Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

If I have a USB or firewire drive connected to my mac at startup, but I
don't want the Finder to mount it at startup, how would I go about it?
If it can't be prevented, is there a way to have it unmounted?
TIA

i have an ibook running mac os x 10.1.4.
i have started to notice that the cursor is off, meaning that when i
click on an icon, i need to click slightly below that actual icon
because i can't click the icon when the cursor is over the icon.

I have an iBook G4(Late 2005). I copied the Open Firmware Password from
the installer disk and copied it to application/utlities, I then set
the password and restarted the computer but the Open Firmware Password
screen didn't appear instead it when straight to the login screen. Is

I have an old Quadra 610 with a bunch of MacWrite Pro docs I need to
recover- I can use a floppy but the Quadra will only successfully format as
MS-DOS and all the file names get truncated. It would be easier to use the
SCSI zip as the newer Mac I have has a zip in it.

              I apologize in advance for my ignorance but I just a
purchased a bunch of RW cds and am having some problems. When I put the
CD in the mac i find that the disc only has 30MB of space - is it
necessary to format the disc before writing to it to give it maximum

Hola,
I received a MacMini for Christmas and I want to leave it on all the
time and use my HP 2600N color laser printer as a print server. A few
questions.  Do I have to keep my Mac Mini from going into sleep mode

I'm running an iMac with DSL via ethernet connection. Just got an XP
laptop for my son with wireless card. The internet connection is fine,
but I'd like to be able to share files between the two. Is there a way
to set this up relatively painlessly?

Is there a program for System 9 that can open the files created with
Split&Concat for X?

Ok, I just bought my first eMac, the first Mac ever.It is a G4 1,25GHz
eMac with Panther OS on it. I got the picture for most of it, but
cannot make it go on internet. Here's how it goes:
I use cable internet, and it's connected to my winXp thru USB port. The

I just bought a brand new IMAC G5 -- Tiger 10.4. I downloaded Firefox
into a user account, put it on the dock and it dissappers -- does it
every time I log out. Mail -- the program that comes with the MAC
disappears from the dock too. I have to reinstall firefox when I log

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There are just some things that Apple left out. You can't change the color
of the icon fonts? You can't change system fonts without third party
software? Please tell me why osx doesn't directly support pcf font
conversion when it's built on an opensource fbsd kernel and has X11 ...

I'm running an iMac with DSL via ethernet connection. Just got an XP
laptop for my son with wireless card. The internet connection is fine,
but I'd like to be able to share files between the two. Is there a way
to set this up relatively painlessly?

Hi there folks.  I'm trying to restore my Mac Mini.  FIrst time MAC
user here. I played around with my mini for a bit but i want to start
fresh and reinstall. I popped in teh reinstall disk, clicked the
install OS X and Applications and it prompts to restart. I restart it,

Hello Mac users,
I'm quite new to Mac.  Recently I donwloaded a ".bin" file
and was surprised that you need a non-free piece of additional
software to use it.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)  I was