Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

When I got OS X, I assumed the Applications folder was just to make it
easy for the user to find applications.  I began keeping my music
applications in my Music folder so I could find one if I forgot its
name.  Today I downloaded Audion and put it in my Music folder.  I tried

Let's everyone on comp.sys.mac.system just not reply to the crossposted
iPhone threads any more.  Without replies, the messages should start to
abate.  It's obvious that those jerks aren't interested in any
reasonable debate or discussion.

Today I again tested SilverKeeper and my ability to use it to create a
bootable back-up system of my Quicksilver's OS X 10.4.10 on an external
FW HD. The LaCie instructions appear to include a redundant process, as
they say I can format the desired destination volume under OS 9 ...

I've been downloading images from Webshots for years, but about a month
ago something happened. Now the images show up as gibberish in the
browser window instead of being files in my download folder. They don't
answer questions from unpaid users. Is there something in the browser ...

Hi, we have just launched a new website to help people new to Mac
choose a Mac and get started. It's call My First Mac and it's at
myfirstmac.com.
I am looking for people who like to help others with their Macs to

what i've done so far is partition one of my internal drives (external
ones can't be booted from) and on the partition labeled "DVD-DL", i
installed my os-x from scratch and then updated it until it would no
longer update (yes, it boots up from the hard drive partition).  i then

What files from 10.3.9 are necessary to construct a minimal start up
system for one of those little USB plug in drives?  How much space would
this take?
TIA

Could anybody tell the name of the classic font used in Mac OS' user
interface? The one used for window titles, top menu bar and buttons,
as shown in these screenshots?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Extensions_Manager_Mac_OS_9.1.png

I have this very large Video TS File which appears to be jut under 8 GB.  
I also have a few Verbatim DVD+R DL disks which, according to the label
on the DVD, appear to be 8.5 GB.  (The older ones are rated for 2.4X
Speed; the newer ones for 8X Speed.)

My wife recently acquired a 10.4 MNACOS Mac, and of course it in;t 9.2,
but it is sorta Unix, so muggins here has been called upon to 'get it
back the way I had it wioth he old machine'
Well one complaint was 'there are too many fonts in the font list'.

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

iPhone cravers make their way to Craigslist
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Hmmmm, that's a career I'd never considered--professional line sitter!
Shall we start a pool on how long the first supply of iPhones is going

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So, I woke up my Mac this morning to check emails etc...hit the 'Write'
button to fire off a quick email before I headed out to work and had to
restart by holding down the power button for several seconds.
I was greeted with the following upon re-booting:

People write with similar problems quite frequently to various forums,
I guess.
But non of the known tricks worked for me:
I inserted a non-blank CD in to my ibook (12", G4,latest model, 2006