This recent question on street names brought to mind something I have wondered about for years: in my old hometown, there are three consecutive parallel streets called
Tuxedo, Huxley and Wexford. As a word-obsessed kid, I reflected on the relative rarity of the letter X in English and guessed there was likely no other place on the planet where three adjacent streets all had names with an X in them. Can anyone think of away to confirm or deny my childhood suspicion?
posted by ricochet biscuit
on Feb 15, 2013 -
20 answers
I have GeekTool v3.0.1 running on 10.6.8. How can I get it to start up on login and just run in the background?
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posted by tommasz
on Nov 29, 2011 -
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Using OS X, is it possible to show a photo in my live iSight video stream? (not using iChat)
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posted by SteveLambert
on Jul 4, 2011 -
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Yes, I've tried forcing an unexpected reboot, but I can't access Google, Gmail, or Twitter. Weirdly, Microsoft.com, Hotmail, Facebook, and Bing (and obviously AskMe!) all load with no problem whatsoever. And it's only affecting this computer (the only OS X machine) on the network!
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posted by aristan
on Mar 23, 2011 -
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Safari Password Recovery - I want to recover login information from a site I used on Safari on OS X 10.4.
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posted by Samizdata
on Jan 16, 2011 -
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I decided to test my website in Lynx for OS X, but for some reason it loaded a version from May. Now, whenever I load the front page from any other browser on my computer, it displays that old version. This doesn't happen when I view it from my phone or any other computer, so it's definitely my computer, not my site. But I can't imagine what it could be. Anyone know what I might have done?
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posted by XerxesQados
on Dec 8, 2010 -
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Hi there - I am about to upgrade a Black Macbook laptop running Tiger OS X to Snow Leopard (using a $29 Snow Leopard upgrade disk I bought off Amazon.com) (yes, I know this is sort of late in the day). Do you have any tips? Is there anything I should watch out for?
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posted by Bwithh
on Jul 24, 2010 -
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Anybody know offhand what the default behavior of running processes in multi-user environments under Mac OS X 10.6.x might be? I suspect that logging in under the other account will suspend the processes active under the first account. Am I correct?
posted by mwhybark
on Jul 22, 2010 -
8 answers
[MacFilter] Anyone know of a piece of OS X software that will allow me to independently set the audio balance (L-R) of different applications?
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posted by supercres
on Feb 18, 2010 -
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OS X - I have a PPC mini running Tiger 10.4.11 and my new iMac is running SL 10.6.2. There is not enough room on my desk for two monitors, two keyboards/mice etc. I need to control my mini entirely through the iMac. How do I do this?
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posted by VikingSword
on Feb 2, 2010 -
18 answers
Please hope an OS X/Open Directory/Kerberos n00b -- I can't reset the directory administrator's password in OS X Server 10.4.
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posted by liquado
on May 13, 2009 -
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What's a good way to make a script pop up an input box under X? Bonus points for blind password entry support and visual integration with XFCE.
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posted by ghost of a past number
on Jan 23, 2009 -
3 answers
Why does my new 1680x1050 monitor, on some sites (including this one), show me ridiculously-freakin'-huge fonts in my browser? There are more details, of course...
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posted by genghis
on Apr 2, 2008 -
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I would basically like to rip off, wholesale, some command-line script which will provide me a countdown -- only in days. No years, months, minutes, or seconds. Unfortunately, adapting an existing script is beyond my ken.
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posted by WCityMike
on Sep 27, 2007 -
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What Mac OS X application (or command-line utility) will join RAR files that come in the form
filename.r01,
filename.r02, etc.?
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posted by WCityMike
on Apr 26, 2007 -
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