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

been trying to record just under 90 minutes' (or 800mb) of data onto those
90 minute CD-Rs now available - but can't get the builtin burning program
or Toast 5 to recognise more than the usual 80mins/700mb 'available' on
these CD-Rs.

Greetings all,
I don't seem to be able to print to some of our Networked HP printers using
Outlook 2001 in Classic under 10.3
I have them configured in the Printer Set Up Utility / Print Centre and can

Is everybody here in Oz as pissed of as me about iTunes Music Store
winning Times "Invention" of the year award. This award is supposed to
go to WORLD changing inovators, iTunes Music Store is at best US
changing, and will benefit only US artists and fans as long as it's US

Hi, after holding out updating my system OS to X.2.8 from X.2.7, I'm
wondering if it's now safe to update? I'm using a Dual USB iBook 500
with X.2.7 & a 12" PowerBook with X.2.7. There were initial problems
with X.2.8's battery-killing tactics, but have these been fixed now?

I'm just wondering if anybody can help me out here.
I have a PowerMac 7300 running MacOS 8.6 and a PC running Windows 2000
Professional.  What I want to do is connect them directly to each other so
I can transfer files between them.  It just so happens that the PC has an

With the AU$ hovering at around US.72c can we expect to see price drops on
any products?

I have a laptop which has a hard drive quickly running out of free
space. I want to remove all the additional languages and other
"un-needed" .pkg files which are installed under X.3.1.
Can anyone tell me out to un-install these files cleanly ? Just

Just bought a digital set top box, the standard resolution type. It has
S-video out & rca. So I connected it to a miro dc30+ card using osx and
launched  BTV pro . I can watch movies on an LCD monitor in crystal clear
widescreen :)

3 1/2 months old, warranty til August 2004.
Emac G4 800
40GB HD
640MB RAM

Hello to all,
I need some information on ADSL modems.
What are others using.
My computer set up is G4 powerbook ( 12 " ), with airport.

I have Panther10.3.1 and I thought I might try this file vault thiing.
I put in a ŒMASTER² password and it is ³set²
I decided to change the ³MASTER² password so I have to put in the ³old² one
and it keeps telling me that I entered it Œincorrectly²

If you have a Laserwriter 360 you might be interested in the following
url
http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~daniel/projects/laser/
Kevin

Just installed VPC 6.1 on a DP Quick silver and when I try to use
Explorer, the dam thing wants to make me a MSN member.  I just can not get
it to work.  I'd quite happily give it away and use the Mac side, but I
need to access sites which are only accesible via a win version of

Anyone have experiences to share with Panther on G3 800 iBook?  I've got
384Mb RAM, but want to know if anyone has installed and noticed anything
major - ie. speed improvements, etc.
I'm aware Panther is meant to be faster, but want to hear real world

As the subjectsays, I'm after a rep,lacement Pismo or Lombard battery.
Anyone help me out ?
Please e-mail if you have one to sell.
Thanks