Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

Sorry if this post appears several times - my PC has gone a bit
bonkers (which is part of the reason I'm writing this post!).
Now that Macs use Intel chips, why can't you just put OSX on to a
wiped PC?

I really like the say command and it would be great if i could get a
FRENCH version also .
Does anyone know if that is possible ?

Ok, a co-worker brought his G4 in for some troubleshooting.  After he
installed Security Update 2007-04 it refuses to boot completely.  It does,
however, boot completely in safe mode.
We've temporarily removed all startup and login items to no avail.  We've

I have two hard drives in my G4 1GHz AGP. One is my primary and the
other is my secondary or backup drive.  This works great but there is no
need to keep the secondary drive running all the time.  I am not aware
of an OSX command to shut down one drive.  To work around this OSX

I have an iMac running  )SX 10.3.9 and I filled it up so much it won't
boot. Dumb I know.   But now since I have myself into this mess is
there some way  to boot the computer externally and then delete some
files so it will work again. I lost all my personal photos and iTunes.

... yet another Content Management System insisting I have to be IE 5.5
or better before they let me in. I know I can choose the user agent from
one of the Safari debug menus, but that only gets me 5.2. Does Safari
store its User Agent string somewhere that I can edit it?

My hard drive has been thrashing for two days now and I'm tired of
listening to and waiting for it. Does it ever stop, or does it just
keep indexing forever?
If this is normal behavior for Google Desktop, Google Desktop is

Who is Jesus?
Without a doubt, you have often heard the claim that Jesus is God, the
second person in the "Holy trinity." However, the very Bible which is
used as a basis for knowledge about Jesus and as the basis for

I would like to have multiple workscreens available like I could using
gnome in linux.  How do I set this up in mac os.  Thanks, Rudy

Now that Macs have Intel chips, why can't you just install a Mac OS on
a PC?  (This may be a techncially stupid question - if so forgive me).
Sean

In what is now the old (Macintosh II) days, Apple published Inside
Macintosh. Often, it was called the "phone book." ROM had its own address
space distinct from RAM
Inside Macintosh had a list of hundreds if not thousands of system calls to

I would have thought this was easy, but apparently its impossible
according to Applecare (in fact one, second tier technician, told me its
easily done using iSync, but AFAIK it doesn't sync across a network)
Surely I'm not the only person ever to have wanted to do this?

I'm poking around the Disk Utility in OS X 10.4.8, setting up an
external drive I'm going to be using for backup purposes for my home
and work laptops.  I've split it into two partitions easily enough.
The work laptop is Windows and I'll be using TrueCrypt to encrypt one

I have recently recovered from a memory chip failure that caused my G4
Powerbook to use excessive amounts of Virtual Memory.
My Activity Monitor now shows VM size = 6.1 GB (confirmed with Unix 'top'
command), with few programs running and only one swap file of 64mb showing

Windows is the only non-UNIX OS
that must mean its doomed .