Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

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Okay, so I *looked* at eBay prices for Win XP sp2 and I guess they are
<ahem> "reasonable".
But what I want to know is, what is up with the freaking shipping

Does MacOS 9 come with anything that will decompress a gzipped file or
is seperate software required?  If extra software is needed, is there
an alternate compression format that MacOS 9 does support natively?
Thanks,

"Help A Disabled Man's Dream Come True"
Hi, my name is John, I have cerebral palsy and I have
"A Dream To Buy/Build My Own Home." I have
had my disability All my life, and unable to work.

Hi to Mac Security fans. I have been enjoying a hiatus away from this
regular post thanks to nice weather, lots to do, and nothing at all
happening with Mac Security. Happy one and all. But I figured I should
pop in once in a while to at least provide some peripheral news and let ...

I have a mac that won't boot in OS 10.3.9, i've zapped pram, reset the
PMU did a startup from the os cd ran a full scan on the disk (no errors
faound) and then i erased the whole operating system (formatted the
whole disk) and reinstalled it from the cd. I can boot into safe mode

I would like installer Qtiplot in my MacBook Pro, how do I do? what
lybrary must be installed? somebody help me please.

Now lets get down to what I really do !!
As I do a LOT of video editing using iMovie, I have one of my Firewire
hard drives set-up for this purpose.
I load the latest System onto this Firewire drive together with iLife6

a question about running old Mac programs on a "newer" Mac. The Mac is
newer than the programs although near ancient if measured in internet
time, being that it is a G3 PowerPC w/ 400MHz CPU and MacOS 10.4.7.
I do not have the Mac computer yet but have just contemplated

How to get mac REV A or REV B info via software ?

Can a killfile be created using the newsreader in lynx?
If not, what is the easiest-to-use shell-based newsreader?
Thanks.

... I need some help from hardware gurus out there. The situation is this:
17" PowerBook with 80 G internal disk
External LaCie disk
I sync the internal disk regularly to the external disk and have the

Normally, when you pop open the Terminal, you see something like this:
your-computer-name: ~username
Or  at least something similar to that.  Earlier today, I was at work
(I have the only mac in the whole building).  I popped open the

a great resource, in my opinion:
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
Cali

Being new to Tiger, I noticed that I couldn't get news groups.
Any suggestions would help, thanks.
Steve.

I can see the Windows XP Home Photosmart 7350 printer over the network
but it is not listed in the Printer Model list box.  I tried installing
the driver from HP but no luck.  Please help...
TIA,