Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

      I am trying to add a networked printer to my Imac. The printer is
physically connect to the window/Linux box. The Imac is plugged into
the router. I can get the printet to print from the mac but it prints
in code and not the text that I wanted to print.. Any ideas?

Can anyone suggest a hardware device that would connect an Intel
Macintosh to an ADB KVM switch ?
My existing Macintoshes are all ADB, and I was thinking about adding
an Intel Macintosh laptop to the mix.

A few days ago I posted a message about Firewire to USB adapters
because my USB2.0 PCI card had died and my Sony external DVD burner
isn't happy with the USB1.1 port on my G4. At that time I was wondering
about converting to Firewire but there was another option I had not

I'm a newcomer from the Linux/W32 world, and in general I'm pretty
happy with the change of scene, but I've got one issue with the OS that
I would really like to see addressed, or know how to work around.
Essentially, I'm used to things like pagedown/home/end/pgup moving the

Very frequent  error message  "no internet connection" yet firefox and
mail etc work fine.  I have to restart my IMAC G5 to get Safari back and
normal.  I'm stumped.
I don't like to always take so a peak at these folks who may tell you

What causes a high pitched sound in an eMac?
It is intermident.
peace

- The 10.4.7 Update is recommended for all users and includes general
operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following
applications and technologies.
It includes fixes for:

I have one of the last G4 towers with the 1.25gHz single processor with
mirrored drive doors.
<http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_1.25_mdd.h
tml>

Is there any way to create a CD which will boot with OS X? I'd like to
create a single CD with disk utilities for emergencies -- Norton
Utilities, Disk Warrior, TechTool.
Thanks.

I need help.  I turned off my Mac today and then turned it back on
later.  What came up was the login.  I tried our name and password that
we had to create when we got the computer, but it won't let me in.  How
do I get past the login or create a new one?  I already tried

Tips, links, discussion:
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html

A couple of years ago, I installed both OSXVNC and Chicken Of The VNC on
my G4 iMac, my wife's G4 iMac, and my father's G5 iMac.  This allows me
to update their software, and perform periodic maintenance on their
computers from my house.  Conversely, if I am at their locations, I ...

If I want to make backups every week on my documents folder (with PDFs
of bank statements) and stuff, is there any easy way to encrypt? It
would slow things down... right?
Maybe I should just put the hard drive in a locked cupboard or

I cannot get tftp to behave using tftp from my mac running os x 10.4.
Does tftpd work? It lets me write but wont let me read the file back
again.
The following illustrates the problem.  I save a file ".env" from my

Is there any way, when you're entering Chinese characters, to increase
the size of the characters that pop up on the palette?