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I'm ramping up to finally upgrade my ancient Ti PB
to a desktop.
I'm probably going to spec the ATI Radeon graphics card.
Does anyone have a non-Apple LCD display that they're

I have a problem with my iBook G4, and while the damage is done and
I'm back up & working again, I'd like to know what went wrong so I can
prevent the issue happening again.
Two nights ago, I was working in bed on the iBook, finalising some

We have had an HP Color Inkjet 2800 for about two years and it has
been a big headache.   Before saying anything more, I should state
that I have been a Mac user for 20 years and only use Windows when
supporting other users.  That said, what's really strange about the

Below is some of the Winders crap I had to go through in order to
"write" files to a Vista partition that was using the NTFS (file system)
...write from a Mac, that is.
1) Open Administrative Tools

My Laptop is getting realy hot when playing World of WarCraft.
I checked the firmware version and its seems up to date.  (1.18f2)
Is there any chance of damage to the system due to overheating?
The hard drive is also a 7200 RPM which probably runs hot too.

Does anyone out there know when Lepoard will come out pre-installed on
iMac, and if I were to buy an iMac now, will I get a free upgrade ?
Cheers,
Alex

I found that on my iMac (Intel), I'm unable to play DivX movies
directly from the DVD R+ where I store them (using Linux). The various
players I've tried ( QuickTime + Perian, DivX for Mac, MPlayerOSX )
gives generic messages or fails silently.

i had a major prob with my iMac G5 PPC, i lost Cut'n paste and drag'n
drop under some circonstances...
i discovered recently that putting away (renaming it) the file :
HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist cures the problem.

I have some images I want to put on a Web page. Some of them require
no modification, except that they are too big (the image, not the
file). Is there a way to reduce the size without causing the quality
loss of recompressing them?

Does anyone know where the cron log is kept on Mac OS X?

I'm a recent convert to macs/osx (from linux), and trying to set up my
working environment. I'm well on the way, but have now encountered a
problem regarding UTF-8.
Short summary (quoted from [3]): "When subversion creates a file in

Damn, had to replace a power supply on a late model G5 tonight.
Normally I'd pass this off to one of our Apple vendors but it was an
emergency since we were already down one FCP workstation due to a bad FC
adapter.

I think this is a Winders NG, because I get a lot better answers to
Windows questions here, than I ever did from any Windows NG.
Judging by the posts relating to BootCamp, Parallels, etc. I  _think_
this is a Winders NG.

I have a floppy disk with a proprietary format. I don't know exactly
what the format is. It's created on a drum machine.
I'd like to make duplicates of this floppy. Making copies with the
drum machine is extremely slow and tedious, so I want to do it with

I just did a little analysis of the xover data for articles
posted to comp.sys.mac.system that are currently held on the
Individual.NET server.
Of 39,237 articles, 7,284 were cross-posted and of those, 1,434