Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

i'm trying to run my hp laserjet 1010 which is normaly with a pc, on a
powermac G4 with an OS 9.2.2 system. Unfortunately i deleted all system
extensions which come with the installation-cd. Could anyone help me by
sending the system extension i need?

    Here are the specs on an Imac that I won on ebay. It is an Indigo iMac
DV. I know I will need a bigger HDD...
Memory (RAM):     192 MB
    Processor Type PowerPC G3

After my recent failure to get my G4/450 AGP system
running with a Giga Designs 1.8GHz CPU upgrade, the
manufacturer has informed me that this processor will
indeed not work with my system, because I run OS 9.2.2,

Does anybody know how to install an Apple wireless mice on a PC machine
running on WINDOWS XP?
regards

This is going to seem really trivial to some of you, but it's REALLY
annoying for me.
Just had one of the rubber nubs on the bezel of my 12" iBook (2005)
fall off. The stem of it is still in the hole, but the

Yesterday I began experiencing incredibly long stalls within several
applications and, particularly, switching between applications.  My
hard drive sounds like it's being accessed in very brief bursts in a
steady rhythm (sounds like a floppy drive formatting!).  Besides app

I recently came into some money and my wife (bless her heart) said that I
should buy a new iMac, as I am forever bemoaning the speed of my 800 MHz
iMac.  My response to her was that my Mac wasn't *that* slow, and that I
could wait for the next faster iMac.  However, maybe there ...

Is there a list somewhere or instructions on how to turn off or
inactivate any and all unnecessary programs that might be running in
the background in Tiger? I am using an old Pismo as a dedicated
Stepmania machine, and want to minimize any system slowdowns on

Hello, I am hoping to get some help with this frustrating little toas
malfunction.
Computer
G5 OS 10.3.9.

I am very confused about the various audio formats that you can set iTunes
to import songs from CDs.  I have OS 10.4.5 and iTunes 6.0.4, and I want to
import songs from CDs like the first Weezer CD so that I can create a mix CD
of various songs from various artists to play on my ...

My wife uses an ibook at work.  She is having increasing difficulty with
the machine's limited resources & condition (constantly having to
rebuild databases, and 2 weeks ago the latch broke, she has to hold it
shut with a rubber band) and is trying to get them to replace it.  They

recently I suspect my powermac being hacked into, as the unusual high
cpu usage
then I found the firewall was turned off somehow
so after reflush the ipfw, I restarted the default firewall again

I posted a question regarding my wife's work iBook yesterday under
"Approximate age of an iBook?".  A couple helpful folks suggested
"ShadowKiller" as a possible way of speeding up this machine's
performance.  I'm wondering what other non-hardware techniques might be

What is the best solution for TV on a new (but not intel-based) iMac? I
would want a tuner and ability to import video. Thanks!

I'm fishing for a new Mac app, but I can't come up with any ideas. What
sort of app would you find useful? Where do you folks think the Mac is
lacking. I'm trying to think different, but I'm stuck in an uncreative
rut.