Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

Is iWork comparable to MS Word?

I had a problem earlier this month with /var, /etc and /tmp being visible in
the Finder.
Many people offered all kinds of help but no one actually answered the
original question which was, "are these folders/directories supposed to

First, apologies in advance if this is not the optimal place to post
such a question. If there is a better place, kindly let me know.
My question is this: I've got an external hard drive which currently
has several partitions and a load of free space. All the partitions in

I recently inherited an iMac from my father. I like the machine for the
most part. However, I would like to run one or two of my old apps
(Seahaven Towers!). Can I pull over my system file from my old 9.2.2
machine and have it work correctly, or would this just be too easy?

Can anyone give me a good recommendation for a UNIX manual suitable for Mac
OS X?
I need something that will cover the basics such as installing from tar
files, compiling patches and installing software in general.  Thanks.

I got a Mighty Mouse this week, and it came with a software CD.  I
installed the software, but I haven't noticed any significant
difference.  All the settings of the various buttons were in the
Keyboard & Mouse preferences panel when I simply connected the mouse to

I know of an app called 'sleepnow' that does this, but is there a
built-in shell command to make the computer sleep from terminal? Jag and
Panther.
Cheers.

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

On my daughter's laptop, installing Tiger seems to have killed DHCP...
it connects via an Airport card, and that works fine... but it's now
unable to get an IP address from the router.
The other systems on the network don't seem to have any problem with

Can I install OS X Tiger on my laptop from the same disk as I used to
install it on my iMac, or is it like Windows XP and will only be allowed on
one computer. Thanks.

My wife's 14" iBook G4, which is about 14 months old, has developed a
problem with the SuperDrive tonight.  It won't respond to a disc being
put in and doesn't appear on the System Profiler either.  No trauma to
the computer, it was sitting on the kitchen table and the drive was

Hey people
I need to know straight foreward what I need, and what to do. I don't
have any refrence material, and I'm to lazy to search for it.
          -how do I set up a iBook G4 OS 10.3.5 - Performa 650/225 OS

When I access certain peoples profiles on MySpace the blasted browser
always crashes. MySpace seems to be the only site that crashes the
browser on regular basis.  Anyone else having these issues?  
John

Help!!! suddenly a blue spot on my desktop!! what is this??

Hi!  I have a Mac Power PC G4 with 512 MB running OSX 10.2.  I recently
purchased a Canon Power Shot SD 550 Digital Elph camera.  When I tried
to install the software that came with it (Digital Camera Solution Disk
Vs 25), I got an error message that said "Cannot be installed on ...