Mac Forum / General / General / April 2008

Has anyone else noticed that Adobe Reader performance on OSX is
pathetic, and especially compared to Preview?
Or is it just something I've done to my machine (Macbook Pro 2.33 2G
Ram)?

I have just noticed something very strange. When I entered people's
birthdays in Address Book in Tiger, if I didn't know the year they were
born I used "1000". When I upgraded to Leopard a few days ago I did an
erase and install and then restored my home directory from a backup. ...

I came into my office and heard the fans running amok. it turns out that
repair_packages was hitting well over 60% CPU usage. Time Machine had just
done a backup. I didn't quit r_p and it quit itself in a minute or two. Can't
see anything in Console.

How do you enable and disable the use of individual ports in Leopard and
Leopard Server?
At present, I cannot access my usual e-mail account from my MacMini
running Leopard Server or from my old G4/867 running Leopard.

This is from MacWorld.
Mac OS X 10.5 includes a number of changes to its Unix core, perhaps
more than in any prior OS X release. Many of the changes are
routine‹updated versions of key Unix programs such as the bash shell

I just erased a folder by replacing it with another folder of the same
name is there anyway to undo this?

Is there documentation somewhere which details exactly what conditions
would trigger 10.4 (Tiger) to boot in safe mode without the user
pressing the shift key ?
This has been happening to me for a few days now. I have no problem

heres a familiar question -- how do i connect my macbook to an
existing, enterprise Windows network? im not at all concerned w/
sharing files on my mac... but i would like to be able to:
1) use the (ethernet-based) Windows network for internet (its DHCP-

I would like to restore my Intel iMac 10.5.2 TM backup to a different
computer - an Intel MacBook Pro. Will it work -- or is there a lot of
laptop-only stuff that the MBP needs?
Stan

This is drivin me nuts.
While I type in any program, there's a grey box that pops up with
spelling suggestions all the time.  
For instance, as I'm typing right now, the box is even appearing over

Last week I installed an MSO 2004 update on my G5 iMac running 10.4.11.  
Then I attempted to repair permissions.  The repair permissions process
halted at about half of the progress bar.  I let it cook for about two
hours without success, then tried to force quit Disk Utility.  I ...

Are you crazy about different operating systems like C++,
java in computers?
If you want to check about that please visit
http://operatingsys.blogspot.com/

I can down-scroll  (to the bottom of a web page) with my Mighty Mouse
ball, but not up-scroll.  I can sideways scroll both ways.
What can I set to scroll back up?

DoD Harddrive Secure Erase Wipe
I have a project which I need to DoD harddrives for the company. I
have large raid-scsi enclosure which I can use.
I have access Quad/Octa Xeon P4 servers with 3 dual channel LVE/SE

#10        February 15th, 2008
ASquared21
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