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    Mouse Arrow speed and Kensington!!

    You've been looking at the system-wide GlobalPreferences file, instead of your own personal copy. The system wide file resides in the top-level library folder, while your Global Preferences file resides in your own personal Library folder. <B>/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist</B>...
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    Mouse Arrow speed and Kensington!!

    Strange, that's _absolutely_ nothing like mine. Are you sure we're both looking at the same file? To check, open a Terminal and the following command. more ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist mine contains information on the following topics: - aqua color variant...
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    Mouse Arrow speed and Kensington!!

    aaahhhrrrggg! why does this thing keep nuking my angle brakets? The first time, I was a bad boy and typed them in literally. This time I was nice and used &lt; and &gt; which previewed fine, but as you can see... The word MouseScaling is surrounded by tags key and /key (in angle brakets)...
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    Mouse Arrow speed and Kensington!!

    The "fast" setting provided by mac os X is shown below: <key>MouseScaling</key> <string>5 2 2 3 6 4 10 5 15 6 22</string> The format of the configuration string seems to be: n t m {t m} n = the number of pairs t m t = a threshold. m = a multiple At least, that's my suspicion...
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    Mouse Arrow speed and Kensington!!

    oooh... look what I found: <key>MouseClick</key> <integer>1</integer> <key>MouseScaling</key> <string>5 2 2 3 6 4 10 5 15 6 22</string> This is in the file ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist The string "Mouse Scaling" presumably...
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    PPP Connect (LCP Failure)

    two additions: - between steps (2) and (3) above, there is some factor missing. Restaring the computer(?) Using Classic(?) I dunno. - the prefs file is called com.apple.pppconnect.localhost.plist (I forgot the "localhost" bit.)
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    restless sleep consumes much battery

    I've noticed that my PowerBook's (G3/300, WallStreet II) display shows faint, shifting ggrey bands when it is "asleep" under OS X. I wonder, is that good for the screen? It suggests though that the computer isn't truly and fully asleep. I've always got mine plugged in, so I've not noticed...
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    Mouse Arrow speed and Kensington!!

    I grepped the whole file system looking for occurances of the word "mouse" (case insensitive). I found quite a few, (in binary files), but none of them pointed me to a configuration file that I could edit. :( I'm having the same difficulties with my old Logitech (ADB) MouseMan. It's slow...
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    PPP Connect (LCP Failure)

    ...I've had this problem as well. For me, it's followed this pattern so far: REPEAT (1) dial in and connect to my ISP without troubles. (2) Quit PPP Connect (3) Dial in again, get LCP Failure (4) Quit PPP Connect (5) Delete the com.apple.pppconnect.plist file from...
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