Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

I have a new mac running Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.1 and Mac OS X
10.4.8  I went ahead an updated all required software. I am seeing
some issues.
- every so often my MAC will not let me login. the username and

Excuse me people, I do not have the time or motivation to learn Unix
basics, I just wanna grab and run with specific useful Unixy stuff.
So please do not lecture me about the so-called necessity of wasting
years learning basics.

I have an iMc with a bluetooth mouse, but the mouse does nothing.  I've
put in fresh batteries, but I never see a light from it.
The instruction on the apple website bear no relation to the mouse I
have - mine has a kind of switch on the bottom which slides a cover over

Hi ng,
Never even touched a Mac and now:
I have been asked to connect a Mac with OSX(Tiger) to an SCO-machine in our
network. With the Mac's Terminal I can start telnet or rlogin for the

It's true. It is very young. I was up half the night walking the
floor with it. It didn't let out a single cry, but it gurgled and
gurgled till sunrise, then it finally fell asleep. :-)
Okay.

I managed to do a backup of an old iBook before it died.
I used CarbonCopyCloner to a disk, with clone to disk image.
This creates a sparse disk image of the original disk at the new disk's
root directory.

My ibook G4 won't start.  A week ago it stopped while I was
transferring data using Firewire.  I restarted and it gave me
the flashing question mark for over 5 minutes.  I restarted
again and it started up fine.  But since then, if the laptop

I'm having a trouble with Firefox. I use Firefox because sometimes
Safari kills my router when it opens too many connections. Safari only
cared about speeding up the loading of webpage with interlaced
multiple connections. Netgear router doesn't like such situations. So,

I have an old Mac Performa that has the old style mini disk reader in it and
I want to connect this through USB to my PowerMac G4 so that I can update my
old Microsoft Word files to Microsoft Office 2001.  Can I do this directly
through a USB cable connection?

ive bought an external drive to store all my mac's files and
applications. i want to be able to just dump it all onto the drive,
reinstall my mac and then start dragging across my applications as i
need them.

if i burn applications to a CD/DVD can i run those applications
whenever i insert that CD/DVD

There is a way of creating "enhanced" podcasts, which a lot like audio
books, each part of the broadcast indexed with its own properties like
graphics and title. Apparently this enhancement is done using GarageBand.
One example of enhanced podcasting is MacCast, which you download ...

It has already outsold all mac operating systems in existence. Vista
machines are also flying out the doors.

I thought this could be done easy in Preview, or am I missing
something here ?!?!  Should I be opening the document in another
application ?
Thanks

I've been looking at companies that sell refurbished Macs, and some of
them claim to restore original software before reselling the machines,
but don't include the original CDs.  What's the best way to back up the
installed OS, particularly OS X?  Is it even considered fully ...