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  1. unlearnthetruth

    Something to Impress the Dark Side

    That's a start! Ok so far I have: • Stun them with the simplicity of iPhoto • Wow them with desk/screen effects any more suggestions?
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    Something to Impress the Dark Side

    Well guys I need your expertise again... here's the two emails my mother just sent me: "you need to teach me something really jazzie that my computer can do and theirs can't.........." Like what? "i don't really know...just something jazzy that i can show them that i did on Baby Mac...
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    Jaguar Icons

    strange... i can change the icons for folders, but not for applications, and not for my hard drives... grrrrr
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    Jaguar Icons

    Is it possible to change icons in Jaguar? i tried changing the icons of my hard drives, and of applications, and it doesn't seem to work. It won't let me paste the new icon over the old... anyone else have a similar problem?
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    Emergency

    nah believe me i restarted it plenty at first. Diskwarrior, Techtool, and Norton all came up empty handed. The thing that pisses me off the most is that the monitor burnt out. that was a nice monitor! ah well, c'est la vie
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    Emergency

    In case anyone is interested... here's what ended up happening... The first hard drive is dead. completely. many a tear was shed. So i got a new one... and i couldn't boot of my 10.0 cd to install... Suddenly, everything stops working. Can't turn the thing on... So i take it to...
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    They're out to get me i swear....

    tried that.... no difference...... :(
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    They're out to get me i swear....

    Ok well some of you may have heard my problem in my Emergency thread. Well I got a new harddrive ok.... 120 gig..... have it formatted in three partitions, 10, 20, and 90..... for os 9, 10, and "stuff" respectively. Got 9.2 running. but now i can't install osx..... and i'm really upset about it...
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    Emergency

    Ed - actually every time i post i stare at my that line in my sig and curse quietly to myself ;) I HAD multiple users set up on that drive.... but now i'm booted on a different drive w/o multiple users, and I can't access the drive to change the settings or anything. I've also painstakingly...
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    Can I make a quicktime recording of my desktop?

    Snapz Pro (www.ambrosiasw.com) allows you, among other things, to take quicktime move "screenshots." It's not free, but it's an excellent piece of software
  11. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    i'm beginning to think the disk may actually be physically damaged. ANY activity that required that disk takes AGES..... it'll access.......... pause........ access........ pause....... access....... pause..... it's unbearable. Disk Warrior hung on step 5 (locating directory information) for...
  12. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    ok so the latest problem is that techtool refuses to repair my hd. it claims that the volume is write protected.... ummmm. how do i unprotect it>?
  13. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    Ed - yeah i'm trying to find someone here that has a copy i can borrow. One drawback of being on a 95% PC ONLY campus is well..... this...... Adam - yeah i got jaguar through up-to-date... my mother recently got an iMac, so i borrowed her up-to-date cd... so looks like i have a whole lot of...
  14. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    all the cables and what not check out. disktools seemed to think the problem was with the catalogue file, and thats where norton freaks out - when it gets to checking catalogue structure, it returns that disk error bs. i guess a reformat is the only option..... grrr...... so wait a second...
  15. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    'tis the original 10 gig drive. it's not making any noises or anything like that. i just can't seem to access it. i can't boot off of it, it will mount, but when i access it it goes dreadfully slowly, or it reports back with "disk error." I get "disk error" when i try to copy files off of it as...
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    Emergency

    would a reformat cure said physical problems, or is the drive actually deceased if that is the case?
  17. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    I guess I'll be reformatting since I can't get anything out of Norton. Just kinda sucks because there's a very large amount of stuff on that drive that I am now wishing I backed up. Soooo unless anyone has any last minute ideas, looks like I'll be spending the evening trying to figure this out...
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    Emergency

    *sigh* i really don't wanna reformat...
  19. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    Every time i run norton it says: An unknown error occurred that prevented Norton Disk Doctor from fully scanning this disk Error Found: Disk Error Please try examining the disk again. Which results in the same thing happening. It happens while it's examining the catalogue file...
  20. unlearnthetruth

    Emergency

    I have no idea what happend. I went to turn on my mac this morning, and it hung on the grey Apple screen for a while... eventually it ejected the CD tray... but nothing happend. Single user boot wouldn't work. So I started up off of the Jag cd and ran disk utility. It said invalid key header or...
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