Mac Forum / General / General / February 2010

On Friday at the Macworld Expo 2010 in San Francisco,
the Star Trek rock band, Warp 11, played four numbers
for the live, on-stage Leo Laporte show.  In introducing
the band, Leo spoke about the Video Toaster and had a

So how would you compare this environment with? Is it more like Classic
or Sheep Shaver? Sheep Shaver can run OS 9 apps but in its own window
and emulator while Classic runs the apps within OSX.
John

What I have to do to search my time machine 320 Gb external drive using
spotlight, in Snow Leopard?
Greeting from Portugal.

Please - how can I tell Snow Leopard to not intercept any function
keys???  I've just switched to a Mac and still use WinXP and Linux and
use emacs and xemacs on all three.  I am used to assigning functions to
the function keys (and shift-function, alt-function, etc), but OS/X is ...

My X11 just crashed unexpectedly (a very rare occurrence, until
recently), and after restarting it, I'm no longer able to start
X11 programs from Terminal. I killed and re-started both Terminal
and X11, for good measure, but still I get the same error in

Today Steve Jobs is celebrating his 55th birthday.
As a kind of birthday present a friend of mine sent me something great
to reveal. Even it's in Swedish with English subtitles take yourself 2
minutes and watch this movie:

the battery on my wife's macbook 13" started to bulge (case came open on
one side. This battery unlike the ones for my black 13"macbook has no
screws on the side holding the battery together).
I called apple and they told be to go to a local service provider to

I bought a copy of Civilization IV for the Mac, and was somewhat
annoyed to discover that it requires you to have the DVD in the
drive whenever you play it, despite having copied gigabytes of files
onto the hard disk.  I assume this is intended as a copy protection

Eh, see subject.

For some reason my PDF files, word files and such have gone back to the
Tiger look. Perhaps this will be fixed by rebooting as there is no way
to rebuild the desktop in X.
Also for some reason correcting disk permissions in Snow Leopard takes

I walked over to my wife's computer and shared a new directory.
I walked back to mine, and now I have three shared computers that ask
me for a name and password.    I tried some variations of my computer
name and hers and my password and hers, but haven't guessed right.

My paranoia was aroused again when a website I clicked upon gave dire
warnings about spyware and the like. In the process of canceling the
connection, there were indications tha some files were downloaded. The
files are

I have a 2009 MacPro.
Is there an easy way to make it possible to remotely power on the unit ?

My wife has a PowerBook G4 17" with an Airport card, which at the moment
connects to the Airport express in my home office.
Now she would like to be able to take the PowerBook around with her and
connect to the Internet (say) on the bus.

Anyone pass on a suitable choice for Yahoo, MSN  Skype etc in the UK...
Looked at few and some seem only PC versions...
Thanks