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

Hi folx,
I'm a Mac consultant based in Sydney, and we occasionally have need for
the services of a PC consultant for some of our customers.
I'm looking for a PC consultant who's reliable, knowledgeable, isn't

I have a eudora message that creates a kernal spinning beach ball and cannot
delete the message. Soon as it is highlighted it spins before I can delete
it. I have to force quit only to start it all over again
Can someone give me an answer to my dilema

400 Mhz G4 desktop
Panther 10.3
From a few days ago, my Help doesn't work.
Both menu scroll down and Help key on keyboard. The window opens up

Anyone interested in this old, but in V.G.C laptop?
Has no powerpack,battery or floppydrive, but is in working condition (tested
with an alternative ac adapter)
Any offers?

Can anyone tell me what price I should ask for my iBook... I'm selling
it to a friend of mine, but want to charge a price that's fair.
Here's the details:
iBook G4 12"

A little help for a newbie.
I have AppleWorks 6 and find it quite a good application for what I need -
but - I do need to create documents on my home computer (the Apple with
AppleWorks 6) and send them to work (a Windows PC with MS Office - no

Thanks for the assistance, much appreciated, filetyper was the pick.
Now I have another problem with a 'locked' file which I can not trash, ideas?
Babaganouche

Just wondering if anyone on this newsgroup lives in Childers (in QLD)?
My sister lives there and has just been given an old iMac 350 which is
running Panther. She just rang me saying it won't start up any more
(gets to the grey apple logo and no further).

How do I get rid of the period which is the first sumbol in the name of an
invisible file, in order to make the file visible???
TIA
Babaganouche

Can u use your laptop that has ADSL and then take it to a friends place and
use their ADSL modem for your laptop?
What about all the configs etc.?
A friend of mine ask me this and would like to know

Using Panther 10.3
Printing a doc in Quark 6 to PDF using the inbuilt PDF print thing.
Can I alter the res to Screen, Print like in Acrobat?
Thanks

I want to upgrade the hard drive in my G5 iMac. Can I put the present drive
(SATA) into a standard 3.5 external case to use for backups etc? You can buy
them pretty cheaply.
All advice is greatly appreciated.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5178599503
they made me do it!

my small daughter took apart her little round iMac mouse to see how it
works, which I encourage. However the result is that it works no
longer. Big two-button mice annoy her. Does anyone still have one of
the little circular original iMac or G3 mice? They're useless for

G´day All,
Looking for the above, any version considered, retail box set prefererred.
(The later the version, the better though)
Is there any reason that buying OSX 2nd hand is undesirable... registration