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

Anyone I need help on booting an iMac G5 into OS9. I simply cant work on the
bloated slow piece of sh.t called MacOSX. I need this to be working before I
go back to college at the end of this week. I hear new intel apples are
booting windows. well I am not surprised as OSX may as ...

I have a G3 iMac running Panther and have noticed that the
Dock falls off the bottom of the screen by a few millimeters.
I go into the Display settings and adjust the Geometry of the
screen (height, vertical position) to display the whole Dock,

I am just curious to know, what happens if someone buys a new  IBOOK and
puts that software/OS on their say, G5 PM?
Would it work, or is the software just built for that IBOOK to install?
The Tiger OS  that comes with it, is it separate disc or sort of "built in"

Does anyone know where one can purchase a g4 or 5 case, new or 2nd hand in
Australia?
I do not need the power supply or any other actual computer hardware. Done
quite a bit of looking around without much luck Thanks for any help in my

I have a IMac G5, and a PC.  On my PC I have  a 23" LCD Apple monitor.  I
would love a 30" monitor on my PC.  I have approached 2 Apple suppliers who
said they would get back to me but never did!
Is it possible to run a 30" off my PC, and what video card would I need. My

Wanting to use the resources on my Mac via a network cable connection to my
Win XP  machine.
XP can see the mac address but not the mac to XP.
I have played with the TCP/IP and Appletalk settings to no avail.Using

just would like to know , what command do I use to "get" to another volume?
I have a external HD (lacie) and how do I access its files via the Terminal?
I don¹t use the command stuff a lot but this seems be be interesting.
Thanks

I am wondering if nVidia Geforce 4MX twin view video card will work in
Sawtooth AGP Mac with x2 AGP slot?
I believe the card is x4 AGP but I couldn't find it on nvidia website about
interface compatibility.

What is the real purpose of this operating system?
Its sure as fvck isn't for the user... some ppl must have a sick sense
of humour out there, that's for sure.
After a few months of daily use, I actually reached the point this

Hello to all,
Just bought a new DVD burner, La Cie External firewire ( for the G4
powerbook).
Now my  G4 is a -R.

windows computers still installing FDD's? I thought they were dead.

When I download icons for 10-4 they are in a format my computer does
not recognise nor can I open them.
How do I open an icontainer?

Hey guys, I just went to www.bigad.com.au and had a laugh at the brilliant
beer commercial there.  Decided I wanted to save it to my hard drive for
later viewing, and sharing with mates etc, but I'm left with a 5 meg .viv
file that is unplayable by anything.

i have just installed 10.4. Prior to the installation, using 10.3.9 i
was able to use my external USB mass storage device. Now it won't come
up. Has apple changed the set- up for these devices?
It did come up on the desktop once but froze the computer and i had to

My wife's mother has an iBook running OS X 10.3 and is interested in
getting into internet telephony via Skype.  The indigo iBook lacks a
microphone, and in trying to pick up a USB microphone it occurred to me
I should go the whole hog and get a webcam with a microphone so she ...