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    Very slow Jaguar shutdown

    has anyone noticed how slow Jaguar shuts down compared to 10.1? It takes at least 20 seconds, when 10.1 took about 2. This seriously bites if there is no way to fix it because I enjoyed the snappiness of the shutdown on my Mac.
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    CD and DVD burning

    I have a quicksilver G4 w/ a Superdrive and I am having problems burning anything from my drive. I was trying to burn a DVD-RW disc from OS 9, but it gave me some weird updating disc window when I tried to initialize it. So then I tried a regular CD-R that should mount on the desktop after...
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    reinstalling OS X

    Okay, so privileges have been completely trashed, and reinstalling OS X is in the cards. I looked all over the Apple website and couldn't find an honest, straightforward answer to my problem. Just two questions. Is there a way to install only the system files, not the all the applications and...
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    Fixing Privileges...

    In a lame attempt to give another computer full access to my computer, I gave everyone read/write privileges and copied to all enclosed folders in OS X. I have been told that I completely messed up the privilege structure of the OS. Does anyone know how to reset all the privileges back to...
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    Texas

    I love Texas. I was born and raised here, and have in all my traveling (I've been to every state but Oregon, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Alaska. I've been to Canada, Mexico, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, Austria, and some small European countries), never come across...
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    Weird Problems...

    When I try to startup Classic I get the following error message: "You are running Classic without superuser(root) privileges. Ensure TruBlueEnvironment is setuid and owned by root, or reinstall your Mac OS X System Software." What the heck is going on? I have used Classic countless times...
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    Netscape 6

    Are there any reasons I shouldn't completely delete IE and switch to Netscape? Is there any advantage to keeping IE on my comp, like being able to do things on the Net I can't do in Netscape? I dowloaded and installed Netscape 6 and it seems like it works extremely well. I want to keep it...
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    Let's go Ags!!!

    Beat the hell outta TCU!!! So who is watching the galleryfurniture.com bowl (a.k.a. The biggest bowl game of the year, hahahahahaha!)? I wish we could gotten a better bid than that. We didn't have a great team this year but, oh well, I'm only a freshman. Just out of curiosity, any other...
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    Powerbook hard drive solutions...?

    My brother has a Pismo Powerbook 300 Mhz and only a 6 GB hard drive. He wants more space, and needs it pretty badly so he can install OS X (although he'll need to get more RAM). His model of Powerbook does not have FireWire on it, only USB and SCSI 2. How do you suggest going about getting a...
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    Login Customization

    I am real big into this login screen customization thing, as Darkshadow has shown us (http://homepage.mac.com/darkshadow2/misc/login.jpg) it can be real awesome. I got the Dev Tools, and have tried my best, but can't figure it out. Am I going to have to learn a little C code? How many of...
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    For Darkshadow:

    Hey, can you check your private messages please? I asked a question I know you can answer and would love a response as soon as possible. Thanks a lot. P.S. I think they should put PM's at the top of the home page instead of the bottom.
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    Login screen

    I want to change the positions of the buttons on the Login Screen. I heard that I need some developer tools to do this. Which program specifically would I use to edit .nib files?
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    DivX codec from DivX.com

    DivX.com released a codec for Mac users (both OS 9 and X). They are the ones who developed The Playa software which if you haven't used it, is real great (you can do cool things like make the movies be the desktop). I installed the file they said to put in the Library/Quicktime folder and...
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    Someone trying to hack my computer?

    I was the dude that posted the DivX movie apps package and I hosted it using Web Sharing in OS 9. I kept looking at the log to see how many people got the apps and what not, but I just looked at it and this is what I saw: 128.59.226.17 - - [10/DEC/2001:21:02:06 -0600] "GET...
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    How to watch DivX movies

    I have heard a lot of people complaining that there is no DivX software for Mac. I thought the same thing, but with a little searching around, I have found a solution that works every time. I yet to encounter one DivX movie that I haven't been able to play (there have been some other .avi's in...
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    Seemingly big problems

    I have on two instance in the past few weeks come across a flashing world when a Mac is starting up. One was when I tried defragmenting my hard drive using Norton SystemWorks. Before defragging, the program unmounted my hard drive. When the process was complete the hard drive mounted...
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    About avi/mpeg movies

    haven't come across an avi movie (divx and all) that I haven't been able to play on my Quicksilver G4. Using DivXPlayer 1.0b10, FourCC(changes the div3 code to a readable format), Quicktime Player, and some random codecs available online. Often I have to use the DivX Doctor feature in DivX...
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    10.1.dmg terminal question

    for those of use who got the Mac OS X 10.1 Update.dmg file and need to burn the CD, we have been told there is a way to convert the file to a DVD/CD-R master file (one we can mount in Toast) using the Terminal. I was given this command: hdiutil convert -format UDTO Mac OS X 10.1 Update.dmg...
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    About the 10.1 disc image

    I downloaded the Mac OS X 10.1 Update.dmg file from an FTP. It only mounts in OS X Disk Copy, not OS 9 and I have to burn it onto a CD right? Is there a Disc Burner for OS X or something or do I just put the file on a CD and it automatically mounts it when it starts up or what? I have done...
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