Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

Installation of a software (Cubase) required BSD subsystem. I grabbed it
off an old CD (10.1 or 10.2). At first, everything seemed to have
installed ok, no restart was required, and Cubase installed just fine.
But after a reboot, OSX will only show the screen background, the dock,

Watching Safari in Activity Monitor, I notice the longer it runs the
bigger it gets. Is this "normal", in that it is caching sites or
something, or is it a memory leak?
Bob B.

Tried to run a Classic program.
"Classic cannot find a System Folder on the startup disk"
Well, why does it have to be on the startup disk partition?
It used to work with all the OS 9 stuff in another partition.

I installed and configured Squid with SquidMan.
Then I moved files, tweaked the config file,
chowned, chmodded, etc. to make it a system
level item.  Created a /library/StartupItems

Is there a shell command to do the same thing as the
GUI Menu "connect to internet" ?
I have one machine doing the dialing and being
proxy for the others.  So I need to be able to

Any word on what type of hardware the PC OSX will use? I'm guessing it
will not be standard Pentium/Athlon hardware but will continue to be
proprietary. You won't be able to install Windows & OSX on the same
machine right?

Since I carry my PowerBook just about everywhere I go, I am considering a
third-party tool (such as Knox from https://www.knoxformac.com/) or Apple's
own FileVault (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/) to protect
personal files.

 I have a G4 466 mhz tower. I think the bus is AGP but not sure.
I live in Arlington, Tx and cannot find an AGP Card, but found one PCI    
card, would the PCI work? And if not, where can I find an AGP?
 I was looking to spend up to $170 Anyone Selling a Used One?

Running MacOS X 10.4.2 on a G4 iMac ...
I've noticed for a while now that the escape key has quit working for
me in Teriminal.  This might have started up after the upgrade to
Tiger, but I'm not sure.

I would like to use the iDVD "Reveal" theme (this is the one with the
possible 5 images that sweep in and out of view) with some images that
have a "transparent" color so that the background image is visible.  I
have tried a .GIF image which had a transparent mask but this did not

A mate has received a font from his Mac-using publisher. How does he go
about installing it on his Windows box?

Hiya!  I have a PowerPC G4 (3.3.) iMac and my sound sometimes (getting
a little more frequent) sometimes doesn't work.  The speakers aren't
the problem either - I have tried disconnecting them to see if the
regular internal sound system will work and it doesn't.  Any ideas (I

I was trying to figure out how to print a large picture over multiple
pages in a grid like a 3 X 3 or something. The only way I've seen it
done is in MS publisher, I have print shop will that do it?

I've come into the posession of an old LC475.  This is a 1993-vintage
machine.  It comes with MacOS 7.6.1.  Fortunately, I got the machine
complete, with CD, external CD-ROM, and a whopping 160MB hard drive.
I want to install a bigger (i.e. non-Apple) hard drive.  I've gathered

I do.