Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

Since getting my ibook I see that Apple has made it so that I cannot
partition a proDOS volume no longer. I could on the Performa.  So this
means that the max I can do with a Apple II is via a emulator such as
the ones below.  Am I correct?  The days of full apple II support are

My grandson is having a problem burning a movie onto a DVD. He has an
800 mHz Power PC G4, 10.3.9.  the movie made on imovie, tried to burn
with iDVD  (ver 4) using the apple provided dvdr dvd.  super drive
computer.  The problem is that when he tries to burn the dvd from iDVD,

I want to run ISC dhcpd at startup in Mac OS 10.4.  I have tried
creating an rc.local, but it's not starting from there.  (Permissions?)
In general, can you point me something that explains the startup
folders or otherwise help me with the goal of running a shell script at

I do the following and cannot see any other computers on the network.
1. Go menu
2. Network
Nothing at all shows. There are PC's in the network. They may not be

I have an older blue and white G3 and it came with a defective Atapi 24x
CD-Rom unit that is apparently toast.
CDs will not mount.
I'd like to know two things:

Surely this has been asked many times before, but a friend who has just
moved to Mac (latest Mac Powerbook) needed help setting up.
However, on trying to install a Cannon N1240u and downloading the driver I
found it is a sit file?

Hello, All!
    I have a question that might be stupid and annother one that is born
from frustration; I never had a situation like this on another UNIX
machine in 15 years of using all between HP-UX, Solaris, Linux,

I'm a new user, running Tiger on a G4 and instead of the usual bootup screen
it's started booting into Terminal. Can any guru please advise me how to
return it to normal?
Ken

There's a very insightful article on the BBC technology section:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4294388.stm
I must agree with everything Bill Thompson says. Why exactly are we allowing
developers to get away with so much? It is not that software is cheap or

OS Panther.
I do not use Font Book. However, every now and then, it opens when I did
not open it. It's not on my dock. It's not on my Panther sidebar. It's
in my OSX applications folder, but I would have to purposely go to the

   Rather simple question: I'm running MacOS X (10.2.8) and would like
to set the video refresh rate to 85 Hz or higher. However if it's not listed
in the 'Displays' preference, next to the resolution of your choice, the OS
leaves you stuck with no option but what it provides (via ...

This website can help you to find any links you want:
http://www.lxlinks.cjb.net
Enjoy

Anyone know where one could obtain a driver for a   WUSB54G - Wireless-G USB
Network Adapter ?
thanks!

Is there anyway it is possible to import Konfabulator widgets into
Dashboard? Seems like a good project for a budding programmer to get
his teeth into!  :)

I am thinking of getting myself a nice G5 to replace my trusty G3 B&W.
The G3 has modern (= fast) HDs. Can I swap HDs from the G3 to the G5
just like that (and boot from them without any hassle) or is it not
going to work that easy?