Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

Lately my mouse pointer has been freezing on the screen or has
uncontrolably been dropping slowly down to the screen buttom.  This can
happen very very often.  Sometimes once every five minutes.  Pretty
annoying don't you think?

Hi, all. Here's the situation. I'm currently posting this on my old UMAX
Supermac C500. Reason? Well... I recently (June 29) bought a used
PowerMac G3 all-in-one unit at a local used computer store. It crashed
the following Thursday, refusing to recognize the HD. Took it back, was

What difference does verify vs. repair make in the OS X utility? Both
seem to take the same amount of time. Why not skip verify and just do
repair?

Can anyone tell me how to persuade OS X to believe it has a really dumb
printer attached?  Think teletype or converted typewheel printer. A
printer that only has one typeface, one size, can't do any graphics, can
only accept ASCII input.

Wow... I finally found a site where someone had actually solved the
problem of printing from a Mac w/OS X Tiger to a remote network printer
which happens to be the HP Laserjet 1012 on a windows box.
Meanwhile, Linux/CUPS has no problems at all printing to the same

I'm using Entourage for mail and newsgroups. G5 imac running 10.4. What do I
need to be able to decode messages in alt. binaries ngs.?

Using an Epson Stylus Photo 2200, I can't seem to figure out how
to tell the Epson printer setting (and have it remember) that I
have a particular paper type installed, such as Premium Luster
Photo paper.  Each time I print something, it defaults back to

There is this Mac I just reinstalled and updated to 10.4.2. "Print to
pdf" option is not there. Just "Preview". I've checked Library/PDF
Services, it's there, bunch of scripts inside too, yet it doesn't show.
Rebuilding directories and fixing permisions didn't help. Any pointers?

I was considering moving to mac as I've always wanted to try out Apple
products and the mac-mini appears to be reasonably priced, the problem
is my friends basically think it's "uncool" telling me that "only
queers and jews use macs". I hate giving in to peer pressure... but I

Any HTML wizards able to identify why the lower right hand graphic at
http://www.nicetoknow.info/freesample02.htm
refuses to play in Safari, Firefox & Camino (iBook G4, Tiger). They
don't even seem to acknowledge that it is a .wmv file. Windoze boxes

I would like to know is it possible to burn CD/DVD using a firewire
burner running OS 9?  Which software can do the job?  (Toast 6 for OS
9?) I forgot the difference between -R and +R, please refresh my
memory.

I could really use some help on this one.
Anticipating a big upgrade (I'm running 10.1.5), I bought a backup
drive and backed up all of my essential files including the main
Applications folder. Then I went on a trip and when I returned I

If I back up my user account, does that effectively back up all of the email,
bookmarks as well as documents and pictures and other personal files?

Have a new G5 imac. How can I decode the gibberish I see when I open files
found on alt.binary newsgroups?

i bought a usb mp3 pen drive (512MB), it worked fine the first time i
used it.i used the CD to install the drivers and other utilities. i
copied WMA and mp3 from WinXP on FAT32 and the gadget played the file.
Now i copied some files from a Win2000 on NTFS and the device refused