Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

After many years I'm going to make the change over from a PC to Mac
becaue I need to get a new computer and I don't want to have anything
to do with Windows Vista and I'm not exactly that fond of XP. I've
only stuck with a PC for so many years for software reasons. So I'm

What's the best way of keeping track of birthdays on a Mac?
I would like to be told about a birthday prior to its date, and I would
like to know how old that person is about to become.
I've had a look at iCal along with Address book, but it seems that

The subject covers the basics...
The details:
SOMETHING got broken in a newer version of QuickTime, making it
impossible to compile anything that links to QuickTime on a pre MacOS X

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One more question.
Anybody using their Mac for PHP-Mysql development and updated to
Leopard?
Does the update upgrade mess with the Apache/PHP/Mysql setup?

I have a shell script that will allow me to rename a bunch of files with
similar names.  Is there a way to do this in finder?

I have looked for a dedicated iTouch group but without luck so I will throw
in my query here as there may be more Touch users than elsewhere.
Playing music tracks on random with artwork showing and in the vertical
mode, when the tracks change so does the artwork. Switching to ...

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Hey everyone,
I'm having a problem getting RADIUS authentication to work in Leopard
Server.  I did an advanced install and i have the leopard server bound
to a tiger OD.  the server authenticates users in the OD fine, except

Was wondering if some one has found out how to exclude files in the
hourly backups time machine makes?
You might wonder why? Well I'm using Parallels and because the disk
image is changing rapidly it gets backued up every hour, and is

I have an extra 5.25" Pioneer internal DVD burner I want to put to use
and am looking at external enclosures for it, preferably with Firewire
connections.  My main question is, are fans necessary?  I could
understand for an external harddrive, but some posts elsewhere imply

Is Vista any better than Windows XP as far as running on Mac hardware
in either boot camp or parallels mode?
My primary interest is in running audio software such as Sony Acid and
Vegas, so I need good performance of the audio subsystem.