Mac Forum / General / General / February 2008

I'm thinking of looking for a copy of 9.0.4 (or thereabouts) to
"upgrade" my SheepShaver "classic" installation to the latest
compatible version of OS 9.  It appears they can be found on Ebay
every now and then.  How can one tell by looking at the disc in

My employer just got me a black MacBook, which I'm pretty excited
about. It's running OS 10.5.2. Once I had done minimal set-up, I used
Migration Assistant to move everything from my iBook G4. It worked,
but now I have two accounts that I have to log into separately.

I've got my older mac set up so that I run tsch, and I can't remember
how I did it. I just got a new Mac with 10.5.2, and none of my aliases
is working. :->
I have some hazy recollection that I'm limited in my choices of shell

I'm running OS 10.4 on a G4. My system is crashing several times a day
at the Finder level. It seems to happen mostly when trying to open or
copy a file from a folder on the desktop and especially when trying to
access one of my external hard drives. The only way to recover is to

For reasons unknown to me, one of my external USB hard drives displays a
lock on the desktop icon.
Three questions:
1. What does the lock indicate?

My other computer is a G4 with sys 9. It has 2 hard drives. I
installed Sys 10.4 on the 2nd hard drive (wanting to keep sys 9 on the
original). Now I have to boot up holding the option key, and I can't
get sys 10 to work at all. How do I install sys 10 properly, and how

Using an Intel 1.5ghz with 10.4.11.  When I restart or sleep the
computer frequently USB devices are not detected.  By unplugging and
then plugging them in again in a different plug on the hub usually
detects them.  I tried plugging directly into the Mini and it was the

Mac OS X V 10.4.11
2.1 GHz PowerPC G5
1.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM
this iMac about 2 years old

I need info. about how to upgrade on the mac osx 10.3
to 2008 standards. i an new to the computer world.

I was recklessly trying out various tweaks (http://
www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/terminal-commands-for-hidden-mac-os-x-settings.html)
on my machine the other day and afterward, F12 no longer seemed to be
invoking Dashboard.

We have a net Mac leopard that i just added to our domain.net domain.   Im
getting error events in my windows domain
stating that the mac claims to be a master browser.  Where can I set the mac
to stop trying tobe a master browser

Can money buy our happiness?? Though you feel stationary, you know the
earth is spinning on its axis. Your mind knows that movement of the
sun is an illusion, and that in truth you are moving.money does not
buy happiness or love.

We have an old Xserve which I have put into service for file serving.
It only had one disk and so I just set it up as it was with Leopard server.
I have purchased a second drive and want to setup RAID mirroring.  Can
this be one without erasing the first drive?  Or will I have to ...

I want to run the following script file by doubleclicking from the
desktop (its an example, in reality I would copy some files around):
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#!/bin/sh

I'm wondering why my periodic  daily, weekly, and monthly jobs
don't run automagically under Leopard.
If I run them with "sudo periodic daily" or whichever one
they seem to run without errors in the *.out  logfile in /var/log