Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

A little while ago I posted a reply to a message from someone with an
apparent mental illness by providing a link to a humorous web page about
aluminum foil helmets. This feeble attempt at humor was at the expense
of someone who is obviously suffering, and who needs medical ...

The default tomcat distribution has startup.sh and shutdown.sh shell
scripts. The startup.sh script returns once it has started Tomcat.
Is there any way to:
- use launchd with a process which forks and terminates? (I know the

I recently had a hard disk replaced on my iMac G5. Before the
replacement, I managed to backup up the disk contents onto a LaCie
external drive using the G5 in target mode, and using SilverKeeper.
Now I have the G5 back, complete with new disk, and ugraded from 10.3.9

I recently purchased an iMac G5, on which is installed GarageBand. It
looks like a great application but it's obvious I'm going to need a book
to deal with it. I have two or three titles I can purchase... but first,  
- does anyone know if I can use GarageBand as a voice recorder ...

I have the 40 GB model but just shy of 20 gigs full.  Anyhow recently
started using the iHome clock/radio/alarm at the office to play my
tunes
So it sits in the saddle all day and just chugs through.  Recently the

Just moved up from Panther to Tiger (10.4.4) and starting to play around
with the Dashboard widgets.
Kinda liked the Yahoo Weather widget better than the one in Dashboard.  
Loaded it to my desktop, but now can't figure out how to put it into the

I am on OSX 10.3. And it seems Mac doesn't have a native program for
backing up a data disc. Are there any free programs that can make
hybrid data discs? It sucks that  Itunes can't do something simple like
this.

I'm a linux guy writing this for a Mac-user friend who is not computer savvy
and does not use usenet.
She is a graphic designer in a rural area. She uses a big G5 with OS-X but
not latest version... (she has the 'cat' just before tiger.) She uses

A friend has asked me (a PC guy) to help her reset her mother's iMac.  She
has given me the install and software CD's, as well as a few included
programs.
How do I reformat the hard drive and start clean?  She has removed all

Is this error basically used whenever 2 clients can't connect?  I read
elsewhere that it often has nothing to do with actual bandwidth.  
Should I be able to connect 2 machines for video chat if they are both
behind the same home router?  Would opening ports or UPnP ake a

I tried searching for something like a character driver or rather the
types of drivers on Mac.
Character and Block drivers exist on Linux. But, i could not find any
documentation on character driver on Mac.

are there still any available ?

When I bring up the Open With dialog which gives me a list of possible
applications from which to choose many application names will appear a number
of times. This results in the list being much, much longer than it should be.
I really don't need to see five instances of Graphic ...

I am running Safari 1.3.1 under Jaguar.
When I use Safari to view an HTML
file that has a table with a small (170x170)
image and a subsequent anchor,

[cross-posted: comp.publish.prepress, comp.sys.mac.system]
We have a network of Macs running OS10.3.9 and Indesign CS all feeding off
an NT server. For the most part this works fine but a strange problem has
arisen with two of the Mac workstations.