Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

Hi, I just got a G4- can I load AutoCAD on it?  If not, is there another
program that will do the same thing?
thanks in advance

My system boots with a floppy when I uses Ctrl+Shift+commmand+delete
but it hangs up on the hard drive. System tools and system disks do the
same thing when they look at the hard drive.  The ahrd drive test good
so i think just the sytem is crashed. I do not want to reformat because

I'm a newbie to mac.
Several months ago, I bought a Mac Mini.
It came with 3 installation CDs which installs OS X Panther and some
applications including iLife.

After a Mail.app disaster, I wanted to reinstall Mail on new G5 iMac
(non-intel), and found (unopened till then)  Install 1 disc was split at
the edge. Reseller replaced without hassle, but I would like to make
backup copies of my Tiger DVDs just in case.

Mail was acting strangely, so after a 47-minute phone call to my ISP who
demanded I go thjrough everything I'd told them I'd already done, I was
advised to reinstall Mail.
I did this, having first copied the Maiboxes etc, and replaced these in

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When I'm using Appleworks, typing say, often there is a delay from my
typing to showing up on the screen, sometimes annoyingly so. Someone
suggested this is the autosave acting up. Is this likely, and if so, how
do I adjust it or turn it off? If not, anything else it could be.

I have an external USB disk that I have mounted on my OSX 10.4.5 machine
for back up. I then backup my important files using the following command
rsync -av --delete  /Users/rsina /Volumes/BACKUP/
But now when I use the above command, it looks that things are being

I recently created a script that mounts Windows 2003 volumes and starts
a Classic application.  This is being implemented in a K - 5 computer
lab with Mac minis running 10.4.3 and I REALLY need to control what
the students can do on this machine.  If anyone has information on the

I recently created a script that mounts Windows 2003 volumes and starts
a Classic application.  This is being implemented in a K - 5 computer
lab with Mac minis running 10.4.3 and I REALLY need to control what
the students can do on this machine.  If anyone has information on the

I'm a pc guy so I'm not real up on macs.  any help would be sincerely
appreciated.
I helped my tech-challenged friend get his new G5 tower running.
we had some trouble connecting to his local wireless router; finally got it

Wife wants to replace Dell desk top with MacBook.
She has minimal needs: e-mail, viewing movies, writing short stories.
I haven't yet sorted out iLife & iWork.
Would someone please suggest minimum applications packages, please?

I have been scanning some negatives (and some prints lacking
negatives), for printing photos, into an os X Mac. I like to transfer
the images to an SD card used with my camera. In order to make them
readable on the Windows-based photo kiosks I use, I have to try to see

i need to use a copy of QuarkXpress 4 from a mac running OS9, on to a
mac running 10.4. Once I've copied the application across it no longer
recognised as a classic application - instead it appears as a Unix
executable.

I'm trying to back up a set of 12 or so CDs of clipart etc onto a DVD so
I don't risk exposing the originals to wear & tear. The problem is that
all my attempts to copy whole CDs or even groups of folders crash out
part way thru the process, leaving partly filled folders on the ...