Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

I have some problems running the periodic tool from the Terminal
application (bash):
$sudo periodic daily
Error: Can't open display:

Here are the techincal specs for my iMac
17-inch widescreen LCD
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 1x2GB, 1x1GB

It seems to me that too often I am informed that my browser does not
have the lastest Flash/RealPlayer/Multimedia/Blah Blah Blah software. I
don't care to up grade and I don't care to look at the drivel that
usually is displayed.

Hi people,
You like food, you like cooking, you like eating then footcast with
us.
My collegue and me have created a web site where you can upload your

I wish to delete the pictures on my digital camera's SD card, which is
almost full. Is it best to do it withe camera controls or computer
controls? Thank you.

I have a Mac G5 (PowerPC) running 10.4.8.
Yesterday it started acting very funny. When opening many applications I get
the following message:
          "The application xxxx quit unexpectedly. Click re open to open

I access my home Mac from work using VNC on my Windows 2000 machine
everyday.  I use Mail.app for my email client. Yesterday, aAfter I
deleted all of my unwanted and junk email, I selected:
    Mailbox --> Erase Deleted Messages --> In All Accounts

I know that this may be based on just rumours, but does anyone know when
Apple is planning to come out with new Macs (or at least variants of
existing models) and what those Macs would be like?

I have an Airport Extreme and make use of the USB connector on the
airport to connect a printer that is used by other iMacs for printing.
Can I use a USB extender that provides me with more USB ports, connect
the extender to the Airport Extreme, increase my number of USB port

I have an automator action which connects to the shares I need at
start-up.  Only problem is that it brings up the 'connect to server'
dialogue which rather defeats the bject.
Is there a way to get automator to press the 'connect' button

My friend has a powerbook 180 laptop. She tried to install music ace
which she purchased in 1996. She installed the regular one not the
quicktime one. The machine no longer fully boots up. There is welcome
to macintosh window and some other icon in the lower left. The biggest

Would really appreciate any help or advice on this one. I'm long time
mac user, and have had trouble free computing for a long time - but
I've developed a frustrating problem in the last few days:
(I also posted this on microsoft.public.mac.office.word but perhaps

My wife's MAC 7200 won't boot.  She gets a small box with a flashing ?
in the middle.  When she uses a boot disk, all that shows up on her
desktop is the CD drive that the boot disk is in.
I have a PC SCSI hard drive that I tried and though the cables fit and

I saw a 4GB flashdisk the other day - it was fairly cheap (can't
remember the exact price)
Could we ever see them becoming so cheap that they just replace those
round discs

iBook G4, OS 10.4.8
Is one type of DVD *preferred* over the other (DVD-R or DVD+R)?
Are some brands better than others?  Some I should stay away from?  Is
there any reason I shouldn't use a printable one?