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This is on Tiger, running on a Blue & White.
A while back, I downloaded and installed "Audacity", and used it (I had
used the OS 9 version quite a bit previously). It worked fine.
Today, I tried to launch it again and got a dialog saying "You cannot

My system never booted os x, see applefaulty.be  and so on, but would
external booting with frierwire and helper drive work with xpf 4.0 ????
Would it solve memory problems, as I do not know if the problme still is
there or on the IDE chip ....

I deal with a number of websites. Traditionally I fire up my server and
develop to it from another machine. Lately, I wanted to use my Mac G4
Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.4.6) as both server and development machine. I
started reading that the G4 has Apache installed and that all I needed

I have run into multiple problems with my G5 Imac 1.8 GHZ, purchased
in 12/04.
The problems began when I tried to run Classic.
I tried to open some programs that only run under OS 9 e.g. Word 5.1

when trying to open a .mpg music video I got an error message saying
the data handler could not be found. What data handler is required to
open a .mpg movie file? Thanks,Bill.

It's all starting to make sense to me.  Like so many others, I have been
wondering why Apple has made so many Micrososft-friendly changes recently,
and now it is clear to me that Steve and Co. have just given up and jumped
on the bandwagon.  I just noticed for the first time that ...

Morning.
I found three directories in
 ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes
they seem to be empty (Messages-1.mbox, Messages-2.mbox and de1ee8.003)

I need to play protected wma files on my Mac, but I can't because the
files in question (audiobooks downloaded from Netlibrary) are protected
by DRM 2.x, which isn't supported (and never will be, apparently) by
Flip4Mac or WMP for Mac. Does anyone know how to get around this? I

I am trying to set-up my hp printer on my mac (10.3.9) but when i try
to add it a error message keeps coming up "an error occurred while
trying to add the selected printers. server-error-service-unavailable"
Have a look at a snapshot i took

it is known that you can change the background color of a folder via the
apple+J option.
This feature worked right for months on my old PowerBook.
Recently I upgraded to a MacBookPro, and moved the files from the old

I have a new iMac duo Intel. Great computer, except for the built in
speakers. I am looking for recommendations on external speakers. The output
is optical digital. The speakers must connect with a 3.5mm plug on an
optical audio cable. I hope to find speakers that are not too large, ...

I found the above offer on Craiglist. I cannot find the ad now. However,
I emailed the advertiser and received the following web site address in
return. I have no idea whether the seller is legitimate or not, but I
thought I should post the URL:

When I quit iTunes, and relaunched, it shows an empty library, and all
playlists are gone, despite no other changes has been made. So the iTunes
database contents info list has somehow become gotten corrupted, though
all tunes are still there. Is there a way to get it back, so that ...

I would like to have non-standard icons for certain folders (that I've
put in my dock).  How do I do this?  If there's a set of already made
icons even better.
thanks