Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008

Dear friends:
When I try to install the new Apple BootCamp update in my WindowsXP
partition does nothing. Only a windows with a title of "Starting
Installation", or similar, appears for a few seconds, and then it

When I installed Leopard I discovered, as did a lot of people that the
programs
from Unsanity: WindowShade X and FruitMenu (downloaded from
versiontracker,

Gawd! i hate computers...!!!
Is it possible that i have some kind of mutant version of iMovie '08 &/
or iMovie HD that seem to be fully functional, except that i can't
save a project with either of them that will work on Flickr...???

I'm getting my first Mac, an iMac in the next month or so. I have a 120 Gb
external HD to which I'm backing up all my Windoze files for transfer.
After I effect the transfer, I want to partition and reformat the external
HD. Can I partition it so that part it is for Time Machine, ...

I have a classroom with a dozen G5 Mac Pros running Tiger and we want to
allow them to use a couple of A3 photo-quality inkjet printers and a
couple of flatbed scanners.
I see that the airport base station extreme only has one usb port.

I ran Verify Disk Permissions and Repair and received an error message
for all the folders in the Library Folder. 'ACl found but not expected'.
Unable in Mac Help to find anything on this. Went thru Robin Williams'
book, Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and no reference there either.

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can anybody recommend any mailing lists for Mac users?
My areas of intereste: OS 7-9, OS X, older hardware...
TIA!
Larry

I would like to convert a TED video podcast into a normal video for
iTunes (remove the podcast tags).   I can do this with .MP3 files, but
I don't know how to do this with .MP4 files.

I am stumped.... Does Bonjour pass thru Access Points?  I can use it on
both sides of a Buffalo MIMO WDS Link Segment, (802.11g) but I don't
seem to be able to see across that segment.  It passes AppleTalk, and
all the IP traffic I have tried, but not Bonjour.  I would expect ...

I'm using Chronos Personal Organizer 4.5.0 on a G4 iMac 10.4.11.  I want
to transfer 13,000 calendar events from CPO to iCal and then use iCal
exclusively.  My calendar needs are very modest.  These events include
several thousand calendar events that I transferred from DateBook ...

I have an old DEClaser 5100 printer. When I moved to OSX, I just left
the PPD in an obvious place on the disk and told the Mac's GUI where to
look for that PPD. And all seemed fine and well.
But, when I started to try to print stuff from the unix command line, I

I've been reading about the problems with screens on 20" iMacs. I was about
to buy one in May when I heard about this. I've googled and read up on it,
but still haven't heard about any statement by Apple.  I certainly don't
want to buy a computer, especially one that expensive, with ...

Some of the applets available for the Dashboard are nice utilities
that I want visible as I work on other applications.   One, for
instance is an analog clock, and another is an iTunes control and
display.

For many months now, when I leave Safari on nyt.com, I will come back
later and find several (from a few to dozens) of new windows open, all
blank, with no content. The URL in each will be something like
http://graphicx8.nytimes.com/feedroom/nytc3. Each will have a slightly