Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / November 2004

Just looking for ideas and suggestions
My daughter (500km away) rang looking for help with her Mac - was
working fine, then when she tried to turn it on today had no joy at all.
On pressing the on button (G4/400 tower) at first seems normal - can

I have an Brand New compact DeskJet 3550 printer, ideal for laptop or
portable use. Bought for $59
But will sell it for $50
Works with Macintosh or PC.

Latest Prices 24/11/2004:
All goods are used unless otherwise stated and are for
private sale:
I also buy/accept old gear if you have something (Sydney)

A friend of our [nice person but thick as three short planks] keeps
sending us some sort of picture file with file name "xx.sig" off her
Windozer (running Win2000).
She cannot tell us the name of the programme and is quite incapable of

Hi I have just download a program which was is in segments (all .bin files)
all are accounted for however I can not get stuffit expander to work.  I now
this should work, but I have forgotten how to do it. Please someone out
there please give me a hand.

Dear Group,
My emac is about 3 months old.  I keep it on all the time.  After waking
it from one its sleeps the display returned but out of focus.  I have
tried turning it on and off/shutdown/re-start but to no effect.  I can

I got a Telstra techie out on Friday morning who needed to put a filter
so my back to base security alarm system would work correctly with
ADSL. Anyways, as part and parcel of the package, he also installed and
setup the ADSL modem (a SpeedTouch 500).

I have an OGG  file on my Mac and I cant seem to play it.
I  have read that if I drag it to ITUNES it should play , but doesn't
What program plays this sort of file?
It is a great song (one that I finally got and not in MP3 format, damn)

sometimes when I download something from the net on Versiontracker or
such I get reams of symbols rather than an item. I presume these are
binaries.
How do i ocnvert these to use in my iMac?

I have iMac 800 flat panel. bought it on ebay so do not have the book.
How do I use it to play DVD through the TV and what do I need to buy??
thanks in advance

Just wondering if it's possible to run the X11 x-server with quartz
window manager on anything older than Mac OS 10.3?
I'm running 10.2.8 on my iBook and am sick of looking at my XDarwin
x-windows interface when I use OpenOffice... =)

I have just got ADSL on my G5 MAC running 10.3.6 with 1.5 GB ram,160GB HD
It is all set up and running nearly 2 weeks now.
I also have a 450mhz CUBE that I use to back up all my stuff from my G5 with
a 20GB HD.

For Sale
Beige G3 233mhz Mini Tower
24x CD ROM
96 meg ram

I am thinking of putting Version 9 (classic) on my G5
I will install separately from OSX
The thing is I see that you can download 9.04, 9.2, 9.2.1 etc but not the
actual 9 to get started.

I've got an older Sony 17" monitor that cycles on and off whenever it's
plugged in and switched on - sortof blinks on then turns off, then
immediately blinks on again.
Anyone got any idea what It might be suffering from? My 1994 era Sony