Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

I'm adding a larger, faster drive to my machine to my MDD G4.  I'd
like to upgrade to Tiger (from Panther) at the same time.  Can I just:
  Move the original drive to the ATA66 Bus
  Install the new drive on the ATA100 Bus

new switcher here
I have Belkin 4 port hub (+root port) for my PC.
Will it work for my iMacG5?
Have Cannon S520 printer. It has parallel connection to PC.

So, here I am, innocently browsing through
<alt.binaries.pictures.animated.gifs> when I spot several really
worthwhile Happy New Year animations as well as one great Yin-Yang gif.
Woohoo.

I'd like to make archive copies of the three Panther disks that came with my
machine, and of the one Tiger disk. These are for personal backup only. Can Disk
Utility copy these disks, or is there copy protection or a need for other
software? Thanks,

I'm trying to run Limewire on OSX. It won't connect. The main window
says "Connecting" forever, though the File menu says I'm connected. If
I try to search for anything, I get a window telling me I'm not
connected to the Net, which I am. I tried changing the port numbers in

First, VNC didn't work, so I reinstalled it.  Then Photoshop 7 wouldn't
come up.  Couldn't reinstall it, as the installer crashes after I give
it my key.  Now Interarchie is failing to get listings for no apparent
reason.  There's nothing in its transcript.  And CNN video can't ...

If I zip a file with the build in archiver in OSx and then unzip it on a PC,
I'll get something like:
myimage.psd
__MAXOSX

Hi, I got a Mac mini for christmas. Its my first Mac system, and I love
it. However, I can't get it to read DVDs. It has a combo drive in it,
and the disks are NTSC encoded movies, purchased from a store, not
burned. It spins and tries to read, but won't. I can play CDs on it,

I have this problem both on my Powerbook G4 and my iMac G5.  Quite
often, I'll be typing away nice and fast, only to find that several
words endd uup likke thhis with double letters in them.  I then have to
go back and correct each one.

Hi - i've got the new Toast 7 product..trying to burn avi to vcd - drop
in the avi to video tab - vcd - green light - but the resulting vcd is
full of 'sctatches' just like when satellite is out of sync - is this a
codec problem or what??

Third times a charm I suppose....
I am in desperate need of a Mac 8.6 System Install disc.  I've got an
iMac G3 that has a broken resource fork....I need to rebless the
system.  In order to do that I need the disc, but Apple doesn't

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
Claims that Unix variants (including Mac) have twice
as many flaws as Windows?  Or am I reading it wrong?
(And the entire rest of the file makes me really glad

Here's the scenario:
I have Cox Internet High Speed (9mbs) Internet Access. I use a Graphite
Airport Base Station with my desktop and powerbook. Both have the
original (802.11b) Airport cards. If I run a speed test via Airport, I'm

With my previous Mac I had an external DVD drive only, iDVD would not
recognize it without the (k). I now have the new iMac, as well as the built
in DVD drive I have the old external burner plugged in (no (k)). Guess which
drive iDVD defaults to, the external, if it's switched on. ...

I am looking a varus G4 models and the 133Mhzbus+ models state that there is
no soft power video port for analog monitors.  Does this mean
that analog vga monitors can no longer be used with these G4 and G5 systems?
Thanks.