cable. Will I need an adapter to plug the HD-15 ...

When I posted this part of a message from a Mac user complaining about
" All that work gone" (lost all his web data after installing ILife),
I couldn't help but think he was even more moronic than the average
Mac Moron. Losing data wirh a very early alpha release... maybe,

Here is some more information for you:
In a new set of benchmarks comparing SWsoft's Parallels Desktop 3.0 for
Mac, Apple's Boot Camp 1.3 Beta, CrossOver Mac 6.0 from CodeWeavers and
VMware's Fusion, Boot Camp (as a native Windows environment)

This has just started happening today: as I move the cursor around the
screen it messes up the display. When the cursor passes over an area, it
causes what's displayed to be displaced by a pixel or two. So, if I drag
back-and-forth over a thin line, I variously get sections of line ...

I just refilled the cartridge to a Stylewriter II printer and don't have the
instruction as to how to "clean" it.  Can anyone help?

Can xgrid be used to take advantage of multiple processors on the same
machine?
Or is it only for processors on separate machines?