I recursively screwed up the file permissions in my html servers root directory. To fix it I needed to deploy some "advanced" chmod settings. Obviously I want to treat directories and files differently. I didn't come up with a better solution than the following:
chmod -R u=rw-x,g=rw-x,o=r-wx *
chmod -R a+X *
We have a few legacy Macintosh computers at work which are still running different flavours of MacOS 9. Although these machines have USB ports, they are mostly non-functional. I think MacOS 9.0 was the first version that supported USB mass storage devices, but apparently support has been shaky until and including version 9.2.2. Apparently the various updates to MacOS 9 mainly addressed the problems with USB (and firewire) support. At least for one of these machines (running MAcOS 9.2.2) I managed to fix the USB support.
I was trying to extract the audio file from some youtube videos in order to play it back from my iPod shuffle. I tried various methods (including the otherwise quite versatile VLC Player, but finally settled on the following two step procedure: