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Web developer, web redesigner, usability specialist, communications/p.r. consultant.
Real Name:Stanton McCandlish 
Homepage:http://www.McCandlishConsulting.com 
Last Login:21 May 2006 06:25
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Apple Remote Desktop Client
Jan 4 2007

SMCCANDLISH  If you can't get this thing to install (e.g. it says that it can't find an existing version to upgrade, but you do actually have one installed), just use Pacifist (available here at MacUpdate) to extract all the bits and pieces and put them in the right places. Hints: To install to /usr/bin and /usr/share (the unixy bits), use Terminal to go to /usr/bin and do "open .", and do the same in /share, to open those usually hidden folders in the Finder, so you can drag-drop from Pacifist into them. Be sure not to overwrite entire folders; i.e. do not drag-drop /usr/share, but open /usr/share/man/man1 and drag-drop the appropriate FILE into that folder; same goes for the stuff intended for /Library and /System, etc. Put the files EXACTLY where Pacifist says they should go (e.g. the app must be in /Applications not /Applications/Utilities or ~/Applications). The only downside is that Pacifist runs a prebinding update after every single drag-drop operation (even for, say, documentation files, which have no prebinding). So it takes quite a while. Lastly, because I trust Apple's installer to get the permissions right more than I trust Pacificist, after doing all of this, I re-run the .pkg installer, which now has an "Upgrade" option, that actually works (it just reinstalls everything I just manually installed, but does it the Apple-preferred way.) PS: Pacifist is a little buggy - sometimes it can take two drag-drop operations to actually get it to do anything. You'll see it working when it happens correctly. Hope this helps folks.  
(Version 3.1)

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iPiece
Jul 8 2006

SMCCANDLISH  This looks like you did a good job, but I'm not sure I see [no pun intended] what the point is - OSX already has an easier zoom in/out function built in: [Opt Cmd =] to zoom in, and [Opt Cmd -] to zoom out. Yours looks kind of cooler I suppose (at least if you just want to zoom a limited area like the Apple "Magnifying Glass" feature OS9 shipped with, but all this going to the menu seems anergonomic. I'd suggest configurable keyboard shortcuts at least, defaulting to the ones just mentioned (and either prevent Sys. Prefs | Univ. Access | Seeing | Zoom from getting these keypresses, or turn that feature off for the user at iPiece install time so the two don't conflict.  
(Version 1.0)

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ATutor
Jul 8 2006

SMCCANDLISH  "Do not use Apache 2.x"? You're kidding, right? How hard can it be to simply document what has to be twiddled to make this work under the current, modern version of Apache, which is almost certainly going to be what will ship with MacOS X 10.5, and already what most serious Mac-based webmasters are using (either via Fink, DarwinPorts or a manual install). Anyway, this seems like a great project and a whole lot of work, to support only a dying server. Might as well have made this a MacOS 9 only app. ;-)  
(Version 1.5.3)

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