[thelist] OT: postprocessor to strip some disclaimers out of digest mode

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Mon Jan 7 03:50:47 CST 2002


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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To:   thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject:  Re: [thelist] OT: postprocessor to strip some disclaimers out  of
      digest mode

Madhu Menon wrote:


>> As much as I hate those annoying disclaimers, I also realise that many
>> employers force it upon their employees. Martin, unfortunately, has
>> little choice in the matter :(


>true, and thankfull martin chooses to post from other email accounts
>from time to time saving kevin's perl script some work ;)

Yup - whenever I have the choice (ie whenever I'm at home)

At work, the only choice I have is between the disclaimer for official,
business emails sent
in my role as an employee and the 'non-business' shorter one I use for
posting to evolt.

And it could be worse - I have a friend who works for the UK end of a
German investment
bank, and the disclaimer he has appended to his mails is double it's
(already long) length
because it's in English and German.

Anyway, this needs a tip:
<tip type="Network settings in OS X - how to lock yourself out of your
box">
The fun thing about getting your network settings very wrong in OS X is
that
you then run the risk of locking yourself out of your box. Here's a typical
scenario:

You're installing some network-requiring stuff like Zope, and you can't get
it
to work from any other machine on your network. So you change your network
settings so your OS X box looks to its own IP for DNS because you can't
think
of anything else and it's 4am. This doesn't have the desired effect so you
try to go back to Network settings to change it back... and the box hangs.
So
you reboot. And the box totally hangs on the "Initializing Network" bit of
the
startup. You're locked out. Unlike OS 9 and earlier, there's no "hold down
shift to skip startup stuff". Damn.

Here's how you fix it.

Reboot from your OS 9 CD - this will get you back into your box.

The network settings are held in an XML file, preferences.xml, which is
in /private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/ - you can find it with a Sherlock
search. But you can't edit it because /private is an invisible folder
because
there's stuff in there which editing would seriously screw (hey, like
network
settings). So you'll need a CMM or similar to make it visible again. If you
don't
already have one, you'll probably need to reboot into OS 9 running from the
System Folder on your Mac to download it.

So, edit the file - each kind of possible connection port (modem, printer,
Ethernet
NIC(s)) has a separate section. With a bit of luck you'll have a good
setting in
there somewhere. Copy that into wherever your normal network connection
is and you'll be fine.

One warning though - if you make /private invisible again, it also hides it
from
OS X, which will make future installations somewhat tricky. You'll just
have
to live with the risk.
</tip>

Cheers
Martin

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