Mac Forum / General / General / April 2007

I work for a company that requires Win2K or WinXP to access their
intranet. I also have a copy of Win98 and a Win2K upgrade disk. Will I
be able to successfully install Win2K via this path on a mac?
TIA,

Someone I know has a collection of older Macs: G3 iMacs, PowerPCs, and
an LC3. He's used AOL for years, and so has old email on all of them.
He got the idea that he'd like to have them on his new Intel iMac.
I expect this would be a royal PITA to attempt, both transferring data

A year ago I got a G4 Mini with an internal modem.  According to
Activity Monitor, the characteristic download speed is 5.86 kB/sec.
I've never understood that.  I would expect it to vary a little.
If it dropped back, it would drop all the way to 3.66.  That happened

I just set up a mirrored RAID array with 2 500 gig disks. Just got the
dreaded flashing folder when I rebooted after installing the new version
of BOINC. With a series of Disk Warrior, Disk Utility and a Safe boot,
the computer is now running fine again, although I'm not at all sure

I'm new to mac. And bought a 2nd hand dual ppc 2 ghz g5 to start with
mac. I like it, but yesterday immediatly after power-on the mac
switched off. It smelled like burnt so I decided to open the mac. I
checked the power supply and test power-up with only one cpu. tada! it

Sorry about the silly typo in the previous header, but here is what I
MEANT to say:
Is there some reason that iMovie (6) won't paste audio clips at the
playhead? I have been copying and pasting audio tracks that go with a

Iv got a home network, with a firewall, and a WPA password, but I have
a feeling somebody is one my network. here's why;
When i click on the wireless symbol in the menu bar sometimes i have a
computer-to-computer network. the name of it is; WASC-0016410286e1-

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Any recomendations for a program that will allow me to convert DVDs to
video thatll play on an ipod video ( a mac program that is)??? Hope
you guys can help, you always do. Thanks-Jonathan

I find white too bright, plus it uses up more electricity, as a
background color.  Is there any way of setting a different background
default color in OS X?  A medium gray might be pleasant on the eyes.

I don't know if there is already a topic about this but I'd like some
help. I'm trying to put an Gnome desktop environment on Mac OS X
instead of Quartz. Is it possible and how to do it?
And is it possible just to install Beryl or Compiz (soon this is gonna

Have a directory NFS-mounted on a FreeBSD machine.
Nothing changed on that machine, but there were
some changes in the DNS server on another machine.
Now, the Macs can still list navigate normally

Yeah, I know, not really a post for this group. Where do the
Darwin-heads hang out?
Anyway, on the off chance: the following program is supposed to
segfault, but doesn't. I've tried on linux, and there is bombs as it

I realize I should probably submit this to their support staff, but
it's neither my copy of Parallels nor my Mac. A friend of mine
recently purchased an Intel iMac, and a copy of Parallels Desktop. I
helped her get Windows XP installed, as well as her Windows

I've got all my apps's original disks or access on the Web via the
registration, and I've got my data backed up to an external disk, but I
don't have a clue where all my prefs and bookmarks (Web browser,
Interarchy, and such) are. If my internal drive goes, I can restore