Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008

Hi. I was working last night in the bar i usually work in and because
at least 2 of the dj's there have macbooks i started wondering if they
leave their airport connection on when they are dj'ing. I mean with
more and more advanced phones available, do you think there is any

I came across an interesting problem. Maybe someone can help.
I was asked why the delete key did not work on an iMac.  It works on
other accounts on the same computer But not on this specific account.
I discovered that if you use the caps delete it works properly.

Yesterday was the iMac's tenth birthday.  Without the iMac, Apple
probably would have floundered, if not died, and we would not have the
Mac OS that we know and love today.
It sold for $1295.

Remote assistance Windows PC to Mac Notebook. I have looked around to
see what there is I just am not sure what is best though.
I currently use Remote desktop from within windows for other windows's
pc's But now I must access a mac and to be able to work in it Remotely

Around 5 I plugged my iPod Nano into my MacBook Pro to charge it. Went
downstairs to do some laundry and came back up about 7:30. The iPod said
"charged," but when I woke my MBP up, the whole screen had multicolored
squares and rectangles all over it. My connected Apple Cinema ...

Setup: iMac, 10.5.2, wired ethernet LAN, Cannon IP4500 printer on the
iMac. In the next room, another iMac and a  Lenovo Thinkpad running
Windoze XP.
Question - is it possible/practical to share the printer among these

I'm awaiting shipment of my first ever Mac (an iMac -- the new 24") and
because I have a lot of XP apps I'd like to still run on occasion I have
some questions about Bootcamp:
(And I may want to try Vista because some apps like the latest Quicken have

Torvalds was in Melbourne last week (week of January 28th) for the
linux.conf.au conference and was invited to pass judgement on OS X
versus Windows Vista in a wide-ranging interview.
"I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better

All the time I used Windows, I avoided having to remember which drag
was a copy and which drag was a move by using my right button and
using the menu.   Now that I'm using OS X at home, I find the choice
is a bit more complicated, but don't see a menu option, so I use

(If you're not interested in Mac-Psystar comparisons, please stop
reading now.)
The following is excerpt from this article:
<http://www.macworld.com/article/133323/2008/05/psystar.html>

Let's say I've got a video on DVD and I want to get the material into
iMovie and edit it.
What do I do?
(Conveniently, it's not a commercial DVD and has no - I guess -

I still don¹t know how to create a crontab in the standard way.  Crontab
­e produces the following output:
$ crontab ­e
create entry

My wife's Mac mini, about 3yo, isn't booting. Comes to the apple and
spinner and just sits there.
A few days ago, while I was out of town, she described the symptoms
and made a perfect imitation of a crashing disk. OK, I ordered a

Dear friends:
Have you been able to install Apple's BootCamp update for WinXP-32?
I have been unable to do it, the computer waits for ever after a short
message of "Preparing Install".

Any suggestion to solve the problem below would be greatly appreciated.
I'm using iTunes 7.6.2 and my default library is in the Users folder. I
changed this a few years ago as the library was taking up too much space
- I 'only' have a 60gb HDD and so changed the itunes folder to ...