Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / February 2005

My iBook G4 has a vga/dvi output, but what are the limits of what it can
do ? Can i drive an external monitor, e.g. 19" CRT or 17" LCD at
resolutions higher than the display of the laptop (which is limited to
1024x768) ?

Problem:
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Over this last Summer, my Mac has been crashing or freezing for no
apparent reason.

Here's what the guy said:
Hi folks,
After a partial rewrite and a few months of testing, I have released
OSXnews 2.05. OSXnews is a Open Source Usenet newsreader for OSX written

I have for sale an Apple Blue & White.
Specs   : B&W  350 Mhz , 128 Meg Ram, 6 Gig Hard Drive,  CD,  Zip 100
         OS 9.2 , Keyboard (AdB) and Mouse In Very Good condition
         (NO MONITOR)

Bidding price is now at $1,675 only 17 hours to go.  Ending tomorrow!
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5163263815

I'm thinking of getting another LCD panel and was wondering what the
advantages of a 19" LCD is. Both 17 and 19" panels have 1280x1024 pixels.
Does the larger size of the 19" make much difference? I've also noticed
that they tend to have slower response times (23ms typical) ...

I have the following problem with AirPort Express and Wireless Printing....
Equipment: iMac G5, Mac OS 10.3.8, Wireless connection to Internet and Printer
through AirPort
Express.

Clever ditty, really it is, fairly longish, but got snarky bits like
this:
Next time you need a snacky-treat,
Think different - iPod appetit.

Anybody have a copy of Pagemaker 6.5 for Mac they'll sell?
I know it's an old version but its needed for compatibility to PM 6.5 Windoze
version.

Hello all...
I have a Imac 350mhz machine and I try to install OSX 10.3
it told me that I need to update the firmware.
How do I do this? 20Gb hard drive with nothing on it.

FS 18" LCD  NEC 1850E $350 very good condition
Sydney
Ben

Will any PCI/USB ports card work in this computer? Or does it need to be
a special kind?
Thanks,

We get many power failures here, and last night was a feast. three
fraction of a second outages and each time my power mac G4 OS 10.3.7
started itself up.
I found the pref "auto start after power failure" but that was not

I'm about to replace my old G3 iMac with a G4 eMac.
Can someone tell me the easiest way to put the entire contents of my old 7GB
hard disk onto the new eMac disk?  Is there a Mac equivalent to Symantec
Ghost?

Hi everyone! I have some 'Mac' questions. :)  I hope you will help me..
I recently acquired a Power Macintosh 7300/180. It starts to boot ok,
but then I get a message box which says..
"The STF Init system extension could not locate the settings file.