Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

As previously threatened, here's the result of my attempt to resurrect
a G4 Quicksilver into which I improperly attempted a CPU upgrade. I
believe the biggest problem was that I failed to set the DIP switches,
not realizing that this would be necessary. Today, after buying and

Hi! I would like to know how to trap usb storage activities : to
detect (with Darwin : /dev/disk?s?) at mount and disable it. (To
prevent any mounting of usb device on the usb port.) It is to prevent
customer  to take any file from a mac. So went I want sync with my usb

I know its asking a bit much but it would be nice to ne notified when
anyone tries to log into my computer - either locally or remotely  -
via a message on screen ,
is such a tool available ?

All of a sudden Quicktime Player (v. 7.1.6 on OS 10.4.9) stopped
playing sound on MPEG files.
(Other video formats work). I checked for viruses etc with Norton, to
no avail.

I have a 2004 PowerBook, back from before the new Intel chip.  Will
Leopard -- OS 10.5 -- work with my Mac or would I have to get an Intel
Mac?

I was on my emac a few hours ago and I heard a LOUD POP! then everything
went black. I cannot get the machine to start up. What happened? How bad is
this? Is the whole machine dead or is is fixable and any idea how much?
Please help

Now that that my Palm LifeDrive no longer works with Mac OS X 10.4.9 and
Palm have withdrawn support for Mac OS X, can anyone recommend a palm
top which works well with a Mac.
Suffice to say, I'm not interested in any Palm products since my

I have been thinking about using rsync for backup to an external
FireWire drive on a Mac G4. Has anyone had problems doing this when it
came time to restore things? I would be interested in people's
experiences doing this. This is for a workstation and I would like to

I'm considering buying a Macbook and would like to know if anyone here
has had a good experience using a tv tuner on one.  Do Elgato tuners
work only with Macs?  Thank you.

I downloaded a video using Firefox and wanted to switch the background music.
 The original plays fine in Outlook (Flip 4 Mac added) and everything seems
fine.  Yet, when I import it to IMovie and want to change the background
music, well no problem  But, I get a Flip4Mac ...

I've just bought my first Mac (a Mini) and have been thoroughly enjoying
the OS X experience.  One thing that puzzles me, however: many of my
images (created on my old PC) are 800x600 in size (so that the images
would fill the screen when viewing) but when viewing with Preview, they

I am trying to replace a couple of older G3 Macs and wondering if people
have a recommendation in terms of best performance/options for about
$350 including monitor. I've seen a G4 eMac or G4/533 tower with LCD
monitor for about that price as well. G4 cube (450MHz) is slightly more.

Yesterday a symptom began to occur.  When I typed http://localhost/~<username>
(where I supplied my user name for <username>) I would get an error
that "Safari can't connect to the server"  The url has been re-mapped
to <system>.local such that if my workstation is named zeus and my

Couple of general questions...
1) I'm about to putz with Automator. Is Automator the equivalent of /
better or worse than the old Applescript Script Recorder?
2) There were scripters that relied on Apple Events, and some that

Is there anything like /usr/bin/sips that can be used on the command line
to extract info from MP3s or MPEGs such as song length, bit rate,
play count, movie resolution or frames per second or any such similar data?
It would be so great if Apple has done this.  Personally,