Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

First, I have 3 straight days called Belkin to ask a general question.
I simply cannot (3 differant csr's) understand them. Nor do any of the
newsgroups seem to be what I'm looking for.
I'm waiting for Verizon to send their modem etc. In the meantime a

My Apple Updater indicated to me that a firmware update is available for
my (late 2006) Imac, so I downloaded the updater.
Is it important that I run the firmware updater?
I'm using OS 10.4.10.

Hi, I set my screen resolution remotely and I've must have set it to an
uncompatible one with my monitor.  I can ssh into the box.  Where is the file so
I can change it back via command line?

Listing by name appears to treat a _group_ of leading digits as a number
in sorting filenames into order
  0702 Letter to Bill
  0703 Letter to Charlie

Hello, everyone.
I'm running OS X 10.4.10.  I have a linux box running as  afile server
(nfs), and am mounting the file server on my Mac.  Here's my problem -
every time I want to make any changes to the linux mount from the Mac

I have a 2004 powermac G5 2ghz dual and it's time to upgrade from my
stock 8X Apple (LG) optical drive. I've already tried MCE's superdrive
(LG, like my stock drive) because it was supposed to work natively in
Tiger and though it handled my Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD media just fine, it

I am looking for much older System discs prior Mac OS 7.5.  I was looking
for them through google but ended up many broken links.  Does anyone have
any sources about them?
Thanks!

Hey all,
I've a brand new iMac and I installed bootcamp onto it, making a 32gb
partition for windows. Upon clicking the button to start the install,
rebooting it and starting the windows Xp setup, the only drive that

I recently purchased a GigE capable NAS device for backups.  I am
considering making it my primary data storage device (everything other
than OS and application binaries) as it is significantly more quiet
than my OWC Mercury Elite Pro two-drive enclosure.  So, I have two

My friend installed an Airport Extreme Card M8881Z/A in a Power Mac G5
2x2.5 GHz.
Antenna is installed, antenna cable found and plugged in - but In System
Profiler the card does not show up at all (no information).

I really miss being able to run some old applications that are good enough.
Is there any chance that a third party can come up with a way of running
System 9 under Leopard?
Bill

Strange things happen these days. Before Macs were more expensive in
Canada because the canadien dollar was weak. Now, that it's at $1.07
US, Macs are still more expensive in Canada: Mac book, 1,249$ vs
1,099$; Mac Book Pro, 2 199$ vs 1 999$, etc. Apple says they have no

This software uses MACbook's motion sensor to ALARM when your laptop
is being moved, or tampered with.
Features include:
   * Moving your mac laptops, closing lid, or disconnecting power

There have certainly been no shortage, here in these discussions, regarding
the three-dimensional dock shelf.
I finally figured out what bothered me and that is that the vanishing point
of the dock conflicts with the vanishing point of the background picture.

Finally got my $109 Leopard from Amazon. So far, it's nothing I can use.
* Eudora 6.2 gets many spinning beachballs. It's virtually impossible to
use. Did Apple cripple non-Apple-Mail mail clients? Or is this related
to the spinning beachball issues with MT-Newswatcher?