Mac Forum / General / General / April 2007

Hello!  I need to get a copy Stuffit Deluxe version 7, their last
version compatible with MacOS 9.  If you got this, please list it on
eBay!  :)

Sooner or later my beloved Microsoft Trackball Explorer is going to
die.  Now that its unbelievably expensive (over $100 usually) I'm
wondering what other Mac users recommend for a Trackball.  Logitech
and Kensington are 2 popular options.

Please excuse my ignorance, but I have a question regarding the url on my
.mac web site.  I created a web site using iWeb for the purpose of selling
my home.  The site is great, it's just that the url from .mac is quite long.
I can use www.tinyurl.com to make a shorter one, but ...

If one wanted wipe the hard drive before disposing of a dinosaur for
which the system disks cannot be found, how might one go about booting
the system so you could re-format the hard drive?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Apple jumped 38 spots to No. 121 on Fortune's annual listing of the top
500 US corporations. The company, which saw its revenues increase nearly
40 percent and its and profits surge by almost 50 percent from 2005, has
a market value of $80.6 billion. Apple ranks fourth in its ...

I am trying to read lots of files from a DVD to my harddisk and get many
files that can not copied. Some files are locked while others can not be
read at all.
Are there any tools or procedures that I can try?

Today I honored a request to clone one iMac onto another iMac. Both iMacs
were Intel based and other than the newer one having a Core 2 Duo processor
instead of a Core Duo processor they appeared to be identical.
I cloned by putting both iMacs into target disk mode and then ...

I have an external USB hard disk and I use it to move huge files (+4
gb's) between Windows and a Mac OS X computers. My problem is that
FAT32 doesn't support files bigger than 2GB (or is it 4?) and NTFS is
not supported in Mac OS X for writing. Anyone knows a filesystem or

Finding this with Google is just totally aggravating.  Can anyone let
me know how to release and renew my IP address with Terminal?  "Renew
DHCP Lease" just doesn't work for me.  I keep on getting the same IP
address.  My cable company of course tries to give me the same IP

My mum's ISP changed the dial-up number, so I created a new configuration in
Internet Connect, but every time I select "Connect" from the menu bar, it
selects the old configuration in Internet Connect.
What am I doing wrong?

Fairly new so bear with me.
I have a 4 gig USB stick that move between pc and Mac. Now there is a folder
that I can't delete or unlock on it. It says that the folder isn't empty but
when I look in there is nothing there (even though it actually had quite a

I am trying to read lots of files from a DVD to my harddisk and get many
files that can not copied. Some files are locked while others can not be
read at all.
Are there any tools or procedures that I can try?

Is there any way of deleting messages?  I can mark them read, but they
are still displayed.  I'd like to have 3 types:  unread and visible,
read and visible, read and invisible.  That way I can save pertinent
messages for later and am not distracted by irrelevant messages.

I am using a late G4 desktop running 10.4.9. It happens in several ways.
One way is that I put my computer to sleep pressing the power button once
(It is set up to do so). I hear a click from the computer (relay?) as if it
goes to sleep, but the screen stays illuminated. My cursor ...

In the past few weeks I've been regularly burning recordings from Eye
TV 2.3.3 to Toast 8 using LG DVD-R 1-8x blanks - yesterday I had two
writes to fail and on the third try I got an error -39 (end of file.)
I've not had any problems with these disks writing at 2x speed. I tried ...