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| The information above was great. I had no idea...
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The information above was great. I had no idea you could "update" an existing 10.2 installation to "fix" it. Brute force, but it works and I lost no data.
Much better than wiping and...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Sep 13, 2002 at 01:42 PM, in macOS |
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| sh-2.05# error on boot, hash table full
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I administer several clusters of OS X machines and have recently seen several machines fail at bootup (10.2 during the apple screen) with an sh-2.05# error. Running fsck just returns "hash table...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Sep 12, 2002 at 06:57 PM, in macOS |
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| Does anyone have a semi complete list of...
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Does anyone have a semi complete list of system-wide keyboard commands:
for example:
command-tab - switch between open apps in the dock
option-volume - bring up sound control panel
and so...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 31, 2002 at 01:22 PM, in macOS |
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| Fast finder. The older slower finder is what kept...
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Fast finder. The older slower finder is what kept me going back to OS 9 I couldn't spend 30 seconds waiting to switch from view by name to view by kind. That is gone now and I'm in OS X for good (I...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 25, 2002 at 03:07 PM, in macOS |
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| -Is it possible that Help is downloading...
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-Is it possible that Help is downloading something from the internet and that's why the beachball is spinning? What exactly is it retrieving?
-I tried the printer trick without any success.
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 25, 2002 at 02:55 PM, in macOS |
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| OS 9 is preinstalled on the 17 inch iMacs, but...
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OS 9 is preinstalled on the 17 inch iMacs, but there is no separate OS 9 install disk. I think this is where the confusion lies.
OS 9 is installable as part of the restore disk set.
There is a...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 24, 2002 at 06:48 PM, in macOS |
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| Despite the weird made up sounding name she does...
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Despite the weird made up sounding name she does exist (do a google search).
While her problems sound dumb, I see people with the same sort of thing all the time.
Garbled powerpoint and word...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 21, 2002 at 02:18 PM, in macOS |
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| [b]Actually, there's a new HIToolbar API in...
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[b]Actually, there's a new HIToolbar API in Jaguar that Carbon apps can use to get a customizable toolbar functionally identical to the Cocoa NSToolbar. Finder just doesn't use it.[b]
Is this why...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 21, 2002 at 03:27 AM, in macOS |
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| or they might just use it because having...
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or they might just use it because having non-antialiased fonts makes things look like hell. I present the following evidence (yes, this is actually what your menus would look like with the standard...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 19, 2002 at 02:16 PM, in macOS |
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| >People are reporting alto of bugs that don't...
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>People are reporting alto of bugs that don't exist. If you have finder window rendering bugs, bugs with ichat file transfers, it is your install of 6c115.<
These bugs exist even on the new dual...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 19, 2002 at 12:17 PM, in macOS |
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| New System old icons
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I like to use Mac OS 9 folder icons in OS X. I was wondering in preparation for 10.2 if a set of OS 9 folder icons exists for the new OS (one that includes slightly open folders in 128x128).
I was...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 19, 2002 at 02:16 AM, in macOS |
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| Where does the boot screen (grey apple) get...
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Where does the boot screen (grey apple) get loaded? Is it BootX? Is it simply a bitmap that is loaded or is it actually drawn?
(I was comparing the old BootX to the new one and noticed that the...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 6, 2002 at 06:24 PM, in macOS |
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| 6C115 Tips
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To have 9 point finder fonts
Open the finder plist in your preferences folder and edit the font size wherever you see it to 9 points. If you do this there will be some slight clipping at the end...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 6, 2002 at 04:31 PM, in macOS |
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| I'd suggest putting a build w/ blue blob on one...
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I'd suggest putting a build w/ blue blob on one machine and a recent build on another.
Then compare the files that might contain the blue blob for differences (boot x might be a starting point)......
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 1, 2002 at 08:54 PM, in macOS |
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| *Done it, but still think there are files lurking...
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*Done it, but still think there are files lurking around in X that belong to 9 *
Well there is the Classic support code, but there is no way to extricate that, otherwise, no need for paranoia- you...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Aug 1, 2002 at 03:20 PM, in macOS |
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| Both my wife and my son switched to PCs.
My...
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Both my wife and my son switched to PCs.
My son switched for the games. Pure and simple. We ebayed his iMac. He prefers my Mac for making movies and playing around with his digital cameral, but...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jul 29, 2002 at 07:10 PM, in macOS |
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| In my office we are not allowed to install OSes...
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In my office we are not allowed to install OSes that don't run Office native. We weren't allowed to upgrade to OS X until MS released office. We aren't allowed to install Linux even though there are...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jul 27, 2002 at 02:03 PM, in macOS |
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| I tried to use Star Office on my PCs (We have...
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I tried to use Star Office on my PCs (We have both PCs and Macs in our office) but I found it a poor substitute for Word/Excel so I finally shelled out for Office. (Word files would always open but...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jul 27, 2002 at 01:06 PM, in macOS |
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| It is totally fine to just copy your OS 9 system...
