Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

I was lucky enough to be given a new video card this Christmas (ATI
9800 Pro Mac Special Edition). Unfortunatly I am having some serious
issues.
When I frst installed the card in my G5 all seemed well, both my

Do you all use some sort of AntiVirus SW on your Mac? I´m told it´s not all
that nessesarry but still. I´m used to Windows and have learned the
imortancy of antivirus the hard way. And how about spyware etc.
Also, any recommended fileshare SW for Mac?

i have a powerbook g4.
I verified my disk with disk utility and i get a message saying the
volume header needs minor repair.
i can't repair the disk because it's the only disk in the book.  how do

I am ready to replace my HP Deskjet 952 because I have come to hate it.
I get a lot of connection failures, stop jobs, and other trouble. It
stopped doing 2-sided printing somewhere in OS 10.2.
This trouble, combined with a bad experience with HP scanning software,

   I was wondering is there a way to create a desktop profile, so I
can select/create a profile for work, home, school. When I select the
profile it show a specify desktop image and applications. Is this
possible or am I asking too much from apple.

are there any good sources of video for my new ipod video? yes, 60GB
version.....yeepeee!!

For some reason, I've been unable to use bluetooth to upload photos to
my G4 from my Motorola V551 cell phone after having done it the first
time successfully.
I *can* sync phone numbers between the two with iSync, and I can

I would like to use my old Laserwriter 12/640 PS with my iMac D3 500. Am
running OSX 10.2.8. Have connected with parallel > USB. Printer setup
does not see it, can't make it happen. Suggestions?

Anybody know the satellite and transponder for Steve Job's MacWorld
keynote address?

I had my mac on sleep mode woke it up and when I moved the mouse to the
icons down at the bottom of the screen the icons it was over started to
appear as massive compared to the others so when i move it along the
menu the icon its over appears massive compared to the others on the

Why when I am accessing a network file or folder on a Windows based
server or workstation that I have full access to can some files just not
be deleted? When attempting to delete files remotely I get the following
message appear:

I have a Machintosh Server G3 PowerPc running OS9.1 that has a
firewire/usb card that was added later. This card has 2ea firewire/usb
connections that are full.I need to know if there is a way to expand my
usb connections so I don't have to swap devices each time I want to add

I'm running OS X 10.4.3 on a G5 DP 2.0 bought last summer. My previous
mouse went bad, and a replaced it with a low-cost Microsoft basic
optical mouse, daisy-chained to the keyboard that came with the
computer, which I just installed as well (I was previously using a

I'm a Mac guy through and through. Let me say that right up front. I've
been doing some Mac consulting lately and some of my clients who have
multiple Macs in the house also seem to have a PC or two around.
They've asked for some simple tasks with the PCs , and I haven't been

Part of the release notes for the Airport firmware update (that was
just released) contain this mysterious sentence:
"Resolves issue with vulnerability to Denial of Service Attacks (bonk)"
Okay, I just gotta know: