Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

I deleted the apple.com.ui thingy but still no Mac help. iBook G4 OS
10.4.4.

hey, I have a really crazy idea for something to do with an old Mac
running the first version of OSX but I haven't the slightest idea where
to begin. well, that's not ENTIRELY true, but I'm pretty clueless when
it comes to opening these things up and moving around wires and

Can I use the same software on both; I have brought copies of most of
the window software

I have a 2000 17 inch Imac with a 800 Mhz Power PC G4 processor and 768 Mb
of Memory on version 10.2.8, and until so far
I am very happy with it.
Now I am thinking of upgrading to 10.4, but I am a bit reluctant about this

I am having huge trouble trying to tune into www.radiocalvia.com on my
Windows Media Player. My G5 desktop will not play it. My Powerbook and
G5 Imac both allowed me to play the station once but this was just the
first time after downloading the software but I have been unable to do

Are there any Desktop Search utilities for a Mac using OS 10.3.3 , akin
to the many free ones availble through Google, yahoo etc. for PCs.
Somone told me Sherlock was equivalenet but my version only searches
Internet channels.

Question from an idiot: I have an old (1989 or thereabouts), broken Mac
Plus that I haven't used in almost 10 years. I also have dozens of
discs containing data - mostly Word Perfect documents - that ran on
the Mac Plus. The discs have been filed away for years. But recently I

Hi, after a friend just bought an $800 PC with WIFI capability and
introduced me to fishing around for hotspots, it got me curious.
Can I get my Ibook to do this? Can I use my Ibook to access a T-Mobile
(or a random private) hotspot? Am I only an Airport card away from

My friend has a iBook, OSX 10.3.4, and after visiting a certain web
page, it crashed and now won't open. We have tried to do updates as
well as download and install virus cleaning software, and the installs
will not work, in fact any downloaded files (dmg files) will not run,

Strange why I need to know the workgroup of PC's and their direct ip
address to connect to them in Tiger.
With Dave for OS9 which I used for a long time I was very easy able to
connect to any PC on the network.  Dave placed itself in the chooser as

Now that we all know that MacIntel won't run the Classic environment,
anyone know if someone, commercial or sourceforge-ish, is working on an
interpreter/environment to run OS9/8/7/6 apps under OSXintel?

Appreciate any recommendations for a later adopter.
Planning to update our two Macs to Tiger from 10.3.9.
Since one of them is my wife's, limiting any problems is the key. ;)
Any reason to hold off in going to the latest update: 10.4.4?

When I go to my bank or credit union I notice Windows
machines everywhere.
A colleague tells me that Macs are incompatible with the
Internet protocols and internal security systems used

Hey all,
I was curious if anyone attempted to try to upgrade the imac video
card. I have an imac G5 20 inch 2.1ghz computer (not the absolute
newest, but close to it), and I've noticed the video card has a bit of

Have an iBook that when I press power button, I get no responce at all.
No lights, no chime & no hard drive spin up. Any ideas. Any body know if
the power circuits are fused in any way. Had some small case screws
loose and rolling around inside the iBook that probably shorted