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Over the weekend, I encountered an odd glitch that makes me wonder if the dial-up issues that have been associated with OS X 10.2.4 might have nipped me. On Sunday afternoon, I went to dialup to my ISP, and got an authentication failure. Several subsequent attempts proved likewise. I was on the verge of calling the ISP's tech support line to see if there was a network problem, but decided to double-check first. I woke up the PowerBook 1400 (running OS 8.6) and hit Connect. The modem connected normally with no authentication problems. Back to the Pismo. Tried again, and got an authentication failure. Upon opening the PPP panel of the Network preference pane, the reason was obvious. The system had somehow substituted a different login name in the Account Name field (note that I haven't had this preference panel open since I set up this account last fall). Weird. I typed in the proper login name, and all was well. Anyone else out there experienced anything like this? BetterSound OS X Preferences Panel Moving along, BetterSound is a Mac OS X audio preference panel, offering some extra features in sound control management. BetterSound allows you to see all audio input and output controls at a glance in one panel. With a peakmeter, mutes and levels management, you can better control your audio devices. 
BetterSound Features:
System Requirements
BetterSound is a freeware.
New in version 1.0.2
To install BetterSound:
• 2) Copy the BetterSound.prefPane to this location. • 3) If necessary, create a new folder and name it PreferencePanes
To Uninstall BetterSound
For more information, visit:
Wallstreet Floppy OS X OS X Floppy Hack HTML Editors for OSX 10.2 Serial printing in Jaguar
Installing OS X from iMac to Powerbook From Michael Kirby Charles; I have a iMac 800 17" running OS X 10.2.4 (when I bought this machine in December it came with 10.2, but the automatic updates brought it up to Jaguar). I have come to love OS X and would like to install it on my PowerBook 400 that I use occasionally. Is there a way to do this without shelling out $129 for a Jaguar disc? I can't see paying that much for a machine I use occasionally. This is an area I'm very unsure about. Can I use the install discs that came with the iMac? Can I run the PowerBook Firewire to Firewire? Any advice would be appreciated. Mike K
Hi Mike;
I'm not sure whether the OS X 10.1 install disks that came with your iMac will work with your G3 PowerBook or not. When I tried to boot my Pismo with the OS X install disk that came with my 700 MHz iBook to run Didk Utility from it, the PowerBook wouldn't mount the disk, so the disks that ship with new Macs may be specific to particular machines. I don't know. I just booted the Pismo from my OS X 10.2.0 disk.
However, if it will work, you're transcending the software license that you received with your iMac for the OS X software. You are supposed to buy Apple's OS X family pack or separate copies of OS X if you want to install X on more than one computer.
You should be able to mount one of your machines from the other in FireWire Target Disk Mode. The iMac, for instance. would consider the PowerBook to be an external hard disk, and I expect you could install OS X on it from the iMac's optical drive.
Charles
From Dana Leighton Charles. I have tried the darwin.org floppy driver. It is so slow as to be unusable. I was very disappointed. Dana. From Wil Nelson It does not work very well, it is very slow and some have reported it does not work at all.
Hi Dana and Wil
Thanks for the reports. Sorry to hear that the hack for internal floppy drives doesn't work well.
Interestingly, the SuperDisk drive in my Pismo is now supporting floppies in OS X happily and reliably. It seems to read and write about as fast as a standard floppy drive.
Charles From C.J. Michelson Your discussions on FTP programs was timely. I decided that RBrowser Lite was right for me, and have started to use it. I am searching for a good HTML editor for OSX. From the WEB I located irEdit. It looks good and the price is reasonable at $20. Others I looked at were: BBEdit - too expensive at $179 for my simple needs; Jext - maybe a techies’ dream, but my nightmare; and MacTidy - which looks semi-abandoned. Do you or your readers have other suggestions? Tex-Edit Plus would not read a file FTP’d from the WEB. Funny, the Classic OS version does! A side question. How do I change a preference on downloaded FTP files so that an icon other than Internet Explorer is used? Charlie Michelson
Hi Charlie;
I use Tex Edit Plus, customized with AppleScripts for html markup.
Some other HTML editors you might want to check out include:
HTML Creator
PageSpinner
CreativePage 3.1
I'm not quite sure what sort of FTP files you're referring to. You can configure the OS X Finder to open a particular type of document in the application of your choice by using the menu in an icon's Get Info window. You can select whateve browser you like to be your default browser in the Web pane of the Internet Perference Pane.
Charles From: S J Nielsen Hi Charles, Re: Peter J Pederson's question about printing to his Epson Stylus Color 600 via a serial port in Jaguar. I can't stress enough how I'm flying by the seat of my pants in this area, but here's what he needs to do, as I understand it:
1. Download and install Gimp-print and ESP GhostScript from here: Gimp-print is an ongoing project to provide drivers for hundreds of unsupported printers (Peter's printer is one of them); ESPGS has something to do with PostScript interpretation, and apparently is essential. 2. Now the slightly tricky part. A kind soul has made the pre-compiled serial support for CUPS available for download here: http://homepage.mac.com/laurentvonallmen/FileSharing3.html. (Without this, you would have to download the source code for CUPS, compile it in gcc in Developer Tools, etc, so it's a HUGE help ). Download the CSW2400.tar.gz-link.gz file, which is actually a complete kit for getting a Stylewriter 2400 to work. Peter can ignore most everything in that folder except the "serial" file, which needs to be moved into this OS X directory: usr/libexec/cups/backend. I'm sure you have to be logged in as "root" to do this, unless you know how to do it in Terminal. The directions in the CSW2400 package probably have some useful info about this. 3. Once this file is where it belongs, restart the computer and open any web browser. Type in this URL: localhost:631 This opens the Web interface to CUPS, and it's just a matter of following the steps, starting with "Add a Printer" to choose the printer and the right port. Once done, the printer SHOULD appear in Print Center. That's the best I can do! I hope it works out. Steve. Thanks Steve. Charles
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