Mac Forum / General / General / June 2008

At home, I frequently work with dual monitors on my Macbook Pro, using
the built in 15 inch display, along with my 22 Inch HP LCD. Is it
possible to extend the menu bar (at the top of the screen) over to the
external display so that while working in a program on the external

When I insert a blank DVD-RW I don't know how to turn on journaling so
I can write to it repeatedly after the first time. Is there a way to
do this on Mac?

plus all my other email addresses? I could never get this sorted with
.Mac email and have had to use Google's free Google Apps email service.
An example of one amazingly daft thing with Apple Mail and .Mac was I
could never add more than one email address in Apple Mail with the .Mac

When I print a document, my printer stays open in the dock. With Tiger,
it used to close when the document was printed. Why does it stay open
in Leopard?

New York pushes ISPs to curb Usenet access
Time Warner Cable pulls the plug on all newsgroups after the state AG's
office finds child porn on 88 of them. Verizon and Sprint plan to limit
Usenet too.

Thanks to all who answered my first post on this subject.
To recap my previous system:
Imac G5 running 10.3.  MacBook Pro running 10.4.
Imac connected via ethernet cable to round airport extreme. MacBook

Mac OS 10.3.9, bash shell
I want to rename all the files in a folder so that the new names are
simply the old names prefixed by a 4-5 digit random number (different
random number for each file). I looked at man rand in Terminal and the

I have a G4 that I would like to upgrade.  I was just curious what the
most I can do on the G4 as far as an upgrade would go.  And, is this a
lofty endeavor?  :-)
Here are the specs:

I know this isn't a for sale group, so flame on, self-annointed.  I'm
also not selling, just offering for free.  I'll split shipping costs.
This is a broken powerbook 140, no HD, no hope of revival.  But
visually, it is in good condition.  This would be worth while for a Mac

Folks:
I've got a long-neglected System 7.1 SE with a couple of megs of files that
I need to archive to a modern machine.  Most of the Files are MS Word 4.0.
The first shot is to get _some_ files across to see if the Word files are

See the software update icon bobbing up and down and there's a brand-new
QuickTime.
Be the first on your block?
Ah, what the hell ...

I'm running 10.4.11 on a G4.  I've recently added a Maxtor external
disk (750GB) with a USB connection.  Since then, the computer has gotten
into a strange condition several times: It is still running (fan is on),
but the screen has gone dark and won't come back.  The only action

Recently I bought a iPod Touch with firmware 1.1.4, but the 5 apps added
in January are not visible.
I already did a reset and a restore with iTunes.
Who knows something?

does anybody know if:
its possible to screw out a stand of imac alu and then use vesa wall mouunting
im going to use it but in pivot (rotated 90deg) and im not sure if
graphic card driver from tiger or leopard will let to rotate screen

In my HD/System Library/Coreservices/SKPlugins folder, I have seven
generic "dot service" applications and they have a "No" symbol over the
top of them.
Get Info tells me that they are Classic applications. They are called: