Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

Is it possible to convert the existing default HFS case insensitive
filesystem
that was preloaded onto my MacBook into a HFS case sensitive
filesystem, without

I have to take a digital photograph of a page (US letter size, mostly
text). The resulting computer file would be distrubuted among several
people who for viewing and printing on both Macs and PC's.
I do not have any way to know who will have what software installed on

I just enabled windows file sharing.
But is it normal that it is sharing my entire home folder?
Should it not just share the public folder?

Is there a free font checker for 10.3.9 somewhere? I need a tool to use
one-time only that will scan the Fonts on a Mac and report on whether
they're working right, corrupted or unusable in this system. Just
something that will quickly identify the bad fonts so I can delete them.

Is he a recognizable actor, or just some random British extra?

using MacOS X 10.4.8 with a basic Mac USB keyboard that came with the
iMac and eMac - tested two keyboards and the problem must be in the
software - all of a sudden my numeric keypad doesn't work - the number
keys do something else like tab, select, etc but the plus minus

I'm persuading a client to switch to Macs and the deal-maker
(/-breaker) seems to be Boot Camp. He won't commit until Boot Camp 1.0
is released - which presumably he will get with Os 10.5. Now I need to
give him an estimate on the likely launch date for 10.5. I read

I am trying to pare down the HD on my PowerBook G4 and checked the
volume with Disk Surveyor (a great little program from OS 9 days‹wish
they'd upgrade). My main OS is 10.4.8.
I note a few of folders that use up a lot of space, viz.

I don't know either, but I'm sure he'll get plenty of action. I've never
see so many people take the bait!

I have only had my Macbook for 3 months and the hard drive failed
last
weekend. Luckily I had everything backed up - I did several backup
routines using the Apple programme including backing up the whole

i was thinking of buying leopard 10.5 but will all the software work
with it, for example i have Microsoft office 2004, will that ( and
other commonly used software like firefox and VLC ) work with it.
because when u get the software it says its compatible with 10.4....

This may sound crazy but some of us are concerned with radiation being
emitted from a radio transmitter beside our brains for several hours a
day.  I thought, wouldn't it be sweet if you could have a wired headset
to a wireless Bluetooth receiver/transmitter which could be placed ...

When I download files they go to my Desktop currently by default.  How
can I instead designated a particular folder in which to place all
downloads?

At Comp USA.  The whole store was filled wall to wall with Windows programs.
But in the far back corner, next to the bathroom there was a small rack,
FILLED with about 15 mac programs.

Right now my network is setup to use my ISPs name servers.
Can I use a mac on my network as a domain name server?
i.e. is there a dnsd that I can run, native to mac os x?
1) I'd like to cauch lookups (for faster web browsing)