Hi John, and thank you for the clear instructions. Short answer: no I have not done anything @ SheepShaver preferences (yet) -- I'm embarassed to say I lookd...
7606
em315
Dec 19, 2012 8:09 pm
Do this, and follow each step EXACTLY: 1. Start SheepShaver. 2. With SheepShaver running, from the top-line menu in OS X (NOT the top-line menu in...
7607
J.J. McVeigh
kd4vs
Dec 19, 2012 8:21 pm
... There are two ways to set up or to modify SheepShaver preferences. Method 1. a. Launch SheepShaver. b. In the SheepShaver pull-down menu, which appears in...
7608
wpfanclub
Dec 19, 2012 8:22 pm
Thank you EM315. I actually did the thing with creating a shared folder in OSX (with the file in question in it) and then found the SheepShaver Preferences...
7609
em315
Dec 19, 2012 8:32 pm
You should not have "changed the drive". Presumably you mean that you changed something under the "Volumes" list. No one ever said to do that. Please follow...
7610
sardisson
Dec 19, 2012 8:49 pm
... FYI, macosxautomation.com has a "stock" subroutine that checks for this and 99% automates turning it on:...
7611
J.J. McVeigh
kd4vs
Dec 19, 2012 8:49 pm
... Please don't be too hasty. I think that the advice that you have him or her is more lucid than mine. E.g., Items Nos. 8-11 in your post... Do this, and...
7612
John R
jrethorst
Dec 19, 2012 9:21 pm
Cool -- I'll add that to the install script. Thanks Smokey. John R....
7613
John R
jrethorst
Dec 19, 2012 9:26 pm
Nearly everything in the Files section is in .sit format, and we're already using 79mb of the 100mb Yahoo gives us. For PDF files it may not matter on newer...
7614
wpfanclub
Dec 19, 2012 10:10 pm
Hello All, Thank you for your great help and patience. I'm throwing in the towel. I've bollixed my drive somehow, apparently incapable even of reading clear...
7615
J.J. McVeigh
kd4vs
Dec 19, 2012 11:10 pm
... I would not throw in the towel just yet. When I first tried Sheepshaver, I had some problems that got resolved, counterintuitively, by downloading an...
7616
Paul Cowan
utarjim
Dec 20, 2012 12:22 am
... Perhaps just with a link to The Unarchiver? Which everyone ought to have anyway. I see it’s in the App Store now. bye, -- P. (^_^) ...
7617
John R
jrethorst
Dec 20, 2012 12:25 am
Link added. We also have links to Stuffit Expander for OSX and OS 9. John R....
7618
Doug Auwarter
mangueirense
Dec 20, 2012 1:01 am
I agree with J.J. I was late getting in on it and loaded a very recent "new build" by somebody (sorry that I don't remember who!) and the installation was very...
7619
Andréa
wpfanclub
Dec 20, 2012 2:54 am
All, Thanks very much for the new round of suggestions and evident kindness. I'll take a break here to see if I can fix the bollixed drive address thingy and...
7620
J.J. McVeigh
kd4vs
Dec 20, 2012 3:01 am
... When you are ready to take another run at this, first take a look here: <http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup> , if you have not...
7621
em315
Dec 20, 2012 4:16 am
I've updated the WPMacAPP, which is an alternative to John Rethorst's SheepShaver-WP setup, with about 97 percent of it based directly on SheepShaver-WP. Among...
7622
em315
Dec 20, 2012 4:20 am
I suppose I should add that the WPMacApp does not to be "installed" or set-up in any way. You simply download and mount the disk-image file, double-click an...
7623
em315
Dec 20, 2012 3:18 pm
I've now made it even simpler. Just download the disk-image file and drag the application to your Applications folder, and it's ready to use....
7624
johnrethorst@...
jrethorst
Dec 26, 2012 5:07 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/technology/google-apps-moving-onto- microsofts-business-turf.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hpw [Non-text portions of this message...
7625
John R
jrethorst
Jan 1, 2013 11:47 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/technology/antivirus-makers-work-on-software-to-catch-malware-more-effectively.html John R....
7626
Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Jan 8, 2013 6:00 am
... That article really has little to do with the Macintosh malware scene. The malware situation for Windows and for the Mac are quite different, and you...
7627
John R
jrethorst
Jan 8, 2013 9:01 pm
... This is on http://www.reedcorner.net/a-look-back-at-12-years-of-mac-malware/ John R....
7628
Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Jan 9, 2013 1:35 am
... Most of the malware that has appeared in the last year was targeted by China at Himalayan activists and has been essentially non-existant in the West....
7629
mxytsplyk
Jan 9, 2013 2:28 am
Thank you, Randy, for putting this in perspective. There are reasons we use Macs and an operating system designed with security in mind (as BSD Unix was), is...
7630
John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Jan 9, 2013 3:11 am
Randy, I echo the thanks expressed for your perspective. As a one-time Windows programmer, I was keenly aware of exploitable flaws that simply did not exist...
7631
Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Jan 9, 2013 4:11 am
... When I said that the Macintosh is now more secure than it has ever been, I meant that OS X has been continually made more secure. As of Lion there were...
7632
Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Jan 9, 2013 1:10 pm
"As of today, all Mac malware is either extinct or cannot infect a properly-updated machine. Although there are situations that can lead to infection, they...
7633
Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Jan 9, 2013 1:11 pm
"As of today, all Mac malware is either extinct or cannot infect a properly-updated machine. Although there are situations that can lead to infection, they...
7635
John R
jrethorst
Jan 23, 2013 4:48 am
I know very little about this, but couldn't help taking seriously this caution from the Department of Homeland Security: ...
