Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

 I just noticed that preferences start-up disk now give me a choice
between network start-up (with a ? on the icon) and MAC OSX on Macintosh
HD.  I am supposing that I want to go with MHD and then restart. Correct?

I haven't used a mac for years and now have a powerbook G4 with Mac OS
10.2.8
Does anyone know what version I am able to upgrade to before paying for
the next release?

I need to do my first presentation of pictures ( a few hundred) to a
group of about 25 people. All images are over 2000 pixels a side. And I
have a MacBookPro as of a day ago, so I haven't had a chance to actually
do much with it.

Does anyone know how to get rid of -- or at least deactivate -- the Desktop
Printer in older Mac systems? I use OS 8.6 and I had it deactivated somehow
but it started acting up again when I printed a bunch of .pdf documents off
the Web the other day. I've tried removing the Print ...

Well, actually, I've done the disabling but in doing so I noticed something I
had not seen referenced before (or I just hadn't read further).
When I went to edit my /etc/hostconfig file I found two of them. One had a ~
after the g as in:

My aunt and uncle, in their late 70s and early 80s, have been happily
using an iMac G3 mostly for email and web surfing for the past five
years. Web surfing has become increasingly problematic and they are now
wondering if they can upgrade their machine to run to OS X. Does ...

Sorry guys.  The spam stuff was not my intent.  I do oppoligies and won't
happen again.  I have never been on newsgroups before and not sure how to
work them. I hope you guys can forgive a bad choice.  Murphey

I downloaded the original version of the Mac Mini manual and found
no reference to a clock battery.  Is there one?

TURN $6 INTO $42,000 EASILY!!!FOR REAL!!! THIS IS REALLY EASY MONEY!!
TRUST ME IT WORKS !!! BUT YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW IT TO A LETTER FOR IT TO
WORK!!!! A while back, I was browsing through newsgroup, and came
across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands

Running Virex 7.5 on 10.4.5.
It runs this VShieldCheck process which takes up idle cpu time, I guess.
Which is ok, but on this laptop it makes the fan run all of the time.
It's a noise factor and I'm starting to hear nasty fan noises from

Open Get Info on a Finder item.  Move the mouse pointer over each of the
color dots in the Color label row.  Notice that it is an arrow for all
colors except for green.  When it passes over Green, it changes to the
text I-beam.

At one time these files in /var/log were being rotated.  I just noticed
they have not bee rotated for some time.  I checked daily, weekly and
monthly in /etc and did not see that they were supposed to do it.  My
guess is they are and somehow I have managed to remove the code that ...

iMac G5, OSX 10.4.5,
Under Safari, many/most sites don't play music & sound. I've noticed
this on kids' sites mostly, i.e. sesameworkshop.org.
Also, using Classic, my son's older Sys 9 games (Backyard Football etc.)

I'm trying to find a good FW400 drive or drive enclosure that is
reliable and fast and works well with OSX 10.4.5.  I have never
purchased an external drive before so I'm a bit ignorant of some of the
criteria.

I'm doing a little study on Mac in the movies. Other than the iPod in
Firewall, and the Macs in Jurassic Park, has the Mac and iPod made a
cameo in other movies? I was thinking maybe in The Net, but maybe that
was a PC.