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AlainBX, Hmm, lines on screen sounds like it could very possibly be a logic board problem. Lots and lots of iBooks had this problem. Many were fixed by Apple for free. I don't know if they're still doing that. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try to check your hard drive using DiskWarrior or some...

El Senor Diablo: I sense satire. Others: I wonder if there was an os update to fix this. Amzin, why haven't you updated to 10.5.6? Bot 133t h@x0r b0t (not incredibly elite, you understand, it's really just a joke I stole from Tiki Bar TV; and no, I'm not DrinkBot)

Jestra, It depends on your machine. There may be a disc eject button on the keyboard. On notebooks, it's in the upper right corner. Hold it down for a couple seconds and then release. If you don't see one, try holding F12 (function key #12). Good luck. Please let us know how it works. Bot

I have had three optical drives go bad on my on three different Macs. I had an auth. Apple reseller replace the one on my iMac, which complained of a servo error (hardware failure). I replaced the optical drive on my Power Mac G5 myself, and I just replaced the DVD burner on my 2 GHz MacBook...

What about copyright? Is it public domain? If not, I don't think site owner Scott will want it posted. Bot

You can also do a hard reset by holding down the top and front buttons at the same time until it reboots. A hard reset shouldn't erase any data. Bot

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to start up in "Safe Mode". I believe safe mode will run fsck (disk check) to make sure the data on the hard drive is okay. As #1 Rhapsody wrote in the prev. message, it would help if we knew how much mem you have and what operating system. Click on the Apple menu in...

If she must have antivirus software--probably a good idea if they make use of Office macros--I've heard good things about Intego's Virusbarrier. ** EDIT : I have heard that Office macros can affect OS X, though I have no first-hand experience with macro viruses. ** Bot

For anyone using Boot Camp (Apple's solution for running Windows), check out CampTune, a free partition program that is specifically made to size your Boot Camp partition. Bot

Coolio, Try this: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=20154 Please let us know if it works for you? Bot

So, anyway, it is quite unlikely your system has been compromised by malware. There's just not enough of it out there. Tom's Hardware wrote that there are only about 200 pieces of malware out there for OS X. I don't know where they got that number. Perhaps they're counting the old "classic" Mac...

IMHO Tiger is probably the best for G4s. It requires less memory and is somewhat quicker. Still, the feature I'd miss most going back to 10.4 would be Time Machine.

This works fine. I've done it myself. I back up my home machine to an external hard drive, and I occasionally bring home my work machine to back it up on the same drive. It creates a folder for each hard drive inside the folder "backups.backupd". The folders are named after the machines you are...

Dens, It is possible that your system is infected by the OSX.RSPlug.A trojan, a DNS changing Trojan horse as Dr. X mentioned. My suggestion is to Google for "DNS change Trojan os x". One of the first (or the first) entries is a Macworld article about the Trojan and how to get rid of it...

luth007, Welcome to MacOSX.com! You can re-run the BootCamp assistant (or whatever it's called) from OS X to create a drivers disc. As for your setup problem, my first suggestion is to start over with the install. You _do_ have to be careful not to overwrite your Leopard installation. Did you...

MisterMe, I think you misread gtackett's reply. He did install a newer version of CUPS, and he did have problems. But after an Archive and Install, he got rid of the CUPS version that caused him so many problems. And he did discover that updating CUPS wasn't as straightforward as he thought. Bot

Diskwarrior will check and display the S.M.A.R.T. (diagnostics) status of the hard drive. The other major drive utilities also check S.M.A.R.T. You might want to invest in one of them. If the drive utility indicates the drive is failing, you'll have to get your data off as soon as possible...

Your message left me with this question: Which OS X install would have two discs? Was there an option to get Leopard on CDs? I vaguely remember that for Tiger and / or Leopard. You mentioned Leopard, of course. It sounds like you are getting a disc error when you enter the second disc. Have you...

Of course, you _can't_ make a "Blu-Ray" disc using regular or DL DVD-R. By definition, making a Blu-Ray disc requires Blu-Ray media (discs). You _can_ copy your movie files from your camcorder to a regular DVD disc. This will not play in a regular or Blu-Ray player. It will only work with your...

FLDStudio, As mentioned before, you can open the source folder, Select All (Command-A), click and hold on one of the selected icons, and drag and drop them onto the destination folder. This actually requires just two additional steps as compared to Windows: you have to double-click on the...