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I've updated to Tiger 10.4.7 but now my PowerBook 15" displays jarring window/icon movement and stuttering DVD playback. All thoughts/answers appreciated.

I, like many, am of the USB and Firewire generation but now I've had to hark back to serial connections to try to connect the DB9 female socket on my Powermac Graphite to a DB25 male socket on a wide format 430 HP Designjet printer (designated windows, via Virtual PC 5) Its all very vague I...

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I'm about to choose a broadband service and since I already use Telewest's phone service I'm thinking of buying theirs. I'm aware that Telewest use a USB router as opposed to an ethernet router that is better suited to the Mac. Does anyone use a Mac with a Telewest BB service and what...

Much appreciation for such a comprehensive and prompt response. It was so good I printed it out!

I'm trying some pro-active maintenance on my P'book 1.5 but I'm not sure I'm doing it right? I have restarted in single user mode to make repairs and typed in s/bin/fsck -f then "return". What confirmation (if any) am I looking for and whats meant by "running" s/bin/fsck -f. Any other...

When saving work in progress in Illustrator 10 (under Tiger 10.4) an additonal file with a seven figure numbered file name is produced. This happens with every file save so is clogging up my hard drive. All help appreciated.