Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006

I have problems trying to back up data from a few Windows PCs to a
newly purchased Mac.
I have a few shared volumes on the PC which I am accessing from the Mac
via WLAN. This has worked fine for a few thousand text, PDF and image

This is a real picture from a San Diego newspaper. A whale at Shamu
died while coming back to the ground.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g234/tom_ate_a_hotdog/b535aea3.jpg

has anybody else ever seen a mac (os x 10.3.9) where the apple menu
won't open?  (it highlights, but the apple menu doesn't drop down.)  
and, more importantly, what causes it, or how to fix it?  (my only
guess is to reinstall the os, but that kind of sucks.)

I have a dual 500 G4 'Gigabit Ethernet' Power PC, bought new almost six
years ago. It's been working perfectly in all that time until a few weeks
ago when the power supply blew. I replaced the supply with a re-furbished
exchange unit and everything's peachy again ... for now.

Is it possible to disable printing from Simple Finder accounts?  I found
the "administer printers" check box under Parental Controls but it
doesn't seem to be available Simple Finder.  I let my three year old bang
away on her Simple Finder account and she's managed to hit ...

Somebody gave me one of these as a gift today, 30GB model.  
Supposedly it only works with Windows boxes.  Is there anyone
using one with a Mac?  Or should I go swap it out for an iPod?

i'm sitting in guilin, china.  the hotel has wired (ethernet) internet
access in the hotel room, but when i try to connect, i get an error
dialog.  when i ask the hotel staff, they say that apple computers
can't connect to the internet in guilin.  worked just fine in shenzhen.

After ejecting a DVD (standard Warner Brothers Movie) and coming back
to the computer (G5) all my audio out-puts don't work.  I checked all
my connections all appear fine.  Did I hit a hot button or something
that isn't obvious while ejecting the CD?  Please I need advice.

HELP!!  My Powerbook WON'T CHARGE my Battery!
Hello,
I have a 1GHZ Aluminum 15" Powerbook.
The Powerbook will no longer charge my battery. I bought a new battery,

is there a MacOS9 tool out there allowing to rejoin files
each available as two files, one holding the data fork, the
other (in a __MACOSX folder with _ prepended in the name)
holding an AppleDouble header and the resource fork?

I got an AVI file from a Windows user.  Hyped as the "new revolutionary
codec" H.264 ... QuickTime Player doesn't play it, any info on that?
VLC does play it, and says this about it:
Stream 0

The easiest way to make your Apple LaserWriter 300 or LaserWriter 320
or 4/600PS work on your iMac G5 is to get an AsanteTalk from Asante or
from Ebay.  But remember, there's a trick to making the AsanteTalk
work. You have to power on the AsanteTalk device directly AFTER you

My network includes a Mac Mini, a Powerbook G4, a WinXP PC, a Win98 PC,
a Fedora Core 4 PC, a Netgear PS110 print server (fixed IP), and a
Netgear WG02V3 WAP.  The router is a Netgear RO318, and the Mini and
Powerbook are wireless.  The printers on the PS110 are an HP Deskjet

I have a possibly weird question: how can I make Safari, Camino and/or
Firefox use an older Java Virtual Machine?
I need to use an applet (JUpload) to send photos to my print service,
the alternative being uploading them five by five through HTTP post,

I find it very irritating that whenever I select the Finder desktop
(from Dragthing or by clicking on the Finder icon in the dock) it
always has to open a window!
Is there a way to prevent this from happening when all I want is to