Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

The upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 was gracefully painless.
The first real bummer is that the new compatible Parallels 3.0 buid 5160
breaks running my key learning CD (medical field).
The silly copy protection scheme on it will not verify anymore :-(

I'm a Mac OS X newbie with a long Unix background.
Under System Preferences -> International (IIRC) I configured my
system (Tiger, for now) to use metric units. But the Dashboard weather
widget is displaying temperatures in Fahrenheit. How can I change

Gang,
I was cleaning my computer keyboard earlier.  I had a few apps running,
so I brought the Finder to the front so I wouldn't muck with anything by
pressing random keys (I had all Finder windows closed).

General information:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306297
It includes Safari 3.
Security issues addressed are listed here (lots of them):

Just installed Leopard on my G5imac. Sherlock has been replaced by a
question mark on the dock which does nothing when I click on it. Has this
happened to anyone else? Any way to bring it back?

Earlier this year, the three Macs I manage began doing something odd -
whenever I plugged them into the network, they'd change their
hostnames to the names of random Windows PCs on the network.  I looked
up how to change the hostname in Terminal, but the option I was

This site is pretty cool.  Create your own timeline for your family,
baby or whatever. It's also free to signup.  I found the link at this
blog:
http://our-story-1.blogspot.com

Time Machine works great remotely, using Timbuktu version 8.7 to make
the connection between two Intel Macs.
For beginners, it was easy to remotely install TB2 into the remote Mac
Mini, which did not initially have TB2 inside itself.

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I have a Mac Pro and have had the following issue after install OS X
Server Leopard. I have multiple drives in the machine and did a fresh
install of Leopard on an empty one.
When I reboot, I get a blue sceen for sometime and then the flashing

I downloaded and in due course deleted the latest Opera for my
MacBook. When I went to the Opera site it was the only one avilable. Anyone
have a link for an older version that may work on the MacBook with Tiger
10.4. In particular,

I feel like a stranger in a strange land here, but a friend has asked
me to have a look at his G4 ibook as he is having problems booting it
up. When it is switched on, there is a chime followed by a grey screen
with an apple logo in the middle, then after a few seconds the

I'm amazed how truly simple minded you are.
My opinion of you; a mean spirited little man.
I'll give you some free, good advice.
Your websites, which are supposed to pull in business, actually lose you

Get PowerPC systems here and put Linux in it:
http://www.gvs9000.com/workstations.html
http://www.genesippc.com/openclient.php
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/sony/

I am planning to use windows under a new iMAC INtel core 2 Duo (under
Leopard), would you share your experience in reagrds to:
1-Would you recommend VMware software or Parallels, what are the pros and
cons of each?