At 06:25 -0700 6/29/11, Iamanamma wrote: >Doug, thanks, but I already looked in the Startup Items folder. It's >up there in my list of "where it isn't."
On my 8500 I mount external drives at startup by running an MPW script. MPW is on my startup list and I just use it's capabilities to mount my SE/30 complete with passwords and usernames. I don't think you have MPW but take it as proof that another started application can ask for a mount of an external disk. Are you starting anything else up automatically? If so does the undesired mount occur if you turn that off? *** And ununtu is Debian without the problems like those you discovered with RedHat. At least someone is trying. Two things I like: When I do discover something I don't like and might be a bug I can go to the net and easily search for bugs reported by others. Sometimes I can even help fix something. Try that with Apple's bug reporter. If you didn't file the bug you can't see it. If I don't like the way an application works I can jolly well change it. Well, that's true for most and there are some apps that don't release source code. The whole thing makes me feel like its 1965 all over again when I could and did make changes to Control Data's operating system or FORTRAN compiler to make it work for me. Some of the changes were accepted, with thanks, by Control Data. The computing world was better back then. Nobody thought of patenting or copywriting software. And objective C didn't exist. *** And I still use perfectly good oscilloscopes from Tektronix that require serial RS-232 ports to be programmed. New Apple stuff doesn't even compete with the 68030 with its RS-485 capability. Did you ever try connecting a Garmin GPS to a modern Mac? RS-232 to USB mostly works but you're limited to a meter or so for the connection unless it's a special converter. And Garmin itself doesn't go negative as required by the RS-232 specification. -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <-- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
