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

With a 867 G4, I installed Tiger and a new Seagate 120GB drive at same
time. Before then I had an old Maxtor HD which never had troubles. Have
had troubles ever since installing the Seagate (and Tiger). System not
found. System loads part way thro then freezes.  Several shutdowns ...

Sorry for butting in without lurking a bit first but I am hoping that
somebody may be able to help me with this BoG (Box of Gubbings).
I am running an old (5 years) iMac that was given to me by my brother after
I killed my pc. This is a great BoG but I heve no manual with it. It ...

I would be very glad if someone would try and explain to me about those
files that have be d/l ,then reassembled from those n/g's alt.binaries.mac
etc?
They are there but I just cant seem to quite understand exactly what the

I am considering buying a Mini Mac, mainly because I am tired of dealing
with all the spyware and worm viruses that come to my PC computer. But I
have a few questions:
- Can I use a keyboard from my old Mac SE computer (1988 model) with the

Twenty people came along for a very relaxed ride today. Starting from
Java Jolt cafe at the corner of Brisbane and Victoria St, the ride
headed east towards Town Beach.
It was a pleasant surprise to see that the council had installed bike

In my iTunes "My Favourtites".,how do I sort the list so it plays the
tunes in my preferred order. I don't want it to just play all of one
artist, then all of the next in line alphabetically, and so on. Borning.
Can I sort? Cheers.

Can someone tell me again how to delete unwanted  prefs in system prefs
that are at the bottom as "other".

I am looking at upgrading my 256M by putting in an additional 512M chip.
I was wondering if anybody has used some PC memory manufactured by Legend in
an iMac without issues?
I have a 1Ghz 17" flatpanel (2 yrs old) system that uses PC2100 266 DDR

I have 10.3.9 with 1.5gb ram and trying to d/l .pdf files with safari.
I d/l one , it worked then the rest returns this error msg all the time.-
****Safari can¹t open the page
³http://homepage.mac.com/ausominc/AUSOM-News-2003-08.pdf².

I am thinking of getting a second external hard drive for  my much loved G5
tower running 10.3.9. with 1.5 GB ram
I already have a Lacie Firewire drive 120 GB which is been very good , no
probs there.

Hi ... I'm running OS 10.3.9 on my G4 Gigabite.
I have 2 mail accounts ... one with hotmail.com (the free version) ...
the other with tpg.com.au
I use Apple's Mail application to open my tpg account ... however I have

If I try to launch a program from the terminal I can't just change to the
applications folder and launch the app, I have to type the full path such
as:
/users/paul/applications/theapp

My Translation Widget   and    Unit Converter  widgets
have gone wonky - the interface no longer works on one user account
on my Mac (but they work fine on the other user account).
For example: the translation widget does not allow one to select any

Using a slot-loader 350mhz iMac on OS9.2.2 with plenty of Ram
When trying to print from Eudora emails the HP PSO 1210 all-in-one gets 90%
through the job and stalls.  The printer works fine on all other
applications.

Thought I'd ask in here, since this seems like a likely spot:
I could use a KVM for two Macs... even a simple KVM with two ports would
suffice if the price is right.
Can anyone recommend a cheapish brand that works well with Macs?