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Can I synch my ical online with any programs?

Who have news for MacOS for x86?

Can my old Personal Laser Writer NTR be used with my new Power Mac G5?  
The connector (Mini DIN-9) on the Laser Writer cable isn't compatible
with the USB and FireWire connectors on the G5.  Are there adapters, new
drivers?

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've had Photoshop7.0.1 for a couple of years now and from time to time
it will try to check for updates on launch. It frequently hangs when it
does this. I can't find a preference that will make this stop. Does
anyone know how to fix this?

I have a powerbook working fine through wireless on my Airport Express.
I am trying to set up a windows XP laptop with wireless to share the
same internet connection.
The XP machine can see my airport express but it needs a password and I

Has anyone else been playing around with Access Control Lists (ACL)
under Mac OS X (Tiger) Client?
What I have noticed is the following:
1. ACLs are honored if a user logs into the actual machine

I have 2 Macs, the G5 flat-screen (17") (running Tiger 10.4.2) and a G4
iBook (running Panther 10.3.9). They're both on the same network, using a
router. Fairly often, when I try to check incoming mail in Apple Mail on the
G5, I'll get a little triangle which tells me that it can't ...

Hi, Sorry you might have to forgive a stupid question! Our school has
been given - by a local company (who have upgraded) - their old disks
for Mac Os X 10.3 Server (10 client). In our school we have all macs
running Tiger. Will this be an issue at all - specifically with roaming ...

I'm a long-time Unix user but new to Mac OS X.  Nonetheless, I'm tasked
with helping integrate some OS X 10.3 and 10.4 clients into an LDAP
environment.  The LDAP server is Sun's iPlanet (later, Sun ONE)
Directory Server 5.1, as bundled with the Solaris 9 OS.

...will catalog the contents of jpegs on a DVD, make thumbnails of
those jpegs, and output a savable, browsable list *without* requiring
the DVD to be inserted to view the thumbnails? I thought ViewIt would
do this, but it cannot.

I'm new to XCode and X11, and I'm writing an application which uses a
library calling the XOpenDisplay function. I know that X11 is
installed, it appears in my /Applications/Utilities directory. However,
it seems I'm not linking to the library correctly, because the symbol

Wondering if any adapters make it possible.  There are so many cheap older lasers around.

I'm the Administrator for my PowerBook G4 and I also have an identity
set up for my wife.  I just installed the Tiger OS and notice that when
my wife does a Spotlight search, when she is logged in to her identity,
that Spotlight includes items from documents that are in my identity.

I have to old mac I installed a twisted pair cable betwen them and they
wouldnt work so i put in a twisted pair tranciever that make thee
computers see each ohter but i have another problem i i click chooser
click the name of the networked computer. It pop up saying enter your