Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

sorry for this silly question... but I couldn't find any solution.
Well, as I can see apple address book doesn't permit to add a
"display" name, is it right?
I think it's a bad situation, 'cause sometimes I like to use

My daughter has this three + year old unit that, all of a sudden, just
either does not want to power on or, if it does, it will only stay on
for a short period of time.
My only real experience is with PCs and from that, I am leaning toward

Time Machine has got stuck doing a new backup. I've looked through the
console for messages but can't find any. Where else should I look?
A general gripe: When Time Machine fails, it fails ugly. I hope 10.5.2
fixes this, because 10.5.1 doesn't seem to have.

Anyone know of a wireless IP camera that works with the Mac? We're
dying to see what our puppy is doing when we're away.
p.s. I'd rather not bother with boot camp or parallels.

I downloaded a .sit file, found stuffit to unpack it, but inside were
a few .image files. From what I can tell these are Mac CD images?? Is
this correct? How do I open them in windows to get the contents of the
files?

I'm having trouble copying old archive files from 2000. The copying seems to
be going well but when I click on the folders in the copied file, they all
show as 0 KB, and appear to be empty, as if nothing got copied. But then if
I try to copy the files again (copying the individual ...

I just got my first Mac a few days ago and I'm still learning my way
around... could someone tell me how to end a process that is not
responding on a Mac? In Windows I would use the task manager. I am
running Leopard and this happens ALL THE TIME!

Has anyone tried Cocktail 2.0 with Leopard?  I downloaded it, but
whenever I run it, it displays a dialog with "Cocktail requires that you
type an administrator's password."  Nothing wrong with that; I'd expect
this kind of application to do that.

I thought this is interesting.
For comparison:
gcc --arch nonsense
Intel: gcc-4.0: Invalid arch name : nonsense

1) can't command-tab for viewing spotlight results
2) after choosing "Show All" and the results list appear I can see so
much space but no info about disk location of the files found (I have
to click on the "i" for getting more information, or right click to

OK
I'm ordering an iMac tomorrow. MacMall offers a package with Parallels
and either Vista Business or Vista Ultimate so I assume that it is OK
touse Vista in Parallels (I need windows for work reasons).

Anyone download this yet?
TIA

I know some of the older model Macs had buried in their system inter
face humorous sayings that you could bring up if you knew the code
words to type in. Is there such also stil embedded in the G4 and G5's?
If so what are they?

While the Vista kids wait for Service Pack 1 (zzzzzzz) . . .
The first 'service pack', aka update, for Leopard is out: 10.5.1.
But Leopard still has some maturing to go before all the quirks
and bugs are worked out. It is also not yet feature set complete.

Hi Group,
Just installed OS X 10.5 onto my MacBook.  The new desktop has the
Apple Menu shaded.
I am finding this rather anonying to look at.