[X4U] Combination software problem

[Tim Collier]

On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:56 PM, David Candler wrote:

>
> On 14-Jan-07, at 10:42 AM, Linda wrote:
>
>> On 1/14/07 9:21 AM, David Candler wrote:
>>
>>> what I did find seemed to
>>> indicate that Shapeshifter can be a cause of some of these problems.
>>> I hadn't used it in a while anyway, so I deleted what I could  
>>> find of
>>> it.  That didn't seem to help me, though.
>>
>> Shapeshifter comes with an Uninstaller -- if you didn't keep it  
>> when you
>> installed it, try downloading Shapeshifter again so that you can  
>> truly
>> uninstall it.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I gave it a try but unfortunately it  
> didn't work.  As Brett mentioned I probably can't do much more  
> until I get some 10.4 disks.  For now, though I've got Firefox,  
> which is fine since it's all I used in Linux anyway.  As for DVD  
> playing, I tried VLC and apparently a lowly 400Mhz G4 isn't up to  
> the task of running it without stuttering video and/or sound  
> (depending on how I size the window), even after killing off  
> everything else I had running.  So I downloaded NicePlayer and find  
> it performs flawlessly.  Good enough!

Eventually, you're going to need to OS X installation disks.  Unless  
you just plan on waiting for Leopard.  OS X 10.4 isn't that expensive  
anymore....you can find it for a reasonable price at quite a few  
places.  Your response that since Safari doesn't work, you'll just  
use Firefox?  OK, I use Firefox too, but I prefer Safari.  To me, if  
Safari didn't work, that would simply be unacceptable.  I'd back up  
my data and re-install the OS, but you can't as you don't have the OS  
install disks.  And a G4 400 isn't lowly, OS X 10.4.8 runs fine on a  
G3 Blue and White!

Tim