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

I'm sharing at ADSL connection using a Belkin router between my iMac and
a PC laptop (PPPoE). The first time I plugged both of them into the
router, they seemed happy to share it the internet connection.
Thereafter, they seem only to work alternately. Connection with one

My dual G4 processor card in my MDD recently died. Now running on one
processor which is a pain.
I'm hoping to get a replacement unit and was wondering if anyone out
there can help. I'm after either the dual 876 MHz processor or a dual 1

A Mac running Tiger and a PC laptop running XP - and an ethernet cable
to plug directly into each.... what's the simplest way to get them to
talk to each other?
Denis

Is there any cross platform video conferencing software that
people recommend? It'll be used over broadband...
Thanks,
Dale

OK
I now know the problem.  The help desk was very wrong!   I was running QTPro
V6.Something.  My wife bought an iPod and needed to download iTunes.  The
current iTunes requires QT7 which it automatically installs.  So the QT6

I need a new IDE drive for my Twentieth Anniversary Mac.  It has to be a
1/4 (1/2?) size "laptop" drive to fit in.
The TAM, if I can get her going again, will be used only for tv/mp3
player...

Worth watching out for these firesale items, e.g. from Mac1 last week:
iMac G4 15" 1.0 Ghz/256/80/Combo $499...ebay 700mhz ver. going for $640.
Tempting to add it to my G5 Dual order from the same sale as a
server/itunes box and 2nd internet on the LAN at home.

I can't properly repair my permissions on my iMac.  I run the Repair
Disk Permissions, it says all done and dusted OK...  and then when I
re-run the repair, it repairs the exact same ones..
For the real tech heads, the list below shows the ones that always

Hey all,
Got me an ex-demo mac mini, tried hooking it up to a standard def plasma
tv (Samsung) via VGA.  Managed to get an image on the plasma, it was the
"flashing ?" and it seemed reluctant to do any more.

In Panther, you could highlight a bunch of files and get a collective
size for the bunch in GetInfo. Now I see in Tiger that it has reverted
to giving us an individual GetInfo for each item. I know there are times
when you want to do that, but I kinda liked being able to get an ...

iMac 400 DV 256meg RAM/20-GIG HD/DVD (FireWire slot load)
Tiger installed, aqua keyboard & aqua Kensington 2-button USB mouse (or
Apple Pro Mouse if preferred)
$250

Power Macintosh G4, Dual 500mhz G4 "Gigabit" Tower, 512mb RAM, 20gb Hard
Disk 7200RPM, ZIP 250 drive, 1gb Ethernet, Super Drive (DVD Burner) 56k sec
modem, USB, Apple Keyboard & Mouse. Pre-installed Mac OSX.4.2 & MacOS 9.2.2
(dual boot), MS Office 2004, iLife 05, AppleWorks 6.2.9, ...

I am thinking of replacing my brother HL 1430 B&W laser with a budget colour
laser printer.  Does anyone in the group have any experiences, good or bad,
or advice on a potential printer.  The Lexmarks all seem mac compatible (eg
the 510 model)  - are they any good?  Would like an ...

Prior even to the official announcement, iTMS is now open for use.
$1.69 for a song.
Just use your Apple Store.com.au account info to sign in.
Finally...

I have an Apple iSight firewire camera for sale.
It is in excellent working condition, in the original packaging.
Asking $140.00
Buyer can pick up or I can mail it for $15.00 extra.