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The problem is: If you upgrade Mac OS X, using the Mac OS 9 Startup Disk control panel will render your systems usesless! The solution: After you update Mac OS X (to any version) you must use the Software Update in Mac OS 9 to update your Startup Disk utility before attempting to switch back...

Selected X from the Startup Disk in 9.1 and restarted the machine. On boot I got a *broken* system folder icon. I held down the Option key at startup and chose the only available option (X) but when it comes up with the broken system folder too. Used the 9.1 CD to reset the Startup Disk back...

despite everything that i try, i don't seem to be able to connect to my machine remotely. I turned on File Sharing, the Web server, FTP, and Terminal access. I even made sure that the sleep setting was set to "never" and set the screensaver to run to ensure that the processor stayed active...

Okay, I'm looking high and low for how to add a group to my sharing and can't find it. I need to set my 'public' folder up so that only a certain group has access and I can't figure out how to do such a thing. as part of the OS X install it asked me for a Group (let's call it Staff), but...

and I'll say it again. Mac OS X has been completely rethought, redesigned, reorganized, and refined from the pre-ten experience. Let's pretend-- A software developer creates an application and puts features in its menu bars: In the OS menu they put info on the application itself. In...

if the dock wasn't always on top, how would you click on it without activating an app?

You can also force an application to open a file. Hold down the Option key as you drag a file to an application's icon (either in a window or in the Dock/Shelf) -- this will force the app to attempt to open it. this is also good for files that seem to lose their creator info...

I, too, don't understand why people wanted to use the apple menu as a launch-point. If you put your hard drive alias into it you would have to navigate several levels before finding what you wanted anyway. Of course, some folks just put an alias to their Applications directory in the Apple...

there will never be an answer for all situations. If the text was dark then when something dark was behind the dock, people would complain about not being able to read the text. if the text were grey (or some other midtone) then there would be even more people complaining about the lack of...

The latest version of OmniWeb (4.0cf3 at this time) has far better CSS support than previous versions, but they seem to have settled for the Navigator 'standard'. it's more than they had before, but far less than it should be. notibly the lack of link effects (hover, active, etc) and the like...

The only two Adobe apps that i've used in Classic have been Photoshop 6 and Illustrator 9, and the experience has not been good. For the most part, photoshop behaves as it should but I've noticed these issues (that I can remember off the top of my head): if photoshop isn't already...

photoshop operates under Classic and uses the fonts found in the System folder (and anything provided to the system through apps such as ATM and Suitcase). The font smoothing in Photoshop is, therefore, the same as a pure 9.1 experience. BTW: I absolutely recommend that only the very...

yes it will, though i don't remember if the screenfonts were necessary. just drop them into your /users/[username]/fonts directory and you should be golden. you may have to log out first before they take effect. oh, btw: X understands Mac Truetype, PC Truetype, Postscript, and Screenfonts...

I've got a 300MHz Tangerine iBook with a mere 64MB RAM :eek: but it runs X 10.0.0.0.0 just fine... slowly... but just fine. I have to give this bad boy some RAM or I'm gonna go nuts.

some of the repetitive structure of X is a little confusing to a unix newbie like myself, but fonts turned out to be really easy to install /users/[userhome]/library/fonts drop your fonts into this directory and they'll be available immediately (i think it's immediately). OS X...

i was wondering who would be the first to bring that up! someone should mention it to apple... would fanny be better? ;) naw, best stick to Puff

unix is a nifty thing -- lots of weird commands, but nifty :)

Since Mac OS X seems to be especially picky about 3rd-party RAM upgrades (mix-matched RAM is the worst, I hear) I was wondering who has upgraded their RAM and had success with it under X? These are the RAM 'brands' that I know of: RamJet Kingston Toshiba 'Apple' I want to upgrade my...

the other week I was backing up data from my drive when it crashed (ironic, i know) but the problem was -- it never came back. it turns out that the Motherboard fried. we have another machine here (that was purchased at the same time) which is extremely flaky -- crashes all the live long day...

i dumped Outlook Express and Entourage now that I have the Apple Mail application. It does the same things -- well, I don't have a palm so I don't need to worry about syncing...and I don't use the calendar.... okay, so not entirely the same things, but it gets my mail and I'm happy ;)