Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

Anybody experience this. iBook G4 10.4.6. Cannot move mouse pointer.
Reboothing solved problem.

I have a dual processor 1.8 GHz G5 with OS 10.4.6 and, while I also use
CS2, a lot of my work is done in Pagemaker 6.5 running under Classic.
I recently bought a Brother HL-5250 mono laser printer. It replaces a
Laserwriter 4/600 used as a stopgap after I'd returned  a printer  of

Recently my cursor started jumping around on the screen. I'll be
mousing to a particluar point on a photo, for example, and suddenly the
cursor is up on the right corner, or over on the desktop somewhere.
Today, I was scrolling through a long list of files in an open file

My friend has Parkinson's and has trouble typing now.  He decided to
trade in his eMac for an Intel 17" iMac to run Naturally Speaking in
Windows.  Is anyone doing this, and what are the results?  Are they
acceptable?  Tried to Google a thread about this but didn't find

We have a problem with HP3550 color laser printer. The printer shows 2
types of error whereas there seems nothing wrong witht the printer at
all.
1) 13.20.00 Paper jam

I do have many files still on PowerPC applications that have never been
upgraded to Mac OS X.
Which machine would you recommend to still run Classic under Mac OS X
for the years to come, ie which one would you expect to run longest

Help! I've added internal hard drives to my G4 mac twice already and
both have died on me (they just started clicking when I'd watch DVDs on
my computer). And I know clicking means the hard drive is dead. The
first one I tried was Western Digital (60 gig). It failed on me after

I'm  troubleshooting a vexing print problem on my home network. I can
print from my win XP machine to an hp 940c printer attached to my
quicksilver G4 when it's booted to my auxilary 10.2.8 drive, but not
when the Mac is booted to its default 10.3.9 drive.

Stupid question of the day!
Does anyone know if Is there's such thing as firewire/ USB adapter/
converter on the market? My USB ports on my powerbook have got damadged
with constant use with a dock- Only the Firewire port is working.

I am using a D-Link DI-524 router.  The hardware version is A1.
I would like to install the v5.xx firmware (which is associated with the
DI-524 hardware version E1 router) into this router.  Has anybody had
any experiences doing this?  I've read where people have installed the

I've got an old g3 imac in the house, which needs to be in a spot
out of reach of the wired network. Thanks to folks on this NG, it
was demonstrated that my g4 powerbook with a crossover cable could
function as a wirless network adapater for the g3, using my Mac Mini

hi my boyfriend wants to set up his computer with aol - he has an
installation cd but has lost the packaging - does anyone have one lying
around that they could send me the access code and password from??! :)
(USA please)

This is a hypothetical question, at least right now ;) , but since a
hard drive will fail at some point I'd like to be prepared as best one
can.
Assume a major crash and the main hard drive is completely gone....

The Apple website says there are two options for the MBP 15" I'm
looking at.
All they say is:
Choose the glossy widescreen display to make your graphics,

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