Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

The Finder is taking large amounts of processing time and disc activity
as shown by Activity Monitor.
In every other way the computer and all the apps I use (vanilla stuff,
commercial software, no haxies or confabulator or other stuff, least not

I'm told this is a Cocoa thing.  In most all of my programs (except some web
browsers that open in tabs) a 2nd window is usually at the same location or
cascaded.  But the 3rd and every window thereafter is cascaded.  This doesn't
work for me at all.  Is there any way of stopping ...

My colleague just got a brand-new 20-inch Apple Cinema Display for his
Quicksilver G4 PowerMac. It works, but only one of the choice of screen
resolutions (1680x1050) fills the monitor without stretching, and he has
trouble reading the small fonts. He could change the font size ...

my imac 2 GHz G5 20" is out of warranty and the CD-part of the
superdrive has stopped working.
does anybody know where i could buy a replacement superdrive so that i
can install it myself.

The macattorney maintenance site recently mentioned
gave me an idea that helped me save a lot of disk space.
I have a caching proxy (Squid) and I was irritated
that all of my users were still wasting disk space

I'm thinking of trying Boot Camp on my Mac Mini Duo. All the documents
I've seen say I need Win XP to go with it. Does it run any other version
of Windows?
You see my version of XP is an upgrade which I bought for an old PC

My wife would like to make a few simple web pages.  I'd suggested she look
into the iWeb app on the intel iMac 20".  When she runs it, it pops up but
nothing is available like it is on my Powerbook.
When will iWeb be functional on intel?  I really need to use my Powerbook

Plz tell me any Free software for rendering DVD to AVI files that I can
download from the internet?
Thanks

Seriennummer:  4H62360NU9C
SMC Version:   1.4f8
Mac OS 10.4.7 updated by me from the combo download.
Recently, multicolor vertical stripes started to appear in the display

I was trying to fix a fried's G4 (on 10.3.7) to with a modem. As part of the
sequence I tried to reset the PRAM with mommand_option_P-R and this appeared
to work but now when I boot I get a light grey screen with a dark grey
circle with a diagonal top left to bottom right.

I have 10.4.6.  The clock had stayed correct.  Three or four weeks ago,
I noticed in System Preferences that the "Set date & time automatically"
box was unchecked.  I checked it.
My clock got farther and farther behind for a couple of weeks until I

Some flack from Posters about recovering from unbootable hard drives-
the circle dash icon or the ?
In the User's Guide-
Troubleshooting

I'd like to send to a friend a varied collection of video and audio
clips of different formats: .avi, mov, Real video and audio, a copy of
VLC,  and also text docs. Is it possible to find an app which will
enable me to burn them all to a CD? Can I do it with Toast, or do I need

I waited a while as I usually do after 10.4.7 came out before updating to
see if there were reports of problems.  I didn't see any and I went ahead.
I even updated a non-critical machine first.
After the update, my keyspan usb to serial adapters (USA28x, USA49W) don't

I'm having a slight problem here at home with my daughters Mac. It's
running OSX 10.4.7
The rest of my house is a mixture of Windows, Unix and even an AS400.
I have 1 Active Directory controller, 3 XP clients, 2 Solaris 10 and