Mac Forum / General / General / August 2007

Hi. I have a G4 Cube running system 10.4.10.  I generally don't shut my
computer down unless it's necessary and I leave it sleeping when I am
not using it. I also have 2.6 Gigs of space left on my hard drive and
768 megabytes of RAM.

I am looking at a new MBP. From a financial standpoint, I am ready.
From a need standpoint, I can wait. Being a relatively new convert from
the Dark Side and having never been through a new release of an Apple
system before, what is the general consensus of the more experienced

i really hate this OSX...!!!
Can i revert it down to OS9x, which the documention i've read so far,
seems to suggest that i can and can't...???
i'm just more familiar with the preX look and feel, and i also think

All of a sudden, my user files disappeared. My desktop reverted to a
new user mode, etc . (This message is coming from my backup hard disk;
thank you, SuperDuper). I restarted; shut down and restarted; I booted
on the backup (this) hard disk, checked the Mac disk (no repair

I have an Imac G5 which I bought about a month before Apple decided to
buy intel chips. I love it, no bluescreens etc HOWEVER, just recently
( as of this morning) it seems to freeze when in Safari. I see the
little rainbow pinwheel. It doesn't respond to the force quit key

I'm struggling to transition from OS9.2.2 to 10.2.8 and my beloved
Clarisworks word proscesser/drawing tool doesn't seem to work.  Is there
anything that will open my older clarisworks documents and will run on
10.2.8 AND 10.4 which is what I'm aiming for?  I like freeware best, ...

I just got a MacPro and have successfully connected it to my wired
home network, all Windows XP computers. I have a Brother Laser printer
connected by USB cable to one of the PC computers. I can successfully
use the printer from any of the Windows computers on the network.

Does the Mac OS only do what it is pre-programmed to do?
Yes, for the time being, however that could change in the future.
The onboard computers of the old retired "Deep Space One" spacecraft
came very close to learning on their own and thinking on its own,

I've got an old SE/30 that I want to hook up to the Internet. Now the
machine has no built in Ethernet card (I've looked and the SE/30
specific ones are like pixie dust) and only has those funky little 8-
pin serial ports on the back.

The printable region on my HP deskjet 9300 appears to be short when
connected to my Mac (running OS X). Prior to  connecting it to my Mac I
had it on a Linux machine where the printable region was significantly
larger. On the Mac the final 1cm or so can't be used. With Linux it ...

A supercomputer is a mighty computer used for very complex tasks. The
fastest supercomputers can carry out trillions of calculations per
second....
http://cometo.know.googlepages.com/a_picture_of_supercomputer

I want to set an environement variable called DICTIONARY to a path.
I want the environment variable to be available to all users and an
application in particular.
Where and how do I set this variable?

Hardly anyone supports it-  It's slower than USB2.

I Super Dupe up my 2.4 GHz MBP to an bootable external FW HD every night.
I use my old FW-800 G4 as a server.
In an emergency, could i boot my old G4 from the MBP clone drive?
thanks

Something I've just noticed in the last few days: it's becoming
necessary to restart my Mac when installing things.  The recent examples
are the Safari 3 beta, the new aluminum keyboard, and then uninstalling
the Safari beta.  I don't think I've seen this before on Mac except for ...