Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / September 2003

Lacie D2 250GB Firewire drive, hooked up to my G4 Powerbook via Firewire
Drive is formatted UFS (don't ask!)
its started doing odd things, like when I delete a file, the deleted
file is replaced with a zero byte one of the same name, with a icon that

Anyone have any suggestions?
5260 Serial SCSI
iMac USB Firewire

Any advice on best place to buy a replacement hard disk for slot-loading
imac?
Regards,
Mark

I'm running Mac OS 9.1 and the past two days I've received about 35
bogus emails purporting to be MS security patch updates. I delete
them as they come in and have never tried to open any of the
attachments. At the same time I'm getting as many notifications of

Heya, a.c.m folks,
I bought a Power PC 7200/75 at a garage sale for $ 5.  (I mean, how
could you turn that sort of almost free-to-a-good-home bargain down?  I
also bought a vintage tuxedo that almost kind of fits me for $ 2 as

Hi, I have installed the OSX drivers for my Canon scanner and all is working
except that Acrobat 6 doesn't see it. Can anyone tell me what to do?
Thanks,
Reg

A public beta is now available of Degrees Down Under 2.0, written by
Melbourne student developer Robert Stainsby.
Formerly named Melbourne Temp, Degrees Down Under displays the current
temperature for a range of locations around Australia, using data from

I use Entourage as my email/newsgroups client and I would like to know when
you choose a name for the ³To² box, a whole list pops up with the same sort
/similar name.
How do u delete those ones you don¹t want/need?

Hello All,
This is really bizarre, and it's driving me CRAZY!
If I create a file, or even a new folder in the finder, the "created" and
"modified" times shown are out by 4 hrs - ie. they're 4 hrs behind. The date

Topic says it all,
If you have one to sell, can you please contact me as I am looking for an
upgrade card for my old Power Macintosh 8600 into a G3.. I don't want CPU as
I have one here..

I'm thinking of getting a Sonnet G3/500MHz upgrade for my 7600: is it
any good?
Any problems?

With the 15" AlBook at $4800, I'm wondering what the 1Ghz Superdrive
TiBook might now be found for (second hand).
$3500?

I have a PM7600/200 which has 8 RAM slots, 1 L2 Cache Slot, 4 VRAM slots,
AND a ROM slot (empty). Apparently it can hold a 4MB Dimm/Simm and that all
I have gleaned so far.
Does anyone know what it is for or was for and can it be used and if so, to

I'm trying to automate converting photos into artline similar to the
graphics used in the Bunnings Hardware catalogue. Surely they don't have a
graphics artist tracing photos manually for the hundreds of products that
they have in their monthly catalogue?

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