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We have a few legacy Macintosh computers at work which are still running different flavours of MacOS 9. Although these machines have USB ports, they are mostly non-functional. I think MacOS 9.0 was the first version that supported USB mass storage devices, but apparently support has been shaky until and including version 9.2.2. Apparently the various updates to MacOS 9 mainly addressed the problems with USB (and firewire) support. At least for one of these machines (running MAcOS 9.2.2) I managed to fix the USB support.

I was trying to extract the audio file from some youtube videos in order to play it back from my iPod shuffle. I tried various methods (including the otherwise quite versatile VLC Player, but finally settled on the following two step procedure:

Compiling
I sometimes use Latex. I would like to use it more often, but I guess I belong to the Wysiwyg generation. In fact I use it so rarely that I even forget how to compile a document. The following is therefore just a reminder for myself; the filename is doc.tex:
latex doc
bibtex doc
latex doc
latex doc
dvips -Ppdf doc.dvi
tex4ht doc.tex
mk4ht oolatex doc.tex
This creates a PDF file and an OpenOffice file out of the Latex file.