Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

Powerbook G4 DVI :: DVD drive reads DVDs but not CDs ??
It will read any kind of DVDs without a problem but churns and then
spits out CD-ROMs .
any ideas what may be up ?

I have two monitors, with the one in front of me as the menu bar and
startup monitor, and the one on my left secondary. But when I screen
capture (using Command-Shift 3), it gets the second monitor. Any ideas
on how to change this? I guess it's no big deal, since I can use

I've been having some problems with my mac mini lately, and would be
interested to know whether anyone has experienced similar issues.
About a month ago, the system kept locking up frequently, and I
eventually tracked down the problem to a bad block on the hard disk

I had some work done on my Mac.
It left a folder of locked files labled 'Previous System' in the
Trash.
How do I get rid of it, please?

So I edit some images in Photoshop, save them, then log onto photo.net
to upload a couple, and lo-and-behold they don't show up in Safari's
File-Open dialog.  WTF?  This is with 10.3.9.
Only solution was to use Firefox.  I take it that Firefox doesn't use

the 80Gb hard disk on my Mac mini starts to feel really tight.
I was thinking about replacing it with a bigger model.
Do you have any recommendations about the different 2.5" sata HD
models on the market?

They are total sh.t -  But if forced, I would buy a Gateway before a mac.

I just installed MacFUSE and sshfs on Tiger and was able to mount
filesystems on both Solaris 7 and OSX Server 10.4 without any
problems.  I then installed Cygwin (including, of course, its SSH
server) on a Windows XP box and was able to ssh to the same Solaris

dr. z - th troll SO good that the c.s.m.s. elite can't resist!

This used to be so easy in MacOS 7 etc.
As far as I remember, to create a bootable CD I just had to copy the
"system folder" over to the CD. That way I could create my own,
customized emergency boot CD with various utilities needed for

Ok,
so it's my personal pipe dream, but if anyone out there ever found
someone who'd got hold of the source code to ClarisCAD and ported it to
OSX,  I would love to have such a goodie.

I have a Powermac G4 400Mhz which i am trying to upgrade its ATA
controller. I am thinking of getting the Sonnet Tempo Trio since it is
offering the Firewire and USB connections as well.
I have been trying for the past 3 hours, surfing the net, whether this

I'm on MacOS 10.4.9 and although I don't fully understand the "Font
book" application I've understood enough to see that it works along
the same principles of iTunes and iPhoto; all fonts are stored in one
location, but you can make several different "playlists" or

My girlfriend's G4 (Graphite, 400 mhz, 500 Mb RAM, 100 Gb spare on
Hard Drive) has been crashing with that black blind and Attention! in
several languages.
Any thoughts?

I keep a TextEdit doc open for note-taking.
I want to date/time stamp entries.
What's an easy way to do it?
Thanks