Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006

Does anybody recognise these symptoms?
Sometimes on boot, and invariably on wake from sleep, the screen is
overlaid with flickering fine horizontal lines, and anything appearing
on the screen has several overlaid copies of itself, all slightly out

SInce upgrading to Creative Suite my older photoshop 7 now launches
when Mac system starts up. Whats up with that?! How can I get it to
stop?

Help!
I am a college student whose iBook died after years of enjoyable use.
I went to the Apple Store who sold me a 15" MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz Intel
Core Duo, 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM for $1999.

The question about Al Gore's expertise with the Mac arose here recently.  
I think that the answer can be found here:
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2006/05/inconvenienttruth/>

Recetnly my imac G4 froze and when I rebooted it, the keyboard/mouse
combo no longer has power and cannot be recognized. I appear powerless
to login as any user without accesss to mouse. Similarly, I cannot open
drive door to run Disk setup. Any tricks to navigating without a mouse

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God MUST be a Mac user!

Ok, I need some help folks. I am replacing a hard drive in a Clamshell
iBook. The hard drive I will be installing a 2.5inch AT 9.5mm IBM
Travelstar 20G. Will the Clamshell even recognize a hard drive of this
size?

All,
My HD crashed, and "Disk Utility" was unable to repair it. Apple store
geniuses told me to get a 3rd party restore utility, like Data Rescue
II. Did so, and recovered my data. But my whole home directory is one

Am I out of luck trying to use my old Epson Stylus Color 800 printer
with the powerbook I just bought?
The latest version of a driver I saw on the Epson website was for OS 9.
Do I need a new printer? I rarely print documents and no photos. So...

...for people who want help with Microsoft Windows that /happens/ to be
running on Apple Macintosh brand computers.
My argument is that this newsgroup, comp.sys. *mac* .system, is for
users of the Macintosh operating system, and Windows issues don't

for a 12" G4 iBook to operate within, or under? My 16 month old iBook
never gets hot, but last night I heard the fan come on for an extended
period of time. I have a widget that displays the temp and I think it
said 140 degrees F. I had 2 Firefox windows open with 6-7 tabs, two of

Hello all. I'm new to using Unix command lines and Terminal.
I am the Administrator (I thought) and the one and only account
on this Computer, a new MacBook Pro.  I should have full
administrative access, but after I return almost every

May 25, 2006 --
Begin Quote
"The World-Wide Web is meant to be just that -- world-wide. I am unable
to manage my XM Radio account on-line from my Macintosh computers. For

I just bought my first Mac 2 days ago, and first of all, i have to say
how I am impressed.
Here's my question: i found how to add iTunes to my statrup profile,
but I don't know how to have my favorite radio channel playing

In the next coupkle of days I'm going to try to go wireless. But amid
all my googling etc on the topic, I'm still puzzled by what difference
there is between 'crossover' ethernet cables and (I suppose)
'non-crossover'. Could any briefly tell me what the difference is and