Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

Am I right? The sporging began about the same time Zara quit here?

Is it true that you can't buy a freestanding Windows XP sp2 licence
anymore, because Microsoft wants to push Vista? I.e. no legal way to run
XP on a new Mac via Bootcamp? A colleague needs a laptop with XP, and I
was about to convince him to get a MacBook, but if the above is ...

I have almost no experience with Macs and am a linux user.  I am doing
some development work for a small business starting up.  I am doing
this for free and the person has little to no capital to put into
this.  She has an iMac running OS 9.2.  I was hoping to put together

I am trying to remove the open firmware password in a 12"
ibook G4 so am able to boot the bloody machine in firewire mode. Based on
http://archive.macosxlabs.org/documentation/firmware_security/configuration/conf
ig.html#force_removal,
I swapped its memory card with the one off my ...

I just upgraded my parent's 1Ghz eMac (circa 2004) from OS X 10.3 to
10.5. Trouble is, everything on their computer has slowed to a crawl.
Login and logout time takes at least 2 minutes. Applications (even the
grand total of two that they actually use, Mail and Firefox) take

I'm new to Samba. I want to use the Macintosh on a LAN with Samba so
it can mount the file systems of the Windows XP and Linux severs
automatically at boot time to access documents. I can see on the Mac
with a command-k I can connect to a Samba (SMB:) server, but I don't

I'm starting to port my "High Level Assembler" (HLA) to the Macintosh.
In order to achieve this, I need a version of GNU's as that emits mach-
o files that is syntax-compatible with as under Linux and FreeBSD
(Apple's version of as is definitely not compatible). I tried the

My web site runs off an OSX server and has a Spotlight interface for a
search.  That Spotlight seach interface stinks and gives results
according to content and relevance.
I need a search with options like file date.

I'm just beginning to think about a MacPro.  If one were to install two
(identical) discs in a RAID 0 configuration, for performance, would Time
Machine back up transparently?  Would any additional hardware/software
be required?

After I installed Security Update 2007-009 on my G3 iMac and G4 iBook,
my printers disappeared from the print dialog selection menu; it just
says "No Printer Selected". My network printer is shown under "Bonjour
Printers", but when I select it, I get "Adding Printer" and the ...

Just have my first hour under my belt using TM. (Time Machine)
Very impressive visual interface, very intuitive to use.
Vista attempts to do the same thing with "Shadow Copies", however their
interface is not intuitive or easy to use.

I have a dsl router, use a white 54 MBit/sec airport extreme base station as
WDS remote (because the walls here are too thick), and use a MacBook Pro,
MacBook, and 1.5 GHz Powerbook G4 to access the network (the Powerbook and
MacBook Pro were previously on the Airport network in a ...

i have a managed account that my 3yr old uses on my Tiger Al-PB.
Ive been noticing that stuff keeps accumulating in his trash (many
Recovered Files), but within his account emptying the trash is
disabled.  so the only way is to dusable management and then

Now my ageing iMac seems to be struggling and the internal combi-drive
no longer works properly. (800mhz G4 running 10.4) it seems a good idea
to upgrade, however I can't decide which is better the 20inch iMac or
Mac Mini.

Simple question: can anyone recommend a budget wireless printer that
will work with OSX 10.3.9. I was looking at the Lexmark Z1420 but
apparently it needs 10.4.4. Any other Lexmarks? Is Lexmark a reliable
brand?