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It is totally fine to just copy your OS 9 system file from one disk to another. No need to do a clean install (this is one of the great things about OS 9). Anyway don't waste your time clean...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jul 25, 2002 at 12:41 PM, in macOS |
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| But a large portion of the .mac userbase -nearly...
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But a large portion of the .mac userbase -nearly a third, if my poll is any indication- doesn't want those other services. All we want is an e-mail address. And $100/year for just an e-mail address...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jul 24, 2002 at 06:21 PM, in macOS |
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| And that number keeps rising. Looking at it that...
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And that number keeps rising. Looking at it that way, you can see how they could justify killing native Classic on the next generation of hardware
I suppose, but my understanding of the Mac base...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jul 24, 2002 at 05:59 PM, in macOS |
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| Spam filtering software
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I'm use SpamAssassin under linux/windows and am desperate to find something similar under OSX (SA is open source and would be a great project for anyone wanting to practise their porting skillz)....
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 24, 2002 at 01:15 PM, in macOS |
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| I had one of those horrible usb QPS drives that...
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I had one of those horrible usb QPS drives that barely worked even in OS 9 (and it was agonizingly slow with 2x top speed writes)... so last week in disgust I threw it out the window (literally) and...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 24, 2002 at 01:05 PM, in macOS |
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| How are digital cameras supposed to work?
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I plug my camera in, iPhoto starts, I import my photos.
So far so good.
On the desktop a drive is mounted.
Here's the problem: If I unplug the usb connection with the drive mounted I get a...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 24, 2002 at 12:51 AM, in macOS |
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| Hm, I'm a designer so of course I use everything...
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Hm, I'm a designer so of course I use everything from as low as 4pt type and above, but screen type is a different matter. I can't think of any serious-minded interface that uses anything less than...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 20, 2002 at 10:11 PM, in macOS |
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| Once QuickDraw text-handling has been much...
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Once QuickDraw text-handling has been much replaced with Quartz text-handling (as it will be), things can only improve.
A bit. At least there will be a single API, but everyone must adopt it. ...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 20, 2002 at 04:37 PM, in macOS |
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| Whiteboard programs
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My colleague and I would like to work on a document together. She is across town. We both have Macs and DSL connections. Does a program exist for OS X that will allow us to work on the same document...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 20, 2002 at 03:51 PM, in macOS |
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| I think I'm going to break down and get the damn...
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I think I'm going to break down and get the damn thing. I've tried 10.2 and it does speed things up enough so that I don't want to throw our 500mhz G4 out the window, but 10.2 + quartz acelleration...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 20, 2002 at 03:48 PM, in macOS |
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| OS X + SGI 1600SW + Multilink Adpater
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Does anyone have any experience with OS X + SGI 1600 SW + a multilink adapter? Does it work? Any problems?
If it does/doesn't work what are card/hardware are you using?
(I am asking because...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 19, 2002 at 12:12 AM, in macOS |
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| Audiogalaxy is dead. What's next?
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Now that audiogalaxy is effectively dead, is there another service someone can suggest other than the various *tella clones. Audiogalxy was the only service that allowed me to find rare and obscure...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 18, 2002 at 12:13 AM, in Applications |
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| Audiogalaxy is dead. What's next?
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Now that audiogalaxy is effectively dead, is there another service someone can suggest other than the various *tella clones. Audiogalxy was the only service that allowed me to find rare and obscure...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Jun 18, 2002 at 12:13 AM, in macOS |
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| One last note. When I played with Jaguar the...
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One last note. When I played with Jaguar the other day I noticed that the spinning rainbow of death is not totally gone. When you select shutdown, it appears briefly before the screen goes blue....
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| Posted by King Kong, on May 21, 2002 at 01:58 AM, in macOS |
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| I like the idea of having an option for system...
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I like the idea of having an option for system wide menu items for essential services. For me it would be much more useful, for example, if new mail notification were to take place in a system menu...
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| Posted by King Kong, on May 20, 2002 at 03:47 PM, in macOS |
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| I don't have 10.2 on my own machine, but have...
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I don't have 10.2 on my own machine, but have gotten to play with it for several hours at the home of a friend who works for one of the big Apple developers.
I agree with most of barbarian's...
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| Posted by King Kong, on May 17, 2002 at 07:36 PM, in macOS |
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| ichat- fugly, but I like the idea of chat built...
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ichat- fugly, but I like the idea of chat built in
address book-great if people start using it. pda support?
sherlock 3- looks like watson. How is it better?
spam filter-great, but what I...
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| Posted by King Kong, on May 6, 2002 at 09:34 PM, in macOS |
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| "This release of the Developer Tools CD includes...
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"This release of the Developer Tools CD includes a pre-release version of the gcc 3.1 compiler. The default compiler is still gcc 2.95, but the default compiler will be switched to gcc 3.1 for the...
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| Posted by King Kong, on Apr 22, 2002 at 07:44 PM, in macOS |
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