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    how to play VCD under X?

    The short form answer, if you have a standard VCD disc, is that you can't play it under X, period. There's a bug or lack of support in X's CD driver that won't allow it to properly read data from VCD formatted discs. It's getting better--at least 10.1 will allow you to mount the disc--10.0...
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    Mother of all Weirdness

    I don't have any suggestions, either, but I'm almost positive that Carbon apps can be packages (double-clikable folders) as well--Netscape 6 and the newest iMovie, for example--both include a whole mess of files within the "application". Might be something similar at work, though...
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    Authorizing long delay on 10.1

    I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember this being related to the startup delay symptom. That one is a stall at the blue screen right before the Login Window appears, and it can as well last 5-10 minutes. At least in the case of the loginwindow problem, it is caused by your machine...
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    WARNING: How to avoid formatting your HD

    It's silly not to have a "can you see this" confirmation (ala Classic MacOS), but I can only assume Apple will add one at some point (sooner, please!). For reference, there is in fact a TIL that gives the same solution alexachucarro suggested, for those who can't delete the file via Classic...
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    Mr Sprakle!

    Thanks, testuser--durn funny stuff. AdmiralAK--this site, if you've never seen it, has some good things to get you started hunting for Unicode fonts in various languages: http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html ...and, although I have to apologize for ranting wildly off topic, I...
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    Mr Sprakle!

    I've alwasy seen "Mr." (or anything else with a trailing R sound) transcribed into Japanese with a long vowel on the end, so I'd say the closest equivalent is "Misutaa Supaakaru" personally. Sounds closer to the English, anyway.
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    Mr Sprakle!

    I apologize for the shameless geekiness of this, but I have the uncontrollable urge to point out that the Japanese text in everybody's favorite Mr. Sparkle image is "spelled" slightly wrong. Close enough, though, and a lot better than some random characters. Oh, and by the way, the only...
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    HD keeps spin up and down after deep sleep in OS X

    Thanks for the confirmation; I did some more testing myself, and it turns out that I just hadn't checked thoroughly enough--it is putting the system to sleep that starts the spin-down problems, and they occurr no matter what you do with Energy Saver.
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    QT and 10.1 major speed problems

    That, vertigo, is exactly the bug we've been talking about for the past dozen or so posts. Although there are some complaints about overall speed, the only real problem is a bug in the MPEG decoder that causes it to suck up way more processor power than it should need, and that's why the windows...
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    QT and 10.1 major speed problems

    Sorry to dredge this thread up, but I just discovered something very interesting (if not useful to anybody but QT developers) about the slow MPEG performance in QTX: It's the audio's fault. I happened to be messing around with a demuxing program, and when I played the video stream I noticed...
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    [HOWTO] - Speed up finder on systems with little RAM

    (Actually, scope, the first thing I mentioned was that it was by Andrew Welch--I don't know him, but he's a cool fellow.) I wanted to add that there's now a little freeware program that'll do the same thing if you don't feel like messing 'round with Terminal. Well, it's not nearly as little...
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    [HOWTO] - Speed up finder on systems with little RAM

    There's a very interesting thread in the MacNN forums in which "moki" (Andrew Welch--president of Ambrosia) explains how to turn on a feature in 10.1 that isn't by default--automatic background compression of window memory...
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    10.1 not for gaming

    I'm not a "push the limits" kind of guy, but in my limited experience X runs games at least as well as 9 on my DP533/GF2. There do seem to be some games that don't want to run (especially under 10.1), but they're mostly betas, and 10.1 is only a few DAYS old--I'm perfectly willing to give it...
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    HD keeps spin up and down after deep sleep in OS X

    This is at least the third thread here talking about this same problem. It seems to be a simple bug in Energy saver that shows up after deep sleep--the hard drive (or one of them if you have more) nodds off (spins down then immediately back up) every few minutes. I'm still not quite sure if...
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    Strange sound from HD after waking from sleep

    Actually, I've been paying closer attention to my sleep bug, and it looks like you might be right about it not happening unless the computer has been asleep at least once--I can't say for certain, but it does seem that way. At the least, it's intermittent, and there are periods of time when it...
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    Strange sound from HD after waking from sleep

    My guess is the sound is almost exactly what you said it sounds like--you're probably hearing the drive go to sleep, then immediately wake up again. (Let me also guess that it usually happens when you're not actively doing something on the drive that makes the noise--you've paused to read a web...
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    really slow (5 minutes) logout

    I've been having the an issue that sounds exactly the same as yours. If it is the same thing, then I don't think any amount of reinstallation is going to help; in my case, the stall (not permanant, but annoying) is directly tied to whether 10.1 can make a connection via my cable modem or not...
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    QT and 10.1 major speed problems

    For the heck of it, I just tried the 480 FF Movie trailer and the LotR trailer on an old beige 266 with 10.1. The LotR trailer had sound, but the video was essentially not moving... but even their stats said at least a G3 300, and Classic was about the same. (On the other hand, the menus and...
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    .avi video HELP!

    If you're desperate and the video is in one of the Indeo formats (3 thru 5) you'll be able to play it in Classic if you can track down the plugins (Intel used to have them buried in their download database, but they're owned by another company now, so I'm not sure). Try this: Open the movie...
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