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benp -- what color changes in aqua did you want? Some people with a radically differnt "aqua" were using themes like VGZ mentioned. Perhaps, however, you just wanted to change the hilight color and the scroll bars from blue to gray and to change the "stoplight" of the...

lato -- There have been a couple of lively threads here about how to get X windows running on top of / along side of OS X. There have also been a few threads about porting UNIX applications -- you need some programming knowledge, though on many occasions, not much. So please search (at least...

At least on my machine, there is no /var/log/messages file. Instead, I have /var/log/system.log (and a lot of others, but I think the system.log file is what's important.) Check in there for the messages. (Is console.app carbon? If it does start up, just try checking with that... though the...

I found a way that may simulate a restart: in the terminal, type sudo SystemStarter and then your root password. And behold, the little boot panel starts up right on top of Aqua. (Tip: only do this if you pretty comfortable with the terminal and your disk is backed up, etc etc, I don't...

Yep, X can't start up from the CD because the drive is Slave. The fact that if it is master there are such long boot delays is a bit odd, no? I assume this means there's a problem. If I were you, I'd double-check the jumpers, and make sure there are no cable-select or other sierd issues...

Ooh... Sorry! I would never want to recommend a terminal-based solution when there is a GIU one at hand. (I'm afraid that I am at home now, away from OS X at school, so my only access to X is via SSH command lines, so I forget the easy way to do things. I too, hope that soon I will be using the...

This has been discussed here and elsewhere. For more complete info, please search the macosx and macnn forums before posting questions -- you'll find your answers a lot more quickly that way. That said, Darwin 1.2.1 offers very little (if anything?) that OS X PB doesn't already have. I...

I had this same problem with classic apps -- when the TruBluEnvironment (what's behind classic.app) goes down, I see all the dock strangeness that you describe. But never have I seen this with native carbon apps... Nor have I heard of the trash problems you report. Have you reported this to...

So the CD drive you referred to in the first post is in fact a Slave DVD-ROM? Or do you have two CD drives, both Apple's and the new one? (and no zip...) Because OS X will only boot (even off the CD) if the drive is in master mode. To install, you might have to swap in Apple's drive if...

Here, techoncall, you have a very good point. Your previous posts made it seem like you thought your users would have a hard time learning the new OS, but this last one makes it sound like the real problem is the learning curve for you in troubleshooting for it. I hope that you agree that...

Johnny, Your previous post indicated that you really didn't hear anything I was trying to say. This is fine, but I'm not going to try to defend the Aqua interface from "the context of mac OS," as you stated in your post. My entire point was that the "context of mac os" is an entirely new...

I believe that this has been discussed numerous times both here and at macnn's forums. You should search the fora before posting, if only because you will get an answer faster. But the answer is no, the USB drivers for most haven't been written yet. There may be beta drivers for some disks...

As far as I can remember, you just open the terminal services window, click "OK" to the "load a bunch or examples" dialog and then just close the window. Maybe you need to restart the terminal app or the app that you want to "recieve" the service, but I don't remember any extra steps beyond...

Good point Ben. Sorry I missed that, lato. I hope you weren't insulted or anything. I see what you mean now. Really sorry for the mixup, guys. Fortunately, a reinstall of OS X is easy. Because that problem has me fooled. My multiple users works like a champ. (Does anyone know more about the...

Aargh! No, say it ain't so! That has got to be the worst option possible. I take back all the bad things I say about X 1.1 ! Oh well, maybe I'll learn to love that, too. Personally, scruffy's idea sounds cool... but then what about maintenance releases? OS X d.1? maybe delta.alpha? It...

Sorry if that came off a little harsh. Do try to understand BSD's filesystem. But do it at your leisure, because you shouldn't need to do anything with it. For when you use your Mac for work, just ignore BSD and concentrate on the home folder... Having a little UNIX experience, it makes...

This is what I was talking about when I said you have to give up on how previous OS's worked. BSD's filesystem is complicated. Stop trying to understand it. I know that this is hard for mac users, but the best thing to do is concentrate on your personal corner of the filesystem and organize...

From your system specs it looks like you have added a 2nd HD? Or is it just a partition? Have you monkeyed around with your IDE drive chains at all? I ask because OS X will not boot off of a "Slave" device. When I added my 2nd HD, i reconfigured everything, and my CD became the "slave" on the...

The problem I see is that if the nomenclature is indeed to be OS X 1.0, 1.1, etc, it gets really clunky and dumb sounding to say "Oh Ess ten one point one" -- in english, you generally don't run up numbers against eachother. "Oh Ess ex one point one" sounds a lot nicer, and is easier on the...

Unfortunately, a home folder does not a user make. You need to give them passwords, Library folders, all sorts of stuff for the system to recognize a user. Fortunately, there are utilities to do this. Have you tried using the "Multiple Users" application in /Applications/Utilities (or perhaps in...