Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

As subject.  Is this possible?  I have a KVM switch and was wondering if I
could put my Mac onto this and just use the PC keyboard.

Yesterday, at the town dump, I saw a woman droppping off what looked like a
computer monitor...she left, I drove up, and it was an iMac 9.2.  I thought,
well, it must be junk, but I'll grab it anyway, and see if I can fix it.
( I know  nothing about Macs, but am pretty much a ...

My Mac is retired school ibook. It has an open firmware password
enabled on it and the school hasn't been able to provide me with the
correct one. The one they gave me doesn't work and they haven't come up
with any other suggestions.

If I have OS X on a separate partition as my other programs and have
this working in a Raid 0 setup, and one of the hard drives dies, do I
lose all my information on both hard drives and both partitions
automatically?  Can I even use partitions in Raid 0?

I have aquired a used Powerbook (G4 Titanium 500MHz VGA -- Mercury) and
have a pretty strange problem.  OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.4 Tiger will not
boot up correctly with graphics acceleration enabled.  With OS 9.2.2
the system will freeze when the extensions are loading during boot,

Ran the Monolingual s/w today to find some extra HD space on my MBP.
Unfortunately, I also deleted PPC architecture files, which the s/w
buries warning against doing in the docs only.
Now, none of my PPC-based s/w (MSFT Office, Photoshop, etc) that needs

Primary need: Administer a Mac and provide help for a Mac user in Iowa
from one of my Macs in Maryland.
Secondary need: Administer other Macs, maybe one Windows machine, on my
home network, provide help for SWMBO remotely.

Is there any substantial difference between connecting a printer via
ethernet or USB?
When I had a roommate, I had the printer connected to my router so both
her and my Macs could use the printer without having to go through

I wonder if anyone has any ideas on this. I have a iMac G5 (20"/2.0)
with 1 Gig Ram, running 10.4.7, with all updates. The last couple of
days when I have left it on for a long time, it will freeze on shutdown.
By freeze, I mean that all apps will quit except for the finder. Then ...

Remember a few days ago I posted about new Mini with Tiger 'freezing' so
that the mouse would move but no click would be hear nor any key-press
response?
Last night Mail was the only application running (all night).

"Could not locate the default folder for saving messages"
Using MT 3.4 on OS X 10.4.7.  
I've tried creating folders, using a default Users/Documents folder, etc
but nothing works.  The same stupid message comes up over and over.  

I have a G3 with OS X and am planning to use it with my DSL connection
and a NO-IP static address to host my personal sites. About 7 or 8
different domains sites. The DSL is off a router in my bedroom. Do I
need NO-IP? Does my IP change?

I tried to help a friend who has a Macintosh running OS 9.1. He is not
very good at computers, and I haven't owned a Macintosh since system
7... ;-/
Anyway, he now have only a very poor resolution on his screen, I think

I am a MacBook lab admin at a community college. One of the students
checked out a MacBook which has OS Tiger on it. When I got it back I
checked the modifications to the folders in the HD (Applications,
Library, Users and System) and the information on each of the  folders

I have a 7300/200 Mac and will be moving to Indonesia soon to work in a
PC environment. I need to take about 1-2Gb of data and I need to be
able to download it onto their PCs. (My Mac doesn't have USB ports.)
Suggestions?