Mac Forum / General / General / August 2008

This was in the Reader Reports section of MacInTouch.

I'm unable to install OS 10.5 on my PowerBook G4, when I put in the
DVD, it restarts, asks me to choose a language and then says "Cannot
be installed on this computer". I've checked the specs and eveything
seems ok:

I'm sure most people probably thought that iCards were stupid, but I
absolutely loved them. The simplicity of them was very cool. They really
made a nice way to remember someone's birthday or special occasion
without the idiocy of having to go to some website and create a login

When you zero out the data it can take quite a while.  Several passes
takes hours for most hard drives. I was wondering if it helps the
security aspect to change the partitioning scheme in Disk Utility.  One
could partition in Guid then Apple Partition Map then MBR in less than a ...

If you have several users on a mac and more than one user enables the
web server, which users web site will you get?
ie.  Say the host has an IP address of 192.168.1.100 and there are
several users on that computer each with their own 'Sites' directory

I have a new file wich name includes a lower case accent accute e
correctly displayed in the finder.
If I look at the file name in a shell with the "ls" command that
character is replaced with: "??"

We want to get rid of our virus-laden pcs and stuff that never connected
properly and turn over a new leaf with Apple. (So few choices = much simpler).
With the help of the guy at the store we've picked out two iMacs, two
macbooks and one airport express (for music capability).  I ...

You may occasionally run across a useful post here but far more
professional information is found on thousands of web pages dedicated to
the Mac.  I support those that spend far too much time in front of a
computer come here for a poor substitute for human contact.  

(I *think* the following is on topic, since it addresses another use of
the Mac OS.)
I have a Core Solo Mini laying around and I'm thinking of making it, and
new flat screen TV, the center of a media setup, instead of using Apple

I have an iMac Intel connected to a Netgear Wirless ADSL Wireless router via
Ethernet and Airport.
The internet works fine as does the LAN with my sons Mac which connects ONLY
via Airport. But on my iMac, if I disable the Airport connection, the LAN

I figure that line ought to get someone to look, at least 8-)
I got really ambitious this morning and started copying some old fotos
from ZIP disks(my G4 can read almost anything) into my master foto
archive on an external HD.  No problem until the last one.  It froze the

Lately, my Leopard Desktop sometimes has a strange 'passepartout'
on the desktop, which is like a dimmed frame around the whole desktop
*below* the menubar. The background picture is dimmed in that frame, as
are all parts of windows that are moved there (see

I am setting up a ssh-tunnel for connecting to a windows-share,
something like this: -L 22139:server:139
But this is not working on my mac OSX 10.5.4 smb://localhost/share:22139
I can set the tunnel on port 139, but I would like the tunnel to be able

Steve Jobs announces speech recognition for Macs
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<http://www.voicerecognition.com/news/05_10_99.html>
By the way, here are two easy reads about the history

Just to set this up, I have tried Google and Yahoo, looking for info on
Keynote, part of iWork 06, but I keep getting links to Jobs' keynote
speeches, even with iWork throwin into the puzzle.
I am new at Keynote, and I am trying to learn how to do a couple things