Mac Forum / General / General / April 2008

I have an HP psc 750 printer.  It is connected wirelessly (via a PC)
because I have an iBook.  Today I needed to scan something so I
connected the printer directly to the USB port.
I've recentlty installed Leopard 10.5.2 and the wireless printer works

The copy of Leopard that came with my new MacBook Pro will not install
on my Dual 1 GHz G4 Quicksilver.  Early in the installation, the
Installer says Mac OS X will not install on this computer.  Can anybody
offer an explanation of why it won't install?

Please forgive me up front - I'm sure this kind of question has been
asked before but a quick search didn't reveal an answer.
I have a broken Mac SE circa 1989. I have about 50 Mac diskettes
containing documents written between 1984-1997 in MacWrite and an

I just bought a 500GB USB drive for my iMac to partition for my time
machine drive (350GB) and iMovie (150GB).  I have everything up and
running and there's no problems.  Now I have a few questions:
1.) Currently I'm running time machine in its default config, ie it

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=405
Last summer, I looked at Apple’s announced plans for its Safari web
browser and wondered out loud, Is Steve Jobs planning a hostile takeover
of the Windows desktop? Apple’s decision last week to begin aggressively

I am about to change my system disk on my 10.4/tiger Mac. I'll plug the
new disk in and copy the old disk to the new disk, then unplug the old disk.
On the old MacOs, once simply needed to drag one disk over the other
disk. No need to worry about permissions, locked files etc.

In message:
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I wrote to JF mezei:
"But, wait, investors are not that dumb, it seems. They read Asian Times

I'd like to see Spotlight's content index for one particular file. Is
this even possible?
mdls from the command line seems to give you access to a file's
metadata, but is there an equivalent for the content index?

I'm often using MS Word 2008 as a notepad and frequently have to copy
and paste text over to a web page.  Word inserts spaces at the end of
the line when none are there (really - none are there).  Is there any
way of preventing this?  I really don't want to switch if I don't have ...

Regularly receive MS WOrd ".doc" files from local authority and one or
two private individuals. I use a G5 iMac and these open in AppleWorks 6
using MacLink Plus as installed from the supplied software DVDs.
SOME of ,docs these translate perfectly into a straight,

Dunno if it's OT in here; if so pls excuse me..
I had a white M7803 keyboard connected to my Linux box, which totally
froze. After reboot, bios reported no keyboard. The keyboard didn't
react at all nor flashed lights at boot.

Google's Sketch Up...!!!
It's a 3D Drawing tool that's VERY Primitive, But also Very Easy to
Use And also lots of fun...
The quirky bit is that the price difference between the Free Version

This was a message to Ian Gregory, but it's a very old thread, I took
quite a lot of time to reply and the matter seems important. (Only to
me, of course, so you may ignore this thread completely.)
First, it begins with a welcome back to my good friend Ian:

What if I had this Smart Playlist and I wanted a DIFFERENT 9GB of
tracks (from my vast library) on each sync? Or what if I didn't want
to hear it if I had played it in the last week (for example)?

Just curious if anybody has noticed how long does it take on average
for new Mac models to start appearing in the refurbished store?