Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

Networked HP ColorLaserJet produces excellent duplex copies from graphics
applications (eg Graphic Converter) but mysteriously refuses to print
anything in duplex that originates from MS Word... paper appears to feed
through the duplex unit, but doesn't print anything on the second ...

I have been happly using my Mac OS X system now for 3 years.  I am at 10.4.5
version of Tiger.  Up to this point I have assumed that sitting on top of
BSD Unix the Mac is immune to virus.  Now all this stuff is in the news,
which I don't put much technical faith in anyway, about a ...

I have an old Macintosh Performa 6115CD which I haven't touched for a
few years.  I want to see what files are still on the hard drive before
I get rid of it, but the monitor screen won't come on when I turn on
the monitor power.  The computer itself looks like it powers on

I had 10.3 installed and wanted to use the classic functions and went
ahead and installed os9 on a different drive now it only boots to os9.
I looked at the "system" folder for OSX and it only has a Library
subfolder and a .localhost file the rest of the application, users,

My Quicksilver G4 was installed a few (!) years ago at which time I put
Jim's G4 on the standard 'Computer Name' screensaver. That's the one
with the grey background and the floating Apple symbol.
Been looking for a way to change the text on that screensaver, but can't

The question:
Is there any real advantage in using PKA instead of OS X passwords?
My present thinking is that regular OS X passwords are secure enough,
assuming they are fairly long (25 characters?) - - - and assuming they

I have a Deskjet 980C which I am now running under OS 10.4.4. The driver
seems to be Apple's version 4.0 (157). In Panther I had no trouble
printing. (but I may have been using HP's own driver, I am not sure).
Now I find that I have no trouble printing from some programs.

My Powerbook G4 12" 886 MHz had been actualized to OS X 10.4.5 an hour
ago. I had two tries to boot. The Screen saying OS X booting did not
disappear after 20 Minutes (from appearance to stop resp. reboot)
I reinstalled 10.4.4 - this works sufficiently

I use MenuMeters to display my processor performance in my menu bar.  It
breaks down processor usage into three categories: System, User and Nice.
Particularly after I backup to my Firewire drive, the Nice process uses a
lot of the processor.  What is Nicing?

I had OS 10.3 insalled on my computer and It didn't have a classic
option that I needed. So I read some directions and installed OS9 on
the same partition. now I can only boot to OS9..Suggestions?
Thanks!

New Intel iMac.  Running iMovie v6.0.  Just captured a 3.5 minute video
from camcorder.  Chose to "save as" "Tuesday" and little pinwheel has
been spinning for 20 minutes now.  How do you end an errant program?  I
have to believe something is amiss when an earlier 15 minute capture

I was just in the Apple store this weekend, and was trying out the
latest Duo Core macs - laptop & iMac.
But =( both of them crashed.
Here's the bug:

I need help , where do I find and how do I save the updates to OSX
10.4.5 so I can re-use them if I do a re-install with out having to
down load all thes updates again. I have had a look in the installed
updates and there is a lot I would like to put them on CD or DVD.

Installed 10.4.5 update and it killed the mail application.
Repaired permissions, repaired directory with DiskWarrior, mail still
dead ('quits unexpectedly' when starting).