Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

I have two pet peeves with Mac and/or Mac apps. But I only need one
solved.
In Mac applications it is often necessary to specify an default
application for some purpose. Here are two examples,

I'm trying to install calc.el (I'm running version 22.0.50.1 on an
Intel Macbook Pro using OS X 10.4.7), and I keep getting a make error
when I try to install calc according to the instructions it included.
Specifically:

400MHz G4 PowerMac (Gigabit Ethernet version). OSX 10.3.9. Been running
10.3.9 since shortly after it was released.
For perhaps a week now, I have been having the same problem. It happens
when I chose "Shutdown" from the menu while logged in and when I just

My Ibook logicboard went tits, says the Apple place I took it to. Best
estimate to replace it? $650. Is there a cheaper way? I have no
experience working on computers myself.
Stephen

My hinges on my powerbook g4 went bad.  So I hooked it up to a external
monitor, and it is in dual monitor mode instead of mirror mode.  I
called apple support and they have no clue how to get it into mirror
mode except by the powerbooks screen, which is impossible since it

Anybody know how Bluetooth 2.0 EDR should appear in Apple System
Profiler? I just boughan iMac 2 GHz Intel and I think the salesperson
didn't send me the right kind of bluetooth with the comp.
On my computer, in ASP it says, under bluetooth:

When I try to log in to the GCD Comics database website, I'm met with
this message:
Error Message:     This edition of Lasso can only be accessed from 5
different IP addresses. The following IP addresses are already in use:

Any suggestions for a wireless usb device, that is cheap and good and
has mac drivers?
I have a sis 163u 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless LAN Adapter but I can not
find drivers for that one.

I got a lot of warnings in my log like this one :
2006-08-02 10:47:42.041 Safari[300] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString
- can't interpret: '2006/08/02 10:02'
2006-08-02 10:47:42.048 Safari[300] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString

I'm missing something, and I hope someone can point me in the right
direction....
I can mount shares using:
mount -smbfs //server/share /Volumes/mountpoint

All,
If anyone is experiancing an issue with their 15" Powerbook display,
please reply to this thread. The issue at hand is at the bottom of the
display, there seems to be a grey'ish worm-like pattern of pixels that

I have Techtool Pro 4.0.1 CD, and ordered (and received) the 4.5.1
update.
Can I ethically sell the 4.0.1 CD?
Can I ethically give it away?

Is there a way, within Mail.app, to re-access messages that have been
deleted, but which are still on the (bellsouth) email server?
I expect I can go to the bellsouth website to see the mail, but can I
get Mail.app to do it?

I am struggling with some color issues and am wondering if anyone can
help shed some light on what's going on.
We have several macs in our office that we use for developing printed
and interactive materials. We occasionally need to grab files from

Power to my computer died and when I rebooted, mail.app won't quit.
This means that I have to 'force quit' mail when I shut my machine and
that's a pain.
I'm running the latest update of Tiger, and all my other software runs