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Connecting... Welcome to Connect, our column for reader email! We want to hear your thoughts and opinions about things you've read in Mac OS Journal, about Apple, your computer, Mac OS X, and so on. So let us have it people! Send email to connect@macosjournal.com or use this form.
If the Wise Cap Fits, We'll Wear It
It is an issue, though, when using Sherlock to search for files or text within files with Sherlock, though. I don't need to search the backup, but Sherlock doesn't have a "search every drive except ..." option. Either it searches one drive, or all of them - including the slow USB. I have lots of partitions on my main drive for the various things I use the machine for, and I find myself having to choose dialog boxes etc to tell Sherlock which partition I want it to search in. OK then wise guys. Any solution? Frank Mitchell Listen up Frank, and do exactly as I say. Select (click on) your USB Drive. From the File Menu, choose Put Away. If you like, use the keyboard alternative, Cmd-Y. See the USB drive now? No, that's right, it's gone. Dismounted. You can't see it on the desktop. Sherlock can't see it either, so you're back to your original fast searching. OK, I hear you. With the drive gone, you can't do your backup without restarting. Well, you need a way of remounting the USB disk again. SCSI Probe and the like won't do it, because (duh) it's not a SCSI Drive. So now restart. USB is back on the desktop. Click it again. This time, from the File Menu, choose Make Alias. Open up your Startup drive on the desktop (the one at the top right, with the System Folder in it), and move the Alias there. You'll likely get a Copy dialog; that's as it should be. Rename the new alias "Mount USB". Drag it back onto the desktop, right near to the USB Drive itself. Close the System Folder. Drag the first alias to the trash. You're done. Dismount the USB drive again (File Menu, Put Away). Sherlock to your heart's content. When you want the USB drive back again, just double-click on your "Mount USB" icon. If you're interested, the original alias you made - before you started to move it around - didn't work because although it looked to be on the desktop, it was in fact in the invisible desktop folder on the USB drive. So when the USB drive got dismounted, the alias went too. You needed the alias to be there all the time, and that meant in the invisible Desktop Folder of the Startup disk. Incidentally, the same trick works with your even-slower drive, the slowest drive in the world. You got it: your iDisk - at least if you're using a modem connection. We're all pretty wise around here at Mac OS Journal. Trustworthy too. You only have to do as we say. So just bring that new G4TiPB (Gee-Four Titanium PowerBook) up into our office. Put it down on this chair here. Now move right along towards the cafeteria... Dennis
Apple's Monitor Strategy
Megan Landry Megan, I think it's a business decision, made to maximize profits. Apple wants to sell you as much hardware as they can. New machine and new monitor at the same time: that's what they'd like to sell you. Every year if possible. They're not winning the MHz battle right now, so they have to look around at other things. But I agree: I can't really figure out the strategy either. Makes you think that maybe the tech guys won some kind of argument with the marketing guys. But no, that's impossible. A bit of history on this one: first there was the flatter 2-row Monitor socket. Then Apple went the VGA route. After a few years, out of analog into digital: first DVI, then ADC. There are complicated and/or expensive third-party adapters to convert some of these connectors to others, but no mix'n'match here. Want an even sillier example? The new G4TiPB has an ordinary VGA Port, not one of the new digital ports. So if you want a second monitor for it, almost every monitor in the store will fit, except an Apple monitor. I guess these things are bound to happen to a company which wants to stay up to date with technology. I thought the same thing when SCSI started to disappear from Macs, and serial ports and ADB too. I even remember when we couldn't use our Mac Plus keyboards any more on the new Mac SE; the Mac Plus had a strange keyboard cord which looked like a phone cord but wasn't. It was replaced by the ADB model because ADB carried power, and you could start the machine from the keyboard. Some years later, ADB disappeared, and everything went to USB. The advantage of USB is ... well, actually, I'm not sure that there is one. [Editor's Note: How quickly Dennis forgets that ADB wasn't really "hot swappable" nor did it have the data throughput of USB.] Just standardization, I expect. If USB can do the job, just send everyone's old ADB keyboards onto the scrapheap. And hey, you'll probably get to sell them a new keyboard as well. But actually, when you look back at Macintoshes more than a couple of years old, they do look very primitive and limited - and it's partly because of these connectors and sockets. Apple was first to popularize USB and Firewire, and third-party manufacturers responded with products which wouldn't have been possible with the old technologies. Whether that will happen with digital monitors remains to be seen; the only concrete advantage right now is that they don't need a separate power cord; their power comes from the computer. I'm not sure whether that answers your question. Dennis
OS 9.1 Comments
ZxXSuBLiMeXxZ You were lucky... after installing the single 70MB download (I have DSL, it took 3 mins) I set the extensions to mac only. Rebooted, installed...could't open the TCP/IP (OTGlobalLib missing), couldn't open Applelink (same msg), couldn't do anything (OTClientLib - OTntvutlLib - text encoding converter, etc all missing) Open Transport was there... so I installed again, extensions off, same thing, twice after that. I had to start it from the OS 9 disk, reinstall the clean inst., upgrade to 9.0.4, upgrade everything alse (DVD 2.2, Quicktime, etc) and wasted the whole day in the process. All I wanted was to be able to burn with my Yamaha from iTunes 1.1. So, I send my email to macfixit after reading the whole page about 9.1 and not finding the same problem, but they are probably very busy. If you happen to come accross my problem and any possible solution in a feedback email, please forward it to me, I still am dying to try to burn CD's with iTunes, even when I upgraded to a full Toast 4.1. Thanks a good luck. José As you can see... we got a good variety of comments from last month's feature [Mac OS 9.1 Emergency] from people who seem to love it (ZxXSuBLiMeXxZ) to those just wanting the pain to end (José). Regarding José: José, I hadn't heard of your problem until you emailed me about it... now it's a hot topic. Here's a link to the Apple site discussing the problem and how to fix it. http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n60805 Thanks,
Economies Here at Mac OS Journal
N. Rockefeller IX Yup. On our way back from this month's editorial conference in Hawaii, Marc told us that next month we were gonna have to go further back in the bus . Business Class was all the budget would stretch to, he said [Editor's Note: Dennis is going to have to travel as Freight the rest of the year, but that has nothing to do with the economy.]. Imagine, all the way to the Greek islands in those second class seats. Just as well, our new titanium Power Books came before the ax fell. Would be humiliating only to have the downmarket 466 model. Dennis
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