Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

Anyone seen this before? I periodically get these failures and Comcast
doesn't have a f.cking clue as to what is causing them. The error
message looks like..
"The server response was: [SUSPEND] The mailbox is currently

This may have been asked before, but I don't remember having seen an
answer, so I'll have to ask again:
Is it possible, in Tiger, to get rid of Spotlight (I know it is) but
retain a regular Find function like in Panther?

Group, on the Windows platform there is a utility to see what files
are being accessed by a program, named filemon, by sysinternals.  Is
there such a utility for the Mac?
We have some shady software that I think is collecting information.

What app should I  use to make iPod movies from dvds?
peace

I've finally bitten the bullet and decided to get a Mac.  I am very
experienced with computers, but I know almost nothing about the Mac,
except for what I've played with at the Apple store.  I've decided I
want to get a Mac and learn how to program on it.  I'm a programmer,

After startup, I often see a second "Utilities" folder appear when I
click on the original in the Apps folder. Trashing the Finder .plist
solves the problem, but no maintenance I've done has prevented it from
recurring after future restarts. Does anyone have an idea about what's

The newer Macs allow users to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP (or
Vista).
Has anyody thought of the opposite - Win computers running XP (or
Vista) and Mac OS X?

I need to transfer about 8G of music from my home PC to my work G5.
My only method of transfer is my 2G nano.  I've heard you need some
sort of download or plug-in to transfer music from one computer to
another otherwise iTunes won't let you duplicate libraries.  Anyone

I decided to change the system language on my PowerPC G4 iBook with
Mac OSX 10.4.9 on, and switched from Italian, which had been the
system language from the purchase, to Swedish.
It worked, but now whenever I try to get information about a folder

I've down-loaded the Safari 3 beta and now want to remove it and return
to Safari 2.  During the install of Safari 3 it said that I could revert
to v2 at any time.  I can't find the uninstall package on the HD.  Can
anyone help?  Thanks.

I'm wondering if someone could please direct me to the best source of
information on using Mac technology. I'm a long-time PC user and I'm
definitely OVER Microsoft. I'd like to look at buying a Mac but want
to understand what I'm going to have issues with - eg. files I send to

Go to this web page
http://www.aaradio.com/cartfile/yaesu/FT450.html
and click on the link to download the .pdf file with a picture of the
FT-450

When using Disk Utility to install a GUID partition map onto a drive,
are you supposed to choose "Current" partition (which is Mac OS
Extended) or "1 Partition", (which is Mac OS Extended Journaled?
And after the parting, how do you get the computer to automatically

Does any body know how it's possible to acquire Hypercard agenda? I
still use OS9 at one of my office locations and it would be nice to be
able to get it again.
TIA

Is it necessary to enable printer sharing in system prefs, or is just a
matter of configuring each individual computer for ip printing with the
local ip address?
TIA