Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

Being an ancient type, with little knowledge of "what happens below in
Unix," can someone answer, please?
I'm running 10.4.3, and all my apps are for 10.x.x. Long since, I
transferred my address book information from a Hypercard stack to to

I'm a long-time Mac user, but recently made the jump to OS X (yeah, I
know it was a long time coming). Anyway, when I entered by user
information, I put in my name without thinking about it, and was
surprised to find that there was now a directory with my name (in my

I'm helping a friend configure his home wireless network to enable printer
sharing.  His Mac G5 is physically connected to the printer (usb/laser).
His G4 laptop connected to the printer no problem, but I'm having a hard
time to connect a WinXP laptop to the printer-sharing ...

Hi, I have a Powerbook G4 12 inch laptop and it was damaged when I by
accidently dropped it. A dent appeared on the side near where the
charger for the battery is inserted and the computer would not turn on.
I brought it to a repair shop who opened it up and saw that something

Morning.
Since years I use Mail.app in private and business affairs. Now Mail.app
handles more than 40'000 e-mails and bunches of attachments. But
unfortunatly oftener and oftener failures occure and the toggling

  I recently purchased through eBay a G3 iMac which had Microsoft
Works installed. I have upgraded the OS to Tiger 10.46 and because I
did not have the install discs for the Microsoft programme, simply
copied MW to CD and pasted them back. The problem I have is that if I

Don't know if anyone else has ever seen this, but I thought it might be
interesting enough to mention.
I was just browsing a site in Safari (macosxhints.com) and for some
reason, the links didn't appear to be working. Hovering over a link

I don't read this group regularly, but I did do a Google search and
couldn't find any recent speculation or news about how anyone is coming
along with a classic environment on the mactel machines.   (Apart from
running a Mac emulator on top of the windows environment!)

Is it possible to make a playlist from the Music Store sample clips?
Let's say I want to hear all the sample clips in an album. Currently,
the only way I know is to listen to one song at a time.

We have the following requirements.
Please send matching profiles along with the Rate Expectations,
Availability and Contact Details for the same.
REK1:-

I have a AGP G4 powermac, 533mHz, running OS 9.1. And when I go into
the sound control panel, I have no sound input options apart from CD.
The "onboard" sound doesn't show up.
I have tried....

I'm setting up an Xsan for the art department in my company and have run
into a little issue with Active directory. I think I have everything set up
correctly:). The Xsan clients can talk to the Xsan no problem. But I would
like to enable file sharing on the one Xsan volume I ...

I recently bit the bullet and loaded OS X Tiger 10.4.3 (updated to
10.4.6) on a Mac PowerPC G4 duo 450 MHz with two HD's: Quantum 30 gig
and Seagate 120 gig. Printer is HP Deskjet 1220c with updated driver.
The first time I made a mistake by formatting the Quantum as Mac OSX

You know how when you incorrectly remove a drive you get that "finger
shaking" message telling you have done so? And there might be issues with the
drive/volume? Well, after tempting fate too many times I finally got bit.
I had my camera (Olympus D-540), with memory card in it, ...

Hi Group,
I am in the process of trying to setup a Canon printer via a WLAN USB
print server.
I was trying to add the printer using CUPS http://127.0.0.1:631 on Mac