Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

How do I make Finder windows PERMANENTLY display file sizes?  After
restarting, I always have to re-set the Finder View options to 'Calculate
all sizes'.  I have already run an Automator workflow to make this a
permanent preference (it took over an hour to run), but it doesn't seem ...

Ever since I updated to 10.4.6, I can no longer connect to my Mac from
an ancient Win98 laptop.
Now, all I get is incorrect error messages stating "password was
incorrect," even though I repeatedly enter the exact (including

does anyone know a way to have more than one custom setup in the Energy
Saver System Preferences. I find myself revisiting it way too often. I
don't understand why they don't have named sets like they do with
Network preferences, for example. It gets annoying.

I am looking for an older Mac computer to use as the core of a home
entertainment center. My budget is very limited, but I am willing to
pay a fair price  (I'm really hoping for someone with a couple of
computers they are looking to get rid of who thinks this is a cool idea

I'm thinking about downloading an episode or two of Battlestar Galactica
from the iTunes store but it doesn't say anywhere what the format is.
What is the format of these files? What would the approximate size of a
50 minute TV show be? Can they be burned to DVD (VIDEO_TS) and ...

I am a newbie so be gentle. This is my first time on this group.
I have several hundred quotes I use for signatures in my Mac-Mail. (OS
10.3.9) Is there any way to get all of these out of the mail and into a
database so I can edit and search them?

Recently I bought a new PC - I already have an iMac but there were
certain apps I needed that were PC only. I bought WinXP unloaded,
meaning I had to do the load myself. I had to find the installation ID
after installing and phone this through to microsoft (the PC is not

I had gotten rather careless with saving files, since it was so easy to
locate them with the Fnder. However, now that I    am running OSX and
Tiger, on a new computer, I find the finder to be quirky and the help
instructions useless.

Won't Burn a DVD! "This type of CD is not supported"
I keep trying to burn DVDs and have the proper media, and have burned
DVDs in the past... but now I can't!
I get the error, "This type of CD is not supported".

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/04/05/mac_security_the_evil_drm.h
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The below message is the text I copied from an email I sent to a friend
also:
Macintosh LC 475 with keyboard, mouse, and Apple Colour Plus 14" Display,
internal hard drive and floppy drive

On my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook, the bluetooth thingie at the top right
of the thing has a wavey line through it and it says "Bluetooth Not
Available" when I click on it.
I think I recall that I used to have a Bluetooth "System Preferences"

Macintouch notes reports of vulnerabilities in the freeware anti-virus
program ClamXav (aka ClamAV in general). Also note vulnerabilities in
PHPMyAdmin:
<http://www.macintouch.com/>

I'm a first time poster, devoted mac user, currently using an iBook G4
12", 1.33ghz.
Appleinsider.com is reporting that the "Intel iBook" (or whatever Apple
will call its new entry-level notebook), will start shipping in June.

I recently had the following exchange in another group about the
switchover to Daylight Savings Time. Is there really a "Mac thing"
issue here?
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