I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.
To select Apple talk zones on OS 10.4 first you need to open the printer utility program and press the “Add +” button (top middle) to add a printer, then select the “Default Browser” (upper left corner), then press the “More Printers” (lower middle) button and you now have access to select Apple Talk zones.
I was forwarded the following notice from Apple:
Some 1.8 GHz models of Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) computers may experience any of the following symptoms:
- The computer may freeze when performing certain video-intensive tasks for extended periods of time, such as a full screen slideshows, QuickTime playback, or some games.
- The optical drive may not eject when you’ve been using the computer for about two hours.
- Internet Connect may become unresponsive when you’ve been using the computer for about two hours.
(This issue can affect either internal or external modems that use PPP as well as DSL modems that connect using the PPPoE protocol.)- Attached displays may not wake up properly after the computer, running Mac OS X 10.4, has been sleeping for an extended period of time. The computer seems to wake up, but the display doesn’t.
A firmware update is available to address the symptoms described in this article. The Power Mac G5 System Firmware Update is only for the 1.8 GHz, 600MHz bus single-processor Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) computer and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later. Additional information about the firmware update and requirements are included with the download.
More info and links for getting your G5 updated here.
I found a couple documents on how to turn an Mac OS X machine into a kiosk: Mac OS X labs, Apple Developer Connections.
You may be better off with KDE though.
Developers working in vertical markets (for example Education) have been creating kiosks or adding kiosk behavior to their applications for quite some time. Specifically, this means the ability to lock the user into a certain application or disable certain operating system functionality normally available. Developers requiring kiosk behavior on computer systems have often been forced to use “jury-rigged” solutions which often were quite hard to maintain in the long term. With the advent of Mac OS X 10.2, creating kiosks and adding kiosk functionality to an existing application has become much easier to implement and support.
I’ll expound on this further when I learn more, but apparently Mac OS X has a bug w/ the automatic login settings. If your mac unexpectedly starts requesting a username and password when you start it up even though you have “Automatically log in as” selected then you’ve encountered this bug. To get around it change from “Automatically log in as” to one of the other login options, restart and log in, then change it back.
To access this option:
Of course, this is the least secure login method. I would recommend not using automatic login to keep your computer more secure.
more info on disabling auto login