Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

Anyone know when Mac with Intel chips inside will be hitting the shops?
And how soon the G4 and G5 will be dumped? And does this mean MS apps
will be able to be ported on to Macs?
Louis

the Menu bar on my 12" iBook G4 running the latest version of Tiger
10.4.5 i think, is not showing me my the battery and time etc. info
in my menu bar. I can see the usual blue Apple logo and the File
etc. options of finder and applications, but for some reason the

After two years on various flavors of X, now on 10.4.5: everything has run
smoothly until today when, in various apps windows wouldn't redraw and menus
wouldn't pull (menu title showed as selected, but no menu appeared).
Logged out and in, no help. Restarted, no help. Used disk ...

I finally got around to setting up my own Server (Mac OS X) for Mail and
Web.
Now the only problem currently left is that I can easily access my Mail
account using Apple Mail when on the "outside", ie from the internet

I installed OS X on my kid's iMac. Now the keyboard is giving goofy
looking characters for ? / , and a few other keys. I know in a Windows
environment this is from having the wrong keyboard language selected.
Where in OS X do I find a setting where I can select a different

I was wondering if mac os x would function on a pc since it's like
linux/unix? If not, why not?
Thanks.

We have a 1TB XRAID system connected via Fibre Channel on our 10.4.5 G5.
Apparently OS X considers any disc device connected by anything other than IDE
or SCSI as "removable". I do not believe that our 90 pound beastie bolted to the
video rack behind a locked door is "removable".

I recently put an additional hard drive in my Mac G4 (Sawtooth), and
everything--data and applications--copied over to the new drive with
only a couple snags.  One problem is that my old Kensington trackball(an
Expert Mouse Pro) wouldn't work properly.  If I booted from the new ...

I installed 10.4.5 and Security Update 2006-001 (PowerPC) - and
everything else available.
I can no longer launch VNC Viewer 2.01.  It bounces once, then quits.
It will not remain running in the dock.  This is true for 3 copies I

I have a G4 20" iMac 1.25 GHz running 10.4.5, and I use MenuMeters to keep
an eye on my processor usage.  Sometimes it is at 100% when I'm browsing
certain webpages (for example http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html),
and when I open Activity Monitor it shows that Safari is the ...

I'm running Tiger on an IBook.
I have the X11 Package.  When I try to install it, I get the msg.
"Can't install X11 on this volume.  Newer software is already installed
on this computer."

I returned my laptop for a logic board replacement under AppleCare.
While standing at the Genius Bar I overheard the conversation nearby,
where the Genius was gently scolding a middle-aged Mom and her teen
daughter. Apparently their iPod wouldn't hold a charge. The Genius was

How do I show newest files on bottom in icon view?
I know I used to be able to do this, is this one of Tiger's missing
features?

       I have been following the 32 bit/64 bit debate with some
interest. Should I put off my final renunciation of the Dark Side
until the Forces of the Light release their 64 bit version or can I
still go ahead, safe in the knowledge that I won't have a rather new

Using fink I installed mutt (the MUA) on my PPC mini w/ OSX 10.4.5.
it works, but 8 bit characters are not displayed correctly. Mutt
takes the correct character information from locales.
So, how do I set locales (LC_CTYPE etc) on this system?