Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

I have installed 10.4 on a G4 Dual 800.  I now need to install OS 9.  How
do I go about his please.

You can't..
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Can anyone get to Marc Liyanage's http://www.entropy.ch site?

I bet I know the answer to this is going to involve DAVE or Tiger :-( ,
but here goes:
I bought a USRobotics 5461 router that has a USB printer port on it.  I
hung my Canon S530D printer off that port, and successfully configured a

I have a problem with a couple of users who are using FileMaker in
Classic Mode on OS X 10.3.9 systems. They need to be able to print and
due to an upgrade in the printers that the office is using I can not
get them to be shared so that Classic can see them.

I am new to osx (last time I used a mac was system 7)
I am using a mac that has final cut pro and pro tools;  whenever I use
final cut there is a video card setting that gets turned off and I need
to manually turn it on before I can use pro tools with video.

Hello to anyone who can help:
I have an iMac G3 running OS 9.2.  I had to restart my computer because
there was a disk failure.  I'm able to get to the desktop but I cannot eject
the disc because the seatbelt won't start.  All I get is the stopwatch

This is a weird one, and it just started happening.
Sometimes the "new mail" notification sound will play, and sometimes it
doesn't. All other alert sounds, e.g. system alert, play as they
should.

Dear Folks:
I have a Powerbook 180 that I back up onto an APS 80 MEG removable HD.
I want to move my old files to a new mac. The APS uses a retractable
rectangular plug with 29 pins on a 30 place grid. Any ideas on how to

Due to staffing changes I've become the IT person for a smal
environmental non-profit. I have extensive PC experience having buil
my own machines since the mid-80's and learned to deal with window
etc. but, have little experience with Mac's. I was left with a stack o

I have five user accounts on my Mac; only one admin account, which is
normally always logged off.  The other four are standard non-admin
accounts, including my daily use account.  
I have set Software Update preferences in my own account to check for

With outlook express on the PC I was able to set up my newsgroups.
Can the same be done on the Mac or do I need  special news reader software.
I am using the mail program that comes with OSX but do not see any way to
access the news server.

i have this spanking new iBook with Bluetooth 2.0 EDR. as i understand, with
Bluetooth 2 (or 1.2?) it should be possible to have stereo hifi sound
transmitted via bluetooth.
there are a handful of bluetooth headphones but all of them have their own

OK... Maybe I'm being dumb. I've decided to have a go at things the other
way around :-)
In the "Connect to Server" dialog I am entering the network address of the
particular Windows machine I want to access. It has an IP address of

I am using an Airport Extreme Base Station as a NAT box for wired and
wirless computers on my LAN.  It works quite well for this, but I have
one annoyance that seems typical with NAT implementations - it appears
to like to time out inactive TCP connections after 30 minutes or so.