Recent content by gsteemso

Ouch! Well, I do call it “autocorrupt” for a reason.

"10.4.12"? Is that a typo or has someone released a community-built update like Sorbet Leopard tried to be?

The advice about it being risky to hot-plug equipment that was not designed to be hot-plugged is well-founded but, in some ways, highly situational. The biggest source of danger (electrically speaking that is, I am not responsible for mechanical stress on the sockets) is getting transient...

Would it not come down to which one has an imaging apparatus that is more intact? It sounds like everything else is, for the most part, interchangeable.

The straight-through kind of cable is vital if you have a naïvely implemented serial switchbox. (The kind meant to let you choose among several printers/modems etc) I own such a switchbox manufactured by people who did not have a full understanding of the problem. Its ports are wired straight...

I had my eye on one but the deal never materialized :¬(

How does the PowerKey handle unsaved documents or the like, that pause or even cancel shutdown pending user interaction?

LocalTalk uses a variant of HDLC, not standard teletype-style serial characters. And yes, there are some straight-through mini-DIN-8 cables out there which look just like the normal crossover kind, and will make a direct LocalTalk connection inexplicably not work. If they are Apple-made...

interesting point. Hard to be victimized by a downloaded page that the machine is too old to process.

I think you have to emulate that program somebody wrote that can auto-click the dozens of "OK" buttons you get when you run the Installer – basically, try to script looking for that "There are still users connected, what do?" window and closing it out. AppleScript can examine an app's window...

It was an (uncommon) option – not usually present.

I'm having to remind myself that I don't actually have a use case for such an adapter, lest I waste much time and effort trying to acquire one. SUCH A NIFTY IDEA!

It was the GUID Partition Table option. Intel Macs require GPT and cannot understand the traditional APM format. The option is still in there because Power Macs require APM and cannot understand GPT.

I'd forgotten about the "automatically run Disk First Aid after a crash" thing. Now that you mention it, I strongly suspect that might have been the source of most of my problems. I _think_ I was running the OSes on their own partitions, so at least that part was probably OK. (It was a long...

I can report that it (the Bluetooth-only card) does indeed work perfectly in a not-latest-model G5 tower. Success!