Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

I have a Mac G4 running System 9.1 and don't want to "upgrade" to OSX
because it won't run several of my old programs (MS-Works 3.0, Quicken
98 etc.) not to mention the new software and hardware I'd probably have
to buy.

In Classic, I have Excel 4 spreadsheets that I've created over many
years.  I'm moving to a new computer with OS X and a Classic environment.
ClarisWorks5 is a way to save the documents so that AppleWorks can open
them in OS X.  Claris will open Excel 4 spreadsheets under the ...

My fiance has had a G4 since 1998.  It's gone through a number of OS
upgrades and now it's running OS 10.3.9.  It had always suffered from
very consistent instability and we hoped it would get better once we
got OS X on it, but that was not to be.  It crashes all the time,

Could someone tell me if does Xserve (Tiger) support Terminal Services
just like Windows 2000 Server?
I know there is Apple Remote Desktop for remote management, but I'd
like to run several GUIs at one time handled by not-administrative

My Sister's got a course which is going to require her to use InDesign
CS2.
We've got a couple of Apple laptops on hand.  A G3 700 iBook with 640
megs of ram (my baby), and a G3 600 iBook likewise.  Both are running

I've never had any problem ssh-ing to other machines from mine, but
recently I've started getting the following error every time I use ssh:
ssh(477) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x1; This
could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an

How can I disable the burst of sound that comes with starting up my G5
iMac?  Thanks

Raised this in another NG, just one 'no problem here' response.
I upgraded my G4 Quicksilver from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 via
Apple/Support/Downloads and all went well.  Did the Repair Permissions
before and after.

I was trying to help a friend-- she has an iMac with OS 9.1 on it, and
has been having problems using Internet Explorer 5.1.7 on secure sites
like webmail... it works, eventually, but only with repeated warnings
about outdated security certificates. One warning per page might be

Am I hallucinating or has there been a behavior change in OS X
with respect to the behavior of Quit?   When I first got my iBook
at 10.2, I was surprised that when one Quit an app, it did not
really exit, but continued to run.

I am running OSX 10.4.5 (I think: see below) on a G4.
I recently used Software Update to download the OSX 10.4.6 patch and
all went well until, near the end of the installation phase, I received
a warning that the installation had failed (no reason given, of

What does the file
/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Resources/SyncServer.app/Con
tents/MacOS/SyncServer
exactly do? I never use iSync or anything of that kind. I see in terminal

 How can i find out which version of mac os x i m using. I want to
know whether i m using 10.3.4 or 10.3.9 thru command line. I know this
is silly question but still i need it so asked.
Thanks a lot in advance.

Hey Folks,
I'm a windows person and I've been asked to help a friend connect his
g4 mac to a networked IP printer. It's on a wireless print server
connected to an ip network.

I have a small personal company, which main product is Microsoft Word
templates, Word programming and problem solving within Microsoft Word.
I have made my company homepage, www.wordspecialisten.dk, in Frontpage,
using frames. It looks perfect in Internet Explorer, but one of my