Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

If it looks too good to be true, the likelihood is that it's not true. I
assume this $14.99 price for Mac OS X Tiger v. 10.4 doesn't get me what
I think it does (or what I don't think it does). What does it buy?
http://shopper.cnet ...

Hello, I want to buy an iMac, but I do not know if I can get some
problems with it? I have alway used a PC (just for Internet and MS
Word) and I want to find out if it is perhaps a little bit unpractical
to buy a Macintosh in country (Denmark) where everbody uses PC?

Have a new iMac G5. Would like to record streaming audio from internet radio
broadcasts. What do I need?

Hi folks - I hope this is the right group.
I recently partitioned my disk in order to install Gentoo LInux. I have
now decided that I don't want Linux and have deleted its partition
using the program mac-fdisk from the Gentoo installer cd.

just set up my first PowerMac. its a dual 2.0 and it is super quiet
except at certain times .. maybe like every 15 mintes or so there is a
click noise that sounds like a spring almost.   what is this? is this
normal? it can't be the hard drive sleeping cause it happens during use ...

I compiled an application (Qt Designer) and installed it in the
/usr/local directory.
This application works with documents with an extension ui.
I would like to start this application when I double click on such a

Our office has a single Canon S520 shared via a WinXP server. I am the
only Mac user there. It seems that OS X 10.3 does not have a S50
driver. I have tried using the S450 and S4500 drivers, but they print
out strange.

For those interested:
The resurrection of Steve Jobs
Sep 15th 2005
From The Economist print edition

Replaced the HD for my pismo using OS 9.2.2 but quicktime does not work.
Need the installer for 6.0. Apple only has quicktime 7 for OS 10, which
I do not use, nor have. Any help out there?
Also need something called QuickTimeLib.

I have a command line app which produces PostScript output (I usually name
such documents with .ps extension). Preview tries to convert it to pdf but
usually screws it up. I have much better success with MacGhostView's utility
app: macps2pdf.

Why can I not get the audio feed from the Ipod nano webcast?
10.3.9  with latest quicktime on G5 imac.

 All other movie trailers and such work well.

I have a Blue and White G3-350 with the original 6gig hard drive, and an
external 200 gig firewire HD.
Last week I had main hard drive problems and after two days wasted on
various actions I eventually backed up everything on the firewire drive

First of all I am a webtv user since 1998.
I taught myself HTML and created webpages etc:
I have a G4-powerbook Mac OS X 3.9.2
I' m on the "one plan" with MSN...within the year MSN dropped Mac

Thanks to these two:
http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php
and
http://www.gvs9000.com/workstations.html

I have a number of smallish .MOV files I want to merge to one big file. I
have done one batch thru iMovieHD, the files are merged to one big movie but
theres no sound- there is sound on the original clips though.
Any ideas?