Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

Hello all. I am new to this ng, so I am not sure the best place to post
this question.
How much memory is enough for a new Apple notebook?  New college student
with some light graphics design work and normal note taking, Internet

I use a Memory Strick Scan Disk "cruzer micro" 256 MB on PC and Mac for
several weeks now, but this morning I tried to open a Word file and suddenly
appeared the following message:
You have inserted a disk containing no

Hello all.  I am putting togther two older Mac systems from parts for a
worthy charity.  604e's, installed OS 8.6.  They're now working great for
basic office work, web browsing, and graphics.  However, I have 2
Stylewriter 2500's that are giving me a headache.  Both keep giving me ...

I have a dear mother-in-law with a click and drag problem. She is
constantly dragging her icons out of the dock ("poof") and then calls
me in a tizzy that "xyz" is gone and she needs it back.
Is there any way to lock the darned icons in the doc, or should I just

Terminal command to clear the content of a file ?
Not delete the file: just erase the content -> zero length

Hitachi or Seagate 160GB Notebook HD?  Looking for reliability!  
Opinions?
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I just got a PowerMac G4 533mhz and have some questions about software.
It has 256MB in it, but I am going to be upgrading it to 1GB very
soon.
What is the best version of the OS to run?  I will be using it

I just added an internal drive to my G5 (10.4.7) and would like to use
it for backup purposes only.  
Is there a line that I can add to some file somewhere to prevent its
automount?  I can easily mount it when I want using DiskUtility, but

I have an old IBM Postscript Laserprinter with parallel port
that I would like to use with a Mac G4(AGP graphics).  
I'm thinking that an Ethernet print server with a parallel
port will work, as long as its specs say it supports Mac OS.  

Hello altogether !
Is there any chance to update the Firmware of my iMac G3 without an
installed OS ?
I´ve got OS X 10.2, but I can´t install it. My Harddisk has no other

I am looking to get an external firewire enclosure.
Will I be able to use any DVD driver?
WIll I be about to attach a DVD drive to a 3.5 enclore if I buy an
extension cable and do not mind the looks of having the drive hanging

Being a new Mac user I need to find a Mac friendly program to help me
design a web site.  Is the iWeb program any good, or are there better
ones out there ?  Couldn't find any on apple.com
Regards

We have an employee who has proven to be unreliable in terms of time
management. The boss wants a software solution, such that she can review
all the web browsing done from this computer.
I'll be replacing the machine some time in the next month or two, so I'm

I have an iMac G5 with the latest version of OPS X. I need to print a
Clarisworks* spreadsheet using Classic. I am getting a "printer not
chosen"  error. I cannot find a Chooser.
Any help?

Is this possible?
If one is on Sunday, and the next day  it's Monday, you can't just drag
them across to the next day