Thanks Rob and Ed, I am getting smarter by the day , having such help. But it does seem odd that you need a repair program to repair repairs. I shall save the link and study the thing. My brain has been assaulted with all that technical knowledge that I am having difficulty remembering it all. When will you guys get smart enough to plant another memory chip into old people's brains? I am sure my chip of 77 years is totally filled up, and I cannot erase any byte of superfluous memory from yesteryear. What wants to come in is constantly being blocked. Marta On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 18:31 US/Eastern, Rob Kersting wrote:
> Cocktail is a handy little tool that does a bunch o' stuff for OSX, > much > like MacJanitor. > > From the versiontracker.com description: > > Product Description: > Available features: enable or disable journaling, set disk spindown > time, > re-prebind files, repair permissions, run cron scripts, delete cache > files, > recreate alias to Mac OS 9 desktop, force empty trash, delete locked > items, > delete DS_Store files, delete archived log files, view log files, > create > symbolic links, change speed and duplex of network cards, set size of > the > TCP receive and send window, turn off delayed acks, request new IP > from DHCP > server, change network ports, customize look and features of Finder and > Dock, enable hidden features in miscellaneous applications, easily > optimize > system using Auto Pilot ... > > Here' s the link: > > http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18282 > > rob > > Marta Edie PB wrote: > >> And what is cocktail, pray tell me? >> Marta >> On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 17:42 US/Eastern, Rob Kersting wrote: >> >>> I didn't have any trouble either, except for trying to repair >>> permissions >>> after the update. >>> >>> Disk Utility would only get about 1/3 of the way done then it would >>> freeze. >>> Luckily, I had read about this on Macfixit.com, so I knew it was >>> coming. I >>> just restarted and used Cocktail to repair permissions. Worked find >>> and was >>> still working this morning. >>> >>> There's always a first time... >>> >>> rob >>> >>> Jerry Yeager wrote: >>> >>>> No problems here on either the iBook nor the desktop. I wonder how >>>> Apple will solve this one? >>>> >>>> Jerry >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Bill Rising wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 9/24/03 0:44, Matt Gantner wrote >>>>> >>>>>> Apple has pulled the recent update (posted 9/23) >>>>>> >>>>>> Here is a slashdot article about it with some links to apple >>>>>> >>>>>> http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2237224 >>>>>> >>>>>> folks are complaining of network DNS problems among other things >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Too late. Yours truly installed it (because of the need for ssh): >>>>> >>>>> at work: intenet connectivity is spotty. Works fine for long >>>>> periods >>>>> then >>>>> disappears. >>>>> >>>>> at home: machine won't boot, gets as far as putting up a desktop >>>>> picture, >>>>> then the pointer disappears, it goes back to a blue screen, then >>>>> back >>>>> to >>>>> the calibrated blue screen, then back to the desktop picture. >>>>> Doesn't >>>>> wanna boot off a CD either, so I'm gonna have to play stupid hard >>>>> drive >>>>> games to get things fixed. >>>>> >>>>> ugh. >>>>> >>>>> Bill >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >>> >> Marta >> Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin A.D. >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
