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  1. Fred Flinstone

    Printe SHaring with XP Sp3

    Hi All... I am almost completely round he twist with this problem having Goolgled and tried different stuff for several weeks now - I simply cannot print to an Epson CX 5600 connected to Mac running Tiger 10.4.11 If anyone has succesfully managed this using a similar printer and the same OS's...
  2. Fred Flinstone

    Shared printing from tiger to XP

    HI. After a week or two of hell - first downgrading the Mac to Tiger and the even worse horror of trying to downgrade Vista running on a New HP machine (believe me if you've tried this you'll know exactly what I mean...) I now find I cannot network my Epson CX 5600 (connected to and running on...
  3. Fred Flinstone

    Terminally Ill? Sudo not so cool

    I have been trying to install Macports on my Intel iMac running 10.4.11 - installed X11 - installed X11 sdk - updated X11 And now the reason I hated Linux and Command line programming so much.... sudo: port: command not found in response to the following commands sudo port -v selfupdate sudo...
  4. Fred Flinstone

    Graphics Nightmare on Leo....

    Hi All. I am not sure what's going on but I have been plagued by lines on the monitor for nearly a month now - I suspect as a result of applying the fix from the apple site for Leo. On top of this I am experiencing frequent lock ups and in particular poor performance with firefox. These lines...
  5. Fred Flinstone

    Cannot launch apps without them quitting

    I just returned from a 3 week vacation to the 10.4.10 update and a microsoft office update. Little by little I have noticed problems with firefox in the past 48 hours and now to my horror I cannot open any of the Office Suite, Skype Mate and a whole host of other apps without them quitting...
  6. Fred Flinstone

    How do I install Personal Web Sharing from install Disk?

    Hi - I have had an extremely frustrating 4 hours or so between trying to google a solution to the problem and examining the contents of the installation disk with pacifist - I am still none the wiser. I have not tried to set up a localhost server on my Intel Mac running 10.4.9 I have had since...
  7. Fred Flinstone

    Fax Problem 0n 10.4.9 ?

    Hi - I just got back from holiday in Peru to the latest round of updates. Since I have somehow regained my 'business head' I decided finally to try and configure the fax function on my Intel iMac. Sending seems fine.... no problems there. But with receive the phone just rings out and never...
  8. Fred Flinstone

    Sound issues with WMV in Flip4 Mac Studio

    Hi having had on going issues with Windows Media ion Mac I finally splashed out on Flip 4 Mac studio last week - I have the media Componets 2.1d package with the upgrade. Problem is a friend sent me a Video today coded with the MP9 codec - and the sound is digital and almost mute. I now find...
  9. Fred Flinstone

    Finder Crashes regularly

    Hi I did try to find a threat that related specifically to the problem I have before posting this but couldn't find one. What I did find related more to g4's and not Intel. On other forums there was advice to look in '~/library/Contextual meno items' and all I find there are 3 plugins - no...
  10. Fred Flinstone

    Drive issue - anybody know why?

    Hi.... I badly needed to dump a lot of clutter on my HD to storage bins and bought an internal ide 80Gb drive which you can hook up to your PC or Mac via a SATA/ATA to USB connection Cable.*** The Mac however does not seem to recognize it at all where PC does. In PC once it's recognized the...
  11. Fred Flinstone

    Not at all what I expected.

    As a recent convert to mac (Never having even touched one prior to mid-September) I have had one or two niggling little issues but overall Love the OS 1000 times more that Win-DoSe. However 2 continue to bug the heck outta me! The first is an issue with QT 7 and it's support for MPeg files. I...
  12. Fred Flinstone

    Horrors of the Dock

    As a complete Mac newbie I have to say that overall I love it 1000 times (and then some) more that Billy's best - what a heap! However I am starting to have a love/hate relationship with the dock already. I choose to hide the dock to maximize my screen real estate when I am working but lately...
  13. Fred Flinstone

    Region Free iMac???

    I want to ask very specifically if anyone has found a way to make the default player Region Free on the new Intel Duo OS X Systems. Have read a lot of 'stuff' here and there about might and might not be solutions for PowerPC and Mac Books - completely different configurations and I don't want to...
  14. Fred Flinstone

    The ugly side of the Tiger

    I bought my first Mac last week after 15 years of marriage to the ugliest witch in the industry - Namely Microsoft The latest facelift won't do anything to improve her in any way! Simply put she's history. Whereas I am now very much in love all over again - like I was dating a teen bombshell My...
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