Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

I created a new user acct for my brother so he could have his own mail
and Safari settings, and he's prompted to enter his Keychain password
every single time he uses either app. Why is this happening? It doesn't
happen to *me*. And here's another weird thing: His login pwd and

 iMac G3 DV+, 450 MHZ,  20Gig HD, 384 RAM,  OS 10.3.9  and
OS9.2.2......
 I installed Panther from an eMac DVD and it works very well.  Bought
an eMac DVD on eBay and it absolutely refuses to install...  "Mail

I picked up a 165 a while ago with OS7.1 on it, but would like to redo it
and clean the previous users stuff off..
However, he didnt send disks...
I know the old 6.x disks are available on apple, and upgrades back then were

Is it just me, or does iTunes 5 do a better job of shuffling than it's
predecessors? All of a sudden I'm no longer hearing the same songs over
and over.

This seems harder than it should.
I've downloaded the latest version of the Kyocera installer for this
printer and it unpacked and ran (apparently) normally.
So how do I install it with the printer utility?

For weeks, I have been trying to get a USB Iomega Zip 250 Drive to work on
my Mac Mini with OSX 10.3.9, to no avail.
System Profiler shows the drive as being alive and active.
I have my System Preferences set to "Show these items in the

I'm looking for some kind of utility that can scan my entire filesystem
before I perform an installation or a software update, for example, then
scan it again after the installation process and tell me exactly which
files have been changed, removed, or added. Does anyone have any

I have PowerBook 1400 and MacOS 8.6.
When I Restart my system (command from special menu), hard disk spin
down down when system are closing, and then after few seconds, my disk
starts again and system are starting normally.

I've burned audio CDs using my SuperDrive and they won't work on some CD
playes. I burn the same materials on my clunky 300MHz PC and they work
everywhere. What's going on? I can't figure it out.
Al

I'd like to see if the following would work before re-arranging
everything on my home network.
My home network is quite simple: DSL is connected to an Airport Express
(cleverly named "Downstairs") using an ethernet cable. Upstairs is

I have a new 20" 2ghz iMac.
Several times when I have tried to put my iMac to sleep the screen has gone
black and the fan has kicked in. Despite leaving the computer alone for over
half an hour the fan continues to run loudly. The only way to end this is to

I'm running a 450Mhz imac with OS 10.3.9 and a 20Gb hard drive which
nets out at 19.08Gb.
The finder window tells me there is 3.08Gb available on the hard drive
even though its entire contents only add up to 5.71Gb. Even I can see

    The wireless hub that my iMac connects to works perfectly.
As soon as I turn on my machine, I am connected, file transfers
work perfectly and I never have any lost connections.
    There's just one problem.

I'm using a Powermac with Sonnet processor upgrade 400mHz, 144 MB RAM
and currently System 8.6 (german language version).
I want to install System 9.2.2, have bought a CD with System 9.2.2
software folder and an applications folder.

I'm running 10.4.2. A few days ago my Mac started to shut off abruptly
from time to time with no warning. The screen goes black quite without
any warning and there's response from the keyboard. It will restart from
the power on switch in the back, but twice it's gone deal almost