Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

The celebration Christmas day soon arrival, the company promotes
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so long as the customer spend 99usd, may select andpurchase a coat in
the shop, pair of pants, with a pair of shoe, leteach person's

I know that the documentation on iTunes music sharing states that the
computers have to located on the same network. Despite that, is there
anyway to get it to work connecting computers in the US and Australia?

so, we just picked up a secondhand G4, that worked at the guys house, but
once we got it home, it won't boot up. it gets to the grey apple screen,
and no further. not even the little loading circle thing. The fact that it
gets that far makes me pretty sure it has to be a software ...

does anybody know how to switch on permanetly Private Browsing in
Safari 3? What defaults command might be used to do it?
I don't know any caches and history after I close my Safari window.
Thanks a lot in advance.

A colleage has been charged with arranging automatic back-up of
several Mac users' desktop computers to a company Netfiles server that
only permits PC file naming.  I warned her that I tried to back up my
Mac documents folder to that server once and was rejected because my

I'm new to Unix and to OsX so this may be basic stuff: Console (in Os
10.5.1) is giving me thousands of alerts from a sender named "
_stemStarter [17]" to the effect that "The process has forked and you
cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec()."

Can anyone recommend a solid application that'll fetch lyrics and album
covers and install them in iTunes? I've tried a couple of ones from
versiontracker, and one crashes, the other often skips one or the other.
Desktop G5 on Tiger, preferred machine for this, but I have Leopard ...

I was hoping you all could help me? I used Disk Utility- Repair Disk
Permissions on my hard drive and below is the results.
I am running OS 10.5 on an iMac5.1
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be

I shut down by presing rhe burron. Had loaded new itunes and other.
Restarted to Apple amd spnning wheel.  Help.

Orange-France have to release an unlocked version of the iPhone - by
Law.
Apple's master plan is to limit all these phones so that they can only
display French.

If memory serves me correctly, when I installed Leopard there was an
item named Network in the list at the left of each window, but I don't
have it there now.
Or was it in Tiger and installing Leopard eliminated it?

I'm currently mulling over an upgrade to 10.5, but I have number of
questions I'd like answered before I take the plunge, namely about
time machine. I've read plenty about it, but most sources have been
strangely underwhelming when it comes to real details.

Have a Mac Powerbook with OSX 10.2.8 with AIRPORT EXTREME card.
Gets online always and easily via our in home Belkin Pre-N wireless
router(seems to remember the password without me ever having specifically
asked for that...though at times i have to re-enter password).

We're starting the day off with some interesting gems:
10.5.2 Rumor For MacWorld
Hardmac claims that Steve will release OS X 1.5.2 at MacWorld '08
adding it will be ... (More at OS2Guy.com)

I plan to replace my G4 iMac with a new 24-inch aluminum iMac soon.  I
want to purchase an external Firewire 1TB hard drive for performing
backups.  I'm looking for recommendations.
I have a LaCie 500GB external triple interface hard drive that died two