Mac Forum / General / General / February 2008

I have a rather odd question.  I am running a Macbook Pro.  While I am
very fond of my Macbook, I am not however very fond of the loud start
up sound.  I am in a college dorm and when I start my machine up in
the morning before class, the start up sound wakes my roommate up just

FYI:
I just ran the iDefrag program on my Santa Rosa MacBook (80 GB disk, 4 GB
memory).
It definitely improved the speed of the MacBook.

Wacom Intuos Driver 6.05-2 fails (crashes at startup) after the 10.5.2
Update.  This is on an Intel MacBook Pro.
Wacom web site (or Versiontracker) will point you to ver. 6.05-3.  A
newsgroup posting suggests uninstalling the old before installing the

Question concerning Macbook Pro fans.  Lately after my computer has
been running for roughly 10 min the fans kick on full speed and the
computer gets very hot.  I have not made many significant changes to
the system lately.  Is there a way to check which programs are running

There aren't too many things I don't like about MacOS over Linux or
Windows.  However, one thing I definitely do prefer about those OSes is
the ability to stretch a window from every corner or edge of the window.
Do any of you know an OSX extension that will let us do that?

Will Mac 10.4 run on a old buble imac G3. This machine is running OS
9.2 right now and won't even support web 2.0. If any one can answer my
question I would love your help.

Suddenly my address bar went gray.  Have tried View, but no "show
address bar"  How do i get it back? i have had safari 3.0.4 for some
time now and this just happened.

What's the best codec and container to use for embedding videos in a web
page so that the most number of people on the most number of OS
platforms can actually see the image and hear the audio?
Here's the issue. The wife takes these little Motion Jpeg movies with

Has any form of UNIX (ignoring POSTIX compliant OS's that have an internal
structure unrelated to  Linix / BSD / Mach / ... like OS2 / etc..) ever had
any kind of registry (for the core OS, not the applications; system daemons
may be tracked by such a structure -- but not user ...

After a restart yesterday I noticed that The clock, aiport were gone
from the menubar.
I went to System preferences and made sure that the display in menu bar
is checked. - No difference, still missing. Deleted the the plist file

I've been trying to replace the batteries on my eMac.
The Support in Apple page is very clear but I simply can't find  the
suitable Phillips screwdriver
to remove the screw on the memory access panel.

I have a PowerMac G3 running OS9.1, and I would like to get a new hard
drive. There's a dead secondary drive in it, so I know there's a spot
for it, but it's been so long, I don't recall just what type of drive it
was. Can someone drop me a clue? And do they even still sell the ...

My previous plea has elicited no responses, so as I still need a
replacement printer to use with my beige  G3 running OS9.2, does
anyone know of any printer OF ANY MAKE for which OS9.2 drivers are
supplied? They are still downloadable for my - now misfunctiong -

Could someone please tell me what are the pros and cons of turning the
Stealth Mode on for the OS X Leopard software firewall? Is there any
reason why it should not be on by default for a home desktop machine?
Thanks,

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