Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

Hi.  I don't have a Mac (I have Windows and Linux, but can't really
afford Macintosh).  I'm trying to get a file to my friend (not a big
computer guy).  It is a large m4a that I can't send through email, so I
posted it on a website.  I can download it and it plays just fine on

I have two elderly Macs an iMac G4 (800MHz) which is currently running
Mac OSX 10.3.9 and  iMac G3 (400MHz) running the same OS. Can anyone
tell me if I'm likely to see any loss of speed if I upgrade to Tiger,
to bring them in line with my iBook?  Shoud I wait for Leopard?

This may be wrong forum and if so please direct me.
I have a brand new Mac Mini and am using the Safari browser. I'm pretty
savvy with computer systems (but not OS-X).
On my web server (off-site) I have phpMyAdmin and in its folder I have

I have an iMac with OS9 and am finding that trying to load some sites
are becoming  increasingly more difficult especially Yahoo to check
mail.
Is it possible to upgrade to something else? I can't even upgrade to

Machine: powermac G5 running 10.4.7, with slave 9.2.2.
Icons randomly disappear from folders, leaving only
the file name. Reappear on reboot with changed "Open With"
Applications such as Mathematica behave funny. Disk Utility

I've been searching  the web for an answer to the iTUNES (WINDOWS XP)
problem of why iTunes truncates Long File Names.  This Group, although
not a Windows XP group, had the only reference to this problem I could
find.  Is there anyone who can either help or refer me to the

I'm trying to execute a bash shell script by double-clicking on the
file. I've made sure that it's executable (chmod 777), and I've tried
appending ".command" to the end of the file.
When it's script.command, when I double-click, the script is opened up

Hello.  I cannot seem to get my Mac PowerBook G4 to open up Firefox,
Safari or any other browser to Wi Fi.  I can go to a Starbucks, open
Airport, get a connection but cannot seem to get anything on my browser
except a message stating:

Spotlight has stopped working. I tried mdutil and it returns either
"Could not set indexing status for volume" or "Error, no index found
for volume." I cannot add files or volumes to the privacy list for
Spotlight; it simply refuses to add them. Attempting to search with

I've had this problem turn up twice lately, first on an Epson AIO
CX5300, and again today with a brand-new HP 1320 laser. A print job is
sent off, but stalls. The Dock icon shows a red (!) flag and the print
queue has been stopped. Clicking on the Start Jobs kicks everything into ...

Some people have been talking about Apple someday releasing a true video
iPod. Does true mean anything more than a wider screen?

The day and time are displayed on my menu bar.
Is there a way for me to see the entire date vs just the day of the
week?
TIA.

OK, I'm finished with these infernal Mighty Mice and their lame
on-again, off-again scroll balls. I've been through three of them and
the love affair is over.
Can anyone tell me what the best/their favorite mouse is with the

Can the Classic environment be installed on a G5 running 10.4.7?

I have an HP DVD Writer DVD200e.  I am able to write to a cd-rw with
MacOS 10.4, but I am not able to write to the cd-rw with 10.2.8.
Is this a driver issue?  Could I copy the DVD driver from my MacOS 10.4
system to my 10.2.8 system?  I would need instructions on how to do