Monolingual question

If anyone is familiar with the Monolingual program, I have a question. This great application was reccomended to me by someone on the board. I have used it to delete all the languages besides English from my machine. But there are also two other tabs, one for Input Menu and one for Architecture. I am not really sure what I should do with these. I am trying to clean up disk space and speed up my machine as much as possible, so I want to utilize these if I can, but I don't know exactly what they do and if I should be messing with them. Thanks

This isn't the place for it, but Macs were once faster at processing the data related to graphic files and programs. But Intel and AMD caught up, and then by 2k2 started eclipsing Mac. Apple's switch to Intel is proof enough. Publisher of Maximum PC and Mac Addict(the same pub) has many articles that pretty much show it's either pc's victory or a moot point and limited to which os you like the look/feel of more.
I have a system using WinXP pro and it has a dual core Intel as well(slower at 1.86ghz) with 2 gigs of ddr2 memory. In all respects, it should be marginaly slower then my mac. And it makes my mac wear a dress at gunpoint.
You ask what I run? My school made the mac a requirement for my major(graphic design) so all I put on it was CS2...dude that's ALL. I dont have any games or any programs then what came with the osX install.
For me, CS2 photoshop takes aprox 4 times longer to do the same action that my pc does. I get type lag in my text editor sometimes.
Your mac is " a ton faster" then your old pc...how old is you old PC? I'm curious.
I've taken your post into the realm of mac/win debate and appoligize.
So let's see if there's hope for us. I've stated what I do with, and what's installed on mine; I'll look into monolingual in more depth, and I suggest contacting that developer as you mentioned.
Good Luck!
macbook pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8) i hate it
macbook pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8) i hate it

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Generally when someone buys our product they create a new Oracle instance for our app. I need to be able to recommend proper database settings/parameters for potential global customers who purchase our software to run on Oracle.
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Your questions are certainly valid but you have not given any details about your application: what it does, what technologies and access drivers are employed, and what client operating systems are supported. This determines how much effort is required to make the application Unicode-enabled and what are the risks coming from each of the possible approaches.
As long as your application can work with single-byte character sets only and as long as it is not expected to contain multibyte data, and as long as it supports Windows only, the Oracle character set corresponding to relevant Windows ANSI code page is the correct choice. For English, French, German, Spanish, and other Western European languages, WE8MSWIN1252 is right one.
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Big mistake. By doing what you've done there's no alternative but to erase and install. There is no recovery (as the warning said when you used Monolingual.)
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Can time machine restore system language files deleted by "monolingual'?

I've removed some important language files while using monolingual (namely -English (American) -English (British) not realizing these are subset and required).
I should've read the FAQ first... now some programs are appearing in weird character formats.
Can I replace those files with my Time Machine back ups?
Which folder would I need to replace back with previous file?
Since I did this only late last night, I should be able to just replace a certain system file folder, without causing much headache, I'm hoping!

kacmaz wrote:
Can I replace those files with my Time Machine back ups?
Yes.
Which folder would I need to replace back with previous file?
That's the problem; language files aren't in a central location; each application has it's own set of language files, containing the translations of the messages for that application.
Since I did this only late last night, I should be able to just replace a certain system file folder, without causing much headache, I'm hoping!
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Well thats that. I am VERRRRRRRY happy. Another question though.

Well I went to futureshop to trade my problematic week 22 in that had... well.. all the problems. I got a new week 29, this thing is a beauty. Runs at a normal temp, NO WHINE. At ALL. PERIOD . -->.
None.
Nothing
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Its sad, I got more support at my futureshop than applecare or my local apple dealer gave me on the whine problem. THe guy at the apple store said. "Oh, well the noise means your computer is powerful" DIRECT QUOTE. LOL hahahah.
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Will someone help with question?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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Message was edited by: Fresh J

Fresh J:
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