Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

I am a journalist in Baghdad desperately trying to fix one of our
translator's iBook. It wasn't starting up properly and Apple, bless
their hearts, shipped me install CD's. 4 Mac OSX Tiger discs (the first
one labelled CPU Drop In Disc 1, the others install disc 2-4) 1 iBook

My hard drive has been very active for most of the last hour. I've been
in the web browser most of that time. Checking Activity Monitor, the
top item is WindowServer, with 35% - 50% of the CPU.
Is there a way to find out what app is doing so much disk access?

Hi, was wondering if anyone has seen this and knows of a solution to
either of these problems. I haven't found any hints so far.
1) Recently my PB started freezing when dragging icons from Finder
windows to folders, trash, etc. The only escape seems to be popping my

I've played with them before and still see them as the most powerful
PDA.  However they were bulky.  
My question is how to modern Macs running OSX Tiger sync with them?  Was
it true that OSX does not allow one to connect serial ports to their

Yes, i'm still using OS 9.
Often when I startup my G4 (specs below) the DVD-ROM tray will open
during the startup process. From "Inside Macintosh" I get here:
3. The initialization code initializes the Vertical Retrace Manager and

When I go to Safari (2.0.1) Help I get nothing but the search screen
but nothing will come up.  Offline/online, same thing.  Trying to look
for help with attachments in web based mail systems, which is the real
problem.  Any leads would help, thanks.

I just bought an old iMac Tangerine on ebay.
I haven't received it yet but I'm already making plans to get it
connected to my home network.
I don't plan on using it for any fancy graphics work, mostly because I

There is probably a better newsgroup to send this to (suggestions
welcome), but if someone here knows ....
I have an about 2 1/2 year old set of harman kardon SoundSticks
speakers. How can you tell which satellite is the left and which the

If I have this right, 64-bit processing on the Mac may conclude with
the G5 as we move in to 32-bit Intel-land next year.
What does this mean to me vis-a-vis the programs I am currently using,
which include video and audio editing software.  Is anything that is

Often I notice that the sound is kind of thin.  I open the System Prefs
-> Sound, and again, the Balance slider is on the left, instead of the
center position.
I never slide it to the left intentionally.  It must be a keyboard

I need to allow users using 10.2 and 10.3 access to a digital camera when it
is plugged into the USB port.  If I start up iPhoto and go to import it says
there is no camera selected.  It works fine for a user with admin rights.
So, what do I have to allow the users acces to so ...

I was wondering if anyone can help me out?  I am trying to import video
from a Canon Optura xi to my iBook G4 using iMovie4.  When I connect
the firewire cables, turn the Canon to VCR mode, and start iMovie,
iMovie shows a blue screen and "No Camera Attached."  The Canon has "DV

Have just purchased a Lacie 1TB fileserver / datastorage device for a Mac
network. Installed it for local network but want to be able to access files
remotely.
The lacie manual says that to access the files via FTP just use the IP

I have iTunes 6 on this iMac, and iTunes 5 on another.
Right now, two accounts are logged in to this one,
and another user on the other.
Networking is up (all accounts have home directories

I upgraded to 10.4 the other day, and I can no longer click on the name
portion of an icon and have it become editable. I have to click on the
icon, then click on the name field, resulting in opening the file if I
do it too quickly or nothing happening if I wait too long.