It should be noted that the chime is a sign of a successful POST (Power On Self Test), and can be quite useful for troubleshooting hardware issues.

There's no more need for this if one is running Tiger (or later), as cron has been supplanted by launchd, which operates in a more efficient manner. Launchd will run the appropriate script at the...

From your backup.. otherwise, you'd have to spend $ on software for data recovery. So basically... nope.

For future ref: I prefer to use SuperDuper (or Carbon Copy Cloner) for these tasks. Never had a failed boot, nor a failed app start.

I prefer Apple's "version" of X11..

You can install it from the XCode installer.

If you erased the original, no, there's no way to reassemble them.. the resource forks are gone. However, you should be able to open the files and receate some resource forks if you use the correct...

To run the scripts by hand, do:

sudo periodic <script>

Where <script> should be replaced by daily, weekly, monthly, or any combo thereof.. example:

sudo periodic daily weekly

This will...

It should be noted that SunShield and BrickHOuse are just GUIfied front-ends for ipfw. While NetBarrier is a completely separate firewall product.

If you wish to learn to control ipfw by hand...