Recent content by brachiator

Thanks, Boss... ;) The VST has long been kinda flaky, so I am not confident in any diagnosis it contributes to. I did take your advice re: the apple service center, however -- and was able to boot from a cd module that the shop has in its rental Lombard... So I am figuring that it is the...

I think that the original expansion bay cd drive in my Lombard 333 has died -- cds have been spinning up slower and slower and more laboriously, and now they don't mount at all... and these same cds mount fine in my FW CDRW. How can I tell if it is the drive that has died, or whether it is a...

my experience mirrors that of stephanec and G4Mystic. Not great performance, but good enough ( i don't do heavy graphics or games). Good enough of a trade off for me from OS 9, to take the performance hit in exchange for the stability, the protected memory, and the multitasking.

There are a lot of different flavors of UNIX and other *nixen. Apps need to be ported to Darwin on the PPC to run on the Mac. Check out: http://fink.sourceforge.net http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/ both projects dedicated to porting *nix apps to Darwin on the Mac. It is relatively...

if you run the command "ditto" in the CLI, without any variables, (i.e., just "ditto") you get the following usage guide (this applies for all UNIX commands, the usage guide): Usage: ditto [-v] [-V] [-arch archVal] [-bom bomFile] [-rsrcFork] src [ ... src] dst -v print a line...

display dialog (Shell "uptime") buttons {"OK"} of course, if you want an applet that you can double-click rather than run in script menu, you'll have to save as compiled

I really like Office:mac, mostly using Word and Entourage. Good and solid. But, that said I agree absolutely that proprietary formats suck and that MS and the rest of them should be forced to provide free readers. That would take care of the occasional recipient or other platform reader...

Dradts -- I imagine that some might not have or be able to afford cd-r drives. Plus, a lot of people (though not me) still use floppies to exchange small files/data, etc. Strangely, my expansion bay VST floppy drive now *works* in my Powebook G3 lombard... it didn't under earlier...

Can any UNIX savvy people help me comprehend what this means? I copied the below from my console.log -- I think that it is from the point where I loaded a CDRW with data files into my firewire CDRW, which for some reason doesn't either read or properly write CDRWs under X...

Hi, can someone let me know which log logs application crashes? I looked in both console.log and system.log for info on my most recent crash (IE, of course ;-), but can't find any references that seem to be it. thanks!

yes, that is true. Disk Utility erases CDRWs (otherwise I would have run out of media for my frustrating tests! ;-) Here's an interesting update -- inferring from JackShedd's post that some of the X apps might be able to write single-track CDRWs, I tried and was successful in burning a disk...

When you say that no s/w supports multi-track burning to CDRWs, is the implication that a single track, say a disk image, will burn correctly? I hadn't tried this, although if it works that will be fine for b/u purposes... I wasn't expecting it in Toast since the readme said no support (I...

Is anyone aware of any s/w that burns CDRWs properly in X -- I have no luck in Toast P2 (I knew this going in), iTunes 2, or the Finder.... thanks!

Well, I didnt' know that. Does the Finder's burner support *burning* to CDRWs in non-superdrive CDRW drives? Here's my current boggle -- I just got a new EZQuest Boa 16x10x40 Firewire drive, and a FW cardbus card for my Pbk Lombard 333 (bronze). I had been testing out the burner using CDRW...

It is my understanding that Toast X P1 and P2 do not yet support erasure via firewire. I think that this is in the readme, although couldn't swear to it.