Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

Odd problem: upgraded a 350 mHz G3 from scratch (a friend gave me the
case and nothing else). Put in a 120 G WD hard drive, loaded OS 10.2.8
on it (2 partitions; 60 G each) using the built in DVD reader (no
writing possible). All was fine.

For about a week, Finder takes two minutes or longer
to login, and at least one minute to log out.
I heard that disabling fonts the wrong way can cause this,
but I have not done so.  I can't think of any reason any

Just to pass this along - several people were having trouble getting
their Samsung lasers to work through Airport Express once they upgraded
to Tiger. The printer could be seen in 'Bonjour', but there was no way
to select drivers for it, and as we found, the only way to print was to

What's the exact meaning for the incoming network traffic of the
Activity Monitor? I mean, is it evaluated _before_ or _after_ the OSX
firewall filtering?
I'm asking this because I've checked that, even with the OSX firewall

Any one have a set of the basic iDVD themes 1, 2, ....5?

Go here for a free iPod nano:
http://ipodnanos.freepay.com/? r=22156327
You can get an iPod nano for FREE! These are being given away by the
same guys that away the free original iPods and free PSPs. I got both

Hi ya...
I have an OLD MAC with system 7.5.0 and I want to load it with 7.5.5 for
use on the net.
Problem... it doesnt have stuffit and wont open or run any of the files Ive  

I am using Open Office for the Mac OSX and it runs consecutively with X11 in
order to open the application.  When X11 starts up, it turns the whole
display grey and the only way I can escape from the grey screen is to do a
force quit.  Is there a command that I can type in the ...

What is the easiest way to do this? The old VHS tapes of family etc are
starting to show their age so I'd like to transfer them to something a
little more stable. Should I just bypass my Mac altogether with
something else? Suggestions and comments would be appreciated. Thanks.

Does anyone know if you already have a 1 on a 2 year cingular contract
...
When you purchase a ROKR do you have to sign up for another 2 years -
or

I can see the advantage in using the "Public Key Authentication" (PKA)
system to make it difficult for outside "crackers" to break into my
Mac's network.
With conventional passwords, if the cracker succeeds in breaking into

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to "munge" my email address whilst
using the MacSoup Newsreader?  TIA.

I have a number of fonts located in
    /library/fonts
and would like to know what the permissions, owner, group, and others should
be set to. These fonts will be accessed by six different accounts, one

I am hoping someone on this NG can help me with two small problems
1.  I downloaded and ran Thunderbird, the email package.  It's all working
and I've been able to import my address book from Windows XP.  But where is
the folder for this program?  In applications there is  no ...

Hello all .. I'm sure this is an extraordinarily simple problem, but I'm
at a loss as to how to solve it.
I'm using a PCI Mac G4, running OS X.3.2, and trying to install the
"Power Snipe" application.  When I get to the step of choosing my