Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

I have had an Apple Bluetooth mouse for over two years (not the mighty
mouse).  When it works properly, it is quite nice, but I have had a host
of problems with it.  The metal strip now has become unglued from the
battery plastic removal cover.  I tried to superglue it back, but now ...

Hello~
I've been using Texshop on my mac with OS X 10.4.9 Tiger.
Yesterday, I newly installed gnuplot via Macport. During that process,
a package of tetex was automatically installed for the usage of

I bought an Epson R260 printer and I'm having a problem using it
with both Discus 4.12 and Discus 3.16. I updated to the latest driver  
from the Epson website for the printer when I installed it and
I'm using Apple OS X 10.4.9 with the most recent updates from Apple

I'm having newsreader problems. Opening groups and posts has become very
slow recently with my 3meg DSL. Testing showed my DSL speed as 2700
kbps. My newsreader download tests never exceeds 100 KBps now but I
think it used to go up to 200 KBps before this started (maybe a week

I just recntly picked up a power mac 400MHz, and I was wondering if
I'd be ble to run a dual monitor setup with an extra  PCI vid card
installed.  Right now, I've got a PCI version ATI Rage 128 Pro laying
around (not surewhere I got it, computer stuff comes and goes with me)

OS 10.4.9 here
If I reboot or cold boot I have prob when I type in my pass word. Pop
up window containing it shakes because it apparently thinks it is the
wrong password and I have to re-enter. The password is absolutely

Running 10.4.9 on a G4 iBook and flat-panel G5 iMac.
I have a standard USB thumb drive which, along with its folders on the
disk, opens into a Finder window which has no sidebar on the left.  
Opening folders also now opens separate FInder windows.  All other

Deep breath :P
We are using a Mac Mini with a card scanner connected as a custom
build Clocking-In machine in our factory.  We are using a custom made
FileMaker database, but have hit one problem.

I have OS 10.4.9 and am using the included Kotoeri
method for inputting Japanese characters.
What do I type to get the rarer katakana combinations that
can be used for foreign names?  For instance, I wanted

Enhance your knowledge and boost your mind
A great way to improve your knowledge is a technique I used when I was
a student. After I had finished reading a book, I took a few blank
sheets and read the first page of the book again. Then I summarized

I have MacOS X Tiger on a mac mini that I am using as a simple web
server to host my website.  Everything seems to work great except that
I am having problems with the ftp ecurity seserver.  I have no
problems when I login from the network at home using ftp from my

I'm not particularly experienced with MAC os.  I have an IMAC.
Up until recently (last month or so), When I select print to PDF, the
PDF version is produced in full and living color.
Now the output is strictly in grayscale.

Does anyone have any idea how to deal with the following printing
problem?:
I am trying to print from an Epson R2400 running OS 10.4.9 on an intel-
MacBook Pro. The thing seems to work fine on most programs when

Sinking before they even floated.  Pretty soon you're gonna find em in free
CrackerJax boxes.
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