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I'm a Java developer with very little experience on OSX, and I want to start making my apps better integrated with Mac, giving the expected OSX user experience. I'm still doing research on the various aspects of that, but I have a basic question to start our with. I used Jar Bundler in the...

A month later this problem still exists, and I've gathered more data to demonstrate the pattern. The crashes only happen on Sundays, but not every Sunday. In the last 15 weeks there were 6 crashes. There is some uniformity in the time of the crashes, but not always. Here is the time of the...

I found the reason the clipboard write was not working properly. I was executing the application via ssh login, and in this context the awt toolkit apparently has no access to the system clipboard. It would have been nice if Toolkit.getSystemClipboard() had returned null. Instead it returned a...

I have a java program that sets the contents of the system clipboard. It's a very simple task, and it works fine on my Windows machine. But on OSX it doesn't seem to work. I set the contents and the program doesn't throw an Exception. Furthermore I can read the contents of the clipboard from my...

I should have mentioned that I checked the console logs after previous failures and saw no entries around the time of the crash. For today's incident, the earliest entry in console.log is at 1500 (crash occurred at 1351), and system.log has an entry for 0500, followed by one for 1500. There are...

I've had some periodic crashes for a while now, but recently they've settled into a regular pattern. For the past three Sundays, the Mac crashed at approx 1351 local time. (I verified the time via an app I wrote that writes the current time to a file every minute.) Before that, it crashed at a...

Already traded up to the Apple keyboard when I saw your message. When I put the Apple keyboard in I got no response, and the caps light was stuck on. Seems Mac doesn't support inserting a keyboard after booting, at least not in single-user mode. Ran fsck -yf and it completed with no Problems...

No, the Mac didn't come with any keyboard. It's a Mac Mini. We bought it from the Apple Store, and we selected the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse as accessories. I didn't worry about not having a USB keyboard because I have one with my PC. Only trouble now is that I can't find the PS/2-USB adapter...

Yes indeed. Canon has drivers allright, but they only work for USB connection. When we connect the printer on USB the computer finds it and everything works fine. When we connect it to a print server on the LAN, and try to use the built-in GIMP drivers, we get nothing. A PC on the LAN can...

I got into single-user mode and discovered to my chagrin that I'm up the creek without a paddle because all I have is a wireless keyboard. My PC unfortunately has a PS-2 keyboard connector, and I've torn the house apart looking for the PS-2/USB adapter I know I have. And of course I discovrted...

Thanks, I was wondering if that was an Airport-only feature. I'm actually investigating this on behalf of a friend, and he already has a D-Link. So I think we'll pursue the printfab option. They have a 30-day free trial, and I saw some good reviews on VersionTracker. Thanks again for the info.

I've been having the same issue, trying to get a Canon IP4200 to work via IPP. If I understand you correctly, this can't be done with manufacturer-provided drivers since they only support USB. I may give the printfab driver a try, since they list the IP4200 as a supported printer. You also...

Update: I'm working on this problem for a friend. He just told me that he was able to authenticate to the CUPS page using the short form of his user name. Unfortunately that doesn't work for me. I'm entering the user name and password for an admin account, the one I've used to install software...

I'm trying to print to a Canon IP4200 via IPP. I'm sure I have the correct IP address, because I can print to the same printer over the LAN from a PC. But there seems to be no way to get it to work from the Mac. After printing, the print queue status indicates the document printed, but nothing...

Thanks for your response. I had already checked the logs, and nothing jumped out at me as explaining why settings got wiped out. One possible exception: As mentioned in the other thread, I get a syslogd:restart in the log at 3:15 AM, from the daily maintenance task. I see a command in the...

My Docks settings were lost for an unknown reason. Suddenly there was nothing in the Dock but the Finder and a couple items that launched on startup, such as the printer utility and TextWrangler. It was easy enough to put stuff back in the Dock, but I'd like to know what happened. This is most...

After a couple days exchanging messages on the CCCloner forum, the consensus among the admins there is that CCCloner is not causing the user settings to be reset. However, it's possible that the problem was caused by the fact that CCCLoner was executing a backup task at the same time that the...

Latest update: - Disk capacity is not an issue on either the internal or external drives. Tens of GBs available on both. - The CCC log hsows that the backup operation just stopped on the morning that the problem occurred. There's no indication why it stopped- no error message, just stopped...

Thanks for your suggestions. Here are some answers to what you've suggsted. 1. Will check hard drive space when I get home. At work now. The first time this happened, disk space on the internal drive was not an issue. Will check pList settings next time it happens. I restored the system this...

When it happened once, I just figured stuff happens. But now it happened again a week or so later, and I need to figure out what's going on. A week or so ago, my user settings were completely wiped out. It's my wife's computer, and she doesn't think she did anything out of the ordinary...