Mac Forum / General / General / December 2006

I have 2 iMacs, a G4 and a G5. The G5 does not have Classic installed but
there is an icon for it in my system preferences.
The G4 came with Classic installed but there is no icon for it in my system
preferences. It is available as one of my startup disks. Whenever I restart,

I was searching with Spotlight for a string in a large directory of
text files.  The string I wanted to search for had a backslash
character "\" in it.  But I got matches to files with my string even
without the backslash.  Perhaps I need some escape character to search

I have an HP Photosmart 8450 printer.  One reason I got it is that it
has built-in ethernet, so my housemate and I could both access it
without either of us having to leave her computer on as a printer server.
Well, I no longer have a housemate, and have only one computer.  So my

It would be nice to be able to have a keyboard shortcut that would allow
one to instantly see all the message titles on a page without the
Message Body on the bottom, for those times when you want to check
something among many messages.  Dragging the bar that separates the

I want to replace my PowerBook G4 but not until 10.5 comes out.  Any
guesses on when that might be?

About a week ago iTunes stopped working.
It starts to launch and then just quits
while the dock icon is still bouncing.
I deleted all traces of the old iTunes

Everyone has problems with his 15" display?

Earlier I posted a query on ways to help me overcome the inability of a
Intel MacPro to shutdown, restart or logout from the Apple menu. It
still will not after extensive questioning from as many forums as I
can. Even in safe boot mode, I either put it to sleep or force a

I need to print to a Laserwriter 16/600PS that is
connected to my LAN.  I don't know how to
figure out what the IP address of the printer is
or how to add the driver to Windows 2000 Pro.

My Select 360 finally gave up the ghost after 11 years. haha. I
replaced it with another laser printer. For me its an upgrade, HP 4M
Plus with 32 MB ram, Post Script, and Ethernet. Any one need an Asante
Talk? Unfortunately, HP no longer has the installation manual PDF on

I've licenced Appleworks 6, ostensibly to allow us to open documents from
my daughter's teachers.
  I'll be giving my family an iMac 20" for Christmas, and would like to move
Appleworks from my Powerbook to their iMac.

"...can be found. Would you like to join the network XXX?" So says an
alert message when my MB Pro awakens.
But XXX *is* my network -- one of my three wireless stations, a master
and two relays. Looking at the AirPort tab in Sys Prefs > Network, it

Howdy all
I just got an ibook g3 white from ebay.It seems the user before me had the
security set to have you login when the computer is turned on.I managed to
boot into the shell and change the password so i can log in now.

I know that default block size for HFS+ is 4KBytes. How can i format an
HFS+ volume with blocksize larger than 4KBytes. There is a utility
called Gformat, that allows you to do this. But the problem is that
Gformat does not works on my intel based mac mini.

Is there any way for me to run legacy apps on my MacBook Pro?  More
specifically, I'd like to be able to play "Castles: Siege and Conquest"
again, and I've tried my hand at the Mac emulators (Basillisk, SoftMac,
PearPC) and haven't had much luck.  I really don't want to go buy an