SASCHA MüLLNER  Good point,

the upcoming version will have backup/restore possibilities to ftp and webdav - .mac wil be in a later release - as I dont use it...

I only wanted to reduce the time it takes me to access my data on other systems, so I install 9Pad put in the connection data and sync my notes with the server.

Might be not useful for you, but it is for me ;)

Best regards,

Sascha  
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GAOSHAN  Excellent advice. For those who don't know, your Mac has TONS of useful, free, unix programs available.

However, tcpflow isn't one of them (at least not for the client versions of Tiger). To get a copy for yourself visit: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/#tcpflow  
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JAYRAY  Being familiar with tools such as tcpflow/tcpdump/ethereal etc. gives you another important benefit too: portability. You can use them in the same way whether you're sitting in front of an OS X, Linux, Solaris or HP-UX box and whether or not you have a window manager available. You also don't need to be sitting near the box you're monitoring - you just telnet/ssh over there and execute the capture remotely.

However, none of these tools fully decode HTTP. Say you want to see what HTML your webserver or appserver is spitting out, but the server's using GZIP content encoding. You'll just get gibberish being printed out.

Try doing 'sudo tcpflow -c' and point your browser at slashdot.org or google.com and you'll see what I mean!

As well as extra decoding, HTTP Scoop gives you a UI which does things like HTML/XML syntax highlighting, hex dumps etc. Maybe not essential, but nice to have.

I'm not knocking tcpflow etc; just pointing out that they're different tools for different jobs... but then again, I'm not entirely unbiased ;-)

James

Tuffcode Ltd  
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RICH  Your review of OS X doesn't really belong here. Put it on your blog instead.

As someone who enjoyed using System 6 & 7 and OS 8 & 9, I think I'm qualified to completely refute your assessment of the relative qualities of OS 9 vs OS X. I recently installed a new hard drive in a friend's old iMac, and she'd temporarily buried her OS X CDs, so just to check it was all working, we installed OS 9.

After using OS X for years, I have to say that OS 9 is ugly and feels clunky in comparison. It constitutes hack-upon-hack just to make it work with modern (albeit outdated!) hardware. Just go to the index of MacUpdate and see: most of the software released just wouldn't exist for Mac if it weren't for OS X.

Nostalgia is one thing: being a Luddite is another. You remind me of the worst of the Amiga frothers. The only difference is that Amiga counted engineers among its loyal fans, with the result that a completely reengineered Amiga OS4.0 isn't far away, and MorphOS has been around for years (Google them). You're welcome to do the same thing. I look forward to seeing Classic OS 10. It should be an interesting diversion...

...with no apps.  
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ANONYMOUS  OS X is an absolute dream come true. OS 9 is, in retrospect, garbage in comparison.

I have owned Apple computers since 1978.

Get a clue.  
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ANONYMOUS  As a Mac user since 1986, when I think of the Mac, I think of OSX, thank you very much. OS9 is a distant, vaguely unpleasant memory.

If it weren't for OSX, and if OSX wasn't Unix-based, it's extremely unlikely I'd be using a Mac today.  
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SANDY  Well, I agree with d_arrow...to a degree at least. OS 9 and earlier were Mac systems. OS X is a Unix system. Completely different animals. Personally I prefer OS 9. That doesn't mean I'm anti-OS X...it's just my preference. Before there were Mac users and Windows users, now the Mac world is split into Classic users and OS X users. So what?

What gets my goat is that Apple released OS X and turned their backs on Classic users. They support Windows more than they support OS 9. That leaves little room for brand loyalty.

I don't know about down in the States, but here in Canada I've seen lots of TV commercials from Apple...all for the iPod. When it comes to selling Macs, I think Apple's following the Atari Marketing Guide. Steve seems convinced that lack of brand loyalty and no advertising is the way to market the Mac.  
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ANOMYNONOUS  OS 9 is long gone. Hearing someone talk about how they miss it or prefer it is the tech equivilant of grandpa talking about how much better it was in the old days ("we didn't have these fancy flush toilets... and we LIKED it that way").

I started out with an Apple IIe and then moved on to the Mac when it became available. I've used OS 6, 7, 8 and 9 at both work and home and can say, without reservation, that OS X beats them all up and down the block and around the corner.

If you don't think OS X is superior to OS 9 you obviously have not used it much.  
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ANONYMOUS  There are always diehards (some audiophiles still prefer vinyl records to CDs and even vacuum tube amps to ones with transistors). I sure am not one of these. I keep OS 9 on my hard disk because I still have some valuable data on Hypercard and one item of specialized academic software I still use is also Hypercard-based. I wish there was some OS X workaround, then I'd file it away with my ex-wife and other bad memories.  
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MIKE  Working in a press environment, i'm using mac on a every day basiss. I've agreed for long that OS 9 was (and still is) a Mac OS of choice because of the complete control I got over it. Since about 2 years, buying a new mac came with OS X platform, and there were no way to getting them to startup in plain OS 9 only. So I had no choice but getting used to working in OS X environment, trying to get things done has best as I could, working around bugs created by some compatibilities isues due to old PS printers and work flow. Once those ploblems solved, I have to admit that OS X gave me more control over my working environment than I had with OS 9. OS 9 is still great, but OS X is REALLY great, once we get used to it. After all, who am I to hold back the technology evolution. Must move forward!  
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THUS.SPAKE.Z  I cut my Mac using teeth on OS 9; and most of my memories of it are saturated with rememberances are of CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

Jesus Christ, did it ever drive me to near insanity.

Now, OS 10, especially in its later incarnations.....AHHHHH! Near Nirvana.

Which is not to say that I haven't had any Pain in- the-ass issues with OS 10, but nothing remotely like the OS 9 experience.  
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THUS.SPAKE.Z  Hmmm, didn't notice that the comments above mine were all posted more than 5 years ago.

Oh well, I guess I got to say what I needed to say, though.  
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