Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

Any opinions?

Sometimes I get emailed web pages that arrive as .webloc pages.  What
exactly is this and how is it different from an .htm or .html page?

I bought a USB compact flash card reader so I could take the pictures
from my Samsung Digimax 130 digital camers and put them on my computer
(PM 7200, OS 8.6).  The card reader explicitly said it would work with
OS 8.6 and above, and when I plug it into my USB card the system

Booting an Ubuntu 6.06 LTS CD as a Live CD, and changing
some system settings, resulted in a freeze. I wanted to check
it out before installing to my G4 AGP graphics system. Subsequent
restarts fail to get me back to the desktop. As a result, OS 9.2.2

I have just purchased a new 20" iMac. I am a first time Mac user so i
have a lot to learn. My first issue is that i bought the machine in
France (so everything comes preinstalled in French) but i am an English
speaker so i want to change the OS and all the apps over to English.

I have my fully configured Mac OS X Server 10.4.7 on a G4/450 and would
like to move it to a Mac mini G4 as configured.
Is there anything that prevents doing this with CarbonCopyCloner
(mounting my "new" Mac mini in target mode as a Firewire disk)?

I saw a thread about a year ago that did not recommend using tar or zip
from a Terminal.app to backup user directories for off site storage.  
The reason was that tar or zip can not reconstruct the data or resource
forks if and when a restore was done.  The recommendation at that ...

I am looking for a good value device that will give Network Attached file
storage on a peer to peer network, but both for Mac and Windows PC.
E.g Netgear make a great looking NAS device, but the spec sheet says it is
only supports Windows.

A ibook without  battery loss time& date after a seconds or minute, i think
that it is because thay use only a condensor instead battery for clock (old
imac and pcs).
When you enter in mac os it warn you that using with bad date could cause

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
on Repair,  the Disk Utility comes back with
    Repairing disk failed with error Could not unmount disk

Can I open one of the "receipt" files on my OS 10.3.9 system with a
standard Mac text editor (TextEdit, BBEdit, Nisus Express), just to take
a look at it out of curiousity, without causing any damage (assuming I
make no changes)?  

I can see the Windows XP Home Photosmart 7350 printer over the network
but it is not listed in the Printer Model list box.  I tried installing
the driver from HP but no luck.  Please help...
TIA,

Does anyone know the best way to connect an Iomega jaz drive (1GB) with
a SCSI cable to an iMac G4 with usb and firewire connections?
I had the jaz connected to my old G3 blue and white tower and now i need
some files that are stored on it.

I set the hostname in the Sharing icon of Preferences to "mac" and it
added .local to the end.  I can ping the IP but I can not ping "mac" or
"mac.local".  I also of course can't use the hostname for file shares
or VNC either.

I've read some say that there are no viruses that can infect OS X, is
that true?  Is the reason to run anti-virus on the Mac is to just
prevent spread of Windows viruses?  Is there any resources on the net
to back that up?  That's a powerful claim.  I know most Linux boxes do