Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

I have been using PC clones for 25 years, so excuse the newbie question.
I downloaded Firefox onto my new 2 Gigahertz Intel Imac. I went to the CNN
site, where I tried to play the news videos. It said I need a plug in. It
proceeded to download a .bin extension, that Imac ...

Right now, my G4 (OS 10.4.5) is running fine, fast, etc. But when I run
the latest version of DiskWarrior or Norton Utilities, I get a message
saying the directory is too severely damaged to repair. Doing a
check disk, I get an "invalid" or "incorrect" key length (can't

Finally threw away the last HP All-In-One Inkjet I will ever own.  HP
doesn't use Apple's drivers to communicate with the printer for
whatever reason, which would be fine except their driver software has,
forever, across multiple releases and even across multiple printers,

Right now, my G4 (OS 10.4.5) is running fine, fast, etc. But when I run
the latest version of DiskWarrior or Norton Utilities, I get a message
saying the directory is too severely damaged to repair. Doing a
check disk, I get an "invalid" or "incorrect" key length (can't

Having some network issues I just installed ethereal via darwin ports.
When I do the ifconfig -a I'm not sure which is my wireless interface
(or even if there is such a thing) so I guess my question is can I use
ethereal to monitor a wireless interface ? If not is there a tool I can

I have a couple songs where I want to change the artist and album info
that are associated with ithem, but when I go to Get Info the
information is all greyed out, and it will not allow me to make
changes.  Any ideas how to change this?

One of the organizations for which I work part time has begun sending
its newsletters as *.pub files. Are there any open-source applications
for Mac OS X that will open *.pub files? I'd prefer Universal Binary, as
I now use a PowerPC Mac, but plan to purchase a Mac Mini this ...

I ahve a iBook G3 and I would like to install Panther on it. My friend
made a copy, but it is a dmg file, and I wanted to make a copy of it. I
have to use my windows to make the copy, and I want to know whether I
should just burn it on the disc, and will it be bootable, or should I

The contention that Windows on Mac's would boost sales significantly has
been affirmed by a respected analyst.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14042&Page=1&pagePos=2
Who are these guys?

A removable hard disk with 3 partitons. I want to convert a FAT32
partition to Mac OS Extended partition, how to make it?
Thanks!

  Help needed - I have, in the last couple of days installed
successfully a BT Voyager 2091 Router on this PC and have just
installed Tiger 10.4 onto a recently acquired G3 iMac. The problem has
arisen when attempting to install the necessary BT Voyager software

Hello from New Zealand.  I am having two problems and request your kind
help.
1.  I would like my wireless iBook to wake at say 8am in the morning from
"sleep" and start playing a windows media player (for OSX) streaming radio

Got a little backwards puzzle here: I'm using a Mac Mini as
a wireless access point for a g4 PowerBook. Works fine.
Now, I'd like to use the PowerBook as a wired access point
for an old Imac, which does not have its own wireless hardware.

On Windows XP there is a free program called Microsoft Multimedia Encoder
which has at least 3 functions: a) You can broadcast a camera from the PC,
b) you can broadcast a video file from the PC and c) you can encode a file
into another type of encoding.

Morning.
(iMac G3 333 MHz, 40 GB HDD, Mac OS X 10.3.9, first partition = boot
partition 6 GB, second partition = data partition 34 GB)
I want to make the boot partition invisible in the finder (no HDD icon