Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

I have a couple, left over from a consulting job. When I try to delete
them, I get a message that I don't have sufficient privileges (with an
admin-level account).
How do I get rid of them?

There's some interesting future-product news stated and/or implied here.
Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not
being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and
for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. Upon

All,
This is happening on a 12" G4 Powerbook running 10.3.9. There's a
Linux server out on the network with a samba share. There's a valid
working linux user/password and a valid working samba user/password

Anybody's Mac Pro still smell after they've had it for a couple of
months. The smell is more than faint but not overpowering melting
plastic mixed with general metallic. Temperature Readings from iStat
Pro are stable as follows (all in degrees C):

Using OS X, I can't get spotlight to search for copies of files.  (Those
that end in "space"+1).  I've tried the * and ? wildcards.
Any ideas?

The following folder has just appeared in my Trash can
502.199958543
drwxr-xr-x   12 apple  admin      408 May  4 10:22 .
drwx------   40 apple  apple     1360 May  4 10:41 ..

Did not know where else to post this because these groups were the
only ones with Quark topics.
Anyway, I have a Windows XP based system running Quark Xpress 4.11 and
on the Utilities menu and PPD Manager, the path, System PPD folder,

Is anybody else's sound much louder since the QT security update?  My
ibook G4 suddenly has plenty of volume to spare (where it's always been
weak despite apps + system levels maxed out).  I'm noticing it on DVD
playback....

Which program is used to code the OS X Utilities such as Disk
Utility ?
Is it Cocoa ?

Hi I have two "mopier" multifunction devices by Minolta, the Dialta
351 and the 450. They have the postscript option installed.

such as lockups requiring restart, the inability to print the single

HD-DVD key has been cracked. Get the hex here:
http://www.speedateauction.com/blog/blog_detail.asp?blog_id=1354&user_id=100915
I have never seen a hex so beautiful as this.

I called my ISP (Cox Cable) to complain about sporadic speed
decreases to about 1200 kb/s. She noticed that my Linksys modem had
not been "reprovisioned" since I installed it three years ago. She had
me unplug the modem and my Airport Extreme Base Station (N) while she

In a finder window, Icon view, if I have more than four files or
folders (arranged in one single column), when I click the green
button (to shrink the window) the window shrinks down so as to cut
off exactly one folder. If you then expand the window, you see that

Is there a way or Any third party software to intsall MAC OS on windos
Xp Machine

Back in classic versions of Mac OS, we had the Disk Copy utility
application, where, by setting an option in the Preferences, you could
make it so that any time Disk Copy was running and front-most, you
could insert disks and it would automatically make images of those