Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle
It has been a long time coming, but Mozilla 1.0 is here. No matter which OS you run on your Apple hardware, there is a version for you.Want to make Mozilla better looking? The Machzilla Theme (shown below) will add the look of Chimera to Mozilla so it fits in nicely on your MacOS X desktop. Another theme that looks great in MacOS X is Pinstrip. Grab them both before you need a search warrant!
Silk is a new free Haxie from the generous folks at Unsanity Software. Install it alongside MacOS X 10.1.5 and carbon applications will gain font smoothing previously reserved for Quartz applications.
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Configure Airport Under SuSE 7.3 PPC. by Michael Coyle
"Ease of Use" under Linux on the desktop has come more of a reality with the SuSE 7.3 distribution. This simple HOW-TO for configuring an Airport card assumes you are familiar with networking under Linux and just need a little help with wireless networking. (Continued...)
One of the cooler Unix/Linux features missing from MacOS X is the virtual desktop. The new Open Source program Space.app brings this closer to reality. Space lets you create a large number of workspaces that can be accessed from the palette of via hotkeys. I usually have only two desktops in Linux, and now I can have the same in MacOS X!
Regarding Tuesday's post on SSH telnet sessions, Daniel Maxwell writes, "I enjoyed your piece on logging into your Mac through ssh, but you only mentioned doing this on a Mac OS X, Linux, or Classic Mac OS machine. Is it possible to do with a PC? If so, do you have any idea of what program I could use?"
Well Dan, I don't 'do' Windows, but I'm sure there mist be a ResEx reader somewhere in the world who does. What's the word, is SSH built into WindowsXP or can someone recommend a secure telnet app?