Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006

I have two external drives, each containing multiple partitions, that are
only used as targets for backups. I would like them to be unmounted at login
as the backup program, SuperDuper!, automatically mounts and ejects the
designated target drive for a scheduled backup run.

Warning - PC guy installing on a Mac. Sorry for the poor terminology!
iMac graphite.
OS 9.2 installed.
OS X required firmware upgrade successfully applied.

I have a 17" Aluminum G4 (1.67) that is about 3 months old. When I
started it up today, the keyboard began mistyping. For example, the
space bar types an equals sign, the n key does nothing, they y key
types a 4, and so on. Most of the keys are matched correctly, but quite

Folks,
Where do I tell OS X (10.3.9) what app to launch when I double-click a
file such as .txt or .pdf?
Thx,

Hello, I'm a relatively new home user operating with Windows XP,home
edition. My problem is that when I transfer video clips from my NIKON
coolpics L1 to my PC, they transfer as Quicktime files and although I
can play them I can't incorporate into any editing or filmaking

I have the new Intel MacBook Pro and I am trying to install XP Home
using Boot Camp. I have, created the mac driver install disk,
partitioned the hard drive with 70G for OSX and 5G for XP. When
prompted I inserted the XP cd and clicked start installation. The

I have a user who has PowerPoint 2004 (latest update)
and OSX 10.4.6 on his iBook G4.
On one of his slides, he has an animation which plays in
"Slide Sorter View" but not in "Slide Show".

Preparing for the arrival of my MacBookPro (after my 17" G4 has been
stolen :-( I need to convert thousands of documents (from 1988 onwards
up to 2005) as FrameMaker does not run anymore on Intel Macs (never been
ported to Mac OS X, my last OS 9 application).

Does anyone know if there are reports of Intel Macs with bad ethernet
ports? I'm asking because, of 3 Intel Macs I have seen from the
factory, two have had bad ethernet ports. About a month ago, I bought a
MacBook Pro/1.83. It worked fine using Airport, but I had problems with

Anyone know of a free Office Suite that wil lrun on 192 megs of ram? I
was going to use Neo Office, but I need a lot more ram for that.....

I'm trying to bring X11 Windows to the front when they get keyboard focus.
Nearly all other applications, when clicking on their windows, they come to the
front and get keyboard focus.  Unfortunately, windows in X11 like XTerm do not
come to the front unless I manually click on the ...

It's an 1.25 gb iBook with 768mb RAM with OS10.4.6 installed. It runs
Classic OK, but I can't figure out how to install OS9 drivers
successfully, either from the Tiger install disk or from a 9.2.1 disk,
to boot in OS9. The 9.2.1 disk at least gives me the option but doesn't

I'm not familiar with Mac world but I know well FreeBSD ;-)
I've read Macos is able to manage a per user quota system
when the station is used as a centralized spool.
Anyone could confirm ?

I have a MacBook Pro.
I'm New to this OS and I've chosen a MacBook to start quitely and to
have a learning time more confortable and without stop my work on Win
XP OS.

OK, this is driving me out of my freaking mind.
Every single time I try to print, it seems, my setup won't print.
I've tried Printer Setup Utility. I've repaired disks. I've repaired
perms. I've run all the maintenace utilities I can find, from OnyX to