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OK if I were to do a full installation of Mac OS X would my user preferences be deleted? My finder is acting screwy and I think I need to reinstall it but theres no simple way of doing that (at least I think because I posted here and none of you even replied) Would I have to create the...

There are no drivers witht the floppy and I may not upgrade untill christmas. So I geuss I'm SOL.

Ok, my Finder has gone bad. Ever since I started using my floppy again. One day the Finder just crashed when I was copying to a floppy when it came back none of my settings were there. Since then it's gotten worse another hard reboot and all my toolbar cusdtomization was gone and all the icons...

try going to http://www.zone6400.com/ great sote on anything for the 6400. I'm actually looking for a monitor for mine :-/

What the heII is up with Apple? Why are they still selling the old iMacs for $799+ shouldn't they now take these computers and make them a very low end computer for home users who just want to surf the net and get e-mail? I think that these machines (I own one) are great this ones got me through...

I have both xfree86 and XDarwin installed just getting used to all the stuff is the hard part

Well I do have orobosx Running on my comp. it's just that i find that compiling the software by hand is easier than learning to use fink ... theres probably a lot more too it than i see though so i want to give fink a shot. i still havent figured out to get xchat installed. i figured out how to...

OK Fink is brand new to me ... and if you've read any of my other posts you would know this whole unix thing is new to me to but I'm trying. I've installed some programs from fink (I think) now how do I use them? where are they stored? and what happens if I messed up and didn't install some part...

when i try to use irc to connect to a server such as irc.macosx.com i get some thing that says Segmentation fault and i get booted back to the command line .... any help here?

I think I figured it out the configure script couldn't work with my partition cause it had spaces in the title so now i changed the spaces to underscores hope everything works out this time.

I'm pretty sure i ran the configure script I'll try this one more time thanx for the help

Could I use an alias to set it up so that when I type something like cd /downloads it would be the same as typing cd ./downloads? and if so how would I go about that would it be something like alias cd / - cd ./? and if not how would I make it do that ? Nate Coffield

When ever I try to do a 'make' it never works. What am I doing wrong. _______ make: **** No Targets. Stop. _______ Thats what I get every time I try to do a make. I was trying to install ircII. I'm pretty new to the whole *nix scene so excuse me if this is a stupid question. Nate...

Anyone know of a good (good = free) IRC client for XDarwin. I'm brand new to this stuff and it would be nice if the apps site had step by step instructions if i doesnt have an installer. Thanx for any suggestions I'm off to search google

what about on a powerbook 540c?

How may i do the same thing with a usb floppy drive? if anyone could help me out i would appreciate it

Thanx for the help

OK simple question with a simple answer i just dont know what it is. On the Powerbook 540c does the ac adapter charge the batteries or do i need a charger i have looked all over online and have found nothing about a charger and only one site having the adapter. Thanx in advance.

OK too much info. Yeah I know about how all you "*nix" guys out there hate it when people ask questions... about anything ever even if you're just asking a harmless question. Sure I've done some reading on the subject and frankly there aren't a lot of good things out there to read. For...

Well I know this isn't exactly the best place to put this but I was just wondering about applications for Linux. I hear so much about the great open source gurus and all but I have know idea where to go searching for them. So here is my request, if you would please list any *free* programs...