octane
I have issues, OK!
I've recently moved over fully to OSX 10.1 and I'm not having much fun. I seem to be having an reproducable error on my system.
1) I can connect to internet and do all sorts of internet-related stuff.
2) I can start Classic and do lots of work in all of my old applications.
3) I like to quick out of Classic at the end of the day and do a restart of Classic to flush out all of the crap that builds up and usually leads to all kinds of Classic instability.
4) But as soon as I've quit out of Classic [before restarting it again] and then try connecting to the internet the mouse pointer really begins jerk and jump around the screen shortly before turning into the mulit-coloured spinning doo-hicky.
The clock freezes and the entire system locks up for about 5 minutes before finally connecting to the internet.
I've been trying to trace the problem. So far, it's taken my machine down three times; two very bizarre crashes and a regular, common or garden, brown-bag freeze.
I think that I've traced it to the System Prefences -> Network. I reordered the two network options to Internal Modem first and Ethernet second.
The last crash/freeze came last night when I had my G4 hooked to my iBook via ethernet. This seemed to confirm my theory, so now I've clicked the check box to the left of the Ethernet option and turned the little monkey off.
This seems to have eleviated the problem a little, but I could still do without this kind of thing happening.
So far, OSX on my G4 is no more stable than OS9.x and not a patch on my iBook which has run flawlessly since I stuck OSX on it the day OSX 10.1 arrived.
Question: why on earth am I having OSX [the supposed network-friendly OS] crash on me?..
1) I can connect to internet and do all sorts of internet-related stuff.
2) I can start Classic and do lots of work in all of my old applications.
3) I like to quick out of Classic at the end of the day and do a restart of Classic to flush out all of the crap that builds up and usually leads to all kinds of Classic instability.
4) But as soon as I've quit out of Classic [before restarting it again] and then try connecting to the internet the mouse pointer really begins jerk and jump around the screen shortly before turning into the mulit-coloured spinning doo-hicky.
The clock freezes and the entire system locks up for about 5 minutes before finally connecting to the internet.
I've been trying to trace the problem. So far, it's taken my machine down three times; two very bizarre crashes and a regular, common or garden, brown-bag freeze.
I think that I've traced it to the System Prefences -> Network. I reordered the two network options to Internal Modem first and Ethernet second.
The last crash/freeze came last night when I had my G4 hooked to my iBook via ethernet. This seemed to confirm my theory, so now I've clicked the check box to the left of the Ethernet option and turned the little monkey off.
This seems to have eleviated the problem a little, but I could still do without this kind of thing happening.
So far, OSX on my G4 is no more stable than OS9.x and not a patch on my iBook which has run flawlessly since I stuck OSX on it the day OSX 10.1 arrived.
Question: why on earth am I having OSX [the supposed network-friendly OS] crash on me?..