Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

I want to buy my 80-yr old Dad an inexpensive digital camera to play
with. He has a 400mHz iMac running 10.4 and iPhoto5.
There's a nice Argus 3.2 mp on sale at Buy.com for $49 but Apple does
not officially support Argus (or many others...Kodak for example). Will

I used GPG in the past.
Now with many mail clients supporting X.509, it seems that this could be
a more convenient way of signing and encrypting messages.
Apple Mac OS X has Mail as the mail client, and has OpenSSL 0.9.7i 14

Is it alright to upgrade from 4.2 directly to 4.5, or should I do 3 and
4 first?

I have the following gawk script that I came up with on my linux box that
works and I'd like to be able to use it on my iBook but from the manpage
for awk the FIELDWIDTH variable isn't supported. Can the script be easily
converted to awk from gawk? Or should I look for a gawk ...

I posted earlier about problems my wife and kids have had recently with
unexpected quitting with AIM, Mail, iChat (they just told me) upon
opening these apps, and with Word when printing.  This is on an iMac DV
400mz running 10.3.9.

I'm pretty sure someone must have thrashed this to death but there is a
dearth of commentery on the matter of TPM use on Intel Macs on my news
reader listings.
So grain of salt please if this is redundant.

Hi all.. I'm having trouble handling VQF audio files on my Mac (OSX) -
none of the software on it can play them, or decode them to wav files or
mp3 (or even AAC) files so that Itunes can play them...
I've tried looking for software, but I haven't had any luck at all - I

I put and use folders on the desktop, is there a way to change the
folder picture to some other picture. Not making this very clear am I
does any one get what I am asking?
Thank you and sorry.

How do I setup my Mac OS X 10.4.5 box to print to a shared printer
on my Win2K box?

I'm running 10.4.5 on a 1.25 GHz 20" iMac with 768 MB of RAM.  I am looking
for the most effective (and free) way to compress files so I can backup
folders onto one CD.
I tried several methods.  Here's what I did: I took 3 folders -- 1 with

I have recently upgraded to OS X from V9.2 and the installation went
well, but when I now try to download from the internet it doesn't let
me. Is this due to the fact that I still have the old v9.2 on my system
or is it because I have to re-install the software (which I havent

I'm running 10.4.5 on a 1.25 GHz 20" iMac with 768 MB of RAM.  I am looking
for the most effective (and free) way to compress files so I can backup
folders onto one CD.
I tried several methods.  Here's what I did: I took 3 folders -- 1 with

Is there any kind of adapter from ADB/LocalTalk to USB? (There is one
the other way around, to drive old Apple printers with newer
USB-equipped G3,4,5s.)  Or NuBus to USB? Or SCSI to USB?
Fixing a friend's old machine --  Mac IIfx used strictly for word

I'm running 10.4.5 on a 1.25 GHz 20" iMac with 768 MB of RAM.  I am looking
for the most effective (and free) way to compress files so I can backup
folders onto one CD.
I tried several methods.  Here's what I did: I took 3 folders -- 1 with

I am looking for the most effective (and free) way to compress files so I
can backup folders on CD.  I tried using the Mac OS 10.4.5 Create Archive
function under the Finder's File menu, but it only shrunk 1,100 MB of files
down to 1,020 MB -- not very impressive.  Is there a better ...