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Hi, I messed up my System folder and System Folder folder in a fiasco I described elsewhere on this site. Now, as root, I *can* launch Classic, but as another Admin, I get Classic can't start: you don't have sufficient permission to start Classic from /System Folder. Can someone tell...

Hi, I recently posted in many places my very fine experience with Apple Care. But, now I must qualify that rosy picture. My TiBook *did* come back in record time. And the people on the phones were really open and helpful, and I knew what was happening all the time -- this is still a good...

Gentle readers, I have two questions I want to ask, and I am hoping that anyone who reads this, that has a TiBook, will take the time to briefly answer. 1. How easily does your TiBook pop open? I mean, does it pop open with almost no provocation? Does it generally pop open if it's...

Hi, So check it out. I get back my Mac TiBook from Apple Care, as posted elsewhere, in record time. I am so happy, and it's like midnight tonight. So I boot up and it boots into my cute OS 9.2.2. Then I run software update and download the updates. It fails in the middle of the update...

Hello, The documentation says that OSX will do a reverse-lookup for its IP address to set it's hostname. Or, if you want, you can manually set it with hostname -s <hostname>. Note, however, that this latter must be done at every boot to override the default behavior. My question: I have...

Hi, My TiBook was broken: the base side of the clever latching mechanism had chipped off, causing my PowerBook to open randomly, and never stay close, effectively defeating my use of the cool close-to-sleep feature. On Saturday, February 23, I called Apple Care and alerted them to the...

Hello, I want to ask the opinion of some Mac OSX/Unix adepts or gurus. I want to create a one-time, non-incremental but perfect backup of my single hard drive in my TiBook. I have a firewire 80 Gig Maxtor drive. This is what I did: Terminal $ su root $ cd /Volumes/Maxtor $ mkdir...

You know one thing that is very impressive about Macs, for someone coming from a PC world? It's that, when you make an alias, or a dock image of an application, you can *move the folder that the application is in without breaking the alias or dock image*. I think that's amazing. So could...

Hi all, I have a question regarding boot times. I don't know whether I'm paranoid in the sense that I am finding ghosts where there are none, so let me ask you these questions: Datum: I *thought* that when I first got my TiBook, that when I hit the power on switch, it would basically...

Hi all, I have a question regarding boot times. I don't know whether I'm paranoid in the sense that I am finding ghosts where there are none, so let me ask you these questions: Datum: I *thought* that when I first got my TiBook, that when I hit the power on switch, it would basically...

Hi, Someone with a TiBook 667, updated completely, including OSX 10.1.2 (or 10.1.1, it doesn't really matter), try this: Put a folder on your desktop. Add some files with many different sizes, and some folders, to that folder. Open the folder. Select the single-column-view (the...