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Has away around multiple screen savers running at once been worked out in the year since this was originally published? I have been using a screen lock key through Keyboard Maestro, and was wondering why sometimes I had to enter my password twice, until I discovered the multiple screen saver...

Try rebooting with the CD that came with your system (boot into Mac OS 9) and run disk first aid. Clearly, something has happened to your disk and it needs to be repaired. Also, once you get your disk repaired and mounted on the desktop, double click on the system folder to ensure that it's...

Just ignore this until after you've installed X. The installer will complain if you don't have a 9 system folder on the same partition as X. To get booting again, just hold option as you boot up, and you'll get a choice of system folders to boot from. This should find your 9 system on the...

This doesn't work. iPhoto appears to totally ignore that setting (at least if you preview, I didn't try to actually print). However, I would doubt that you would get what you want. The multi-up capability shrinks multiple pages down to fit on one page. So if I tried to 2-up 4x6's, I'd...

It's a nice app, but they screwed up the one feature that they had to get right. The number one thing I do with my digital camera photos is make prints on my photo printer of the ones my wife likes to send to her parents. You can print a bunch of photos easily enough by selecting "standard...

You can try: sudo open -a <app> For example, to launch BBEdit 6.5 as root, you could enter sudo open -a "BBEdit 6.5" (The quotes are only required if there's a space in the application name) This is the equivalent of double clicking on a file in the finder. You can also get the...

sudo stands for "superuser do" It allows you to execute other commands as if you were logged in as root. You log into the system and open terminal as normal. Just put "sudo" before the command you want to execute as root (or superuser). For example, to edit the inet config file, you would...

Or just do what almost everyone, includding Apple, recommends: Don't enable the root password. sudo can do everything you need. use "sudo <cmd>" to just execute single commands, or "sudo -s" to start a new command line shell with root privledges. By enabling root, you open up a whole lot...

Mac OS X does not support multipe master fonts at this time, and I have doubts that it will ever get in there. I talked to the Font Reserve people, who indicated that Adobe discontinued MM fonts a couple years ago. I've tried Suitcase X, but that does't help, and I don't think Font Reserve for...

If you have a lot to do as root, you can just: sudo -s This tells sudo to open a new shell as root, which is functionally equivalent to su. There is no reason that I know of to enable the root account on your system. Just get Pseudo for launching GUI apps, and use sudo -s for terminal...

All of your mounted volumes (hard disks, removable disks, mounted disk images, network volumes, ...) are placed in the /Volumes directory. So if you mount a disk named "Zip100" just "cd /Volumes/Zip100"

You have a couple options. One way, as you suggested, is to enclose the entire file name in quotes: "/Applications (Mac OS 9)" If you want to enclose wildcards in the file name, like * or ?, then quotes may cause problems, depending on the shell you're using in Terminal. For example: ls...

Will these new version of FontReserve let me use my Multiple Master fonts in Mac OS X? This is a big issue for me and would almost guarantee that I'd purchase it. I tried out Suitcase, but it's no help with my MM fonts.

Ok. Correct that. Problem not fixed, at least not totally. I reinstalled the fonts, and made a test document that used some of the fonts from that font set, and that worked. However, it appears that only some of the fonts were not working, and the one that I tested was one of the working...

Ok, the problem is now solved. It appears that at least one of the files was corrupt. Reinstalling them did the trick. XFont Info also helped out, as it was able to confirm that something was wrong because it couldn't show the corrupt fonts.

The only difference is that my postscript files have the old Mac OS 9 red A icon, rather than a Mac OS X specific one.

I thought I had seen that there. I guess the problem is that Freehand 10 isn't a Carbon application, as it's been billed. I guess I'll have to boot into Mac OS 9 and install an OS 9 specific version.

I had all of that installed. The roman parts of AGaramond work fine, so I'm really not sure what's going on. Actually, I don't have the AFM files installed, as they didn't do anything in OS 9 (or at least for the Apps I was using). Maybe I'll try reinstalling from scratch as opposed to copying...

Is there any way to force a carbon application to run in Classic? I'm having some problems with some of my Freehand documents because of some Postscript font issues (like no support for multiple master fonts in X). I'd like to be able to force Freehand 10 to start in Classic instead of...

I'm having some problems getting some of my Postscript fonts to work on Mac OS X (10.1.1). The problem fonts are the specialized fonts from one of Adobe's expert sets (small caps fonts, special symbols, ...) In all of the apps that I've tried, the fonts display fine on the screen. However...