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AppleScript's only inbuilt means of providing an on screen display of a result is via a rather ugly "display dialog" that must be dismissed. For many of my AppleScripts I just want a quick notification of the result that goes away by itself after a time I can set, can be placed in any of nine...

Machine: B&W G3 ziffed to G4 running Panther fully updated. Dual CRT displays, the master (with the menu bar) on the built-in Rage 128 and the other on a Villagetronic MPDD Pro PCI card. Problem: After repairing permissions or optimizing, the machine will not restart in Panther. The display...

I have stupidly used the same account name on two OS X machines (one Jaguar the other Panther), and obviously that leads to confusion when connecting from one to the other. Is there a way to change the name and shortname of either from the terminal? It's not possible from the Accounts...

Having recently moved the system on a remote machine to another HD, now when I try to start an SSH session I get this message: ********* IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that...

I want to use an upgraded Beige G3 desktop as a low-traffic server running Apache/MySQL/PHP/pMachine and also as my gateway machine (10base-T to cable modem, 100base-T to LAN) running IPNetRouterX/IPNetSentry. Jaguar is a relatively straightforward install on a Beige but Panther requires the...

Earlier today, with no signifiCant Changes made to anything or software additions, the lower Case "C" on my ADB Keyboard stopped working on first press. If I hold it down, I get the repeats, and if I use a modifier key it works on a single press so the key itself is sending normally. Clearly...

I haven't found this mentioned before, but I observe that when I leave Safari 1.1.1 running in the background under Panther (10.3.1), it hogs cycles. It seems to be a good citizen when it's in use, but running without windows in the background, it seems to want about 70% of the processor's (B&W...

There are several applications that are really interfaces to OS X maintenance functions, such as Xupport, Cocktail, & System Optimizer X. In addition, OS X invokes daily, weekly and monthly scripts to keep itself in good order. Unfortunately, without a fair degree of familiarity with Unix...

I use an old Apple extended keyboard (ADB) on my upgraded B&W G3 -> G4 which has an ADB port. A few days ago, the numbers and the decimal point on the numeric keypad stopped working, though the rest of the keypad keys work. NumLock seems to have nothing to do with it. I know the keys are not...