Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

My Mac was bricked while trying to use Boot Camp to install Windows.
I'm wondering if there's any Windows software that can read the files
on my Time Machine external drive. I tried MacDrive; it doesn't work.
Anybody know of a way to copy files from the Time Machine drive to

When I find a file in the Finder, is there any way to cut and paste its
location into a document?

I have an iMac running Leopard as a client machine on an ethernet LAN
with an Ubuntu server, with which I would like to share screens via
VNC.
When I have a monitor connected to the server and X is running on it,

I have a first generation 20" iMac G5 and the monitor has gone black.
It operates fine in target mode with my mini.  At least I can write to
and read the hard drive partitions.  I think the logic board is good.  A
new inverter didn't help.  I was told that there are five fluorescent

I just got a free hp 5L laserjet printer.  I have an iMac, OS 10.4.11.
I know I can get a USB-parallel cable for about $13.  Can I get a driver
that will work, and is it worth it?  I just need a reliable printer to
print out non-demanding documents.

Can the Apple remote control volume and next/previous track in VLC,
iTunes, Real Player, Quicktime Pro, etc?  If not, is there another
remote with a receiver that can (plugged in to USB I guess)?
With screens getting bigger and bigger, allowing for multi person

Last century, I had a Power Centre macintosh which, if I recall, came
with MacOs 7.1 (circa 1996).
In this mac, there was a Sound control panel which let me force the
sound out of the built-in speaker even if there was something plugged

what is leopard flat pack

I have an ancient iMac DV (450mhz) running IS X 10.4.11.  It has one of
those pre Mighty Mouse graphite colored optical mice on it and the
tracking is very jittery and jumpy; so much so that it is often
difficult to select a specific word, line, or sometimes even dialog

Ah the good old days. I used to be able to see a picture of a keyboard
and type various combinations
of keys and control keys to see what would display. Now when I try to
do the same thing I get

I have an iMac 20inch dual core.  I've noticed (on my apple laptop as
well) when I run a virtual machine on vmware, the numberpad stop
working.
Does anyone know why this happens and how I can fix this so I can use

I am using OS 10.3 why can I not get my text in Microsoft Word for X
service release 1 to speak under the word menu sub cammand services ?
It is grayed out. I can get the text to speak with Texedit. Do I need
to turn on something somewhere?

I would like Finder to have the same behavior in regards to the menu bar as
does DVD Player when in full screen mode. That is, the menu bar appears based
upon the position of the cursor, sliding down from the top in a manner
similar to how the dock can be configured to slide up ...

Does anybody know the meaning of the  '@' sign that appears in file
permissions?  I have a folder that was replicated across various
machines using FolderShare (two macs and a PC).  I've stopped using
the PC and now want to use the Unison File Synchronizer to sync my

I was running the latest Tiger Mac OS, and had 3 Users on the machine.
A few days ago, I had only two users. But, yesterday, I used Migration
Assistant to move over an additional user. So, I had 3 working users on
Tiger.