Mac Forum / General / General / July 2007

Freshly installed new Xserve.
Update to 10.4.10.
Result:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x003AA827):  Unable to find driver for this platform:

I have installed a software from a damaged CD. Even by reinstalling a
more recent version, it still is damaged and refuses to fully work
(there are certainly extensions or similar but I could not locate them).
So I have to reinstall my OS (the only way to be sure these

What are the chances (qualitative guesstimation is fine) of being able
to do a one-shot upgrade of an 800 MHz G4 snow (?) Luxor Jr from
10.3.9 to 10.5.mumble when 10.5 releases?
rick jones

Anyone know how to make it work with OSX?

I have a problem with configuration of bind under MacOS control. I have
a correct zone file, I can ask bind for this domain, by
host/dig/nslookup commands. Answers are OK, I have trace of query in
logs. But when I try to use ping/ssh and every other I got "ping: cannot

i recently posted a message about transferring files from my windows xp
machine to my mac os x. someone suggested that i use a ethernet cable to
connect the two machines. i went ahead and plugged them in, but couldn't
figure out how to have the machines recognize one another.. i ...

My iMac G5 20" is on it's third power supply and counting.  While we do
have an Apple Repair place in the US Virgin Islands, they get their
parts by dolphin express.  My back up machine is a Pismo.  I call it the
Frankenpismo because it is sewed together from so many corpses.  

I'm trying to run slimserver on an intel Mac Pro running 10.4.10. It
provides its web service on port 9000.
When I load localhost:9000, something else is serving content. I'm
getting a google map and the browser title is "Google Maps Javascript

I have an entry of xterm-256color in the directory /usr/share/terminfo/
78/, which I think came with ncuresew package I installed via
DarwinPorts. If I run mrxvt and export TERM=xterm-256color, I see
beautiful 256 colors display in both vim and emacs.

Wife's mac's now gone weird..and I am getting blamed..
G4 OSX etc etc.
I took it down after she had 'shut it down, honest' and the next time it
booted it took FOREVER. I reckon it was doing a fsck....

I am trying to tell a friend who has Tiger how to disable the computer's
Sleep mode. The problem is that I have 10.3.9.
Here is the description I wrote based on my computer:
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Often I find myself resizing columns in Finder.  Has anyone ever heard
of a way of being able to resize them all automatically?  I use the
double left mouse click on the bottom 2 little vertical lines on the
column divider to auto resize one column and it works great.  But then

Google Groups shows c.s.m.a and c.s.m.s have 5,350 and 2,030 posts
containing "iPhone," a product that has been on sale for less than a
month.  These newsgroups are for discussion of Apple Macintosh
computers, which the iPhone is not.  There presently is no place on

Using a Sony DSC-N2 Cybershot Camera I recorded video that was saved as
“MOV01606.MPG”. The video plays back with sound in Quicktime Pro and
iTunes but how can I extract only the audio as an aiff file?

I have downloaded several copies of this as .sit files of about 43.3Kb
but none will install on my MacBook Pro.  I don't know if the downloads
are corrupt or if the MacBook Pro is incapable of running it.
I want to connect a TripNav TN-200 to my MacBook Pro.  I used to be able