Mac OS X: Living Long and Prospering

Yesterday, Apple Computer Inc. turned 30 years old. But an equally significant anniversary occurred two Fridays ago: March 24 marked Mac OS X's fifth birthday.

Four major updates later, that operating system ranks as one of Apple's greatest successes. First, it broke the company's long streak of unfinished operating-system projects. Second, OS X has shown that it's possible to fix three of the worst parts of computing: adding programs, removing them and keeping everything in good working order...

...Mac OS X lives by three basic principles, which together make it easier to live with than any competitor.

I have tried some of the remedies suggested, but not all. For example, I have rebuilt the desktop in Classic (I have to do that ALL the time for various maladies affecting OSX performance), I have tried reinstalling the driver (but not removing the existing files first).

Laserwriter 8 was the selection I was told to use, but it does not appear in the chooser. It looks like it is not a Postscript printer. Does that mean that idea would not work anyway?

I will have to sit down and devote more time to trying to fix this problem, perhaps on Sunday. Lately I have had time only for making deadlines. For now I am working around the problem saving Illustrator files as PDF's or PSD files and printing from Photoshop Elements that came with my printer, which works in OSX. To answer one question, yes, everything works fine in OSX.

This summer I am getting a large project from a local County museum, and I will have cash to upgrade everything out of Classic, upgrade the OS to 10.4, and hopefully get a second hard drive as I fill up the one it came with pretty fast!

Thanks to all for the help. I will try to update my success after the weekend.

Thank you.

I attended the wedding of one of my Cub Scouts recently, and he told me, for his work as a graphics designer, he just purchased a new top-of-the-line Macinstosh, then he credited out Cub Scout pack for the decision.

I have a 20in iMac G5 that had gotten the directory completely screwed up (the HD wouldn't even show up when trying to use Disk Utility) due to a 2 year old (unbeknownst to me) constantly switching off the power strip while his brothers were using the computer. I ran Disk Warrior (it took about 22 hours) and then Disk Utility before doing an archive and install and it's all working again beautifully.

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