Mac Sherlock

I'm currently running some research on Mac OS X and Fonts. ...

I do not understand how some people can have such a bad experience with OS X final (store bought copy, that is). Today, I went to the store to see (and buy*) OS X. They installed Mac OS X on a PowerMac G4 466 MHz (this is not the fastest thing in the Mac universe, as you will recall), and all I can say is : this OS litteraly flies ! :D I did the following test in store :...

the desktop folder is no longer visible within X so my access to that directory was removed. Sherlock wouldn't even report files from it. ...

I see the happy mac for a little while, then when it goes to show me the OS X startup dialog, the screen goes black again. ...

Hardware : PowerBook bronze G3 333 (Lombard) 128 Mb of RAM Mac OS X on a 1,4 Gb HFS+ partition Installation : No majors problems here, not recognize the startup disc, so need to reboot and press "c" key. I have pressed "Pause" button by error during the last process, and it was impossible to resume (nothing happened). Restarted, I had the standard questions, and...

in the partition where you have installed Mac OS X. ...

I thought that after the install I would go through and trim down the Mac OS 9 folder on the OS X partition, but the whole directory seems to be invisible or inaccessible or something. ...

I suddenly cannot connect to my mac running OSX PB via FTP... ...

Then move all the files from the Mac OS 9 folder to the root level of the HD and delete the Mac OS 9 folder. This works and leaves your OS 9 system in task. ...

Devnul stated: "You are comparing Mac OS X (a desktop operating system) to a BSD system that is a server... This is seriously lfawed from the beginning... Let me try to explain... "BSD is a high-performance server operating system, adding a window manager to it would impact performance... In the UNIX world we call that "running the system headless"... We do it on Sun,...