In MacOS X, you can drag a hard disk icon to the dock and it appears in the section containing the trash. Wouldn't you like it towards the top as it has been IN EVERY OTHER VERSION of the MacOS? Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle
The newest Netscape 7.0PR1 is out. While it runs fine on MacOS X, I couldn't get it to install in Classic. It would hang at the registration screen. If you want my opinion, don't waste your time with Netscape 7.0. Instead, try Mozilla 1.0 RC2. It uses the most up to date Gecko source code and doesn't have all the annoying marketing tie-ins of AOL/Netscape.On a related note, the official Mozilla Theme Archive at XUL Planet will be moving to DeskMod.
In MacOS X, you can drag a hard disk icon to the dock and it appears in the section containing the trash. Wouldn't you like it towards the top as it has been IN EVERY OTHER VERSION of the MacOS?
So ask yourself, what kind of items can reside on the other side of the Dock? If you said, "Applications" give yourself a shiny dime.
Being a clever lad (with a rather high I.Q.), I deduced an AppleScript may do the trick!
Open the MacOS X Script Editor (Applications/Utilities) and take a look at the two scripts listed below.
The version on the left opens the Startup Disk, the one on the right opens the volume named "Blackbird". After entering the text into the Script Editor save the file as an application and check the "Never Show Startup Screen" option. Once the applet is saved, you can paste your favorite hard disk icon into the applet and drag it to the dock.
One drawback to this option is the fact that these are applications, so they have to launch. This takes about two dock bounces. If you drag a hard disk to the dock by the Trash, there is no delay to open it. It's a trade off between speed and location.
If you don't mind paying for a shareware solution, look into DockDisks, a Preference Pane that accomplishes the same thing, placing hard disks near the Finder icon in the dock.
The old Family Printer finally died last week. It was an original Epson 740 connected to an Axis Print server so it could be shared over a network. I looked into the possible replacements and selected an Hewlett Packard 960c DeskJet. With MacOS X, I felt Epson was a little slow to provide driver support, plus the business DeskJets seemed to be built a little better.
Once I decided on a printer, I needed an HP Print Server so I could share it on the home network. After scouring their website and talking with the salesman at CompUSA, we decided upon the 170X server. From all the documentation, it appeared to support Mac, Linux, and Windows.
It wasn't until after I purchased it that I realized Mac support was limited to PostScript Printers via Apple's LaserWriter print driver. The printer I had chosen was not Postscript.
After talking to an HP rep on the phone, it was determined I had two choices: return the printer and get a more expensive Postscript model, or return the print server and get a more expensive model that supported Appletalk. Neither option was very appealing, but getting the 300X Print Server was substantially cheaper.
With the new print server, I can now access the printer from Classic MacOS or MacOS X. The color output from the HP 960 looks much better than the old Epson 740 and the HP is very quiet. The one complaint I have against Hewlett Packard is that you cannot configure the print server without a Windows computer. Fortunately, VirtualPC will do the job.