Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

It seems PC users can do this, but not Mac users - or did I miss something?

Just wondering if the Intel Macs can run any Windows OS or just XP.
Thanks.

My iMac is terminally slow to react. Running OS 10.3.9 with 1 GHz
processor and 768 MB RAM. On a DSL connect. Everything is really slow -
web connects, applications, etc. Worse that a dial-up. Where should I
look for the source of my problem?

Right, i need some help. Whilst i was at work somebody at work thought
it would be funny to mess with my mac.
What he's doing is sending commands to my mac from his server. He
connected to his server using ssh.

I am running OS 9.1 on a PowerPC Macintosh Server G3 with a external
firewire Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/32a. Can someone give me advice on a
faster firewire/usb burner? I have been very satisfied with what Ihave
but just want something faster and just as reliable.Thanks,Bill.

Is the clock under Windows will not keep the correct time. Everything
else runs as it should. Anybody else experiencing this?

My Flash application is hanging on trying to launch it -- the Activity
Monitor says it is using around 99% of the CPU, and none of the
"remedies" I tried have helped.
It opens fine in another user's account on the same computer. (10.4.7

I'm trying to connect my G3 (tower/blue and white) to my wireless G
network.
I'd like to go to London Drugs / Future Shop / Best Buy whatever... and
pick up a wireless network card, but what device has drivers for MAC OS

hi! i have the new macbook (mac os x). i love it, but it lacks the
practical softwares that i am used to. espeically OFFICE WORD. i wanted
to install OPEN OFFICE. which needed me to install X11, a program i
should have on my optional system installs folder in the apple

Is there a utility for OS X that would allow to identify certain video
properties in .avi files? For example, the video resolution, framerate,
encoding and audio properties? The finder info does not display any of
these. Thanks!

I do not have an intel mac, but I am creating a smil 2.0-file that need
to be run on real player and the person I am doing this project for has
an intel mac. Is real player fully compatible with intel mac?
Tor

My boss recently bought a Macbook 10x. She insists on using Aol as her
mail client. Eventually I want to wean her. She's spent a decade with
Aol and those Aol frustrations. Now it's a habit.
I called Aol tech support on how to export over from her old Mac 9x the

Is there any way in Mac OS X 10.4 to capture the data being sent to a
printer - ie. the equivalent of the Windows function "Print to file"?
I think I can figure out a way for CUPS drivers, but not for any other
type...

I just went to play a MIDI file and discovered that the entire
collection are 'broken'.  I'm guessing it was in the move from Panther
to Tiger. I know the MIDI tracks have played in the past, in fact one of
them was converted to an AIFF and found it's way into iTunes.

Every once in a while I hear a whole bunch of disk activity, and, when I
pop up Activity Monitor, I see jobs running under the user name
"nobody".  They typically include process names "tr", "sort", "sh", and
a few other things, so it appears to be somebody doing various Unixy