Recent content by jamall

I would have to disagree with the above posters. It is very easy to cut the trace going to the R13 resistor on the 400MHz processor card, all you need is a scalpel, a magnifying glass, a steady hand, and 15 minutes spare. If it isn't stable you can repair the trace with a conductive pen, and if...

Instead of buying a new scanner, you should just keep using your old one http://www.hamrick.com/index.html

go to the network preference pane, click on the ppp tab, click the ppp options button. uncheck the "prompt every ** minutes to maintain connection" box

I have a g4/400 agp running 10.1.3 and I just updated dvd player to 3.1.1 and it works fine for me. try trashing the dvd player plist in user/library/preferences

does anyone know how to get Xemacs working with smalleiffel? i've just gotten xfree86-rootless and xemacs to work, and now need xemacs to work with eiffel like it does on the solaris machines at uni, but have no idea what i'm doing! Any help would be appreciated

thanks BSDimwit i got Xfree86-rootless running and i'm playing with the different window managers. what i really want to do is use emacs to write in eiffel. i've got emacs running and i've seen the eiffel web pages but am unsure what to download and what i would then do with it. if anyone has...

I've used fink to install Xfree86, but now I can't get it to start up. Here is my terminal: Welcome to Darwin! [localhost:~] jamall% startx xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and that...

testuser, I killed it and it turned out to be the number crunching end of Folding@home - the protien folding distributed computing project. I had this launching on startup and running in the background, but now I think I'll only run it when I'm not working. Thanks jamall

I've recently noticed a slowdown in performance of my G4. I also noticed the appearance of the Core_65.ex entry in the top terminal app. Here is a screen dump: Processes: 38 total, 3 running, 35 sleeping... 117 threads 09:06:45 Load Avg: 1.38, 1.47, 1.52 CPU usage: 86.0%...

Unsupported Utility X does work with a hard drive version of the install CD, but the only way to make the hard drive functions correctly as the install CD is to use the Apple Software Restore method described by ksv. I've tried copying all the files across in the OS 9 Finder and renaming the...

Krevinek, I'm running an 8600 with a G3 upgrade card. What other tips do you have for improving performance, because I find it unbearably slow compared to my G4 under 10.1. Thanks

In OS 9.1 and 9.0.4 it was possible to plug a TV into the Powerbook with an S-Video cable and watch a DVD on the big screen. The new DVD player is really sweet, but now in either OS X or 9.2.1 the DVD player refuses to play on the TV, saying "Your hardware configuration is not supported" in X...

The same thing happens to my USB ZipCD, but remeber, Toast for OS X is just a preview release so it isn't going to be fully functional yet

4. Try putting an alias of your HD in the new user's folder