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Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: chuckwagen on June 27, 2003, 09:19:19 PM
I got my copy of Norton Systemworks 3.0 today. I'm going to use Retrospect first to back up the iMac and iBook before I use Disk Doctor or Speed Disk in OS X. The software is buggy already, though- the box sat on the ground outside all day and after opening it, the dinner table was covered with ants.
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 27, 2003, 09:33:01 PM
"The software is buggy already, though- the box sat on the ground outside all day and after opening it, the dinner table was covered with ants."

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Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 28, 2003, 01:46:21 AM
Gary S is looking for ants to take pictures of with his new digital camera. smile.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: sandbox on June 28, 2003, 01:54:32 AM
ant cam

Ant Brood Tacos

*   2 tablespoons butter or peanut oil
*   1/2 pound ant larvae and pupae
*   3 serrano chilies, raw, finely chopped
*   1 tomato, finely chopped
*   Pepper, to taste
*   Cumin, to taste
*   Oregano, to taste
*   1 handful cilantro, chopped
*   Taco shells, to serve


Heat the butter or oil in a frying pan and fry the larvae or pupae. Add the chopped onions, chilies, and tomato, and season with salt. Sprinkle with ground pepper, cumin, and oregano, to taste. Serve in tacos and garnish with cilantro. (Not living in an area exceptionally prolific with ants, I have never been able to try this recipe. But it sounds perfectly delicious! I found it in 'Creepy Crawly Cuisine', an excellent recipe book.  clap.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: chuckwagen on June 28, 2003, 07:15:08 AM
What luck! It's my night to cook! clap.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 28, 2003, 09:22:08 AM
QUOTE(chuckwagen @ Jun 28 2003, 5:15 AM)
What luck! It's my night to cook! clap.gif

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 Hey Gary S, ya better hurry up before chuckwagen gobbles up the rest of your subjects. <gr>
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Gary S on June 28, 2003, 10:13:23 AM
Mmmmmmm,

I'm hungry already. It's raining here. No ants. sad.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: chuckwagen on June 28, 2003, 07:34:27 PM
Oh great. Ran Disk Doctor; major errors, all repaired. Speed Disk: disk is damaged: run Disk Doctor. Ran Disk Doctor; iMac shut down .......
I used the money-back guarantee on NU 4.0. Maybe this, too...
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 28, 2003, 09:44:50 PM
More and more I catch some scary problems folks have using norton with X.
Starting to make me think three times before firing norton up on X these days.
Yet speed disk is all I use in norton ... still.
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: chuckwagen on June 28, 2003, 09:53:18 PM
All of the icons in the HD and several in the Apps folder are now invisible. The HD can't be repaired with Disk Utility or -urgh- Disk Warrior. According to some other forums I should have repaired permissions after installing. I also should RTFM, as we used to say on submarines.... doh.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: giantmike on June 29, 2003, 08:03:09 AM
I have had nothing but good luck with Norton on my OS X system (version 6.0.3). Of course, this is because I never did install it (too many horror stories, and filesaver just plain sucks). Also, I have always booted from a MacOS 9 CD, and did everything from there.

I wonder what I'm going to do when my new G5 comes. fsck works very well, but OS X really fragments the hard drive, and optimization is normally a good speed boost. Although, with that machine, I shouldn't have to worry about speed wink.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Gary S on June 29, 2003, 11:31:35 AM
giantmike,

Could you explain how you use Norton Utilities (version 6.0.3) on your OSX Volume?

I didn't think you could even boot up into 9.2.2 with it.
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 29, 2003, 11:58:53 AM
I've only had one serious problem with norton and x.
Other than the one,nothing but good reports as you GM.
Same here. Run speed disk from a bootable.
I do have norton installed on another partition though.
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 29, 2003, 12:05:02 PM
From GM: "this is because I never did install it" and "Also, I have always booted from a MacOS 9 CD, and did everything from there."
As long as you have a suitable system on the bootable Gary.
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Gary S on June 29, 2003, 07:50:40 PM
Bill,
I did not know that. So, you make a bootable copy of Norton's with 9.2.2 on it and you can use Disk Doctor and Speed disk on OS 10.2.6?

I'd love to get a look at that volume. It's 60mb and has never been defragmented. It must be a mess. I have run DW for the Directory but that's it.
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: chuckwagen on June 29, 2003, 08:31:16 PM
Oh man... after 2 weekends of reinstalling OSX, 9, troubleshooting RAM, biting fingernails... I've removed the Harmoni 600 mHZ upgrade and everything works...including Norton! I'm going to take a loss on a restocking fee with Small Dog, and maybe get a digital camera. There are still a few ants around... biggrin.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 30, 2003, 12:14:25 AM
"I did not know that. So, you make a bootable copy of Norton's with 9.2.2 on it and you can use Disk Doctor and Speed disk on OS 10.2.6?"

Yes. As long as you have a suitable system to make the cdr bootable.
As I've stated before,I use speed disk only.
Suppose you could use disk doctor on X but I never have and most likely never will.
Way too many horror stories.

chuckwagen.
The brite side is at least you've pinned down what was going on. <gr>
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: kelly on June 30, 2003, 09:27:47 AM
I just ran Speed Disk 6.03 yesterday. It said I had 79 MBs of Free Space. huh.gif

Contiguous Free Space that is. Severe Fragmentation.

I run it from my OS 9.x only Partition.

I also use a custom defragmentation profile for OS X mentioned here.

http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html#Anchor-32647

I've used it before with 10.2.2 . I was a little leary of it with 10.2.6

But I used it and it all worked out. smile.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on June 30, 2003, 02:07:51 PM
Because I'm such a kind,obedient,trustworthy,helpful,friendly ... forgot the rest of that boyscout jive ... person, I took a snapshot of a bootable cd while in X showing norton blah blah.On that bootable are others like TTP,DiskWarrior,disk first aid blah blah.
Rebooted while holding the 'C' key and checked with TTP,ran speed disk and then checked what DW had to say. DW was well within my tolerance allowed so didn't run it.

Gary S,this has been talked about (posted) a gazzion times in the past by several folks on several threads at TS alone.
Beginning to wonder about your attention span sir. smile.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Gary S on July 02, 2003, 02:39:21 PM
Bill,

I just didn't think I could run it on OSX.2.6 without problems....I'm gonna wait until i'm feeling better to process the info. I've had the stomach flu since Monday and haven't been thinking to clearly...or feeling to good at all. sad.gif

I've got to get off the puter, things are starting to spin a bit. wacko.gif
Title: Norton SW 3's here
Post by: Bill on July 02, 2003, 03:24:46 PM
Rest. Drink plenty of H20 and make sure no ones in the bathrooms very long. <gr>