Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

How much did Apple pay Greenpeace to overlook that the iPhone is a giant
cancer causing cellphone. Using an iPhone for a couple of months is like
smoking 10,000 packs of cigarettes in a week.

I'd appreciate any help on this, before I pull my hair out.
I have a G4 quicksilver with a 2.0 mhz upgrade it it.
I had been running 10.4.8 on this machine, but using Protools LE, and
wanted to revert back to a Digidesign TDM 6.4 version, that only runs

hi. I was trying to open a file containing .rar archives and in its
title I could read dvd cfe. is there any way to view that on a mac?
1. I tried VLC. no luck
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I have 10.4.10 Server, and I enabled SNMP per various directions I've
found. SNMP doesn't show under Server Admin.
Should it? Is there a way to enable it under there?
Or even under Webmin? I googled snmp module webmin, and not finding

I have been using Firefox for a couple of years now and had to go back
to IE to test a CD I have made for a web client.
The CD has Flash movies and I find that my IE 5.2 doesn't play the
movies as I don't have the plugin

I am new to a Mac a I used to mail merge from Excel to Entourage very
easily.
Is this possible using numbers and iMail? I have about 30 customers.
Thanks.

I have a beige PowerMac G3 Minitower running OS 9.2.1. Recently the old CRT
I had it hooked up to started to die, so I bought a new Samsung 245BW 24"
widescreen LCD monitor.  The OS doesn't offer the correct resolution (1920 x
1200 @ 60 HZ).  I can use the 1600 x 1200 setting but ...

Good Day,
I am running a G4 PowerMac with OS 10.4 with all updates (Please note that I
am a PC user)
A few weeks ago I installed a newer version of Adobe Illustrator CS3 so that

With Leopard, I'm having problems with the key mapping when using X11.
Firstly, xemacs (from fink) is complaining about mod1 being mapped to
Mode_switch and Alt_R.
Next, there seems to be no way to middle click any more. I have "Emulate

I have two different Macs running Leopard that both exhibit the same issue
with the mouse pointer.
I often press against a screen edge with my mouse pointer. When doing so,
frequently the mouse pointer will suddenly disappear and I have to move it

I see a 10.5.1 in my System Update.
I'll be back in a jiffy

If anyone wants the Time Machine icon for their external, this is where to
find it, along with lots of other Mac icons.
System / Library / CoreServices / CoreTypesBundle / Contents / Resources /
GenericTimeMachineDiskIcon

My system (G5, OSX 10.4.11) creates a ramdisk at boot time,
using a script based on an example on the hdid manpage:
    device="`hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1024`"
    #device="`/usr/bin/hdid -nomount ram://1024`"

I just installed the 10.5.1 upgrade and am told that "You cannot use the
application "Safari" with this version of Mac OS X".  What's that about?

So far, on the exclude list, I have the backup disk (which contains
bare-bones Leopard with recovery utilities), the Aperture libraries (I
use multiple libraries rather than one huge library -- Aperture
performs much better that way), the Windows Vista virtual disk for