Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

Good morning, evening,
Are there any software available for a Mac OS 9 system user to call a
PC over the Internet for free?
Most software doing so work under Mac X. So how far can I go with my

I split my disk in 2 partitions, 10 gigs each.
I installed a linux distro on one of those partitions.
Now I erased Linux and the MacOs disk related apps can NOT reformat
those 10 gigs.

I've been using Path Finder (on Powerbook G4/Tiger) since mid-April
without problems, but after Apple's most recent software upgrade,
now Path Finder crashes my system.
(I have now repeatably isolated this horrible problem to Path Finder.)

I was doing some googling to upgrade the memory of my new 20" imac,
when I discovered (and this
was NEVER mentioned to me by either the salespeople at the Applestore
or CompUSA before I

I recently upgraded to 10.4.7 using the Software Update but have since
been unable to play Star Wars Battlefront on my Intel based iMac under
Rosetta. It worked fine previously although a week ago I had to rebuild
my machine completely due to a bad experience with Boot Camp (that'll

My significant other has a Mac PowerBook which is running OS X 10.4.7 and
each time it is booted the HP PSC 1350 Setup Utility automatically launches.
We have downloaded and installed the latest version of the HP PSC 1350
software and this didn't help. What do we need to do to ...

There are MANY different John Wolf's in California and across the nation.
How would an employer differentiate them?
I read up on Google and discovered that some of what you people have to say
has truth. But there are THOUSANDS of employers and not all THINK ALIKE.

Heh..... this is weird.  Suddenly an odd .5 MB file suddenly appeared on
my desktop.  The title is just a lot of letters and numbers followed by
a .z.  It is identified as a Unix Compressed file.  I am afraid to open
it since I've never seen anything like it before and since I ...

I have a client who wants to send me some "sensitive proprietary
information". What I would like to do is set-up some sort of password
protection for just that one folder w/o having to set-up a different
account on my MacBook.

I though it was fixed by muting the spotlight indexing and it is back
again.
When I boot my G4 from a backup drive and run Disk Utility on the
primary drive I get an error.  When I select the primary drive and click

I am looking for a good way of starting my own personal website.
iWeb from Apple?  ...or, a more expensive approach?
My contemplated use, one-way blogging, very little incoming feedback
from users.

I have a brand new Imac and it is great except it only has 512mb
ram!!!!  I really didnt notice too much
until I installed Bootcamp and ran Windows, so today I ordered 2 1g
sdram's, but I from what I see and what I read in the Imac manual it

My computer won't start right. I've found a helpfull article but get
stuck before I can get started. I know the problem but can't begin the
solution.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs16-bck.htm#2
Part 3. What Cannot Be in a Background Check Report?
The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) sets national standards for
employment screening. However, the law only applies to background checks

I've just installed Parallels Desktop on my new Mac Mini running 10.4.6.
Every time I start up the virtual machine I get a message to say that
something has been disabled by firmware, and will have to be emulated in
software.