Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

I have two G4 flat panel iMacs, a Dell laptop, an HP network laser
printer, a D-Link DI-524 router on my 100/10BASE-T network at home.  I
do not use the wireless capability of this router.
I use my iMacs from work everyday via VNC.  I usually know the IP

I just noticed a problem happening with my mac mini, and OSX .
If i use  RIGHT MOUSE CLICK, on the desktop,
my  context menu doesnt come up anymore,
everyting dissapears, for a second and re-appears (icons and any open

I'm longtime Windows user and know Windows networks well. My current
home network consists of wireless PCI cards from my Windows PC's
connecting to my Airport Extreme router (which I bought for the home
stereo connectivity).

I bought an iSight, I have a mac, I want to communicate
teleconferencing with friends elsewhere on planet Earth that have
windows.
What do they need for us to do this?

Has anyone here ever bought RAM from Staples? I'm thinking of getting
some there for my daughter's PC. I get my Mac RAM from Crucial
Technology, but they don't have RAM for my daughter's PC model.

When I was running a dual boot PC with Windows and Linux I was able to
run UT2004 on Linux as well as on the Windows partition.
As the Mac running OS X is a Unix machine does the same apply?  Can I
install and run the game on this OS?  If so can anyone give me any

i want to connect a  A2DP headset to my iMac with dlink bluetooth dongle.
does anybody know about a A2DP implementation for mac os x?
thanks, olli

Here's what I'm trying to do: I'd like to upgrade the os on a
tangerine clamshell ibook from os 9 to os 10.2
The difficulties I'm facing are (not necessarily in this order):
1. The clamshell cannot currently connect to the internet. (our dsl

Do any of the Macs play SACD discs or just the Hybrid SACD discs? How
about DVD-Audio discs?
Lee

Mouse is suddenly freezing on me within 20 minutes or less of use. Have
PRAM'd and rebuilt desktop.
Also, PDFs are trying to open with Quicktime, not Adobe Reader, though
I have the most recent Adobe Reader downloaded and installed. It's just

I had a power outage a couple days ago and afterward
Photoshop CS2 won't work, giving me the following message
before it quits:  
  Your Adobe Photoshop user name, organization, or

G'day Guys/Girls
Hopefully someone here can help me out.
I have written a web app (in php) to allow editors to put press releases
online - they copy the data out of MS Word docs and paste them on a form

Nothing will copy/paste for some reason! Doesn't matter the program
(TextEdit doesn't work!) and whether I use keyboard command, context
menu, or the menu bar: just doesn't work! Like the clipboard is totally
missing/broken. Any idea how to fix this? OSX is extremely crippled in

I hope someone can help me. Here's the situation:
I have an old 500 series Powerbook (540?) and it's been sitting for
like 3-4 years with the ac adaptor plugged in and batteries in it. (I
know this was dumb, to keep it plugged in, but I just kind of forgot

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Two Macs both running close-on-each-other versions of OS X.
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