Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

Recently I got this ancient PowerMacintosh G3 AKA "Beige", and managed
to install OS 9 on it, and OS X even, it worked really fine.
Then one day, I thought about installing NetBSD on it and started
messing around with the firmware (yay!)

I ran Popcorn 1 on my eMac using OS 10.3.9. I just upgraded to Tiger
and can no longer run Popcorn, it crashes as soon as I try to burn a
Video_TS folder to a DVD. Some forum said the new Popcorn 2 would not
work with Video_TS folders. I reinstalled my Popcorn 1 but it still

All of a sudden the Airport stuff I have set up at home is going a
little nuts.  On both laptopsthat we use at home (one has an old
Airport card, the other has the newer Airport Extreme) the Airport icon
is starting to flash on and off, going from 5 bars to 0 bars in rapid

Have Linksys wireless home network with Speedstream dsl modem to get us
on-line. Three machine on network ..two Macs with 10.4.6 OS and one
Win2K.  Each
machine has its own firewall. MACS have preinstalled ones that came on

Apparently,
If you bought an Epson Printer between April 8, 1999 and through May 8,
2006 you may be entitled to a $45 Epson E-Store credit OR a combination
of $25 payable by check and a $20 Epson E-Store credit for each

On the Mac side I regularly warn folks to NOT use Symantec's Norton
Anti-Virus due to its consistent bugginess and security vulnerabilities.
Ironic, eh?
Well, yet another security problem with Symantec software has been

Another recent behavioral development on my G4/450 (AGP graphics), and
I'd like some clues or an outright remedy, please:
Many times, when I soft-restart the system, whether or not I change the
Extensions set before doing so, the desktop icons arrange themselves (by

Just read the announcements about bootcamp beta and ability to install
XP on the intel macs.
Does anyone know if an OEM XP install CD would work with this or does it
only work with retail XP?

The only application that I still need on a windows platform is the
application that comes with my banking account. It uses a modem on a
phone line as my bank won't support internet connection.
This banking software was the sole reason for me to install bootcamp

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:

I have updated to 10.4.6, and twice after running disk utility i have
gotten this log entry:
Apr 17 15:39:40: Disk Utility started.
Repairing permissions for ³Macintosh HD

Hi folks,
I'm hoping to be able to setup my Itunes music library on an external HD and
have Itunes recognize it as the default folder.
I'm also hoping to use the same External HD Music Folder when I have to work

Last night Apple released a new security update. This one is specific to
Java. It is recommended for users of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server
10.4.5. It repairs two vulnerabilities in Apple's Java implementation.
Below is the message Apple sent out through their Security-Announce ...

Is there a good standalone newsgroup reader? Currently I am using the
one from Netscape.
Hartwig

I need to put a sound card in my G4. Can someone tell me what kind of
screwdriver I need? Looks like it has to be some kind of L shape to get
in the small space. I've already got the card. Thanks.