Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

please check out the design at NASA tech contest and comment on the
gadget
http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=798
--thanks

I am starting to investigate buying a new MacBook.  I went to the apple
site.  The black, highest price model is $200 more than the white mid
price model, and the only different spec I could find is that the HD is
a little larger.  Is black really that beautiful, or am I missing

New iMac 2.4, 20 inch with Leopard.
At shutdown all programs quit,  desktop clears off like it shoud, and
the little circle thingy starts working.
and working, and working, and working but machine won't shut off without

Dear Everyone:
I use the Desktop Manager Versioin 0.5.3 for my  Power Mac G5 machine,
and I set up four (4) desktops for myself to use.
I have a number of JPEG images to use for the background  of the

I had the entire lid/screen of my G4 iBook replaced recently, and I'm
just now firing up this computer. I discover that the AirPort only
picks up a wireless signal if I'm a few feet from the source -- won't
even pick it up in the next room. Why would this be?

My MacBook has a USB-attached hard drive. I want to allow other Macs on
the LAN to access it for read only, *as guest* -- that is, no password
required.
I cannot figure out how to do that. For everything I've tried (lots of

The last couple of days have been rather irritating as far as my 'old
faithful' <cough> MDD G4 PowerMac goes.  After experiencing numerous
kernel panics after running the latest Security Update/s (including the
1.1 version) I decided to do a clean install of Leopard on my hard ...

Incredibly, my husband's G4 iBook is showing a very major improvement in
both audio and video.  This happened immediately post security update
1.1.  I honestly can't recall *any* time his iBook had such good color
or volume.  If, say, the audio output was 6 before, it is now a ...

"XFN is a lightweight method of annotating links to indicate a
personal relationship with the person responsible for the linked
resource, and as such strengthens existing links in a manner that
is both machine-readable and human-comprehensible."

Bought one of ebay (the cluster unit with 1 removable HD). Came with a
10 user license of 10.5 server. Connected via an airport base station
extreme (the "n" type).
I have been at it for 2 days now. Can't ssh, can't use ARD 3.2 and can't

My new LaCie d2 Quadra 500GB external firewire drive has just been set
up as a Time Machine volume. I allowed TM to run once and then turned
it off (since I don't want hourly backups), having noted that the LaCie
drive made a very distinctive low-pitched rumbling noise when data ...

I have just purchased an iMac equipped with Leopard. Occasionally all
the open windows start pulsating (shrinking and enlarging). I find
this very annoying. Any clues as to what is causing this and, more
importantly, how I can stop it?

I'm unfamiliar with PowerPC Macs.
My daughter-in-law has a Mac with this configuration:
Machine Model:    iMac
  CPU Type:    PowerPC G4  (2.1)

What is this about...???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7079777.stm
PS- The Nine Year Old Girl part was speculation...

I just went to Circut City and asked two different salesmen if the blank
DVD-Ram disks would work on my Mac.  Both of them said: YES.
When I got home the media only mounted on one of my computers, a G-5 running
OS 10.4.11 and the disk is read only.  I can't use it.  Is there some ...