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any links to how to install a os on a max g4 quicksilver is
apppreciated--very familiar with windoze
tia
peter

Hey there, just wrapped up my dream setup of Macbook, LCD TV, BT Mouse,
BT Keyboard, and I'm a little disappointed to report that the range of
the BT is horrible.  Can anyone else confirm this? The moment mouse or
keyboard are more than a foot away from the Macbook, the BT ...

I have a recently repaired pismo 400. The following issue just arose:
The system powers on, and the startup gong sounds. the screen lights up, and that's all it does. it stays like that forever. If a cd is inserted, and the c held down, the cd will audibly spin up, and then the ...

We are looking to buy databases in the following industries
* Pharmacy
* Poker
* Bingo

Running Mac OS X 10.4.7 ...
After updating some software, I found that the the man command
produced the older manpage, rather the more recent manpage.
The command "man -c foo" does the right thing, but it doesn't put the

We have a failed iBook.
A recent boot led to a kernel panic (the one which says restart
without any indication that it is what it is).
Subsequent attempts at booting lead to to a screen with a blinking

Having had a great end of the summer I have been distracted away from
Mac security concerns in August. Sorry I have not kept up my weekly
posts. Here is a summary of what happened, for those interested, along
with some personal commentary at the bottom about what has turned out ...

I usually use iTerm as my terminal application, but occasionally I've
opened Terminal.app, mostly when telling friends what to do in a
terminal (just to be sure that Terminal.app supported the dropping of
folders, for instance).

Sad Day,
Steve Irwin aka the Crocodile Hunter was killed while filming with
Sting Rays....
http://www.pbxinfo.com/forums/showthread.php?p=101735

so what would you say the best free software for a Mac is?
Empress2454 #124457
The best Games
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I have a Mac Mini with 512Mb RAM running MacOSX 10.4.7, which I purchased
specifically for cross-platform testing of websites. I'm experiencing some
unusual behaviour on certain browsers only whereby hyperlinks don't seem to
be "recognised" i.e. when the mouse is hovered over a ...

Hi, I just swapped hard drives out on my iMac with that from another
iMac.  I had a 10 GB hard drive running 10.2.8 and I replaced it with a
20 GB hard drive running 10.3.9.
My problem is that I just noticed this hard drive only has 800 MB left

I am new to the Mac world and I have a few questions. I have a newtwork
set up at home I have a Windows/Linux box and my Imac connected via
ethernet and a notebook that is connected via wireless. The
windows/linux box and the notebook are all able to print from the

At some point an error occurred while I was editing a file with
Aquamacs.  Now, whenever I exit Aquamacs (e.g. with command-Q) a screen
comes up with residue from the bad editing session and I have to press
Enter to accept the default option (save as UTF-8) and exit.  I have

This is a problem that has probably been discussed here, but it's new
for me.  Thanks for your time in advance.
I would like to upgrade an iMac flat panel circa 2002 that is running
10.1.5 to 10.4 Tiger.  This is the basic iMac of that series and does