Mac Forum / General / General / August 2007

i cannot write special characters (e.g. äöü) within a remote irssi
screen to which i am connected via SSH. special characters written by
others are displayed correctly. my setup is like this:
machine 1: local, maxosx, zsh shell

I'm having the same exact problem opening .pkg files now. I have
Stuffit Expander 11. Using a powermac G5 with 2G ram. Tiger 10.4.9.
All else seems to be OK. Did permission, disk check, ran Utilites,
Tech Tools, Disk Warrior. Cannot load the new Java. End up with same

Has anyone done any? Is it worth it? Does anyone care. There doesn't
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freelancing it would be good to be qualified. I was thinking
specifically about xcode and possibly Applescript.

http://tinyurl.com/yok6wj
The first thing that stands out is smaller function keys, media keys
sharing space with F8 thru F11. Guess they had to do this when the
number of media keys exceeded four.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/business-apple-imac.html
Apple Unveils Redesigned iMac
By REUTERS
Published: August 7, 2007

Hey all
I was looking at getting a new Apple Keyboard, but it appears that
number on the left hand side in no longer there. Just wondering why
Apple would get rid of that. I guess I won't be getting an Apple

has anyone got  a serial for this please. at the moment it caps
downloads to 10kb after one hour.
thx

For years now, I had to use my wife's PC to do videoconferencing with
my brother who has a PC.  I originally tried going the iChat route
through AIM but AIM on the PC created all kinds of problems and my
brother eventually flushed it.  So I'm using a USB webcam on a PC to

I don't see Leopard on the store site.
I remember Jobs saying at the WWDC that it would run on older machines
not just brand-spanking new ones, so....
Anyone hear when that will be released for sale?

God must use Windows to run Heaven. How else do you explain the
platypus???

I have an Intel iMac (purchased in December), running Tiger fully
patched.  Today, for the first time the machine did not boot up.  It
stayed on the gray screen with the Apple logo and spinning icon for
several minutes before the Apple logo changed to a prohibit sign

iLife and iWork 06 student discounts were 38%.  The 08 versions have
only a 10% discount.  *sigh*

I have a problem with my keychain (I think).
Every application that uses the login keychain asks me for the
keychain password before populating the password field (for example).
I've made sure that the login keychain is unlocked in the Keychain

I'm getting all sorts of crashes, freezes,
grey-multi-lingual-screens-of-death, lost mouse functionality, etc.
I just lost control of my mouse twice in 20 minutes and had to restart.
My computer is constantly telling me that certain aplications are

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