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Mac OS X: Living Long and Prospering
The Washington Post ^ | Sunday, April 2, 2006 | By Rob Pegoraro

Posted on 04/04/2006 8:45:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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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.
41 posted on 04/06/2006 8:03:30 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Star Traveler

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.


42 posted on 04/06/2006 8:53:07 AM PDT by Sundog (Cheers.)
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To: Swordmaker

The amount of trouble I've had with Mac OSX compared to other computers in our labs running Windows is minuscule.


43 posted on 04/06/2006 8:54:51 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Swordmaker

Everyone in this thread knows how I feel on this subject so I will just keep my keyboard quiet and my (two-button) mouse resting comfortably at my side.


44 posted on 04/06/2006 8:55:57 AM PDT by BJungNan
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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.


45 posted on 04/06/2006 10:10:14 AM PDT by aruanan
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