Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

I am having trouble with virtual PC and windows operating within it...a
bit of an oxymoron, but a problem that will not allow me to open
windows. In loading it tells me that vitual switch failed to load
(Code: A1004). Can anybody offer any advice for fixing this problem. I

I'm thinking of purchasing an ibook for uni. However, I'm wondering if
anyone could tell me the general consensus of when apple will release
an intel ibook, will they be the same price as the current model ibooks
and also, whether it would be smarter to wait for the intel ibooks to

Is CUPS used in MacOS X, and if so, is it the default printing system?
Thanks for the info.

Friend is trying to do a project for school. The school uses Windows OS,
uggh, but instructor suggested my friend use xcode on the MAC since that is
all they have, macs.
The program appears to 'build' and then 'run' is done, but it does not

I have no prior experience with this sort of thing, so please bear with
me.  A scientist here would like to have a program installed on his
Mac, however all that is available is a precompiled binary.  How do I
turn that into a program he can use on his Mac.?  What software (I'm

I'd like to try a mod and I'm looking for a Lisa/Macintosh XL.
Working/booting not
required, I'll be putting a 10" LCD into the case and using it as a
monitor/TV... does anyone have an old Lisa or have info advice for

So I ran into the dread "Incompatible Version of AFP" message when I
tried to mount some volumes that sit on a 7100 running OS 8.6. Did some
Googling. OS 8.x doesn't have the capability to use IP to share, so I
guess I'll have to upgrade a totally stable machine to a later ...

Long ago I saw a post that described a way to reset the default way
that OSX responds to any login attempts, to make it difficult for
crackers to login.
If such a way exists, it seems to me that it would improve the overall

I was cruisng eBay and found some mac servers for auction that had dual
G5's, lots of memory, hard drive space, etc...and I was confused
because they were selling for less than you can get a dual G5 Desktop
tower.  Do you know if there would be a reason to not buy the server

Hi, Hoping someone might have a clue why this might be happening. This
happens in both internet explorer and safari, which seems strange. Both
browsers are able to surf without freezing using hyperlinks, but often
freeze during text input into any text box...eg. google. It ...

I have almost managed to convince "Her indoors", to convert to a Mac.
The only obstacle is that a few of her work leaflets are
designed/edited and sent to her in Microsoft Publisher.
Does anyone know the best way to convert these files, so that she can

I am having a huge problem with my mac. First of all When I try to open
flash mx it wont open anymore. I cant view flash websites on safari,
only on firefox, and when i try to install any software, either flash
mx, photoshop or if I try to upgrade Itunes it wont let me. The

I got a G4/450 AGP (Sawtooth) cheaply and want to use it as a web and
mail server (Mac OS X Server).
The questions:
1. How to run it w/o display?

Whenever I attempt to boot into safe-mode (holding down the shift key),
my G5 (1.8 single, 2gb of Apple-branded RAM, 160gb oem hd) shuts down.
It never successfully boots into safe mode.
I can, however, boot to single-user mode, where I have backed-up system

I was cruising eBay and found some mac servers for auction that had
dual
G5's, lots of memory, hard drive space, etc...and I was confused
because they were selling for less than you can get a dual G5 Desktop