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While exploring Resexcellence today I came across... 10,125 Views / 79 Replies  
While exploring Resexcellence today I came across these:

http://www.resexcellence.com/app_makeovers/05/05-12_Mail_2.0_Buttons.sit
Posted by willrob, on May 13, 2005 at 09:56 AM, in GUI Customization
In the screen shots you posted, the mailbox area... 10,125 Views / 79 Replies  
In the screen shots you posted, the mailbox area has a gray background. Mail 2 has a blue background on the left where the mailboxes live. We've all been trying to dump the blue with little success....
Posted by willrob, on May 13, 2005 at 01:54 AM, in GUI Customization
Ji Eun How did you change the blue mailbox... 10,125 Views / 79 Replies  
Ji Eun

How did you change the blue mailbox background to gray?
Posted by willrob, on May 12, 2005 at 11:18 AM, in GUI Customization
No I didn't. But I just did and discovered the... 2,724 Views / 35 Replies  
No I didn't. But I just did and discovered the uninstaller claims there is a newer version in use and won't run. But I've only noticed one problem using it�the over printing of the text at the top of...
Posted by willrob, on May 7, 2005 at 12:00 PM, in GUI Customization
I've had no problems with it, although I was... 2,724 Views / 35 Replies  
I've had no problems with it, although I was hoping it would be updated for Tiger.
Posted by willrob, on May 5, 2005 at 08:17 PM, in GUI Customization
Whiteout still works in Tiger. It won't change... 2,724 Views / 35 Replies  
Whiteout still works in Tiger. It won't change iTunes, but then it never did, even in Panther.
Posted by willrob, on May 5, 2005 at 05:37 PM, in GUI Customization
>>Nope iTunes sharing is off. 9 out 10 the... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
>>Nope iTunes sharing is off. 9 out 10 the freezes occur while using Photoshop+iTunes so it's just disk intensive apps that trigger it if you ask me. Not necesserely network activity. Internet is...
Posted by willrob, on Oct 21, 2004 at 10:09 AM, in macOS
I've gone another 10 days freeze free after... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
I've gone another 10 days freeze free after turning off the nap feature in the hardware preference pane. The latest update to CHUD (4.0) no longer includes the nap feature for G4's like mine; so...
Posted by willrob, on Oct 13, 2004 at 09:32 AM, in macOS
Still Freeze Free Processor "Nap" was the... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Still Freeze Free

Processor "Nap" was the culprit. I have been freeze free since making it a conscious choice to enable napping. I had been running a start-up script that turned nap on, with both...
Posted by willrob, on Oct 3, 2004 at 10:47 AM, in macOS
A brief follow up to my previous post about... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
A brief follow up to my previous post about processor Nap.

If you select single processor and nap and then put the computer to sleep (either manually or via the Energy Saver control panel), when...
Posted by willrob, on Sep 28, 2004 at 01:37 PM, in macOS
Is Nap involved? While I only started having... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Is Nap involved?

While I only started having these freezes since Panther, I have been using the CHUD tools Processor Nap tool to lower the fan noise in my MDD G4 since way back in 10.2.5.
...
Posted by willrob, on Sep 28, 2004 at 10:35 AM, in macOS
Bluetooth: Nope WiFi: Nope 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Bluetooth: Nope
WiFi: Nope
Posted by willrob, on Sep 23, 2004 at 09:08 AM, in macOS
While VM fragmentation might be part of the... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
While VM fragmentation might be part of the problem, I think it must be linked to some other factor as well.

After so many hard restarts in the past weeks, due to the freezes, my hard drive began...
Posted by willrob, on Sep 18, 2004 at 11:12 AM, in macOS
While I'm happy to see there is a solution for... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
While I'm happy to see there is a solution for you using Tech Tool Pro, I would like to remind evryone that such measures should not be necessary. When OSX was first released, Apple touted it as the...
Posted by willrob, on Sep 10, 2004 at 10:07 AM, in macOS
The reason I mentioned the Ram problems on G5s is... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
The reason I mentioned the Ram problems on G5s is they shipped with a different version of OSX than we may have begun with. I had no freeze problems ever with any version of Jaguar. It was only with...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 25, 2004 at 12:15 PM, in macOS
Kate: You may want to check out this... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Kate:

You may want to check out this discussion

http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.68959e5e/354

These are G5 users with the same problem. Some have traced it to...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 25, 2004 at 10:27 AM, in macOS
I did try the unlockupd when it was first posted.... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
I did try the unlockupd when it was first posted. it didn't solve the problem for me. I also disabled crashreportd when it was first promoted as a solution. Neither have made any difference. i also...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 24, 2004 at 10:13 AM, in macOS
What was the fix dshadow suggested? ... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
What was the fix dshadow suggested?


