Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

I just went by the Apple Store in Broomfield, CO yesterday. I was
amazed.  The store was packed.  You could hear calls coming in about
the iPhone, people were asking questions, people were looking at the 4
ft. mockups at the entrance, etc. I talked to the employees and they

the firewire ports in my dual gig powermac g4 (10.4.10) died randomly.
so i put in a pci firewire card, which works fine...but now my monitor
resolution resets to 1024x768 every time i restart. it does not
remember that i use 1280x1024, and i have to change it every time i

When the CrashReporter is in "Developer" mode, each crash that it
catches offers you the option of reporting that crash to Apple.
 This would seem sensible if the program that crashed was one that came
from Apple; as Apple's developers could then use the information

Maybe it was a shrewd move to have the launch at 6pm.
I doubt it. But will any networks have news coverage? (UK)
I remember when it was announced, some dude was interviewed for ages
on Sky News and stuff.

I borrowed an old pc external harddrive from a friend. To use the edit
suit and store all the footage and sequence we had to format the
external harddrive to mac. this worled just fine and i have been using
that external harddrive on mac with no problems, but then the other

A loop of ten doppler-radar images can tell you if a thunderstorm is
about to hit.  With dialup the download could take several minutes.  My
neighbor with a PC and cable could get it in five seconds or so.
Now I have DSL.  This loop is still fairly slow, apparently due to java:

 Thunderbird: v2.0.0.0
 M$ Word for X: SR1
 Mac: 10.4.9
 Office Jet Series: v 2.3.2

I have had, for a few weeks, a folder that shows up in a Finder window,
labeled "untitled CD." It has a hazard icon on it (3 yellow triangles, with
3 black in between each yellow one).
It doesn't show up on the desktop. When I go to the Finder window and try to

I can't wait.  It's like Christmas all over again.

After only a few days of use, I can already tell that OS X 10.4.10 is
an improvement over 10.4.9 in some ways. Still, I'm interested in
whatever I can do to maximize system performance, or (if this is a
better approach) to find the optimal balance between speed and

i did

Hey there, I recently received an old slot-loader (color unknown,
colorblind) from a friend. It had a 7GB (IIRC) harddisk, 64MB RAM and
OS9 installed. It's now running with 40GB, 384MB and Tiger (only).
Here's the deal.

ROTFLMAO!
http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-28073.html?tag=bubbl_3

Another dickhead in league with Nick Ludgater was Richard Greening who
is a computer fixer-tweaker type dogsbody in Huddersfield. In our
technical drawing class he would whisper things about me to Nick and
they'd sit snickering and looking pleased with themselves like prime