Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

I am new to MacOSX.
When a open a terminal, if I want to login as root (using the su
command),
I am asked for a password.

I have a friend using Netscape (not Thunderbird) for e-mail.
He's having trouble with it, but he doesn't know how to find the version
number.  Can anyone here tell me what was the latest version that could
still do e-mail and if there's still a place to download it?

Lately my 3 year old Mac Powerbook G4 (OSX 10.3.9) has begun to have
some peculiar (so far) small dysfunctions. I actually posted here a
few days ago about a word file vanishing without a trace even though
there was no word crash.

Trying to print some files from my elderly grandmother's Mac for tax
purposes.
She has OSX.
She has Appleworks installed but it must run under the OS9

I have been waiting for either a price cut on the Imac. Or waiting a
little further into the year for a new Imac from Apple. Am I wasting
my time? Or should I just get a Imac right now?

So you shop around and maybe score a bit of a discount on your dream
machine.  You then configure it with the minimum (2 x 512mb, 160gb and
base video card) parts.  Then, when you take delivery of it, hopefully
you can get the dealer to give you those parts in the sealed packages ...

I am seen on several web site that when you have more then one user
account in Panther that what you switch accounts the dektop will
rotate on a 3D cube, I am unable to get it to do that. Any thoughts???

Is there anyone who has successfully converted from PC Eudora to Mac
OS X Eudora that can give me some pointers on the process?  I've done
some searching and I can find several places describing way of going
from PC Eudora to Apple's Mail, Thunderbird, Entourage, etc but not

A friend of mine has a blue and white G3 450 Powermac on which is
installed OS 10.2. He bought the machine used and it did not come with
installation disks. He has since gotten a Canon scanner that came with
software that must be used in Classic environment. Because he does not

Hi, I have a new ibook (intel core duo ones) and i forgot it swiched
on runing just on the battery last night, this mornig when I incerted
the power plug and restarted it appears with the charging light green
all the time and the battery icon with a x. The battery is not

I have mistakenly deleted the native Terminal.app from my Mac book
pro. I am running OS X (Mac OS X 10.4.8 /   Kernel Version:    Darwin
8.8.1). I would be very thankful  it if some one could zip and send me
a copy of their Terminal.app to my email hypermails@gmail.com.

Will the Samsung 940BW Widescreen Analog / Digital LCD Monitor work on a
Power Mac G4? What cables will I need?

I dont know if this is the best group to ask, but I need some opinions
on my new macbook.
It's  brand new 13" macbook with the dual core processor.  To make it
short... it is ridiculously slow with most tasks. It takes, on average,

When in Column view I find that when I get over to the 5th column, and
I click on the 2 vertical lines at the bottom of the column to
automatically widen the column so I can read all the names in that
column, nothing happens.  But only on the 5th column.  2nd, 3rd, 4th

I am having issues with the Finder when it creates a preview (column
mode) of any MP3/MP4 (iTunes plays these files with no problems) or
movie but not pictures, the Finder quit the restarts (window and finder
menu disappears and then the menu reappears). I am also experiencing an ...