Mac Forum / General / General / June 2008

One small glitch I have noticed since upgrading my MacBook Pro (1.83 CD)
to 10.5.3 is that it takes Airport much longer to find my wireless
router. Once it connects, the connection seems stable, with what I think
may be a slightly stronger signal than before, but it seems to take ...

I am using anacron on a 10.4.11 machine.  I have a script that runs
weekly that pipes output to lpr.  I am away from home right now and have
changed my default printer.  When I run this script directly it sends
output to the correct printer.  When anacron runs it the output ...

I'm trying to use my laptop as a DVD player with an old analogue TV. I
bought the Grandtec PC to Video Component  NTSC converter, the DVI/VGA
dongle to hook it to my laptop, and a game switch to pipe it into the
cable nipple on the TV. All of this is in accordance with the

Can this even be done?
I first tried using both Toast 9.02 and Disk Utility with Memorex DVD+R
DL blank disks, and got write media errors with both programs.  This
even after lowering to the slowest speed.

- There is a windows app I must use.
- Not sure which of the two I should go for. I did try the very first
parallels ages ago but what I hated was how complicated it was to get
a file from windows (on a giant 'virtual' disk on the Mac HDD) so you

In my last thread, I started a discussion about the prices of the Mac Pro and
a comparable HP. But the HP didn't compare in term of processor, because the
Mac Pro is some kind of Frankenstein with only 2 huge processors and nothing
else. It's absolutely no use and way too ...

I'm trying to connect a macbook to a network with a windows 2000
server.
With a cable which is working with a windows machine I don't even get
an ethernet signal, with the wireless I don't can connect but not even

from what I understand, eSata is like firewire, only much much better.
so why the f.ck doesn't apple use this? cutting corners, are we,
steve?

I have a G4 Power Mac 1.25 ghz (Mirror Doors) with an Apple 22" monitor
running Leopard (newest verison) and 2 gigs of ram. Today when I went to wake
up the machine it woke up, saw the screen and then all of a sudden the
monitor went black. No signal of any sort getting through. ...

I've got several MP3s in my library that I converted from MP4 files.
They work great, except for one weird glitch: the  MP3 files that were
converted from MP4s have "memory," that is, if I stop playing one in
the middle, then the next time it plays, it'll start where I left off,

I ordered a new macbook pro from Amazon. The iBook is terminal. The two
year old put the next to final injury on it yesterday.
I've never done linking of accounts to a new computer but I've read
setup instructions which talk about it.

Is there such a phone?
Other than, perhaps, iPhone. I have nothing against iPhone except the
price, and I don't need all of the features.

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I named my computer Gort! in OS X ( It was Gort! Klaatu Barada Nicto in
OXS 9 )
Now I have a PC on my home wired ethernet and although I have configured
printer sharing and the PC's firewall endlessly I still can't print to

Has anybody else found problems when copying Flac files?  I thought it
might be the backup software I was using but I can't even copy using
Finder.  Every other file is perfect.  Other lossless files (like ogg)
seem to copy fine.  Any suggestions?  On 10.4.11.