Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

Does anyone know if the new G5 Powermacs with Dual Core chips, and the
dual-dual G5 Quad machine, are cooled by those Delphi radiators, or by
air?

In a SH script, I am going through all the directories in a particular
directory, and I want to remove the directories that are, for example,
older than 2 weeks. Here is my script so far. Can anyone help me?
for var in *

What, if any, Mac software is available to combine multiple, Transport
Streaming (.ts) files into one movie file? I have over one hundred
".ts" files and would like to convert them to an avi file.
Many thanks,

I just got a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth to use with my
iBook's built-in Bluetooth adapter. The mouse works great, except that it
will disconnect from my iBook if I stop using it for a few minutes (is
this a power saving feature, I wonder?).

I'm curious as to what others think is the most irritating aspect of Tiger.
Mine is when you have a .dmg on the desktop open, drag it to the trash, and
then attempt to empty the trash. You are then presented with a dialog stating
that the trash cannot be emptied because the .dmg ...

In Mac Format December 2005 there is reference on page 75 to Unix
periodic maintenance routines needing to run between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.
daily, weekly and monthly.
I've searched the manual, "Mac OS, tiger Edition by David Pogue" and can

For as long as I've had the G5 (about a month now), I've noticed that
it emanates a very subtle, high-pitched beep.  It occurs about every
1.2 seconds.
It's so subtle that I only notice it at night, when the house is quiet.

Is there any way to disable the Widget installer that pops up whenever I
download a widget with Safari?  I'd rather have the downloaded widget
just appear on the desktop like any other downloaded file.
Or, better yet, is there any way I can change the location the installer

I'm thinking about getting a new iMac G5 (with built in iSight).
However, I'm still hesitating because of the thermic problems the
previous iMac G5 edition had that caused hard disks to die early etc.
Does anyone have a clue if this is still a problem with the new iMac

Has anyone had any experience with installing generic PC100 or PC133 RAM
into a G3 PowerMac System (blue + white 400MHz).  My old PC back home
died on me, so I have some leftover RAM to use up.  Thanks!

I took the plunge and created an Automator Workflow.  Piece of cake!  It
is supposed to launch four software applications in this order:
   Safari  Mail  Organizer  MT-NewsWatcher
I saved and then ran the Workflow and it would not proceed past

Like many of you, I have played with account restrictions on OS X going
back to 10.1.  They never worked as advertised, with settings reverting
to defaults or causing other such anomalies.
I know there are workarounds involving running apps from shared access

I am running OS 9.1 on a PowerPC w/a 20gb hd.Lately my Mac has been
very slow to both start up and shut down.I have run both DiskWarrior
and TECHTOOL PRO without finding any major problems and rebuilt my
desktop.

what does the collective intelligence of the group have to say
regarding airport express compatible base stations in a mixed platform
envirnmnet...I would prefer to get the apple one, but it is close to
$200, and a basic linksys is like $30-$40 at best buy....

In 10.4, is there a way to add a printer (not the printer setup utility)
to the Dock, or, is there a way to have the active printer (the one
printing at the moment, which at least is visible when command-tabbing
to shw the print jobs by default? I always have to open Printer ...