Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006

How can I stream videos on my iMac G5 to my Plasma TV that has a DVI
connector over my WiFi?  I would ideally like to use a remote.  Connect
a Mac Mini to the TV and ...

I have a 2.16Ghz Macbook Pro running Tiger 10.4.6 [all software updates
applied].
I access the internet through a Belkin wireless router connected to a
btopenworld ADSL line [in the UK].

No it's not a strange anagram, but a symptom which has cropped up
recently.
For some reason whenever I try to use the numeric keypad, the system
stops accepting mouse clicks. No numbers come up.

I finally got a Sony HDR-HC1 ( HC1 ), and its working amazing.  I'm
recording a lot of people's stand up comedy in the DC area.  And I'm
loving HDV.
Most of the time, I give people a playable DVD of their set.  A couple

I enabled remote login on my intel iMac 20" running the latest version of
Tiger.  When I connect from my Powerbook, it asks me about the key and I
answer 'yes'.  I then proceed to enter the password for the account that
I wish to log into.  There is a long period and then I get an ...

I have older Mac G3 with 1GHD, running OS 9.1. (Need to keep machine
for tax
programs).  Bought external LaCie SCSI 50G as an add on. G3 hard drive
is "HFS". External

I'm trying to install OS 8 on a powermac G3.
I have just got OS 8 from a guy on Ebay but there are a couple of nasty
scratches on the disc. I have tried to install OS 8 by doing the following
but nothing has happened:

When i use mi ibook for view divx films(ripped of dvd), the video have a
upper and lower black zone(it is normal). I want to remove this zones and to
increase util video zone.(i prefer lose quality or proportion)
I've tried with vlc, mplayer, real, etc but i don't know how make ...

I need an iPod nano (display and small size important to me) and am
wondering as to what the current grapevine says about when it might be
updated (successor, video, more flash memory etc)
TIA

Just curious, who else here wants to be able to open thier MB or MBP
all the way instead of only three-quarters of the way as they are
limited now?  Personally, I have found that it can be convenient every
once in a while to be able to flatten the notebook rather than let in

I've noticed when I boot from Classic in OS X (Tiger 10.4.2) the cursor
sometimes spontaneously jumps to another location on the screen for no
apparent reason. It doesn't happen when I boot from OS X. Anybody besides
me ever experience this problem by any chance? How did you fix it? ...

I'm using a non-Intel Mac Mini with OSX 10.4. I'm also using an older USB
Imation Super Disk Drive with which I use both the 120 meg Imation Super
Disks, and the standard 1.44 meg floppies.
Sometimes, when I insert a standard 1.44 meg floppy into the drive, the

Is there a way to adjust the system sound volume in Terminal?

I currently have a hard drive (one partition) running 10.3.9. As a
developer, I want to keep this, and then install 10.4.x. Ideally, I would
like to be able to switch between the two, blessing the folder as needed.
Is there anyway to do this? The "Archive and Install" option of the

I downloaded and unstuffed a pristine copy of print66 onto my StarMax
running 8.6, and when I try to open Print66.68K or Print66.PPC (the
latter being my first choice, of course), I get a "No config file found
!" error with an "Oh Fritz!" button that, upon clicking it, closes the