Mac Forum / General / General / December 2006

I have a Mac Mini connected to a PS/2 keyboard and mouse and VGA screen via
a Belkin KVM.
The built-in British keyboard layout does not correspond exactly to the PS/2
keyboard, so I have used Ukelele to remap the keys which don't "fit".

Recently I noticed a strange problem with the keychain under MacOSX
10.4.8 (Intel iMac).
In general if an application "A" stored some data in the keychain and
you install an update of application "A" later, the keychain will ask if

I've just turned on my Mac Pro after a fortnight of being turned of,
and I've discovered that the part of the menubar where Spotlight sits
seems to have crashed.
When I put my mouse over the Spotlight icon, I get the swirlng busy

Yesterday i've changed a bit the httpd.conf file on my box.
One of the changes was to set the root document to my HOME/Sites, then
faterwards i've restarted the server.
(either from Terminal "httpd restart" or from Preferences On/Off Web

have a macbook now, but my last powerbook i tried a bluetooth keyboard
(apple) and bluetooth mouse (MS)
keyboard would connect immediately from sleep. Bluetooth mouse would
have to register a couple of clicks to come out of sleep..take a second

Last year I purchased a dual-core 2 GHz G5 (PPC). I am running the
latest OS. The machine sits on the floor off to the side of my desk.
The noticeable constant fan noise is starting to bother me. I had the
same issue for 4 years with my G4 Quicksilver and was under the

Is there a way to use the Apple Front Row remote controller to
control other applications? And/or a way to map the remote's
buttons to other functions?
Mark

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I'm selling my IPOD 20 GB because I want an IPOD video, and my present
IPOD is a bit obsolete,  but I've heard that the video is not the best
to watch stuff on because the screen is not too big. True? Anyway, I've
heard of rumors of a new IPOD video coming that would be a full ...

I have a 12" G4 PowerBook, recently the US style folding mains plug on
the power adapter failed.  It makes intermittent contact and arcs
internally.  I have the cord style mains plug that I can use the
adapter for now but I would like to replace this folding plug.  I

I'm currently using my Mac Book Pro for Aperture and I find it a little
slow. I'm considering
an upgrade to the new Mac Pro desktop - the question is how much of a
difference in performance will there be using Aperture?

For the 2nd time I bought a monitor that has built-in speakers that the
manufacturer implies is to be plugged into the sound card of the
computer (usually shown as headphone output).  This time it is into a
Mac sound output (shown as a pair of headphones).  The first time it

Is there any way to tern of the sleep light that terns on when i tern
of my mac (imac G4)
Preferable some kind of thing that i can do within the system like a
program or something like that?

I bought my wife an ipod nano red for Christmas. I was hoping to have
all of her favorite music imported and ready to go for Christmas
morning. So far I have found 3 CDs that won't import. The Madonna CD's
give the error

I moved my music collection to a external Hard Disk, and what I have
done is to create a Mirror on the external HD. So all I need is to know
how can I change the the path where ITunes locate the Files, because
the raltive path is still the same, the only thing which is different