Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

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Hardware Overview:
  Machine Name:    iMac G5
  Machine Model:    PowerMac8,2

I get the flashing question mark on starting my Powerbook G3 running OS 9.
I can't boot from the original CD when holding down the C key and holding
the option key on start-up still gets the flashing question mark.  Any
ideas?

So it sez in iTunes. I bought the album from magnatune.com and
downloaded as a .wav. Upon downloading one is given the opportunity to
download album art, and I did. What is it about these WAV files that
makes the artwork unmodifiable?

Mac FixIt is covered end to end with laments from people who have
installed "Security Update 2007-009 for Leopard, Tiger".  
Check there before installing this monkey.

Am I wasting my time trying to format a Time Machine partition without
journaling? I thought that was how I set it up in Disk Utility but it
turned out journaled anyway. So does Apple not allow Time Macine to run
on a non-journaled drive? Come to think of it, Mr Apple didn't know ...

Is it a reference to the GUI interface? Cos I thought that was called
Aqua?
Also, what is API? is that the same sort of thing?
Thanks

I use mini-dvi -> vga convertor connecting with the 24" dell
display. The dell display is very fuzzy. In the monitor prerference, i
have switched off mirror display, and set dell display to its best
resolution. Does anyone have a solution for this?

On my windows PC I use a plugin for Winamp that changes the audio to
mono so I can use headphones. On my new Macbook I haven't found any
way of doing the same. Does anyone know of any players or plugins or
settings for the mac that will change all the audio to mono? Thanks.

I think one of my Pismos is giving it up.
When I boot, sometimes the UI comes up but the cursor locks up shortly
after. Other times it won't boot at all.
For the past year this machine has been used a lot on my lap. It gets

I was reading about Asus' Eee computer yesterday:
<http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1907&l1=24&l2=0&l3=0&l4=0>
and I thought Mac users will luuuuuv this tiny (0.92 kg), all solid
state computer with an no headache (Xandros) Unice *preinstalled* and

<http://macenstein.com/default/archives/983>
Apparently, Apple does listen to complaints.

If you're still on 10.3.9 - do NOT update QT to 7.3.1.  There
are a few undefined symbols in it and life will not be much fun
afterwards (unless you backed up first).  Update Prebindings will
crash, Camino will start much slower, as will iTunes, and probably

Consider a campus environment where users supply their own computers,
which may be of differing operating systems. The users may print to a
CUPS print server on the network and retrieve their job by swiping their
ID card and selecting the job from the list.  

I've deleted every plist I can find in Library, Preferences and Format in International still is
non-functional.  Also my sound is not working properly.  Internal sound is not working whereas the
USB soundcard is working but every few minutes the sound gets distorted for a few ...

I am completely new to the Apple world, I recently purchased an emac
on ebay that has 10.4 loaded but only came with 10.3 system disc. I
got this for a friend who is using a very old imac running os 9, He is
a complete technophobe so I have been trying to help him but I only