Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006

I have two Apple PC's, a G4 and a G5. Now I like to change this two PC's,
because the G4 is too slow. Both Apple's has OS X 10.3.9 and different other
software installed. Can I only change the hard disk of this two PC's? Or do
I have to install the whole PC?

I'm wondering if it might help the fan to have it point up?  Heat does
rise after all.  Has anyone tried it?  My Mini has no top, plastic
housing, notebook hard drive or optical drive.  So its all open.  But I
was wondering if the fan would work a little better.

I've got two drives on this computer, one's a DVD/CD reader. I think
it's a Lite-on. The other is a CD burniing drive of the same company.
Anyway,  was just playing CDs through iTunes and I put a rather dirty
copy of a Doors cd in the first drive, figuring it wouldn't play right.

Is there a definitive reason to prefer one or the other ?
Thanks,
  -JG

After installing the most recent version of Firefox (1.5.0.4), I started
having problems including the inability to scroll using the Page Up and
Page Down commands.  At first I thought maybe the prefs were florfed but
that was not it.  So finally I just exported my bookmarks and ...

I have an iMac running OS 10.4.6, 1.5 meg ram.  Everything has been
working great for past 3-months.  I haven't added any new programs, etc.
I've been using Toast 7 to copy some of my movies and CD's.  Everything
worked fine, then all at once, Toast hangs up when I insert a CD or ...

Greetings all, new to the group. Am I assuming correctly in that,
giving this group's high rate of activity, that it's not possible to
receive full copies of all messages sent to/from the list? It has to be
used completely from the web? Thanks.

Just got a G3 powermac and don't know much about them. It has no OS on it so
I need to download one or buy one from Ebay or somewhere.
What would be the best OS to put onto it? I head 10.2.8 would go on it but
would this give me any benefits over earlier versions?

Hi, we have a X-serve server running OS X and after I "sudo -s" as root
and vi some web pages, when I exit the vi, it will give me this warning
message:
E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo!

Just read this & think it's VERY interesting ....
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1814
It's an "Apple Computer" UMPC
What do *you guys think of it?

I thought that there was a way to drag text off of a document or web
page and drop it on a finder window to create a file.  Something is
created by the finder, but it is not the kind of file I was
anticipating.

I considering purchasing one of these laptops but I can't decide which one.
I will be running Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXpress, and
probably
MS Office. Not all at the same time, probably two at once, maybe 3. Would

I've been using an external 200GB Firewire drive for a few months.
Today it showed up on my desktop with a generic icon, and all the icons
inside were generic. I ran Disk Utility ("no problems") and Disk
Warrior ("could not fix") so I backed up the data and reformatted the

Perhaps this is a silly question, but how do I scan with my Mac (MacOS
10.4.6 on a Powerbook G4)?
I have a Canon N-670u USB scanner connected to the computer, but I
haven't a clue as to which software to use in order to scan a sheet of

I just bought my first Mac - the new MacBook with the 2 GHz Core Duo,
and 512 MB ram, and the shared video ram.
I thought that this would be comparible in speed to my desktop PC which
is a Dell Pentium 4, 1.6 GHz, 512 MB ram, with a G Force 2 graphics