In Windows, if you install a browser, it'll either have an option to make it the default browser on install, and/or on its first run will notice that it's not default, and ask you if you want it to be the default. Is this no longer possible?
Also, standard CD-ROMS on the market have a small hole on the front, usually near the eject button-- if you need to get a CD out of a powered-down machine, you can shove (gently) a straightened paperclip in there and it will eject the tray up to an inch or so, and you can pull it the rest of the way-- saves time by not having to restart a machine with a ponderous bootup process. I don't even know if Mac CD-ROMs have trays or equivalent anymore, so I don't know if this is an option, but even this tiny hole would've solved one of this guy's problem, as well as the problem of someone who has a doornail-dead Mac because of a PS failure or something. (Of course, the intended use of that hole is probably less well known than the Mac procedure of holding LMB on startup.)
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Date: 2004-04-13 08:48 am (UTC)Also, standard CD-ROMS on the market have a small hole on the front, usually near the eject button-- if you need to get a CD out of a powered-down machine, you can shove (gently) a straightened paperclip in there and it will eject the tray up to an inch or so, and you can pull it the rest of the way-- saves time by not having to restart a machine with a ponderous bootup process. I don't even know if Mac CD-ROMs have trays or equivalent anymore, so I don't know if this is an option, but even this tiny hole would've solved one of this guy's problem, as well as the problem of someone who has a doornail-dead Mac because of a PS failure or something. (Of course, the intended use of that hole is probably less well known than the Mac procedure of holding LMB on startup.)