Wednesday, November 19, 2003
I'd vote for Wesley Clark...
'Play' as in 'playwright'? 'Play' as in 'fun'? 'Play' as in 'naughty'? Only my iCal and I know for sure...
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Good news for stout fellows.
Saturday, November 08, 2003
- After "installing" all the libraries I need (4,387 faces) using Font Book (and don't try to drag multiple folders at once), I can no longer start Safari.
- Perhaps I should repair permissions...
- ...but Disk Utility no longer lets me select a disk to repair. It hangs and jellywheels.
- After dragging all but the core typefaces out of /Library/Fonts, restarting, and reinstalling Panther, I can no longer start Safari or use Disk Utility.
- Hmm. Let's check the processor activity. Activity Monitor hangs and jellywheels! Ironic, no?
- System Profiler? JELLYWHEEL!
- Console? JELLYWHEEL!
- Zap PRAM. No change.
- Run Disk Utility off installer CD. No change
- Try Safari. Nada. Dock icon bounces then stops. Mail, Address Book ditto. Internet Explorer and iTunes work. iPhoto works. iMovie opens but hangs.
- Spend the rest of my afternoon (now evening) troubleshooting.
- Reluctantly open Font Book again. Notice that it still contains references to all the PostScript fonts I installed. They are located in /users/jparker/library/fonts. This is strange, since when I installed using Font Book I had checked install "for all users of this computer", which should have put them in the main /Library/Fonts folder.
- Log out and log in as another user. Apps work. So it is something to do with my user!
- Log in as me. Dump fonts from my user library.
- Still no change. Log out and log in again. Finally, I'm back in business. Apps work. Login takes 10 sec. instead of 70. Now I'll go install Font Agent Pro.
Font Book is not a font utility. Stick with the barely acceptable Font Agent Pro. Font Book has no auto-activation within Adobe applications. (And it slows down InDesign to a crawl, and not all of the installed/active faces show up in the menu.) It is merely an interface for moving fonts in and out of your /Library/Fonts folder. That's it.
