Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #60 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 11 Apr 01 Volume 18 : Issue 60 Today's Topics: [Q] booting into Open Firmware under OS 9.1 (once again) Action Utilities not entirely stable iTools HTML upload Root password in Mac OS X saving favorites The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #60" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:16:19 -0400 From: Ken Laskey To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] booting into Open Firmware under OS 9.1 (once again) A couple months ago, I posted the following: I recently updated the OS on my dual processor, 500 mhz G4 from 9.0.4 to 9.1. Within 15 minutes after the installation appeared successful, the computer froze and when I rebooted, I went to the Open Firmware command line with the message "default catch" (or something similar) and was instructed to type "mac-boot" to continue booting or "shut-down". Unfortunately, my keyboard doesn't function and the only thing I can do is hit the reboot button. However, when I reboot, I end up back in the Open Firmware screen. If I completely power down and leave unpowered for 5 minutes, I boot normally. (If I power up too soon, I'm again in Open Firmware.) But even after a seemingly normal boot from a cold start, the system will eventually freeze again and be in Open Firmware on reboot. [snip] I do have third party memory in the computer. Now I see articles (e,g, TidBITS-575) about conflicts between the 4.1.7 and 4.1.8 firmware updates and third party memory, and I begin to wonder if there is a connection. What is the community's experience running Glenn Anderson's DIMM First Aid ? Can I permanently kill my RAM? Any other suggestions would be welcome. TIA -- Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:08:42 +0200 From: Jacob Palme To: Info-Mac@SMI.Stanford.EDU Subject: Action Utilities not entirely stable At 15.47 -0400 01-04-10, one Info-Mac user wrote in a personal message to me only: >In response to your comp.sys.mac.digest question: >I don't have Dreamweaver, but I've had considerable instability with Action >Utilities, especially with Gomac. Try DefaultFolder and A_Dock as >alternates. I prefer Barebones BBEdit Pro for web publishing. Yes, I have switched to a combination of Default Folder, OtherMenu and BeHierachic instead of Action Utilities. Power On software seems to be more interested in developing new products than maintaining their main product, Action Utilities, in good shape. It is also impossible to contact them. E-mail to them are returned by automatically generated messages which do not correctly refer to the problem I try to report to them. They have even had a page for a long time (I am not sure if it is there still) which recommends Dreamweaver users to stop using Action Utilities. A rather defaitist attitute from the developers of Action Utilities to recommend people to stop using their software! Default Folder recommends combining it with "AliasMenu" rather than "OtherMenu", but "AliasMenu" will for some reason not work on my computer. I have had similar problems with Alladin. Their main product, Stuffit, has become more and more unreliable, instead they seem to be concentrating on marketing other products instead of keeping their main product in good shape. -- Jacob Palme (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:57:02 -0400 From: James Bratek To: Subject: iTools HTML upload I recently registered for an iTools account, received my name/password, but because I am behind a corporate firewall, the iDisk won't mount (I am using a G3 with OS 9.04 at my office). But at home, I have a iMac running OS 8.6 with a dialup internet connection. My real goal is to upload a few HTML pages to my iTools Homepage area: can this be done with Fetch or otherwise from my iMac OS 8.6? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:56:57 -0400 From: "Patrick Ellis" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Root password in Mac OS X Just to clarify, the "root" password is not the password selected when setting up the initial user. That password is for the initial user for administrative purposes, albeit more limited in scope than Root. The Root account is disabled by default and has no "real" password unless it is enabled. That is where the original password comes into play. The user will need his/her password to authenticate their administrative privileges and enable the Root account using the NetInfo Manager (which most Mac users will not need to do. IMHO) If the account is enabled, then Root will be able to log in to the GUI screen. Pat Ellis ------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:28:46 -0700 >From: Bruce Johnson >To: digest@info-mac.org >Subject: OS X--What's root password >The root password is the password selected when setting up the initial user on the Mac during the OS X >install process. >Contrary to most Unix systems you do not, in fact, _cannot_ call this account 'root';the actual 'root' is not >allowed to log in to the GUI screen. The way you access root functions is via su, as you've found. [remainder of message deleted] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:50:29 -0400 From: James Bratek To: Subject: saving favorites > I'd like to save the favourites in Internet Explorer onto a zip drive lest > something happens to my HD (which happens from time to time). I know that > saving 'Bookmarks html' for Netscape is what to do with that browser; where > is the equivalent of IE to be found and what is it called? IE's bookmarks are called Favorites and the file is "favorites.html". You can use Sherlock to find this file on your system or navigate this way: System Folder --> Preferences --> Explorer --> Favorites.html Jim -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************