Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

I've had a rash of hard drive failures recently, 3 in 3 weeks, with no
obvious connection between them. I'm wondering if I'm missing something
and they are related.
Also is there a utility which will see a drive the system doesn't? Like

I want to confirm that I can use 10.2 upgrade cd's to upgrade from
MacOS 8.6 to MacOS 10.2.
I know that I will not be able to use classic since I do not have 9.x.
Thanks

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How can I get rid, once and forever, of the ellipsis (...)
in filenames in *all* view modes.  They drive me nuts. I am
using Mac OS 10.4.7. Couldnt find anything in Preferences.
Thanks.

I have a B&W Mac G3 400, 1 Gig RAM, original ATI graphics card, Pioneer
DVR-R100 internal DVD/CD Writer(SuperDrive)and I am running Panther, OSX
10.3.9.
There seems to be no way I can play a movie on a DVD or from the

I'm looking for a way to stream all audio output from my mac to my PC.
I have a mac laptop and a Windows PC. The Windows machine is hooked
into a nice amp with nice speakers. I would like to have the sound from
my laptop to come through those speakers without connecting an audio

I have OSXVNC and "Chicken of the VNC"
In the past, I have tried other VNC clients,
but I don't remember the names except "VNCThing."
The two Macs are on the same subnet, separated

Until this year I used Netscape for email.  I could type a nickname into
the address field of an email and it would fill in the person's real
name and email address.
That was useful for two reasons.

About a year ago I upgraded to a LaCie DVD±RW burner. Even though it
played well with Toast, iTunes had a problem with it.  There was some
kind of freeware bridge that I had to download so iTunes would see it.
Unfortunately, I had to re-install OSX so that was lost. Can anyone

Why doesn't Apple provided an auxiliary DVI >input< on the iMacs? If
it had one, with an input selector switch, I'd be much more tempted to
buy one and use it as a display for my Windows PC as well. Surely I'm
not alone.

Yes, that is what happened the other day on the iMac!
I walked in to install a new usb modem for my friend and I just
inserted the CD--apparently the OS had not completed loading and I did
not check nor did I know until later.

I am running OSX 10.4.7.  Recently when I restart, it boots into open
firmware every time and I have to type in "mac-boot" to get OSX to load.  
Can anyone help me to understand what may have happened? I would like to
restart and go directly into OSX.  HELP!

I have a client who is using OS 10.3.x and she insists on hanging on to
an old HP LJ 5MP. which doesn't have an ethernet port.  She had a dayna
etherprint box for the longest time which was working fine then the box
finally died.

I'm a long-time MT-NewsWatcher user. Since I upgraded to 3.5.2 every
black-and-white .jpeg file displays as blank on my screen.
Monochrome pictures scanned in color mode display just fine, as do
colored pictures, of course.

hi guys and gals. just wondering what everyones two-bits regarding
applescript may be. i have been studying python as a first programming
language, and have been wondering if applescript might be a more
realistic and better suited solution for me. i dont necessarily need to