Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

Does this mean you can run the latest version of OSX on *any* PC with an
intel CPU? How about AMD CPUs?

Hi there, I have multiple user profiles/accounts on my mac.  In my
profile I have my entire music library loaded along with my playlists.
ITune's music library is in a private directory that shouldn't be
visible/accessible by other users on my system.  Is it possible that

If anyone has used scp to copy files from/to directories such as
/usr/local/bin, I'd sure like to know the secret.
It doesn't seem possible.
If I do:

I have a friend with an Intel iMac... it was in sleep mode recently,
when they blew the fuse on that circuit.
When the power was restored, it failed to start up-- it got as far as
the blue-screen and hung there.

I'm running OS X 10.3 on a mac mini and my Terminal is screwed up!  The
windows are as small as they can be.  They can't be maximized or
resized.  The window preferences show the window size is set to 255
columns by 5 rows. Changing this has no effect. I have tried trashing

Got my new G5 iMac this morning, with Apple wireless keyboard and
wireless mous.
Mouse recognised instantly (actually, without my noticing!) but keyboard
is totally invisible to iMac/bluetooth.

MAN! You guys are like geniuses! I posted a question on
comp.sys.mac.system yesterday about an Apple HD firmware update that
had made my sister's G4 fail to boot. And now it's fixed and running
again! Thanks! Anyway, so I've another prolem that I'd like some help

Dear members:
After using Airport some a while I have noticed lately (last few months) a
degradation of the signal strength between my Powerbook and the Airport
Extreme base I have connected to my Powermac G5 and the cable router that

it's the second time I got the bad code. The first time, dotmac online
support did help me to fix the problem. I got the second bad code and
tried to contact dotmac support, but waiting for 5 days got no
response. There is no phone support for dotmac too.

hello - I didn't get any response in  comp.sys.mac.printing so am
trying this group...
I very recently switched from PC to Mac (latest iMac/Tiger/Intel) and
connected my 'old' HP 640c desktop. The Mac knows what it is but when I

I am having trouble setting up an SSH tunnel from work to home. I have
a Roadrunner home account and have my iMac at home communicate with the
cable modem via an Airport.
I have port 22 open on the iMac, and the Airport configured to pass

There are many discussions about the "new" "Safari" (it is not)
Vulnerability on web. I had to name it "Safari" on topic but it is a
bit "deeper" problem than "evil widget" stuff.
If you want to read a technical insight into problem, check

I use a Macintosh at work for occasional, unavoidable prepress stuff.
It is not my main machine, and I am not a Mac expert by any means. So
please bear with me.
I don't have an iPod and even if I ever get one, I will certainly never

I was following the user guide directions for installing mySQL.
this is what I did:
1. try to change my $PATH environment so that instead of typing
/Library/MySQL/bin/mysql,  I can just type mysql.

I'm new to these newsgroups, but thought this would be the place to ask
about this.
Has anyone had a similar problem and been able to fix it:
I recently installed Tiger on my iBook.  I use this primarily for music