Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

So why am I mentioning this in Mac NGs?
Because the cheap short-sighted PC users do not use Timbuktu  anyhow,
only enlightened Mac users run TB2.
Why am I including blogging about speech-to-text technology?

I've just taken delivery of a new G5 iMac.  It's sitting on my desk, quite
beautiful, slim and very attractive.  Rather like Britney Spears!
It took all  of 2 minutes to set up and connect to the Internet, I am very
impressed.  And to be honest, "I'm in love".

I am having a very weird Finder problem.  The alphabetically last file
in the Desktop directory doesn't show up on the actual desktop.
This problem is showing up on only one of two accounts on only one of
four macs that I have.  All four are running the same version of the OS

I am tring to upgrade the 160 MB hard drive with 1280 MB scsi.
The problem is that the drive is not detected with Drive Set-Up.
Can anyone help me in details ?
Thank You very much in adsvance.

Some nonsense in the documentation (all Windows-related) about how one
cannot have a drive larger than 137GB without an Ultra ATA/133 PCI
card. I'm assuming that does not pertain to Macs...
I bought the 200GB Maxtor from Staples and tried to put it into a

Is it safe to delete the contents of my system's Caches directories?
I was thinking of logging into the console and doing this, without the
WindowServer running:
   $ sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/*

 I've tried to get my OSX 10.4.2 system to print using my OS 9.1
USB mounted Brother printer.  I turned on USB Print Sharing on my OS 9.1
box, but the printer just never shows up to be added on my OS X 10.4.2
machine.  The help system on Tiger has a section on how to get an OS 9

I am a licensed user of Typeset which was purchased for $19 from Drew Hamlin
<http://www.drewhamlin.com/?page=Software>
several months ago. Typeset is potentially an excellent application and one
well worth having. In my case, after installation, Typset would launch and

Is someone know how we should proceed for stopping/restarting any
daemon on Tiger, for instance  cups? (without rebooting of course)
I'm looking for  the equivalence of: /etc/init.d/cups stop on
unix/linux

Two related questions about MIDI and G4 PowerBooks:
1.  DOes a PowerNook have a built-in sound card that can interprep MIDI
data -- so that you caN USE A MUSIC SEQUENCING PROGRAM AND HEAR THE
OUTPUT WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY an external sound mosule of any kind.  I'm

In the last day or so, my Finder has started to unexpectedly quit every
2 minutes or so (Powerbook G4 800Mhz Titanium  OS X.4.2).
When it happens, all my icons on the desktop disappear and then
reappear, any windows on the desktop which were now open are now closed

Hi! This is my first time posting to this group, and I hope I'm not
violating any  group policies.  A friend of mine has encountered a
problem during a Linux install via Virtual PC 7, and I'm hoping that
someone here would be able to help.  Thanks in advance for your time

I have a mac G5, just installed OS X and I am trying to setup the hp
psc1210v. i can not find it in the MAC OS X list of printers. what
driver do I use? the psc driver is NOT listed..
HELP!

We have one particular G5 running 10.3.9 that is unable to print to a
shared Canon i9900 on our network. The problem is not specific to a
single user on that G5.
The shared printer shows up in Printer Setup Utility, and the G5 is

Suddenly I'm unable to print multiple copies. I'm using OS 10.3.9, Word X
and HP psc 1610. The box for putting the number just won't change. I need
thirty copies of a document with graphics, and I sure hate to do it one at a
time. Any ideas? Thanks.