Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

I like to customize KB shortcuts for certain applications using System
Preferences-> KB and Mouse-> KB Shortcuts. For example, it is convenient
in Mail to use opt-cmd-X to delete Junk Mail instead of the default
opt-cmd-J since on my powerbook it's less of a stretch of the ...

I'm looking for either an original System disc for a Blue & White G3
Powermac or a fully bootable copy of OS 8.5.1 for a machine that i
have
inherited. I can't install any other OS on the box until I have done a

G3 White iBook @ 900 MHz is very sick, if not already past the bar. It
will occasionally start to boot up, but hit a kernel panic while doing
so, with horizontal lines through the display, which is very unsolid in
apprearance on top of that (blinking, sputtering if you will).

Get used to me Chumps.  I'm going to be here for a long while.  You are a
highly amusing and entertaining group of macfish.
I love it here.
PS: notice how effective the KF is?

Two 350-MHz slot-loaders, identical motherboards, identical hard drives.
One has 128 Meg RAM more than the other.
Both have identical, up-to-date installations of 10.3.9
(I use RsyncX to keep them in synch)

On Apple keyboards, there's a "help" button below F14. On some
applications, it just brings up the help viewer, but on others it
changes the mouse into a question mark. This is presumably so you can
click on whatever part of the window you need help with, but it doesn't

Does anyone know the name of this font?  I was assured by a work colleague
that it can be found in Font Book, but damned if I can find it:
http://www.cafesociety.uk.com/other/font.gif

Does anyone have experience using a VPN with Vista business edition in
Parallels? I'm not getting any connectivity, yet my VM of XP works
just fine. Is this an issue with the 'added security' that Vista
supposedly implements?

I want to add as much ram as possible to my G-4.
I have 3 Ram slots, one has a 256mb module in it.
If I add 2 more, do they have to be 256MB?
Do all 3 have to be the same size?

"None of the checked updates could be installed.
"The digital signature for this package is incorrect. The package may
have been tampered with or corrupted since being signed by "Apple".
This is the message I received after attempting to install iChat Update

Every now and then, I have to look at some old file. Today, I want to look
at a sketch I made of where certain kinds of trees were planted.
Unfortunately, the sketch was made in MacDraw II. What is the best way to
read such a file? GraphicConverter is not up to translating it.

is safari going to be updated in leopard 10.5, if so how, will there be
any major new features for it...?

Desperate for help with choosing webcam
I have a friend I wish to purchase a webcam for I have no idea what this
pc can handle as I am not familiar with macs myself :( Sorry.
TIA for any help or advice you may have.

I'm at wits end here.  Applets work fine in Firefox, but not in
Safari.  "Enable Java" is checked in my Safari's Preferences >
Security, and there's a "Java Applet.plugin" in Library/Internet
Plug-Ins.

I have a NTFS-formatted external hard drive.  I want to back up my Mac
files on it.  Is there a way to do this?