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

I have d/l some great Mac OSX  desktop pics.
The trouble is I have an old 23" cinema display (1900x1200) and some of
these great pics are "made" smaller than this.
I have 4 options-

16/8/05:
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My sister wants to change ISP from BigPond to TPG.
The only concern she has is that all her business records have Bigpond
email address on them. Obviously she would like to still get any Bigpond
email in the future for some time.

As per subject. I have a friend (doesn't it always start like that) wanting to buy
one of the faster G3 towers. I'm in Brisbane, as is he also, and am posting this as
a favour for him.
So, what's out there?

I have an old iMac G3 500 that I've taken the hard drive and RAM out of.
There were some strange video problems (which didn't appear when I
connected an external monitor up to it) so I went in and had a look at
the board directly under the CRT (power board?). There were some bad

I notice that the new Windows replacing XP will be called Vista. No
doubt avoiding the new name "shorthorn" already applying to the stripped
down Longhorn.

Can anybody tell me an inexpensive (if such a thing exists on a Mac) way
of getting good quality mic input into a DP G4 Mac?
I got iMic but the quality is appalling with heaps of noise and very low
levels. Using a powered mic helps quite a bit but it's still pretty

Picked up a G3 yesterday, and noticed that PS2 style port at the back,
however I don't recognise the markings next to it... so what is it for
exactly?
Tnx.

Does anyone know of any cyber-cafes in the Melbourne metro area that has
macs in it?
Charles L

I have edited a movie which runs about 59 minutes. When I try to burn it
on a LaCie firewire burner, Toast tells me it is too big for a single
layer dvd.
Any help would be appreciated

Just bought a new internal 200gig HD for my old G4 as the Apple 80gig disk
died but Disk utility is only seeing it as 128gig not 200gig, is 128gig a
maximum?
Paul

I am trying to copy the Users Pictures folder to an external back up HD,
but I keep getting message that I do not have sufficient privilegees to
do this. I am a sole user and have repaired permissions on both drives.
I can copy the folder iPhoto library OK. But still it will not ...

I also have a mirror drive door (MDD) G4 what's the largest internal hard
disk?
Thanks,
Paul

Apparently there is an issue with the Apple Powerbooks second RAM slot being
defective. This appears to be a persistent problem that can recur after
"fixing" and may be a result of issues with both the operating system and
hardware. If you check out

   Is he in the same batallion as General Failure?
Co those clowns are always after me..