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I have an old 15" Powerbook G4 (so PPC, obviously), running OS X.4.11. Earlier today, in the middle of a Terminal session, my keyboard started behaving very bizarrely. When I pressed keys on the right-hand side of the keyboard, they would behave as if they were random other keys. (For...

Hi. I have a Powerbook G4 running Mac OS X.4.7. I recently bought a 200 GB internal Seagate drive. (I put external in the subject line because I put it in an external enclosure.) When I try to partition the drive, Disk Utility locks up -- and stays locked up (say, overnight). As best as I can...

I just recently re-installed Tiger. I run as a non-administrator on my computer, and I suddenly found that I don't have permission to read system.log. I've run verify and repair permissions in Disk Utility, and, though there are plenty of special permissions, no permissions are changed. I...

Software Update continually finds an iPod updater. Since I don't have an iPod and don't intend to get one, I ignored this update (using delete). I get a confirmation that it's ignored, then -- the next scan shows it again! This doesn't happen with any other updates I ignore. Does anyone know...

This is kind of a silly question, but I've noticed recently that I no longer get audible feedback when I perform actions like moving an item to the trash. I checked under Sound in System Preferences, and `Play user interface sound effects' is still checked. This is true for all my accounts...

I have an external hard drive (actually an internal hard drive with enclosure) which I want to be able to use with both my Apple and my Windows machine. I partitioned it using the Mac, leaving some free space for the Windows machine, but the Windows machine (running XP) doesn't recognise the...

I want to compile something downloaded with Fink from source. I tried and got an error that I didn't have any suitable compiler. I installed gcc-4 from Fink without trouble, and then tried again. It still couldn't find gcc, so I realiased gcc-4 to gcc. Now it recognised the compiler but said...

I am a devoted Firefox user who has just switched to a Mac. I am running Tiger on a Powerbook, and of course the first thing I did was to download and install Firefox. It runs just fine as long as I use it in `out-of-the-box' form, but for me Firefox isn't complete without a small suite of...