Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

I was attempting to install CPAN.  I had the Xcode tool installed and at the
end of the installation the programme reported the following:
"-21:14:15--  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
 (try:12) => `-'

For some strange reason, I cannot show QuickTime movies on my Intel
iMac any more.
For example:  I open YouTube in Safari and try to run one of those
stupid mini-videos.

I'm having a terrible time deciding which to buy...the 20" iMac or the
Mac Pro.  If I buy the iMac, I would want a Conroe chip in it which
currently isn't available, but the downside of the iMac that I am
having a problems with is that it isn't really all that upgradeable as

In trying to pay for some courses for my son's school, I ran into
rejection at the - or all places- screen to make the payment. Other
personal info was available, such as payments to date, etc. But the pay
page rejected in FF and Safari, saying the connection was lost,  etc. I

I have a G4 tower (sawtooth), an iBook, and an XP-Pro computer.  I have
an HP1000 printer and a WD USB external hard drive (formatted as
Fat32).  If I put the WD drive on the G4 it doesn't show when
connecting to it from the XP or the iBook.  When it was formatted as

Does the iMac and the Mac Pro run windows?  Does it matter?

I have an airport base station and every once in a while, I get
disconnected.  Any ideas?

You'd think Adobe Reader would be easy to download, yet I only get
something called download manager, and when I run it I get the message
"all downloads complete". Yet i don't see Adobe 7.x anywhere. What is
going on?

I have airport setup with ethernet.  My printer is also connected to
ethernet.  Whenever I try to print, it says opening printer
connections, forever.  Any suggestions?  I have an HP Officejet 7210.

System: flat screen iMac, 10.3.9, 1.25GHz G4, 512 MB
Capturing with iMovie 4.0.1
Burning with both Toast6 and iDVD 4.0.1
Playing back burned DVDs, the audio is dropping out. It doesn't happen

Our 14-year old grandson has an iPod and downloaded songs via my wife's
computer (A). He now would like to put these songs on his own computer
at home (B) and set it up to receive download from Apple. Is that
possible or is he tied to my wife's computer (A) in order to download

My wife's iBook G4 has lost keyboard input. Occasionally one or two
keys will respond but basically its' dead. Any suggestions are
appreciated.
TIA,

I have a PowerMac g5 dual1.8, and recently started having a problem
where the monitor is 'sleeping,' and when I turn on the computer it
doesn't wake up from that sleep.  The only way I get an active screen
is if I power-cycle the monitor a few seconds after the startup chime.

I am trying to install Spam Assassin on my G5 iMac running OS X 10.4.7.  The
instructions I am using I downloaded from
http://www.stupidfool.org/docs/html
The instructions tell me to  download the Apple Developer tools from:

MT-NewsWatcher is my online newsreader of choice.
But, how to handle those occasions (limited online connection time for
example) when I want to grab a lengthy Digest or a multi-message thread
to my HD as a single text file using Save As, and later want to read