Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

The last few times I've used Disk U. to repair permissions it displays
no necessary repairs.  That never used to happen.  Has there been a
change in how Tiger handles this?  
Rog

All,
If anyone is experiencing 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 grayish worm-like pattern of pixels that

Apple has fired all its forum moderators! You can go back!

Hope they don't remove "official" forums.
Pasting from
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/07/28.10.shtml>
Apple Computer has terminated its Apple Discussions Hosts, the forum

If it is true that SOME employers look at the Internet then I feel sorry for
Jason Gastrich as any google search turns out a ton of info on him that will
upset employers.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Jason+Gastrich

I am trying to decide between Xerox' Phaser 7400 (cheaper, LED) and 7760
(laser).
Can anyone comment on colour and colour stability (over time, over a
run)?

As per the title. See netstat output below, which is confirmed by nmap
scans.
I can (and do) turn the firewall on, but that's the dirty approach
that Windows takes!  It's always cleaner to turn unwanted network

Just wondering, since I had to buy a replacement PowerBook adapter (one
of those 65 W jobs that everyone hates because they die so fast),
are there any third-party adapters compatible with the G4 Al Powerbooks?
thanks for any info

I may be a creaking ol' ruin who's been using Apples since the 512e, but
I have never really got my head around networking, both intra and inter.
I managed to cope on a needs-to-know basis and by virtue of Apple's
wonderful automation of the process of connecting computers to ...

Please can someone help?
I am completely new to macs, but am experienced ibm pc user.
I tried to change the TCP/IP settings and the computer hung and now the file
is locked and I don't know how to undo it.

I just discovered the pleasures of receiving lots of spam!
So to any spambots out there here's some fodder:
bvdwolf@xs4all.nl
bvdwolf@xs4all.nl

My dad has a beige G3 Desktop (266MHz), with Mac OS 9.2.2 installed,
768 MB RAM installed, 6 MB of video RAM (ATI Rage Pro chip on the logic board).
Also an OrangePCfx! card installed in one of the PCI slots.
The internal IDE hard drive is the stock Western Digital 4 GB drive which

Just ordered mine for $98, it comes on a DVD.
Beware the Micromat stupid website, it is easy to get your order
screwed up there.
Their DVD will of course work native on the new Intel Macs, provided

eMac 1.25 ghz
I only used it to test websites occasionally, so it did not have many
hours on it. After an Apple software update, I had to force quit
Safari several times and then it would not boot, only displaying a

Is there such a things as a hosts file in OS X?
In OS's 9.2.2 and below there were host files which you could edit. I
used them to prevent the computer from accessing undesireable web sites,
like "ad.doubleclick.net" Other examples follow: