Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

Can you please tell me which are the resource fork friendly /bin apps in
Tiger? I know /bin/cp is because I tested it.
Thanks, PaulN

My iMac with OS 9.22 has suddenly developed a mouse problem. The mouse is
original as supplied when new. Initialy the pointer became erratic and would
move in a random fashion around the screen when playing a game called
Apeiron. Now the mouse moves the pointer as expected but ...

Every few years we cycle our computers here at home.  My wife gets
mine, my daughter gets my wife's and I (being the daddy :-) get a
new Mac.
We are about to do the cycle.  I have a 400MHz G4 and I am itching

I am using a 17" G4 Powerbook in the bedroom as a desktop on a wired
network. I am wondering if leaving it plugged in is bad for the battery
in the long run. I guess I can unplug it and let the batterry run down
ocassionaly but was wondering if that was necessary. Also wondered ...

I need to figure out how to install a copy of Sys 7.5 (which is on a cd)
onto a LC II/LC III system.  Any help is appreciated.

Hi Gang,
Hope you don't mind this, but I was wondering if anyone happened to
know the name of a band that's on the iPod shuffle at Target. I asked
the salesman and he said he didn't know, and that the display models

Hi, is there any macintosh-on-macintosh emulator to emulate a powerMac
running System 9? Thanks!
ealexzi

I have eight computers on a pier-to-pier network (3 x Macs and 5 x PCs)
and want to make a connection to my G5 (OS 10.4) from a PC running XP
Home...can someone help?
I have no problem the other way round. The G5 will easily connect to

I was attempting to create a new account as the computer was given to
me and as a result every time i send a file it has my friends name on
it. They still appear as an admin. Well i thought i could set up a new
user account and fix this issue but it hasn't made a difference. so i

It's keeps asking me for passwords, and the password I use for
everything on my system does not work!
It's mostly "dotMacfillintheblank" stuff.
It's just wacky! Halp!

Any recommendations for tutorials on compiling open source software,
specifically using OS 10.2.8?
Thanks.
---  Joe

I'd like to get Terminal to set a different background color
depending on to which machine I'm SSH-ing.  Can this be done
via the shell?

I have an iMac G5, running Tiger. Several days ago, when trying to run
Google, I got the Sogo site, a rather limited search engine. Over several
hours, every time I typed in www.google.com, I got Sogo. I tried a different
computer, same result.

I'm searching since days for Software i can print on Vinylcutters from OsX.
Looks like this is mostly PC-World, but there are some like
FineCut 5  (OsX  ...plugin for illustratorCS) only for SummaPlotter ???
MacSign

Whatever happened to affordable, for-the-rest-of-us desktop publishing
programs for the Mac?
My daughter has reached that time in her life when its time to start
writing newsletters.  But I am having a very hard time finding anything