Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

can anybody help me?
i got an older Power Pc (Imac) with mac os 10.4.8 installed on the hd.
i got the mac for special program, that can only run on an mac, So ,
as i tried out to install the prg, the mac said, i have no classic OS

How do i pick and choose what i would like to share from my
administrator account to my Managed account on my single computer?
I want to be able to access identical files from one location...Music
files, movies, docs.... stuff like that.

I received a CD-R that came from windows with a bunch of photos and I
was supposed to add some more to the same disc.
I burned my photos with Toast, adding another session.
The problem now is that from finder (or any other app I know) I can

How can I burn a data-CD on my (MacOS 10.4.9) Powerbook G4 so that
it'll be fully compatible with an old 68K Mac running MacOS 7.6.1?
I burnt several CDs (with files and software) on the 68K Mac to begin
with, but needed to re-organize their contents only to burn new CDs.

It will not move anything, anywhere - to a folder, to trash, to another
HD, etc.
I can Copy a Word and TextEdit file and can then cmd-V into another HD.
I can also move any file from another HD or the Internet into this HD.

My 20 inch G5 imac (bought in late 2004) started turning itself off
randomly, then refusing to boot in anything but target mode.  I took it
into the dealer, who said "the logic board is failing" and it would cost
$1000 to replace it, which seems excessive to me when I can get a ...

I want to transfer files from one hard disc to the other.
Can I just plug them together via ethernet?
Would I need a crossover cable? Haven't got one at the moment, just
straight.

IN your opinion what is the best way to share files between LInux and
MAC OS X?
I set up SAMBA on the LInux machine and the MAC (running the very
latest OSX) can copy files to the SAMBA share at lightning speeds.

I recently noticed that when I unplugged my imac (two year old, G5)
for 30 minutes, that I need to reset the clock. Makes me think the
battery is dead.
Here's my question - Could this be causing my problems with crashing

Everytime I put vidoes on my ipod it have sound but if I play it on my
computer it does thank you

I've noticed on several macs (laptops and desktops) that burning cd's
or dvd's is slow compared to a pc with winXP.
Why is that?
I had to burn ISO images from a download and it took over 1 hour to

I have 10.4.9.  In System Preferences, my mouse tracking speed is set in
the middle.  If I log out and log back in, the tracking speed will be
slow until I restart.  What could cause it?

I've been running Linux since late 1995. I consider myself to be a power
user: compiling kernels, modifying source code for apps, writing utilities
in perl, etc.
I find myself growing weary of needing to check many (sometimes old and

Thats a bit of a bummer as its used quite often in shell scripts etc
Why no hash symbol on my powerbook keyboard ?
#  = hash

My problem is that for the last 10 plus years I have been slaving away
at my website.  It is not for nothing that www.religiousfreedomwatch.org
is constantly and daily voted one of the top ethical and useful sites
on the world wide web.