>>Luckily the fix dshadow made has worked great for me -- 7 days of uptime so far! (but I have yet to find out what causes this) -- and I'm still mad about...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 23, 2004 at 05:03 PM, in macOS
Some of us (including myself0 have reported the... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Some of us (including myself0 have reported the freezes at start-up. I'm not sure when during that process the first swap file is created, but it doesn't seem likely that vm alone can cause a freeze...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 19, 2004 at 07:38 PM, in macOS
>>I wonder whether it might not be hardware... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
>>I wonder whether it might not be hardware related after all - specifically RAM modules.<<

On the G5 thread dealing with this problem, it was the Apple supplied Ram that was the source for many...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 19, 2004 at 10:46 AM, in macOS
Well 10.3.5 has been released. The notes don't... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Well 10.3.5 has been released. The notes don't mention any solution to our problem. But then Apple never publicly acknowledged it anyway; so hopefully they too care of it. So far only available via...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 9, 2004 at 06:09 PM, in macOS
I tried out (and am still trying out) unlockupd... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
I tried out (and am still trying out) unlockupd which Busseman mentioned last week:

http://www.dshadow.com/software/unlockupd/

So far I still get the random freeze, but not in the same...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 9, 2004 at 11:16 AM, in macOS
>>Just because it's a critical issue. It would be... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
>>Just because it's a critical issue. It would be really silly for them to release a 40Mb+ update without this critical issue fixed. <<

It's been with us since 10.3, 10.31, 10.32 and 10.34. All of...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 7, 2004 at 04:17 PM, in macOS
The link I posted to the MacIntouch.com article... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
The link I posted to the MacIntouch.com article (since updated) mentions using a terminal application called hfsdebug.

http://www.kernelthread.com/software/hfsdebug/

While I've done some...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 4, 2004 at 03:23 PM, in macOS
There has been a discussion on MacIntouch.com... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
There has been a discussion on MacIntouch.com about "iTunes freezes." Todays entries at

http://www.macintouch.com/itunes21.html#aug02

seem to indicate that (as we have long suspected) the real...
Posted by willrob, on Aug 2, 2004 at 10:43 AM, in macOS
MacHammer: ou'll find a discussion of the G5... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
MacHammer:

ou'll find a discussion of the G5 freeze problem here:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.68959e5e/230

A lot of owners have discovered that the Samsung...
Posted by willrob, on Jul 31, 2004 at 10:13 AM, in macOS
I use Cocktail which has many functions, one of... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
I use Cocktail which has many functions, one of which is to clear the swap files. I usually only do this when I've quite all large applications (Suitcase and Quickeys still run in the background). Is...
Posted by willrob, on Jul 25, 2004 at 01:35 PM, in macOS
Yup. That's what it was. Thanks. >>Go into... 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Yup. That's what it was. Thanks.

>>Go into system preferences -> Energy Saver -> Options

See if "Restart automatically after a power failure" is checkmarked.<<
Posted by willrob, on May 15, 2004 at 09:42 AM, in macOS
G4 rebooting after freeze 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Is it normal for a G4 to restart itself after a crash? Here's the situatiuon. I get a freeze (see my previous posts, or anybody elses, for that matter). I do one of two things. I hold in the start up...
Posted by willrob, on May 14, 2004 at 09:27 AM, in macOS
Remove all Airport if not needed? 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
Obviously some people are experiencing freezes due to their Airport updates. but others�myself included�experience the lock ups without ever having installed any Airport updates. I don't have an...
Posted by willrob, on May 12, 2004 at 09:36 AM, in macOS
Freezes and Ethernet Hub 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
I've spent this week testing the possibility that my Lynksys Ethernet Hub was the source of my freezes. It now seems pretty conclusive. If I remove the hub (and give up having a network) the freezes...
Posted by willrob, on May 7, 2004 at 07:25 PM, in macOS
DSL modem source? 98,529 Views / 815 Replies  
I've also been plagued by the freeze phenom. I disabled crashreporter a month or so ago, and thought it was fixing my problem. But after a week, the freezes returned.

I went back to the early...
Posted by willrob, on May 2, 2004 at 02:14 PM, in macOS
 
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