Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

I have an Apple G4 Silver tower.
Because it only had a combo drive,
I bought an Sony USB DVD burner.
After hooking up the DVD

Can anyone please give me guidance for what to select for a 'minimal'
system, for a bootable CD. Can't find any Google advice at all.
Thanks
David

Okay this is the situation.   I have an older style Jellybean Imac
which I upgraded 512mb.   I know it is not the ideal system for Tiger
but I have the Tiger CD install disks and the only other disks I hae
for it is OS X 10.1 and 9.2.   The woman that gave me the imac had

i have a number of external drive partitions that I would like to be
"private", that is, excluded from Spotlight indexing. But, for reasons
unbeknownst, frequently one or more of these partitions is removed from
Spotlight's privacy list, and once so removed cannot be placed back ...

Is there a way to get new folders to open in list view?
[OSX v10.3.9]
Thanks.

i recently converted from windows to a new imac (the newest dual core
2, 17" model) and i used to browse binary newsgroups on windows with
grabit by shemes, but cant find anything like this...
all the software i have found is extremely slow (not multi threaded)

When this OS does come out I will be buying a new machine (been saying that
for a long time but it's been a long time coming) I'm wondering, with the
ability to run another OS such as XP (I mean, that's what the big selling
feature will be even though they might not market it ...

Turned on Mac this morning and updater informed of new updates available:
iTunes 7.0 and Quicktime 7.1.3. Selected install and updates were
downloaded. Dialog then stated that a reboot was required and we rebooted.
Mac now won't start. It comes to the end of the "Starting Mac OS ...

I've read a few things about setting up two libraries (two different
computers) that use one centralized music folder, but how about the
opposite? I want to use one "library" on one computer (laptop) that
combines two music folders (local folder on the laptop and a much

I get so little use out of the built-in ZIP 100 drive in my G4 AGP
graphics system, and I have no ability to burn CDs, so I'm curious if
it's possible to remove the drive and install a CD/DVD burner in the
bay. My other option would be to replace the existing CD drive with a

I own an early 2006 Intel iMac - 20" screen, 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
processor.
I carried out a firmware update to allow installation of Boot Camp.  I
ran the Boot Camp installer software but when I tried to partition my

Over the years, I've been building my own personal Mac museum (see one
of my older Macs on display here, if you're interested):
<http://tinyurl.com/p9t9v>
Anyhow, while I do have some older software archived, I don't have

Some news that may be of interest to anyone looking for a Universal
Binary version of Mailsmith, IMAP or just general updates.
<http://www.listsearch.com/mailsmithtalk.lasso?id=6990>
<http://www.listsearch.com/mailsmithtalk.lasso?id=6991>

I have a Windows 2003 server with several print queue names such as:
Mario (Postscript)
When I set up the printer as LPD/LPR on Mac OS X 10.x, I put in Mario
(Postscript) as the queue name, but the Mac seems to change it to Mario

Just starting with my first digital camera. Please help with a few
newbie questions:
1. What should be the pixel setting if I mainly wish to view the
pictures on 15" screen and print at most 5x7 prints? The choices on my