Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

I thought that I got one of those now very rare cursor freezes using
OS10.4.6. It turned out that I was trying to move the cursor using my cell
phone.
Bill

Can someone point me to info about getting
iChat 2.1 (v153) on 10.3.9 to work with AIM?
Google finds mostly stuff about the Tiger version.
Doing text only--no sound or video.

My MacBook Pro has the famous CPU whine.
Apple gives me the choice of having it repaired in a service centre or
exhange it for a new one.
What would you recommend? repair, exchange or switch to 17"?

i just got my first MAC  it was an old old desktop that i bought at a
computer store for $50
here are my questions
where can i find upgrades for the Operating System? Is it like Linux

Does anyone know why this *(@&#%#*&#$^ machine refuses to print at
least once a day, and Printer Setup Utility won't work, and I usually
have to reboot the (*&*@(%#^& machine at least once a day to fix the
broken printing feature?

I've just recently started to get a strange error when starting the
Classic layer on my iBook G4.
Very soon after Classic starts, but seemingly a "variable amount of
time", I get a dialog that pops up that says this:

After running the battery right down on a Palm Tungsten (left it in a
drawer for months), we've lost all the information on it.
We recently attempted to resync using iSync but the dialog is
suggesting that a sync will delete 555 entries from the laptop (which

Hi, I'm asking this on behalf of a friend (no, seriously) who has a MAC
and is trying to upload stuff to an FTP site for her job. She enters
the FTP address into her Internet browser and the log-in box comes up
with 3 fields:

Hello! I have a mac mini, 1,33 ghz.
I'm a "new entry", i was a pc user and I'm not entered in the logic of a mac
yet!
How can I change the dimensions of system windows ? and how can I change

I'm using a PowerBook G4 (1.67 MHz, 2 GB RAM, OS X 10.4.6) which, when I'm
home, is connected via FireWire 800 to two external LaCie drives. The drives
are daisy-chained via a FireWire 800 cable.
I'm using SuperDuper! (v2.1.1 (v71.4)) to perform nightly backups to selected

Over time, I amassed a few hundred JPEG images from the Net with bad
previews (preview and image doesn't match)
Is there and OSX program that can batch - regenerate previews for jpeg
images?

In my MIDI class, we use G4s similar to my home system,
but running OS 9.2.1. Occasionally a computer will have a
problem starting up, in which case our instructor has us
restart from the power button, and hold down Command-X

I've been trying to clone a Mac Mini with OS 10.4 using Carbon Copy
Cloner.  It seems to work fine when imaging the hard drive to an
external hard drive.  I then take this hard drive and try to restore
this image to another Mac using the Image Store from Disk Utility.  It

Is there a way (other than at startup with the login items) to
automatically mount and unmount disks that are on other networked Macs?
I''d like to have, say, a DVD or CD that mounts when inserted on my old
G4/733 that I use for stuff that's low priority or long term (and only