Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

A couple of days ago I played with the system preference, Universal
Access to magnify a picture on a site.  I also ran ClamXav.  Since near
that day I have double entries for Restart, shutdown, & log out under
the blue apple, and a rectangle that outlines what it wants to in the

hi there to anyone who can help me...
my boyfriend has an old school iMac version 83.2 power PC G3 350MHz
128MB. it is running the OX operating system 10.2.8 which i believe has
been installed wrong as he only has 6Gs of space on his computer - all

This is supposed to be possible, but I'm not finding much on it.
Anyone have pointers, specific requirements, or a set of search terms
to try? I'd like to put it on a Novell server sharing using SMB.
I need to do this at work so I can use vacant machines while my G5 at

Is there any word as to when apple will complee the switch to Intel for
all of their Mac line.
Don W

My subject line is a little misleading but I didn't want to make it too
long. The real problem is using OS X version 10.3.9 and Safari version 1.3.2
with the multiple upload feature of Snapfish. When we connect to the
Snapfish website and try to upload a set of pictures we are ...

It's a snoozer of a week for Mac OS X. The status of the Tom Ferris
collection of reported vulnerabilities in Mac OS X remains the same:
Properly malformed files can crash certain Mac OS X applications. But
there is no reported evidence of any actual security relationship to

I'm running an old iMac with system 9.2 and an Epsom 740 printer.
Everything has been fine for 3 years.... now suddenly the print command
from any program finds no printer connection.
When I go to the chooser, I can select the printer, but no ports are

Hello alltogether!
Please consider me a novice on mac topics. These are my questions: Is
*.hqx an archive type of file? Is there a way I can open it under
windows? The file itself should date from somewhere around 1996 (I may

Morning.
In iPhoto I've defined Nikon Capture for external picture editing. I
doubleclick a picture in the browser and Nikon Capture opens the file.
Then I edit the file and save it.

Is anybody familier with an OSX 5250 client? I am an AS/400 sysadmin
and programmer. I have an AS/400 9406-170 in my house running OS/400
V5R2, I would like to be able to get a session on my Mac, as the kids
usually have the windows machines monopolized with games.

I bought a HP 3015 multifunction printer. I bought this machine
primarily for the fax function, however I thought I would set it up for
printing also, in case my regular printer's cartridge ran out
unexpectedly.

Have you ever wondered what the average number of comments on an
Apple/Mac post on Slashdot gets? Have you ever wondered if Apple or
Google gets more stories per year?
I did some analysis on my blog; check it out if you're interested:

two files just appeared on my desktop  jztzgb7k.exe and 0q11knvs.exe ..
updated a/v and spyware applications and ran both of them... both files
appeared clean...  what are they?

I have a small network set up at our house/office.  It's two macs
plugged directly into a Linksys wireless router and two more computers
(an iMac and a PC) connected wirelessly,
Three of the computers get a fine internet connection, but my desktop

I'm running OS X 10.4.6. I have two external hard drives connected to my
PowerBook's Firewire 800 port. These hard drives host six partitions, two on
one drive and four on the other. In the case of four of the partitions the
mount point as shown in the disk utility is the same as ...