Mac Forum / General / General / September 2007

In thread "Cut on the Apple tax: is it enough?", I wrote:
"This week at Staples.ca, you can get an Acer computer with an Intel
E2140 CPU, 1 GB RAM, a 320 GB HD and, guess what, even a SuperDooper
DVD RW, that you have to pay $200 more with Apple, for... around $525

I have 2 discarded old macs, an iMac running OS9.1 and a G3 running
10.x.  The G3 takes a whole day to boot while the iMac takes a few
minutes.  My problem is that after trying to add new users then
deleting them I cannot log in again since I never had the original

I seriously cannot be arsed to read that massive long essay on the
page of MSJ. Whilst I always use torrents to get my free mac software,
this was another source
What's going on?

Here's an odd one:
  I have a 400 mhz pismo powerbook in very good condition. It runs like
a top with an external hard drive, but it hangs at startup with an
internal (any internal, I've tried several, all pulled from various

Was wondering if anyone might know the answer to this.
In the windows world you can look at event viewer to see logins and
such on a machine which will also give you date and time stamps. You
can also look at the user profiles on the machine on the C drive to

I just bought a Netgear DG834G router , whilst I can configure it via
its web interface from an XP machine, it rejects the password when I try
to log on to the web interface from a Mac.  I've tried 3 different macs
(all 10.4.8) with Safari and Firefox on each.  Each time I enter ...

He was told to be there between eleven and twelve.
He came in at 11.07 followed by mall security, snapped two "hidden camera"
photos and left one minute later. The pictures show exactly that.
He never identified himself.  He never spoke to anyone.

G5 2 mhz tower.
If the computer is restarted 20-30 minutes after the shutdown everything is OK.
But after more than 1 or 2 hour the Mac never finish to boot
and the computer must be unplug to restart normaly.

I remember my very fist computer. I was twelve years old. The computer
was a Wang 386 PC. I was amazed at the fact that you could put a cd in
it and view pictures and information. Back then you put the CD-ROMs in
a square holder, and inserted that into the computer.

One thing I've never understood is why Macs wake up from sleep on USB
activity.  Why is that?
That seems to complicate things for no useful reason.  Is there any way
to turn off that feature, and only wake up when I open the lid (on a

It's becoming really annoying now.
Is it something I'm doing wrong?
Some setting i missed?
What do i have to do to make my custom icons stick

You got that BOZO, J.J. O'Shea chasing his tail. And the other a.sholes on
this group in a mad tizzy.
BWAAAAHAAAAHAAAHAAAAA!
I love it here.

I'm throwing a BBQ next Sunday 9/16/07 at 1:PM, at my home. If you come, try
not to look like the homeless bum in need of a bath looking to lift
something, as you did when you visited the store. (BTW: that's why security
followed you in)

My home network still has a Windows machine - it's my iTunes home
until I have saved up enough to replace it with a Mac Pro.
I have a batch file that includes the following line:
xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\brazee\My Documents\My Music\*.*"

I don't know if this is the correct NG for this Q, here goes. If I'm
off-base, just tell me so.
I'm running OSX v.10.4.10 and I have a number of X11 apps running under
XDarwin/X11.