Mac Forum / General / General / April 2007

Something occasionally goes wrong with my machine (PPC running 10.4.9)
whose first symptom is typically cut & paste breaking, followed by
applications refusing to quit or quitting very slowly (even using
force quit) & finally the machine refusing to let me log out.

Here's what worked for me...
The font corruption problem continued to spread to other apps so I
started from the the OSX 10.4 DVD's and ran the disk ulility app on the
startup drive. I had it repair permissions, and scan & repair the drive

I've been running 2 20" apple monitors with a Radeon 9800 256 card for
some time, this morning my monitors where messed up. I guess the card
is dead.
I reinstalled my original video card and now I've got at least one

I am new to programming on a Mac, I need to be able to do the
following:
start two mac computers and simultaneously open 16 QuickTime Movies 8x
computer and distribute each movie to 16 multiple screens (8x

Have you all seen David Pogue's recent hilarious vodcast on New York
Times Video (on iTunes), entitled, "The Router Diaries" in which the
Airport Extreme was the only one of four 802.11n routers to perform
anywhere near the advertised speed?

I have a problem with iMac & Windows.
After energy failure I've got system scandisk process on next start
up...
On blue screen it was written something like this:

I want to burn some data CDs (containing AIFF audio and PDF files) and
they should be readable on just about any computer system out there
(Macs, PCs, Linux etc).
I believe I've named the files without any special characters, so that

I posted this to the comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc  group yesterday and
haven't had a nibble yet.  Y'all have been kind to me on other
occasions, so I'll post it here, too, and hope I don't get shot at.  "-)
"Any reason I can't blow some canned air at it to clean out , uh, food

It seems that each and every Macintosh user have their own preferences for
organizing their desktops and applications. This is quite apparent when
comparing how my significant other and I, sitting within a few feet of each
other, set up or Macs. I've dubbed my approach ...

When I reboot, I loose my printers. This is because the background
process cupsd is not running. I can manually start it. I do this using
Printer Setup Repair. (In the remote past, I had done it through the
bash shell.) Once I do this, the printers reappear.

My wife's desktop is filling up.   This is our first Mac, and we hate
desktops full of icons.
A lot of these are .dmg files she can delete.   Some of them are less
obvious.

I often have about 30 apps running (plus widgets and various OS-X apps
like mds and WindowServer). When first launched, the system runs
smoothly. But I notice that a lot of apps use more and more virtual
memory, the longer they run. It's not unusual for Activity Monitor to

A friend who is still running OS 9 on an iMac is looking for a way out
of the high cost of cartridges for her inkjet printer.
Any suggestions for a low-end laser printer with OS 9 drivers and USB?
thanks

So I'm moving a file from one folder to another.  When I have it on
top of the folder I want it to go in the column moves to the left.  Is
there any way of stopping this? I don't remember the Finder always
doing this but I could be mistaken.