[Ti] OS X woes

[Henry Kalir]

Dave,

Forgot to mention that dumping the pref files did NOT help.

Nor did repairing the permissions with the disk repair utility.

Best,

Henry


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dave Friesen wrote:

> You should be wary about taking your frustrations out on an Operating System unless it's a known bug. Otherwise you really need to consider what it is about your setup that is causing the problem. Just because you are not completely familiar with OS X doesn't mean there's some wrong with it.
> 
> Merely reinstalling an application is not necessarily always the answer. More than likely, with applications, it's a problem with a preference file.
> 
> If you could give more examples of java sites that you are having issues with it would help.
> 
> FWIW, I keep several browsers handy to help with incompatibilities.
> 
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 12:36PM, Henry Kalir <kalirhe at UMDNJ.EDU> wrote:
> 
> >Dear All,
> >
> >I've been having browser problems with IE 5.2 ever since I've upgraded
> >Netwcape 7.0 to 7.0.1
> >
> >This problem consisted of crashes when trying to open java-intensive
> >web-sites (such as backgammon in pogo.com). The Netscape browser did only
> >a little better, but would frequently crash too.
> >
> >Yesterday, I allowed Software Update to install a Java update, and now I
> >can't open any of those sites at all. 
> >
> >I'm using a Ti G4 800 MHz with OS 10.2.4
> >
> >Reinstalling IE 5.2 - did not help, neither did reinstalling NN 7.0.1
> >
> >
> >This is very frustrating. I mean - here's a new OS with admittedly some
> >improvements, but it acts like a bad Windoze OS - one can no longer take
> >it apart, or save it and recopy it to get a non-corrupted OS (as was the
> >case with all the OS up to OS 9), it has tons of invisible files, all
> >sorts of funny "permissions" no serious diagnostic or repair programs (I
> >DID run disk repair - nada!) are currently available for it...WHAT A
> >PAIN!! Oh...and it's so darn slow!!! With that @#%@! beach ball...GRRRRR
> >
> >If anyone has ANY ideas what to do here - I'd greatly appreciate it.
> >
> >Thanks for listening.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Henry