Running Mac OS X Tiger: A No-Compromise Power Users Guide to the Mac (Animal Guide)
Running Mac OS X Tiger: A No-Compromise Power Users Guide to the Mac (Animal Guide)
ISBN: 0596009135
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Authors: Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson
- Running Mac OS X Tiger
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Audience
- How This Book Is Organized
- How to Use This Book
- Compatibility
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- Safari Enabled
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgments from the First Edition
- Chapter 1. Where It All Came From
- Section 1.1. The Classic Mac OS
- Section 1.2. System 7
- Section 1.3. Copland
- Section 1.4. NEXTSTEP
- Section 1.5. Rhapsody
- Section 1.6. Continued Development of the Classic Mac OS
- Section 1.7. Mac OS X 10.0
- Section 1.8. Mac OS X 10.1
- Section 1.9. Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
- Section 1.10. Mac OS X Panther
- Section 1.11. Mac OS X Tiger
- Section 1.12. What Does the Future Hold?
- Chapter 2. Installing the System and Software
- Section 2.1. Preparing to Install Tiger
- Section 2.2. Installing Tiger
- Section 2.3. The Software of Mac OS X
- Section 2.4. Staying Up-to-Date
- Section 2.5. Further Explorations
- Chapter 3. Lay of the Land
- Section 3.1. The World s Most Advanced Operating System
- Section 3.2. Filesystem Hierarchy
- Section 3.3. The Many Roots of the Finder
- Section 3.4. Filesystem Domains
- Section 3.5. The Library
- Section 3.6. Bundles
- Section 3.7. Further Explorations
- Chapter 4. The Terminal and Shell
- Section 4.1. Terminal Overview
- Section 4.2. Configuring and Using bash
- Section 4.3. Using Other Shells
- Section 4.4. Getting Help
- Section 4.5. Editing Text Files
- Section 4.6. Further Explorations
- Chapter 5. System Startup and Login
- Section 5.1. The Hardware Boot Process
- Section 5.2. The Operating System Boot Process
- Section 5.3. Logging In
- Section 5.4. Logging Out
- Section 5.5. Shutting Down the System
- Section 5.6. Energy Preferences
- Section 5.7. Further Explorations
- Chapter 6. Users and Groups
- Section 6.1. What Is a User Anyway?
- Section 6.2. Managing Users
- Section 6.3. Nonhuman Users
- Section 6.4. Further Explorations
- Chapter 7. Open Directory
- Section 7.1. Open Directory in Action
- Section 7.2. Directory Services Defined
- Section 7.3. Directory Domains
- Section 7.4. The Local Domain and NetInfo
- Section 7.5. Configuring Shared Domains
- Section 7.6. Kerberosand Single Sign-on
- Section 7.7. Command-Line Open Directory Tools
- Section 7.8. Further Explorations
- Chapter 8. Files and Permissions
- Section 8.1. Finding Files
- Section 8.2. Owners and Access
- Section 8.3. Metadata and File Attributes
- Section 8.4. Further Explorations
- Chapter 9. Disks and Filesystems
- Section 9.1. Filesystems
- Section 9.2. Network-Based Filesystems
- Section 9.3. Disk Utility
- Section 9.4. Erasing and Formatting Disks
- Section 9.5. Partitioning Disks
- Section 9.6. RAID
- Section 9.7. Disk Images
- Section 9.8. Further Explorations
- Chapter 10. Printing
- Section 10.1. Print System Overview
- Section 10.2. Managing Printers
- Section 10.3. Adding and Configuring Printers
- Section 10.4. Anatomy of a Print Job
- Section 10.5. PDF Services
- Section 10.6. Printing from the Command Line
- Section 10.7. Print Sharing
- Section 10.8. Further Explorations
- Chapter 11. Networking
- Section 11.1. The Internet Protocol
- Section 11.2. Configuring IP Addresses
- Section 11.3. Naming and DNS
- Section 11.4. Private Networks and NAT
- Section 11.5. Routing
- Section 11.6. Active Network Connections
- Section 11.7. AppleTalk
- Section 11.8. Locations
- Section 11.9. Using a Dial-Up Connection
- Section 11.10. FireWire Networking
- Section 11.11. Virtual Private Networks
- Section 11.12. Firewalls
- Section 11.13. Internet Connection Sharing
- Section 11.14. Further Explorations
- Chapter 12. Monitoring the System
- Section 12.1. About This Mac
- Section 12.2. System Profiler
- Section 12.3. Monitoring System Activity
- Section 12.4. Monitoring Users
- Section 12.5. Working with Processes
- Section 12.6. Remote Maintenance
- Section 12.7. Further Explorations
- Chapter 13. Automating Tasks
- Section 13.1. The Importance of Time
- Section 13.2. Using iCal to Schedule Tasks
- Section 13.3. cron
- Section 13.4. Automator
- Section 13.5. Scripting
- Section 13.6. Further Explorations
- Chapter 14. Preferences and Defaults
- Section 14.1. Property Lists
- Section 14.2. Where Preferences Are Stored
- Section 14.3. Reading and Writing Preferences
- Section 14.4. Determining Preference Keys
- Section 14.5. Further Explorations
- Appendix A. Boot Command Keys
- Appendix B. Other Sources of Information
- Section B.1. Books
- Section B.2. Magazines
- Section B.3. Mailing Lists
- Section B.4. Web Sites
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Index
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Running Mac OS X Tiger: A No-Compromise Power Users Guide to the Mac (Animal Guide)
ISBN: 0596009135
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Authors: Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson