Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

Will XPostFacto allow me to install Tiger (OS10.4) on a beige G3 or is
OS10.3 the best I can do?

I recently purchased a 20" Intel based IMAC.  It's a sweet computer,
but I can't seem to find
desent newsreader softare for it.   I like to participate in
discussions and I occasionally download

Our family has a 1.25 GHz G4 eMac (2 years old) running Panther 10.3.9
with 1 GB of RAM. We are not power users by any stretch of the
imagination. Few of our applications are "mission-critical", and none
of those (Quicken, Appleworks, etc.) are demanding on the system. Our

I've created some mp4 screen capture movies and would like to place them
on a web page.
When I link to them, the video either downloads (Camino), or simply gets
displayed as text (Safari).

Newbie here.  I like to go on WebPages where they answer questions & have
discussions. I would like to read all the answers/discussions offline.  But
I can't figure how to do get them & read them offline.  Help please.
Thanks.

Is there anything like Ghost or Drivimage for OSX? Specifically thinking of
backing up to a USB or network drive.
TIA
Tim

I have an old Macintosh Plus lying around my place.  I've decided to
make a project out of it.  I want to make it into a file server.  I've
looked around, but there aren't a lot of resources for people who want
to resurrect 20 year old machines.  I've also looked around ebay for

Thanks.

I need a copy of office 2001 does anyone have a copy they are willing to
offer as a download?

In Winderz there is a "Startup Folder" where you can put
items that you want to start when a re-boot occurs.  Is
there such a "Startup Folder" in OSX 10.4.x ?

I just got a brand new Intel Mac mini to replace an ancient Motorola
StarMax that my Mom was using (the modem blew, and she wanted me to get
her a new computer instead of trying to fix it...) Anyways, I started
it up, configured it, etc. All through this time I had a USB mouse

OK this is the first show stopping problem.  If I can't get this fixed
bye-bye Mac.
I was downloading updates on our 256Kbps DSL line and it made the rest
of the network unbearably slow.  This seems to be consistant.  Whenever

Hi and sorry for my english.
I have this problem.
I got all my mp3 on an external hd and the settings of my eMac are "hd
ext:musica" but now I got a macbook.

I got a new mac mini dual. 1 gig mem, 75 gig HD. Pretty nice even with
the vga adapter into my samsung hdtv. (it has a vga input). Waiting for
a dvi/hdmi adaptor to arrive to try that.
Ok, problem. I wasn't thinking and allowed it to initialize itself with

I understand that many moons ago Apple released a Altivec emulator for
G3 machines (running 8.5-8.6).
Has anyone however made an attempt to write a Altivec emulator for OS
X, or Darwin?