Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

Coming as I do from what seems like a lifetime on Windows and MS-Office, I
installed the Trial version of MacOffice X (or whatever it's called - you
all know what I mean!) which came with the Tiger DVDs, and wasn't very
impressed. Seemed really clunky and slow, and I especially ...

Is the a Good par program out there? I'm using Unison as my newsreader
but I need a good Par program to fix some broken files.

Slashdot has an article on how hackers can gain root access to Macs. It
looks pretty serious, not least because the method doesn't look nearly
difficult enough to ignore.
The way to beat it is to use only a non-administrative account to

Are there utilities like sysinternals filemon, tcpview, regmon, etc.
for OS X? I'd like to run something that tracks the various i/o actions
of an application.
thanks for any pointers,

I am one of the few people without an iPod. I am thinking about buying a
refurbished iPod nano from Apple, will it work with my 2001 iBook which
only has USB 1.1?
Also, I have an external DVD burner with FW and USB 2 and I connect it

I'm trying to salvage her music files. I took the HD out of the 'book
and put it in a FW/USB enclosure.
The HD does not show up on the desktop and disk utility does not see
it. I see a "unknown device" on the firewire bus. I've tried some

1. Start iPhoto
2. Start importing pictures from a Samba server
3. Close the lid (MacBook Pro)
4. Wake up, Finder hung unkillable (not even SIGKILL helps). Never

with iMac with OS10.4.7 is it possible to make a DVD from a video
cassette in a vcr .. if so, what do I need?

I recently upgraded to 10.4 (running 10.4.7) and am having huge
problems with it. Specifically:
* startup is 2x slower than with 10.3
* applications launch far slower (Photoshop and Firefox seem the worst,

I'm looking for an OSX program to convert audio files to Real Audio.  I
have Real Producer for OS9, which worked fine, but it seems they didn't
create one for OSX?  Anything out there that'll do this?
thanks

Okay, here's the scenario:
A G5 running 10.4.7  attempts to connect to an ancient Performa 6400
running OS 9.1.
Error messgae results, reads as follows:

Trying to set up my Canon iP4200 printer to work via my PowerBook G4
via a LinkSys print server.  I know that everthing is set up correctly
with the print server because I can print successfully from my PC.
However, I'm trying to get it my mac to recognize the printer, but I am

A friend has an iBook (I think she's running Tiger), and has set
the Screen Saver to display random images from a certain folder.
She's set the delay before sleep to be shorter than the delay
in the battery saving settings, because she wants the screen

I really want to pick up one of Apple's new desktops. I am really
liking this 'bootcamp' thing. I just hate the idea of having to re-boot
the computer to have access to a particular operating system. Is there
going to be any new models with better ways of handiling Windows than

What makes an audio book different from a music file?
ie.. why is it that i have some books in mp3 files but I can't classify
them as audio books, they appear as music.