Recent content by mvcube

Sorry, without further info, I will not be able to help.

You have to use the "nohup" command to detach the cp process from the terminal. "man nohup" will tell you more. "nohup" means "do not react on the HUP (hang up) signal!". The output will be redirected automatically to a file named "nohup.out".

Your system isn't the newest one. Have you checked the minimum requirements of the software you're trying out?

Holding down the power button for more than 5 seconds should do a restart, too. Do you have any info in the console logs?

M3U is a playlist format which only points to songs somewhere else on your disk. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U ). You need to save the MP3 files on your PC.

Try to run the applet with sudo. It might be a security issue.

On my (German) 10.4. the option is on the right. It is a button below the dropdown boxes for colors and refresh rate. It should be named "detect monitors".

On a typical flatscreen, the resolution should be much bigger, something like 1280x1024 is minimum for 4:3 screens. Try to increase the resolution or to redetect your monitor.

Disk Utility should be able to do so. Or do you want to do it from a program of your own?

It looks as if your screen size isn't recognized correctly. You may have to go to System Preferences and check the screen resolution.

Have you clicked on "Show certicate?" At least in Safari you can then select to trust this certificate. Edit: Sorry for the duplicate suggestion, I hadn't noticed page 2 of the thread. :(

I haven't checked console and will not be able to do so, at least not in the same environment. I'm just reinstalling Tiger from scratch and will try again. Edit: Firefox seems to run now. There was probably a faulty system extension or plugin installed. If anything goes wrong in the future...

I've just acquired a used iBook G4 off eBay (512 MB, 1GHz) in order to use it as my living room Internet access terminal. Firefox 2.0.14 crashes upon loading almost any page. I can't even start it with an empty profile because it crashes immediately. Not exactly: it takes a few seconds (FF is...

I've had the same behaviour on other Laptops (IBM, Toshiba) and it went away after I replaced the battery.

No, that's the right thing to do. There should be an option to check whether to do a full erase or a quick erase.