Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

PowerBook G4/10.4.6.
I'm troubleshooting by long distance phone. My sis-in-law (SIL)
installed The Sims under her admin account and it works fine. But her
daughter can't open it under her non-admin acct. I have only one

I am concidering buying an old Ibook clamshell. I am wondering how
upgradable are they???

I have 17" G5 imac that has acquired a new feature:  it has to warm up
to boot up.  Seriously, it has two strange symtoms lately.  Anyone have
a clue?
First symptom is that sleep mode stopped working.  It seems like if the

I've been going crazy trying to find an application that'll let me do
this but didn't have any luck. Looking for something that will allow me
to extract & rebuild .ISO files on a Mac. I'm using 10.4.6 and I can
*copy* the files within an .ISO to my desktop, but I'm not able to

I am concidering buying an old Ibook clamshell. I am wondering how
upgradable are they???

OK, I just switched from my old G4/733 to a new G5 iMac 2.1ghz 20".  I
migrated everything over to the new HD using Carbon Copy Cloner via
Firewire with the new machine operating in "target" mode.  Most things
seem normal, but I can no longer double-click on my .dmg files to mount

USB printer shared from Intel iMac. I can see it from my PBook (10.4.6)
but cannot from the USB Printer Sharing control panel on my OS 9.1 Mac.
The instructions here
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107060> refer to using

I am new to the mac world and I an issue with x11.  In linux I never
had any trouble setting the system so moving the mouse to a window
would activate it rather than clicking on it.  I was wondering if there
is a configuration that can be put into .Xdefaults or setup with X11 in

I am concidering buying an old Ibook clamshell. I am wondering how
upgradable are they???

I believe there are many different compression algorithms. Some do not cause
any loss of data. One compression algorithm tries to find groups of
repeating bits/characters. If the algorithm finds that it can represent the
repeating group in less than the space used by the repeating ...

I've searched this on Google and in Help (maybe I missed something).
I want to be able to set my folders (permanently) to either open with or
without a tool bar and/or in column or other view.  But when I hide the
tool bar, close the folder and reopen it, the toolbar is there ...

Hey guys, I just wondered if the following were possible: can I like my
desktop to another folder, other th an the Desktop folder in my User
folder? It would be really useful if I could link it to a folder in
another partition, and have those files show up as usual.

I here by call to all TRUE Mac users to demand the immediate
resignation of Steve Jobs. His stupid decision to change the Mac
platform from a clear superior microprocessor to an inferior and
old-designed one will destroy the Mac platform, if not the demise of

I'm not a programmer. But back in the times of OS9, I used to hack some
PPDs (printer description files) to alter the default settings,
translate some pull down menues or some such. I did this very much by
try and error, but I usually succeeded.

Hi to all,
An HP LaserJet II driver has been givent to me, perfect condition but
no driver.
I didn't find it on the net. Anyone know where I can find it (OS9.1) if