Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

Sometimes, I can't turn off iTunes. I try to quit the app, but it keeps
restarting itself. This is 6.0.5, on System 10.4.7. Any explanation of
why this happens or how to fix it?

What is this error in my system.log???
Jul 12 21:40:59 interpol kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on
0:
Jul 12 22:07:33 interpol kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on

I'm trying to get more familiar with *nix.
Today I downloaded and installed Cygwin/X on to my WinXP machine at work. I
could then ssh into my Fedora Core 5 Linux box and run 'konqueror &' and the
Konqueror web browser would be displayed on my WinXP box.

I posted a while back about the login screen resolution  being stuck at
a lower resolution.  Now the issue is getting a littlemore annoying.  I
was OK with just the login screen acting weird, but now after a login
the screen goes black before switching to the correct resolution ...

I just hooked up a mic and noticed the sound level meter in Sound
Preferences going up and down with the ambient noise in the room.  Does
this use any appreciable resources of the system?  What if the sound was
loud?  And would it interfere with sound output in any way?  

How would I begin to troubleshoot this?
What format are the uploads there?
Do I need a certain plug-in for Safari?
I have left youtube open all night a couple times, and in the morning

Wouldn't this make sense?

I've been very stupid, and am consequently desperately in need of some wise
advice...
For some time I'd been using two 250mb disks as a RAID array, on which my
partner kept the text of her new book. The disk/s were filling up, so

Hi is that Apple "AirPort Extreme wireless networking (802.11b/g)"
technology compatable with regualr linksys routers, i have a wireless
network in my home now but they have all PC based systems on it now,
will adding a MAC Work with this router and will it effect the

With my Blue and White G3, which I intend to bring up to a gig of RAM,
what is the newest OS X I can run on it?  Thanks, John

I have a bunch of Microsoft Works database files I hope to convert to
Appleworks.  It was suggested that I could translate them using MacLink
Plus, then open them in Appleworks, but about the only thing that I can
get to happen is to open the database as a TEXT file.  Is there a way ...

For some reason, my Apple menu reveals duplicate entries. And whenever I
select an entry from any menu, a box is drawn around it. Also, lines keep
showing up in documents. I deleted all font caches to eliminate potential
corruption issues, but the problems remains. Any assistance ...

For the past 12 years I have been using a Mac Performa 1200.  This is a
real dinosaur...Then guess what happened?
A lady at work who knew I couldn't afford a new computer..my wife recently
had a series of operations to the tune of about 450,000.00..gave me her

I noticed that while downloading album artwork with the new iTunes that
it goes for a while then hangs...
Any solution or is anyone else having this problem?

My Mac is slower and slower. Not crawling slow, but definitely slower
than when I first got it.
It's a venerable PowerMac Dual G4 1 GHz (Mirrored Doors), it sports 1.25
GB of ram and two hard drives: the original 80 GB disk, and a second 200