Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

I went to use my Mac today and I cannot type properly with my keyboard.
I can only type in lower case. Any other keys, like the shift, control,
option or apple do not work. Needless to say, I could not even start
this message on my Mac since I could not type a @ to sign in!

I can't seem to get the Find or Smart Folder searches to find anything.
I have a search that is Kind: Any and Name Contains "Wedding". I have
even limited it to search my Documents folder. There are two files that
begin with the word "Wedding" directly in the Documents folder. ...

With the recent discussions on sleeping on MBPs and other models, I
have some newbie questions.
   1) Are there any differences in this context from the sleep brought
about by closing the lid and the shut down brought about by just not

Safari's ability to resume downloads is a lifesaver for me to download
the 10.4.7 update on dialup.  After 5 MB or so, the speed had dropped
45%, so I redialed.
For years I've noticed that sometimes a dialup connection will stay fast

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I really don't know why: I wanted to use OpenOffice on my Mac 10.4.7.
and since every installation instruction told me to install X11, which
I need for OO, from the Tiger DVD, I did so. But since then, I see
occasionally black lines around windows or certain buttons (like the

Does anyone know of a User Group or web forum for Apple i-Mac users in
South Africa?
Any info will be appreciated.
Regards,

I recently realised that the http_proxy environment variable was set
for each shell to a certain value.
By modifying the very first lines of /etc/csh.login, I noticed that the
value was set even before... Which files are read before csh.login?

I run into trouble since last week with my Apple Bluetooth mouse...
connection stops for a while, then come back....  then stops again...
then runs a while.. then...
got a lot of  waitForhandshake, Timeout... and so on...  waht king of

MacInTouch is saying that 10.4.7 has some unannounced features that
check for duplicate software and disable copies. Anybody have some
other information on this?
I see the headline on my RSS syndicator, but I can't find the actual

Looking for a Color Laser Printer that has Legacy Driver Capability
for MacOS 9.x as well as OSX 10.2.8 and able to interface via Ethernet
with both IP Printing for MicroSquash 2000, XP, 2003 Server, and
EtherTalk. This is for a multi-Protocol, Multi-OS, Multi-SubNetted and

OpenOffice Document -  Linux <---> Mac OS X file exchange Heads Up
If you work mostly in a Mac OS X environment, you may be largely
unaware of Unix/Linux conventions in file management.
I have had a failure in Open Office when I tried to save documents

The other day my mac froze. Aside from being impressed that I actually
managed for finally freeze my mac after years of having it, I powered
it down to reboot. It started....slowly....slowly, then reached the
blue screen where i was expecting my desktop to start showing up, but

I was just given an iMac.  The login screen is different than my
PowerBook G4.
There appears to only one user and no way to login as anyone but that
user.

I recieved 2 1 gig cards from memory solutions/mac solutions and
followed the directions unscrewed
the bottom grill opend out the plastic things, took the 1/2 meg card
out installed the two 1 gig's made