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Follow-up on 9.1 install From Jeff Mork Hi, Charles.....some follow-up to the questions and possible solutions you suggested for installing 9.1 on my Beige G3.... I am able to boot the install disk for 9.1 on my machine, but when I click on the installer, I get the message "This program cannot run on your computer". I have scoured the Apple help boards, but find no direct evidence about my set-up and the problem.
My thoughts:
2) my G3 is in the HFS Standard format, so maybe that is why it is not running the installer. A related question: if I do reformat as you had suggested in our earlier discussion, should I switch to the HFS+ format, and will I be able to bring my backed-up files from a standard format back over to the new HFS+ format? I'll wait for your response to these question before I try to drag the installer from my iBook with the disk enabled in the iBook. BTW--I appreciate your position and stance concerning the war. Bravo! Jeff Mork
Hi Jeff;
Your question #1 probably contains its own answer. I've had mixed results over the years getting systems to install on other machines from system CDs that shipped with various Macs. However, I was unsuccessful in getting the OS 10.2.1 CD than came with my iBook to mount on my Pismo (I have a generic Jaguar CD, but was just lazy and wanted to boot of a CD to run Disk Utility, and the iBook CD was handy).
Dragging the installer from the iBook disk may or may not work. However, you can purchase an OS 9.1 install CD at Other World Computing for $49.
If all else fails, you could try dragging an OS 9.1 System folder from another machine
Charles From David Johnson Charles I have you beat. My PopMonitor has 1556 blocked addresses and still some gets through. David From John Dennis I know in one of your articles that some one mentioned that he has this keyboard. I think that it was this keyboard, but I am not sure. Do you remeber that article and which one it was in. I did a search for keyboard on applelinks and can not find this one. I can not afford this at the moment, but it looks to be a good keyboard.
Hi John;
We published an excellent report on the TouchStream ST keyboard by reader correspondent dxtr back in March. Here it is again:
Hi Charles,
Typing on air is what it feels like with the FingerWorks TouchStream ST (formerly Stealth) keyboard. They call the concept "ZeroForce" input. While you have to touch the surface it responds to the lightest touch imaginable. There is no click or pressure required. It takes a little while to get used to but once you learn it's easier and for me, faster. I have had this input device for about 8 months now and find it difficult to imagine having another conventional keyboard ever again. The reason I call it an "input device" is that keyboard just does not cover what it is and does.
Imagine a 5.5 inch high by 6.5 inch wide trackpad surface. Then double it for the left side and put a 1 inch at the top 1.5 inch at the bottom rigid hinge with a slight bend in the middle to connect the two pieces. Now imbed the qwerty keys under a clear overlay with all the function keys and a large oval under each thumb. One for the "Space Bar" and one for the "Delete" key(called "Backspace"). You also get an "Enter" and a "Delete" key at the lower inner corner. For me having the backspace/delete key literally under my left thumb has improved my typing speed, never to good under the best of circumstances.
The underlying technology is called Multitouch. What it basically does is let you use the same surface to do multiple things. I have described the keyboard portion so far but the neatest thing is this is also my mouse! The right side is used as a 5.5 by 6.5 inch trackpad, it can be switched to the other side for lefties, with a 5.5 by 6.5 inch scroll wheel, which also pans, a 5.5 by 6.5 inch right mouse button and a 5.5 by 6.5 inch left mouse button all using the same space. Lay down two fingers and the cursor obediently follows them around. Tap or double tap two fingers and that's a mouse click or clicks. Lay down three fingers and you have the drag function. Lay down four fingers, on either left or right side home row, and type, you HAVE THE SHIFT function. Lay down the same four fingers and slowly roll or drag them down the surface and there's the scroll wheel.
If it's a large picture or wide document drag sideways and you pan across it. Want to highlight a word in your favorite TexEditor application, tap on it twice, the whole sentence, tap three times. Want to copy that word or sentence, slightly spread two fingers, tap and it's copied to the clipboard. Pinch two fingers together and it's cut. Start with them together and spread them apart and there is the paste function.
