Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

I have an eMac recently upgraded to 10.4.7 and increased memory to
accomodate it.  I was hoping this would solve a problem I have in
getting streaming audio and video, typically You Tube, radio stations
online, and Pandora/Music Genome.  On some things it is better and I do

I'm a recent switcher (not completely, I use both) from XP and I have 2
questions -
1 - Is there anyway to bypass the trash can and just delete a file? For
example, in windows if you hit shift-delete, you can delete a file

I got a Blue and white G3 450 on ebay.
1 gig ram 20 gig hd
OS X 10.1.5
I have a 100 gig seagate internal I got for my PC but never used I'd

I have two admin accounts on my Mac, running OS X 10.3.9.  I wrote a
complex shell script that performs backups every night of the both
accounts.  This script uses hdiutil to create a .dmg file.
When I run the "hdituil create" command from one of these accounts, it

Core duo mac mini, 10.4.7
Installed Warcraft Battle Chest, applied latest patch online.
Experienced frequent unexpected quits.
Opened Disk Utility, attempted to verify permissions. Disk Utility

IMac G5, 2Ghz, 10.4.7.
While at Apple's web site:
I DO get audio playing the "Special Event" video of Steve Jobs.
I DO NOT get any audio trying to play movie trailers or the tv ads.

Suddenly the window pane on my iMac OS 10.4 has disappeared.  I still
get the control bar, and iTunes still functions but i cant seem to get
back the full window pane that shows what songs are listed and the
visualizer only works in full screen mode.

a new macbook i bought recently gets very hot on the bottom - centered
below the 2 or W key. i've owned 5 or 6 mac laptops over the last 10yrs
and have never experienced anything like it.
the battery is not one that has been recalled by apple.

I have my "F12" key assigned as a shortcut for "Sleep," using the System
Preferences panel for keyboard and mouse (all applications).
However, I've noticed that that shortcut seems to periodically vanish.
I haven't been able to nail down what I'm doing at the time it vanishes,

Just got a new 24" iMac yesterday. Yeehaw! It's fantastic. The screen is
actually so bright that I turned it down. I'm using it as my media
center; I don't have a TV.
I have the digital optical audio output connected to my surround sound

I bought an Apple-brand "iPod AV Connection Kit." When I connect to my
TV, whether a composite input or a S-Video input, I get only stereo
audio. The TV is a Sony HD LCD.
Thoughts?

I just got a new 1680x1050 widescreen monitor for my mac mini (g4).  It
works pretty good with the VGA in, but I'd like to get the DVI working.
Whenever I plug it in using the DVI port, it says "out of range".  
I've dropped the resolution down to as low as 800x600 and then

We have tested this a few ways and have come to an issue with Mac OSX
10.4.7 on Intel Macs not allowing us to change our network password on
Windows Servers.
We currently have Active Directory running on W2K3 servers w/SP1.  We

I'm running macosx 10.4.7 on a G4. Yesterday I woke the moac up from sleep
and launched Entourage. Up popped a dialogue asking if I wanted it to be
the default mail program so I said yes.
Entourage contains absolutely none of my mail messages neither does it

I'm in a hotel, connecting to the internet using an open airport connection.
Just out of curiosity I went to Steve Gibson's page
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2 and ran a scan of my ports.
It says port 22 is open.  My firewall is set not to allow remote login-SSH