Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

Just curious, I slightly lean towards Firefox. But I think Safari is a
bit faster.

My old PC no longer boots properly. I've moved over to a Mac G4 tower.
Any suggestions on how to use the old PC hard drive (with 30-40 gigs of
music and video) with the G4?
Thanks

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I have been successfully able to acomplish everything I do with OSX and
have thus far found no need to use Windows on the new mac. However, I
used Agent newsreader on WIndows, and it worked brilliant for
downloading and decoding binary files. I have not been able to find an

1) Ihave an iMac G5 --Tiger etc. How do I change the login screen. I
can find out how to mess with my own desktop but not how to mess with
the login screen
2) I have blank CD-RW. They can be burned more than once, but I can't

I have external USB 2.0 and external Firewire.  I can boot the firewire
drive.  The documentation that I've found doesn't specify that firewire
boots but usb doesn't but I don't seem to be able to boot from USB.  Has
anyone been able to do so?  It may be a problem with my backup ...

Is there a way to jump to a specific time index with Apple's DVD
player? Or use different fast forward and rewind speeds? If not, is
there a third party DVD player with these features?
Thanks

Hey, you will all probably laugh at this, but I have been wondering:  
Why can't an OS be burned into ROM or hammered into the motherboard so
that computers boot almost instantly?  (Submitted for consideration in
the "Dumb Question of the Year" contest.)

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i just get a little bit problem...
how to find out / what is my hostname, domain name & SMTP that i
use?

I visited the Apple store in Salem, Oregon this week. Got to wonder if
(in the real world) there's a noticeable difference to humans bewtween
speeds of 1.83 GHz and 2.16 GHz?
Also, for many folks, the single core Mac mini may be more than

Hello Group,
G3 (beige) |  10.4.6 | 400 MHz | 512 MB
I've got a problem.
I used ³Repair Disk from Disk Utilities and got the following :

I have a AGP G4 powermac, 533mHz, running OS 9.1. And when I go into
the sound control panel, I have no sound input options apart from CD.
The "onboard" sound doesn't show up.
I have tried....

[note crossposting]
I've noticed some odd behaviours with some fonts and I was hoping that
someone might be able to enlighten me on the cause of this.
The fonts in question are Minion Pro and Garamond Premier Pro.

sorry for the very newbie question, but in my office we have different
kind of mac, i mean a couple of G4 and a G5.
Both of them come with Mac Osx 10.4.
But recently i noticed that if i try to install the OS x on the G4