OS X Odds & Ends: Brother; Lexmark; PC Cards; Silverlining; more
OS X Odds & Ends: Brother; Lexmark; PC Cards; Silverlining; more
More on Lexmark printers and OS X 10.1 Another Lexmark issue: Lexmark told a reader that "that there is an issue with the E312 PPD and OS X 10.1. They hope to have a fix within a week or two." See previous coverage.
More PC Card problems We continue to get reports of problems with and failures of PC cards in Mac OS X 10.1 (see one, two and three). In the most recent case, Traeton Garl writes: "After updating to OS X 10.1 our CF RAM card from our digital camera placed in a PCMCIA adapter then inserted into the card slot in our PowerBook G3 400 FireWire no longer mounts. It works flawlessly when we boot back to OS 9.2.1."
Silverlining X needed for OS X 10.1 Michael Kaye received word from LaCie that the latest versions of Silverlining do not work with OS X 10.1. Silverlining X is the solution but is not yet available. "No timescales were mentioned and LaCie support suggest using Apple Disk Utility in the meantime."
Print Explosion Deluxe 2.0.1 fixes an issue with the app becoming unresponsive upon launch in the release version of OS X 10.1. Also included are a number of fixes to dialogs in both OS X and OS 9 that were displaying incorrectly. There is also an update to the print preview that allows the app to generate a .pdf file for preview rather than simply printing the design. This appears to address the problem noted last week. (Thanks, Eric Zuckschwerdt.)
CD-RW problems on G3/BWs Regarding our previous item on problems burning CDs with certain QPS drives, Brian Gosling noted this statement on Roxio's web site: "On Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) computers, FireWire recorders that use the Initio FireWire bridge (as shipped by many vendors including QPS) will cause the computer to hang after a minimal amount of activity. We are working with Initio and Apple on a solution to this problem." [See also previous item.]
New kernel in 10.1 causes conflicts Yesterday's MacWindows page has a posting titled: Explanation from Apple: why Cisco VPN client and other net software doesn't work with OS X 10.1. The problem has to due with 10.1 shifting to an "entirely different kernel from 10.0.x....Presumably, the new kernel is [also] why DAVE for 10.0.4, Virtual PC for OS X Test Drive, and other networking products don't run in Mac OS X." However, John Melby replies: "Virtual PC for OS X Test Drive 4.0.6 works beautifully for me in OS 10.1 with both Windows 95 and 98."
NT Server connection and Finder crash A reader writes: "I can mount drives from an NT 4 sever (via Mac services and AppleTalk), but when I attempt to open and browse the drive, the Finder crashes." A second reader confirms this: " I have been experiencing a recurring crash wile browsing NT 4.0 SFM AFP shares. While navigating my NT 4.0 sp6 file server in AFP (not SMB) usually 2 or 3 layers deep, the Finder will suddenly relaunch with no error message."
Remounting a partition Robert Toups notes that if you accidentally unmount a hard drive partition, you can remount from the Mount command in the Options menu of Disk Utility.
Halloween apps fixed New versions of Halloween Dock App and Cat-in-the-Dock fix memory leak problems with the initially posted versions.