Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008

When repairing permissions after a system freeze today (which only
happens when running NeoOffice on 10.4.11), I noticed that the only
messages in Disk Utility were peculiarly mutually contradictory:
May 13 11:45:33: Disk Utility started.

Le Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes
(CRTC) a rejeté mercredi la demande d'injonction provisoire de
l'Association canadienne des fournisseurs Internet (ACFI) contre Bell
Canada, qui visait à stopper immédiatement les pratiques de Bell en

My university gave me a mac book pro that is boot camp dual boot with
vista and leopard. I am loving it so far, i just have a few problems
that i cant seem to work out. for my personal needs i use vista more
than leopard but to avoid an argument i see both operating systems to

any tricks any one can suggest for getting a disc to eject
the command E don't work neither does the command option O F

In the midst of a power failure two nights ago there were several
aborted attempts to bring the power back on.
The Dual G5 in question was set to reboot automatically after a power
failure. I wasn't present, but I can imagine what happened -- automatic

Hello to all,
I've got a G3 Beige OS9.1 and I just bought a flat LCD screen X223W Q
(Acer) wich was supposed to be "plug and play", according to the
salesman.

It would be interesting to have a way of tagging programs in the
Applications folder.  So often the name doesn't give a clue as to what
it actually does.  And if its been months since you tried a program you
may not forget its intended function.  You can color code the file names ...

Hi.  I have a 24" Imac running OS 10.5.2.
I have a Wacom graphics tablet and I recently corresponded with Wacom
tech support about an issue installing their tablet driver. The tech
support person wrote:

I've said several times that tape backup beats disks.  I can't maintain
the position anymore.
It used to be that a decent sized tape drive would be within what I
consider a reasonable price range.  They'd come down in price as time

I dont think that Apple makes a Airport that has built in power over
ethernet anymore.
Does anyone know of a third party product that will allow me to power my
Airport Extreme remotely?

From MacWorld: (http://www.macworld.com/article/133393/2008/05/vba.html):

I'm running a PowerMac G5 under OS 10.3.9. The unit works normally
most of the time, but I will occasionally find it first thing in the
morning roaring full blast, with the hard drive and/or fan just
spinning continuously at full speed and making quite a racket.

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I'm having a problem with x11 apps running on a remote machine displaying
and displaying on my mac.  When I resize the window, multiple resize events
are generated, causing the window (containing an image) to redraw multiple
times.  Because the app is remote, this can be a slow ...