Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

Yea, I switched.  So far so good.  I picked up a mini and am having a
lot of fun using it and tinkering.  I have a few questions if you folks
have time:
1) Is this the best place to get mac info, or can you all recommend

I am trying to install 10.3 on a Blue and White G3 PowerMac that has
had this OS version before, from these same CDs (I just used these CDs
a few days ago to install 5 other systems).  When I run the install, it
finishes CD 1, and when it gets to about 3/4 of the way through CD 2,

Hi, does anyone know or suspect their WOW-supplied cable modem (mine's
a Webstar DCX2100) of throttling (limiting) P2P download speeds?
There's a lot of chatter online about poor performance, for example 10
kbps top speeds even though I have WOW's 6 mbps service. I'm using a

My story continues...... after removing the HD, CD-R, and heatsink/fan
assembly from the logicboard, I thoroughy rinsed it, the keyboard, and
the underside of the trackpad with a gentle stream of Type I
(distilled) water. Air-dryed the components with a stream of dry

I'd like to finally switch FileVault on for my home directory (assuming
it is safe by now, ie no data loss).
If feasible I'd like to exclude the folders Music, Movies and Pictures,
as I do not need to protect these, and assume speed loss when using this

I have two Mac OS 10.3.9 systems. When using afp:// access on one of the
machines to access the other, I can't see all the volumes on the remote
machine. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Does anybody that wants a high end machine go the Xserve route instead
of a G5 for performance?  If a URL explains this please offer it.

I'm the editor of a Mac usergroup newsletter, issues of which can be found at
<http://www.capmac.org/newsletters/>. For the February 2006 issue I've added
hyperlinks so that the user can quickly move from location to location within
the newsletter. My testing shows that these ...

I'm running OS X 10.4.4 on my G5 2.0 DP. I've noticed that there are two
different types of Get Info boxes which may arise when doing Get Info in
the Finder. They behave differently in a very annoying way. I wonder if
there is any reason for this behavior. Maybe someone here ...

OK. The machine is about a year and 1/2 old and it's happening more and
more that the cursor will simply become uncontrollable (i.e. staying in
one sector of the screen no matter how much I move my finger across the
pad or, alternately, careening wildly around the screen with the ...

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I have two of my Mac OS X 10.3.9 systems that don't show the "Other..."
option on the login screen. Anybody got a clue how to fix this?

If you bought one now, you have some time to bring it back ...

A friend of mine finds that they are unable to access google from
Safari.
Unfortunately I don't know too many of their details. I was just
wondering how this could come about, I know that certain ports can be

First i'm going to say somthing you probably don't want to hear. "I'm
not a MAC Guy". Thats why im posting here.
I could use help. Our company only has 9 MAC computers, which are used
for our ART Department employees only. We have a mixture of OS's for