Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

As a second Mac, along with a G5 2.0 DP machine for real work, I have a
4-year-old Quicksilver G4 867 machine used mainly for storage. It was
made after Apple upgraded the ATA bus, so it supports larger drives. At
the moment it has a 500 and a pair of 250s installed (one 250 is ...

This seems to be an Apple trait of always cascading new windows.  This
seems illogical as the window sizer is at the bottom right hand corner
which means its hidden when the window cascades.  So you have to drag
the window up then resize it.  I have to do this about 50 times a ...

My mother is a new Mac user, and as expected, there were some growing
pains.  One of the things she did was to delete the Documents folder.
Specifically, she
1) deleted the folder (so it ended up in the Trash).  She has no idea

I'm playing around with OpenVPN on my iBook (client) and iMac G5
(server @ home) hoping to be able to (a) mount my home disk on my
iBook when I'm on the road and (b) securely browse the web by having
the web traffic on the iBook routed through the vpn.  I was successful

G4 tower attached to internet by ethernet via 4 port switch -> airport
(hardwired) -> cable modem. Lost power to computer, rebooted, and now
no evidence of ethernet connection. Different computer works fine off
same ethernet switch. Changed ports on switch without benefit. System

I recently installed two PNY 512MB SDRAM memory modules (133MHz PC133 -
168-pin DIMM) into my eMac.  When I restarted a screen came up that
said "You need to restart your computer" and then it started this
string of programming language on the screen in a program that looked

I need to find out if my  Dual 2.5 GHz G5  has a PCI-X  or PCI-Express
Video card slot.
In the User's Guide it says to use a AGP or AGP Pro card.
How do I tell. Thanks for any help.

I've spent the day searching the net for the answer, to no avail,
though I've learned many new interesting things.
iMac G3 with OSX 10.2 installed, no OS 9
Energy saver disabled

I've been having a nightmare installing Panther and other apps on a G4
quicksilver 733 with 1 gig of RAM and twin HDs (40mb & 80mb).
i) couldn't install OSX onto the machine. It would stop with the
message "there was an error loading this software please restart". This

On freeview there is a channel called ABC1
On it there is a show called SCRUBS - it is kind of a sitcom
Just seen the episode 'My Lucky Day'
In the last few minutes, the main character is using a MacBook Pro (or

Apple locks down Final Cut / Final Cut Pro 4.x and whatever other versions
there are down to not run on anything except a machine with an AGP card.
Pathetic way to program since they have a very limited array of hardware
they need to program for and still can't manage to do it ...

I'm attempting to connect the G5 iMac to the G4 iBook (both OSX 10.4.7)
on my wireless network. What happens is that  the iMac sees only one of
the the two volumes (accounts) on the iBook, not the the volume I want.
I have the iBook Personal File Sharing "On" in the sharing ...

Hey there,
Flat-panel 2 Ghz G5 here, OS 10.4.7, 1GB RAM.
The playback of streaming  on internet sites is bizarre.  For example,
audio on YouTube movies or iTunes radio is just fine.  But, to continue

In addition to the four "usual" folders found at the top level of a Macintosh
volume, Applications, Library, System, and Users, there is a fifth folder,
dev, on those volumes managed by SuperDuper! as the targets of backups. What
I found via a bit of googling is that "dev" is ...

I have a son who is starting college in a multimedia major.  We have
all used only Windows XP programs and know nothing about Macs.  Well
it turns out we find out today they use Macs exclusively so we're
planning on buying a Mac for him.  Actually we are looking at the new