I can go on and on about gestures, it even works with Cocoa Gestures so if you find that there is something missing you can make your own. All this and more and your hands NEVER leave the keyboard area to grab the mouse or trackball.
The FingerWorks company is one of the few that I would recommend without reservation. To illustrate, here is my experience with them. About the first of January my ST stopped working. I tried everything I could think of before sending an email to FingerWorks support. I got an almost immediate reply from them with a couple of suggestions that I had not tried. After these did not work they said to send it in and they would test it. I packaged it up and off to Delaware it went. Less than a week later I had email from them saying that they could find nothing wrong with the unit but they were going to send a new one to me anyway. Now at the time I was still using it on my upgraded 3.5 year old Lombard. It's totally possible that I had USB issues with the Lombard or software conflicts that were in no way FingerWorks responsibility. I have a bad habit of testing any old Alpha or Beta software just to see what it does so I'm pretty sure that it was my fiddling that created whatever problem there was with the ST. Maybe it was a loose connection that the Post Office fragile shipment gorillas managed to jar back into place somewhere between Alaska and Delaware but who knows. The point is with no prompting FingerWorks stands behind their products ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. Their support staff is helpful and prompt. I have had email chats at 9 p.m. (their time) on a Friday night. Probably unusual but they were there and took the time to respond. They actually read the email and don't ask you to do the same thing that you just told them you did. Unlike some other support people that seem to work from a script they actually seem to understand the products they sell. I got the new unit a couple of days later and everything has been OK since then. It works great with the LittleAL and all the other gadgets I have hooked up. Knock Silicon. Currently they sell for $329.00 on FingerWorks site at http://www.fingerworks.com.
I know this is spendy for a keyboard/mouse but as all of us Apple owners know you get what you pay for. There are other units in the FingerWorks line that sell for less but the ST is the ultimate in input for now. I think we will all see MultiTouch technology used in a lot of products in the future and not just computer or hitech gadgets. I would be willing to bet that before long that it will be in cars and home appliances.
seeya dxtr ___
POLITICS ALERT: If political discussion offends you, time to stop scrolling. Since I'm aware that some readers are not enchanted by discussion of political topics on Mac Website forums, I am accommodating their sensibilities with this convenient Bypass Political Discussion link, which will safely transport you back to the Applelinks homepage where you can find a huge selection of exclusively Mac or IT-related topics. CM] From Bill Gremmert Hi Charles...Just checking your site as a friend has told me of your excellent Mac help info. I was both surprised and delighted to see a discussion of the war taking place, so here is my two bits worth, and I think this says it all. Here's what happened. Don and Roma's son is an F18 fighter pilot (and ex-Blue Angel and local Chicago celeb), who is stationed somewhere near Iraq now. An antiwar protester emailed Don and Roma stating that he hoped their son would die if the US goes to war against Iraq. It brought tears to Roma's eyes, but she still read this hateful email on the air. After hearing it read, an Iraqi-American girl called in and this is what she had to say. (I've attached the MP3 file) Bill
Hi Bill;
Thanks. You really have to wonder about the mentality of some people. It's one thing to oppose the war on whatever grounds, but telling a mother you wish her son would die is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the top. For an American to do that is worse than the Palestinian guy in Gaza who complained that he had bought a new TV satellite dish in order to watch the Americans get slaughtered in the Battle of Baghdad, and instead got wo watch a bunch of Iraqis dancing on a toppled statue of Saddam.
As expatriate Iranian author Amir Taheri caustically noted, "The Hate-America-International (HAI) had hoped and prayed for a 'Stalingrad 1942' or at least a 'Mogadishu 1992' in Baghdad.
The Iraqi-American woman's comments that you forwarded were quite moving.
Charles From Eric T. MacKnight Mr. Moore, Tim Robbins' anti-war views are of course completely opposite to yours, but you may be interested in the following remarks he made to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Background: a commemoration of his film "Bull Durham" was cancelled by the Baseball Hall of Fame because of his views against the war in Iraq. Robbins' speech focuses not on the war, but on the way that minority views are being effectively suppressed in the U.S., in great ways and small. It's long, but worth reading, I think. Eric MacKnight
Hi Eric;
I'm with Mr. Robbins in his advocacy of free speech, but little else. The fact that he is the longtime companion of Susan Sarandon, whose leftist sympathies are well-known, speaks to the ideological base of his views. I support Robbins and Sarandon's right to express those views, but I vigorously disagree with them.
For those who would like to read a transcript of the speech given by Tim Robbins to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2003, you can find it here:
World Net Daily also commendably posted Rush Limbaugh's rebuttal, in which he called portions of Robbins' speech "absurd." I would agree with that assessment.
Charles
Thank you, Canada for NOT supporting America's war with Iraq From ASH I read your piece about the Canadian non-involvement in the Iraqi war. What can I say...I almost threw up in disgust. You sir, are a boot licker. Simple as that. Talk about being a hypocrite. I wonder if Bush and America bombed Canada to "liberate" you from Chretien's liberal oppression, would you still lick America's ass so hard ?? Tell you what, buddy, how about we switch ?? I live in the USA. I would rather be a Canadian then an American any day. I would rather live in a great country like Canada that doesn't bow to American arrogance and unilateralism. If you like the USA so much, then leave Canada. It would only improve the country. Long live Canada, a free sovereign nation, independant of American bullying.
Thank you for that bit of intelligent and thoughtful commentary.
FYI, The latest polls indicate that a majority of Canadians outside Quebec believe that we should have joined with America, Britain, and the other 50 or so allies in the coalition of the willing.
Stephen Harper, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in Canada's Parliament, noted this week: "I was proud to go on television and do some interviews in the United States and say ... that Canadians are very proud and supportive of their American neighbours and the work they have done in Iraq. I would be very proud to communicate that message."
Peter MacKay, who, barring an unexpected upset, will be the next leader of the Canadian federal Progressive Conservative Party, has been a strong and vocal supporter of the war effort from the outset, as has former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
Mulroney's former finance minister John Crosbie stated last week that opposition to the war in Iraq by the federal Liberals and "snivelling Toronto CBC types" has been as misguided as their resistance to free trade with the United States.
Speaking of which, 40 percent of Canada's GNP output is exported (as opposed to 11 percent of America's and 13 percent of Japan's), and nearly 90 percent of those exports go to the U.S. Only a cretin (or a Chretien) bends over backwards to antagonize their best customer, as the Prime Minister did with his bizarre and gratuitous announcement that Canadian ships patrolling in the Gulf would not hand over any Iraqi fugitives apprehended (including, presumably, Saddam himself) to the US.
As Peter MacKay observed this week, Australia is poised to replace Canada as one of the closest allies of the United States because of its firm support for President Bush, despite widespread opposition to the war in his country. "The Australians are seeking to supplant Canada as the middle-power aligned with the United States and it is truly unfortunate [for Canada]," he said.
Heck, even Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky came out in support of the war.
Are we all bootlickers? I assure you that my support for the war in Iraq is grounded in conviction and principle, and when I disagree with U.S. policy (as I do on certain environmental issues for instance) I'll never hesitate to say so.
Charles
Note: Letters to Moore's Mailbag may or may not be published at the editor's discretion. Correspondents' email addresses will NOT be published unless the correspondent specifically requests publication. Letters may be edited for length and/or context. Opinions expressed in postings to Moore's MailBag are those of the respective correspondents and not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Editor and/or Applelinks management. If you would prefer that your message not appear in Moore's Mailbag, we would still like to hear from you. Just clearly mark your message "NOT FOR PUBLICATION," and it will not be published. CM
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