Mac Forum / General / General / July 2008

I bought a new 3.06 GHz 24" iMac now running OS 10.5.4. I decided to
use Disk Utility to 'Repair Permissions' one night. NINE HOURS LATER it
was still going! It had finished when I awoke next morning!!
Next time, I tried to 'Verify Permissions' just to see what would

so im jazzed about the iphone2, but theres just one missing feature i
dont get -- why no MMS??
as a photog, i think all camera phones more or less suck. i wont be
doing vacations or portraits on them, and theyre really only good for

I don't want to send the image to a plotter -- I just want all of the
image on 8.5x11 sheets.  The image is 3143x2657 at 72 DPI.  Could
anyone tell me how to print this?  I'm running Leopard and have CS1
and CS3 available to me.  Thanks if you can help.

Is it normal to see Backups.backupdb as a folder on an external HD used
for Time Machine? I'm surprised it's not showing up as a bundle. It
seems like this makes the backup too easily messed with by newbies and
software that looks for an available app and doesn't care where it's

I have a number of old floppies that I'd like to salvage. I also have a
Toshiba USB floppy drive. My problem is that the Toshiba sounds like
it's working but it won't show up on my desk top (or in Disk Utility).
Anyone have any ideas how to deal with this?

Quoted from news.cnet.com
I hope this does not occur or affect anyone posting here.
"New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that
Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would "shut down

I've discovered that the rm command, usually found in /bin, now ha\s a
listed size of 0 bytes. Attempts to use it confirm that it is hosed.
How do I install a replacement copy, and how do I ensure that it's the
right version for my machine before doing the install? I'm running Mac

Someone tell me if it's any good -- due to hardware problems, I'm
already on my backup system!

Does anybody know of some instructions for copying Laserdiscs to DvDs
using a Mac?   I Googled some detailed instructions using Windows, but
not for Macs.

When a multifile HTML document is downloaded and opened every single
page opening (from the finder) results in the message
  "XYZ.html" is a web application which was downloaded from the
Internet.

I have a number of acquaintances whose Mac desktops are a literal sea of
icons, sometimes containing well over a hundred, sometimes arranged by name,
sometimes arranged randomly, and whose docks contain so many icons that the
size of those icons is minute. I fail to see how such ...

Is there a way to view the Time Machine graphic without the obstructing
finder window? It would be a nice screen saver.

I came across this article today.  It addresses some problems that have
been reported here periodically.
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543>
Summary

I enabled apache web server and php on an OSX leopard server
by:
enabling Web Sharing in Preferences
uncommenting

For most of my mail chores I use Mac Mail, although I still have an
account with AOL as does my wife. I was very surprised when I
downloaded and installed the new AOL Desktop for Mac. It has a very
neat and clean appearance.