Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

Help please.
I'm new to Mac but when I used to start up my intel  iMac it booted to the
usual user interface (Finder etc). Now when I boot an icon representing the
Mac HD comes up on the screen. This has an arrow beneath it and when I click

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Hey folks...I need some help. I've got a powermac G5 that has some
sort of issue with external devices being attached to the USB port on
the keyboard (or at least that's my only idea why this keeps
happening). The computer locks up...we'll restart it, then it just

Anyone know of an easy place to query a Mac serial number to see if it's
stolen? Is there a database out there?
I'm in dire need of two new Macs, and sometimes I see deals on
craigslist, for example, that seem far too good to be true. On the other

Just wondering what the US take is on this issue that's getting UK Mac
(and Linux) users in a panic: The issue of on-demand video content, and
how Microsoft seems to have it all wrapped up, thereby excluding all but
their own platform.

Hardware aside, Apple has been an R&D division of Microsoft. Let's
face it. And it's sad.
Without Apple, desktop & laptop computing would still be trying to run
on some "updated" version of MSDOS. Anyone remember the "good ol'

My 80GB Macbook HD failed last weekend and today I received my shiny
160GB Hitachi replacement. When I compared both disks I noticed that
the new disk did not have a 4 pin power connector (it looks like a
power connector anyway). The new drive has the two data connector

From a Newsweek interview with Bill Gates:
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every
single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can
be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on

Whenever I open the Finder window it is only about 5" x 7" and I have to
enlarge it manually.
Can I set the default window size of the finder window?
I'm using OS 10.4.8

Also posted on comp.sys.mac.app.  This seems like an issues that might
be addressed on either group.
I'm having trouble with the CanoScan Toolbox application on my iMac w/
OS 10.4.8.   This application is working fine on another Mac in our

I've been on the lookout for a way to share a common home folder with
a Windows system. Specifically I have a 2003 server from which I can
mount files without a hitch. Is there a natural mechanism to sync up
automatically a local copy of my home folder on my Mac (running Tiger)

Hey there,
I already have boot camp installed, and i am looking at installing
parallels desktop as well. I want to run a few programs in coherence
mode and dont want to boot the actual computer into XP unless i am

I am fairlly new to macs, but one thing that is bothering me, when I
search television news websites I have problems on some viewing video
clips and streaming video, on others it works fine.  I have tried to
download media player and real play, but for some web sites it still

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 have to admit that just about the only feature that i like about
windows vista is the breadcrumbs feature... It is a bar on the bottom
of an explorer (the MS version of finder) window that allows you to
see the entire path of a file.