Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

hey folks,
as a win user, i have many gigabytes of divx encoded .AVI files (lets
not get into *that* -- im committed to the format because my dvd
player decodes them natively, which i like).

Hey all,
I'm a new mac and protools user. Here's my situation. I've got a mac
g4 quicksilver w/ dual 800 mhz processers, 1.5 gigs of memory, os
10.2.7 with protools 6.0

Hello, Group!
    I accidently solved an issue that I had with my mac-mini since I bought
it about two years ago. My desktop froze to a crawl when I was trying to
rip a CD that had some scratches - it would take literally minutes to

   How do I share files from a Windows file server?
Many thanks,
-T

The zero-day crack that was used at the recent "PWN-To-Own"
contest to break into a user account on a Mac OS X 10.4.9 MacBook
Pro has been patched with a new QuickTime update. Theoretically
this returns the current Mac OS X platform to the state of

I've installed MacPorts, but I'm a bit confused as to what to do next.
How do I find what is in the repos?
Is it meant to supercede Darwin ports?
Does it superecede Darwin ports?

I have an USB airport adapter that is not working. When I plug it in, it
is listed in System Profiler (with the correct name, apparently) but it
is not listed in System Preferences, Network, Ports.
The main computer on which I want to use it is running 10.3.9, but I

Can anyone advise please?
My Mqc has suddenly taken to long periods of private thinking, ie spinning
beach balls or just inactive responses (up to about 20secs or more
sometimes).

Apologies for the off-topic post...and for the length of this post.
I have one of the first-generation black Intel Core Duo MacBooks. It
is equipped with the 80GB SATA hard drive and 2GB worth of RAM. It is
now running Mac OS X 10.4.9 and is kept fully up to date. Because I

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Can anyone recommend a product that allows virtual installs of
pre-Tiger versions of MacOS X on PowerPC-based Tiger Macs?
Why do I need this? I'm tired of keeping old hardware lying around to
test my app releases on OSX 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3. The newer PowerPC

In an attempt to reduce the clutter on my physical desktop, I bought an
all-in-one to replace a printer, scanner, FAX/copier.  It's the HP
Photosmart C6180.
It offers me three ways (with a variation on one of them) to connect to

This is my first attemp at a mac and I'm hoping you can all help me
out. Here's my situation:
I bought a dual 800 quicksilver off of ebay. One 80bg hd. It's loaded
with OS 10.2, but no installaton disks.

I am running an X11 app on my G4 DVI 800mhz and the colors are
completely washed out,
I only notice very faded colors when I do any color-HTML etc
Is this a feature of Powerbooks in general or just this model,

I don't think it's dust. My core2duo was sleeping when I left in the
afternoon. I came home around 10:30 at night. Around 11:30, 11:45 I
noticed that the machine was on, although I hadn't gone near it. I
checked the logs and found the following. FYI, BlueTooth and AirPort are