Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

I've bombarded the Apple discussion boards on this to no avail - it is as
though Apple does not believe that it exists...
 I have an "flavored" iBook G3/300 that I got for my little one.  Shortly
after getting this unit it started to spontaneously go to sleep immediately

In the days of old (last year or so) I used to create disk images for
all my game CDs (StarCraft etc.) and used these images instead of the
real CDs.
Now I bought Sim City 4 and while the game would install from disk

Hi, everyone.  I've never posted on this board before but I need a new
computer and since most of my friends hate Macs, I didn't have anyone
to talk to about buying a new Mac.
I have a 4 year old G3 iBook (first plain-white model from 2001) and it

I would like to format my Power Mac G5.
Does anyone know which tools or software required to format Mac Harddisk,
make partition.
I have original Mac OS 10.2 Operating system.

Please forgive the cross-post.
It seems to me that there used to be a Linux utility that allowed one to
mount Macintosh-formatted floppies, but I cannot remember the name or find
a reference. I'd be grateful if someone could give me a clue.

I am unable to connect my iMac (700 MHz PowerPC G4 running OS X 10.3.9)
to an old Ethernet printer (an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 printer with a
14-pin Ethernet connector).
According to Apple: "The LaserWriter Pro 630 controller supports

My iBook slowed down significantly yesterday. I opened the Activity
Monitor and found hundreds of instances of "smbd" running, started by
the launcher process.
I had to hold down the power key to make them go away. No significant

Can someone explain to me how Tiger works with respect to login
security and traditional Unix logins?  I have a single administrator
user with filevault turned on.  I have also set a master password under
Security.  In terminal, passwd su gives >password for "user" response.

I have a new mac mini and a pc laptop.
Mac mini : OS X
Laptop : Windows XP Pro.
My problem is, i have to connect them to each other via firewire, and

The new aluminium PowerBooks come with a hardware test CD, my titanium
PB didn't (I think). It is behaving badly now (frequent failures to
start and shutdown), and I would like to run some diagnostic tests. Can
I safely use the CD that came with my husband's 12"? Or does anyone ...

I have trouble when installing software using X11 like Gimp and Inkscape.
They both complain that they require X11 so I'm trying to install the
last X11 package from Apple... and this time Mac OS X is complaining
that a more recent version of the product is already installed !!!

Are there any sites that still have links to Microsoft Office 2001 30
day trial version? If not, does anyone know of some freeware or
shareware that can read/write .doc and .xls files? Thanks.

I have a three year old G4 Tbook, Battery life is about 2 hours and 15
minutes. Should I expect more? What would a new battery give me?

RealPlayer 10.0 has stopped playing any sound on my new iMac G5 under
Mac OS 10.4.1. When I double-click on Windows Media Sample.wmv, I get
the message: 'This file may not play correctly because it is using a
codec that is not supported.', which is strange, considering the file

I have an iMac PowerPC G4 running Panther.  In the past couple of
months (June) it has stopped recognizing DVDs that are made by us (or
by my company).  It has Boot ROM Version 4.7.8f1 and I'm trying to
update that but can't find anything.  Can anyone offer me tips about