Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

I was at the local Apple store today, and I was told that even if you
bought previous versions of iLife, you still have to pay full price for
the new version. That seems unusual.

I have a mac mini and a viewsonic vp171b both of which were purchased
in July 2005. We normally keep both of the devices on all of the time
and let them go to sleep rather than turn them off.
About 10 days ago the monitor started blacking out after about 2 1/2

I've got some CDRs that I created in order to back up music from digital
audio tapes (DATs) via one of the early Philips CD recorders. The discs came
out fine, however, the Philips auto ID feature was a bit imperfect,
resulting in a little less than a second of a song starting ...

OK, I've googled for quite a while, and it's time to ask for help.
I have some aiff sound files that I want to use to replace the system
sounds in Tiger. For instance, when I move something to the trash, I
want my new sound to play rather than the default. How do I do this?

Thanks all for the responses. It would appear that the best way to
clean it is to clean the logic board with distilled water and
thoroughly dry it for a few days and then reassemble. Ok, I've got
access to Type 1 water and dry nitrogen gas so I'll clean with water

I thot that OSX had some routines that did automatic maintence and
defraging.  But i have seen some bootable defrag software around.
Do OSX boot drives need to be occasionally defraged?

I have three 60Gb IDE Hard drives that I could use in a RAID array in my
G3.  Trouble is, using the software RAID tool in the disk utility doesn't
allow it to boot from a RAID array as the startup disk.  I guess the RAID
software has to be started sometime during the OS X bootup.

I just had what I think is a cool result from an experiment.   Carbon
Copy Cloner will only let you use local drives, either real or mounted
disk images, so that would mean, I thought, that a backup drive would
have to be physically connected, in turn, to each machine I want to

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Time to replace my HP pc and I'm tempted to go with a Mac. Unfortunately, I've read a lot of user dissatisfaction about Quicken on macs. Would appreciate any comments on your experience w/ using Mac version of Quicken. Thanks

I have an old iMac DV and even older Apple Laserwriter Select 360
Printer.  What is the best way to hook up the printer to the iMac (if
possible).  I purchased a USB to Parallel cable, but it doesn't seem to
work.  Can anyone provide some assistance.  Thanks!

It used to be that I could hear sounds played under one user account
while logged into another.  I remember hearing my wife's mail arriving,
people paging her on Skype, etc while logged into my account.  I also used
to be able to play iTunes through one account and switch to ...

Are there any MAc Browser experts with Windows experience. I am a
technical recruiter looking to fill the following job:
6 month contract in North Jersey.
Skills: Javascript, XSLT, XML, HTML, FOR MAC Browsers, such as Safari

i am trying to fix up the network at my parents house so they can share
files between their mac and windows computers.
currently they have a microsoft mn-700 wireless router which seems to
be using PPPoe and is not acting as a DHCP router. at my house, the

.....OS X 10.4.2, either with latest Epson driver or Cups driver. Can't
even find a dialogue box to select it as an option. Anyone know what I'm
doing wrong?