Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

MacOS 10.3.9 on a G5.
I have just checked Apple's web site but was unable to find a means of
reporting an apparent software bug.  I think I recall that a poster to this
NG told how to do that, and I would appreciate it if someone could supply

I recently completed transferring about 110 hours of home movies to my
iMac.  The movies were SuperBeta, VHS, Hi8, and D8.  I transferred the
analog movies via my Sony DCR-TRV840 D8 camcorder is A/D passthrough
mode.

After a lot of research, i have the windows box to print on the mac
shared printer.
(it is a hp psc 2175).
Only thing: unicode characters aren't the same from windows to mac,

I have a powemac G4 light blue with os/x 10.4 100% of work on it is
done remotely - ssh or vnc. At home where its 'house' is, there's no
keyboard or monitor.
Generally it's in console mode, since it's more a server than

I have a PC on my home network with my Mac. I'd like to run the PC from
my Mac but I can't seem to get Microsoft's Remote Desktop to work.
I have followed their instructions for getting the PC ready, but it
won't connect. I have tried opening ports on my router, still no

Hellllllpppppppp!
I just switched from DSL to Comcast internet service. All worked fine
with my old airport distributing the internet to 3 computers at home.
Now, I can only connect to the internet if I connect via the fat

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I have a FireLite 40 GB Firewire external HD (a "pocket drive") that I
use for SuperDuper! backups, connecting it for a backup every few days,
then disconnecting it.
When I reconnected it a few days ago, its icon had changed to an icon I

Can I install any IDE DVD-ROM or DVD burner I have for my PC to a
PowerMac G4/533, or do I need to use certain models?
Thanks,
Tom

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Hi, i'm new in the group, i'm a student and i like to see movies on mac
but no Divx player i have can read subtitles. I have: Mplayer, VLC and
Divx Demo. Do you know any good program that reads subtitles for mac?
Thank you very much.

Has anyone ever heard of the fan or heatsink being upgraded in either
the PPC or Intel Mini?  The heatsink in the PPC Mini is ridiculously
tiny. And the fan is absurd.  Some whining 2" monstrosity that would be
lucky to cool a vga card let alone a cpu.  Now that its summer, ...

I wrote to www.macosx.com:
To Whom It May Concern:
I was running OSX Tiger on my Powerbook G4 and was experiencing some
performance issues. I was told a reinstall of Tiger might help. Using

We need to purchase some zip software (with encryption) for our Mac
users. I was thinking of going with Stuffit, but I need to confirm that
zips created by Stuffit can be opened by Winzip and vice versa, as the
Mac Users work closedly with Windows users outside our organisation.

Sometimes my mighty mouse doesn't work at all and the programs will
still be going on the mac. I have an anotherr one, but it does the same
thing. I have an intel iMac. Please help me.