The mod_gzip module for Apache will compress the pages as it sends them. Of course, it will only do this if the browser that your audience is using is compatible.

#!/bin/sh
echo -ne “\033]0;$1\007″

make sure that the file is protected by a
chmod +x term_banner

now add this alias to your .bash_profile -

alias termb=~/term_banner

now invoke it like this

termb “Some Title”

Here’s the VMS command procedure that you want…

$ esc[0,8]=27
$ bell[0,8]=7
$ write sys$output “”esc’]0;”p1”’bell’”

Remember the first argument to the command is used – enclose it in quotes.
so like this

@term_banner “”F$getjpi(0,”USERNAME”)’ – ”F$TRNLNM(“SYS$NODE”)’”

This article will walk you through installing an updated version of Postfix on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), complete with SASL and TLS support which uses system logins for authentication. If you prefer to see this as wide as possible, check out this expanding version with larger fonts, just for Wietse.

To look at it from within the Terminal, I’m going to utilize the powerful curl application, piping the output to head to ensure that I’m not drowned in output:

Actually has some good examples of “sed”.

Bookmark this page for technical information about the use of open source tools and languages in conjunction with Oracle.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PHP

If you are a developer who works with Oracle applications and has been itching for an alternative to Windows or Linux—or if you are an experienced OS X user and are looking at basing your next project on Oracle—this article is for you. It assumes that you are comfortable working in the shell environment and have a working installation of OS X 10.3 (Panther) or 10.2 (Jaguar), including the developer tools and an administrator account.

Please note – this doesn’t work on windows that are connected via SSH, but the prompt seems to work properly.

I just use the alias term_banner to get the window name changed.

alias term_banner='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'

case "$TERM_PROGRAM" in
    Apple_Terminal)
    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
    export PS1='\! \$ '
    ;;
    GLterm)
    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
    export PS1='\! \$ '
    ;;
    *)
    export PS1='\u@\h:\W:\! \$ '
    ;;
esac

That’s in .bash_profile for any that care.

Not much to this, is there?

Using periodic

The periodic tool is designed to organize administrative tasks that need to be performed over and over again at regular intervals. The intervals that periodic supports are: daily, weekly, and monthly. Mac OS X itself has a set of tasks that it runs using the periodic system, including:

Re: Hidden capabilities in the Panther Calculator

Michael Merwin
The tip from Norman Palardy “Hidden capabilities in the Panther Calculator ” prompted me to look more closely at the calculator and to discover its conversion capabilities including currency conversion with an update feature which takes into account the fluctuation of the dollar on the world markets.

MDD G4 owner report on using CHUD tools Nap mode for Cooler CPUs

Disabling CHUD Tools’ Hardware System control “Nap” mode was a common fix for the ‘chirping/squealing’ noise from the P.S. in G5s as mentioned in this previous article, but a Mirror Drive Door Dual G4/1GHz owner wrote that enabling Nap mode significantly reduced his CPU temperatures. The current CHUD tools version is 3.0.2 available from Apple FTP Developer Tools directory as well as the usual VT/MU sites. (BTW – a recent email from a MDD owner regarding overheating CPUs said it was

So I read this article. I have loudness from my very old dual-G4.

Temperature Monitor works – told me it was 91°F – and that it could be way off due to no real temperature sensing device.

Installed CHUD and fiddled with the Hardware system preference. It lets me set nap!

When I came into the office this morning the temp was 53°F.

The machine doesn’t “sleep” since it is a server.

Cool – really!

MusicSafari
Surf, Listen & Record Music As MP4 (AAC)

Listen and record BBC, NPR, music videos, movie trailers, news webcasts and even Flash jingles…

A typical application in Mac OS X is not a single executable file but a package of files that includes one or more executable binaries.

If you upgrade to 10.3 from an earlier version of OS X instead of doing a full install, chances are that Java is broken. To see if you are affected type java -version in the Terminal. If you see the following line, you are affected:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES

use NO to switch it back

Include /usr/local/php/httpd.conf.php

Started WebServer

Voila – after an upgrade Apache is happy, and MySQL was already started up.