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    Air shipping options for G4 system?

    So I'm moving to Japan and need to take my computer with me. I need to figure out a good way to pack my G4 tower, 15" LCD, keyboard, and maybe my 35mm neg scanner (small) into as small and light a package as possible and still have everything be safe. This is, of course, asking a lot but...
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    So my keyboard is grumpy

    I've been messing around with the international options a bunch, but can't seem to get the accent marks working again. When you accidentally switch something and then change it back, what setting do you use to get your accent markes, etc back? For whatever reason, the AIM shortcut issue...
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    So my keyboard is grumpy

    ALSO: I played around with input modes in the "International" settings, and no single setting or combination of settings makes any difference. Logging in as a different user doesn't change anything, either.
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    So my keyboard is grumpy

    1. The only software updates have been normal OS automatic updates 2. Nope. 3. Currently running Norton AntiVirus 9.0.2 4. No recently-added USB devices, though I did just replace my keyboard (still a standard Mac USB keyboard). The problem didn't show up until several days after the new...
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    So my keyboard is grumpy

    For whatever reason, I cannot get my computer to let me do certain keyboard shortcuts, and more notably, things like accent marks. Formerly, option+U gave me an umlaut. Now it just gives me the letter U. Same goes for other accent marks and international characters. I didn't change anything...
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    Inconsistent problems with Kotoeri

    Any chance you've got a screenshot of what you're talking about? My five weeks of Japanese training (so far) isn't helping me too much in finding this...
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    Inconsistent problems with Kotoeri

    I finally figured out how to use Kotoeri but am now running into a problem when trying to enter Japanese text in certain applications. I have no problems entering Japanese text into MS Word documents or into a Google search box in Camino (no problem in the Finder, either), but in other programs...
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    Japanese text input software

    I'm having a lot of trouble finding info regarding software available for OS X for inputting Japanese text. I need to be able to type in Hiragana, etc for personal and business reasons but am running into troulbe in that the only websites for appropriate software I can find are not US-based and...
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    Madness and a Matshita CW-8571

    I wasn't aware of the sensitivity to media quality, but then in looking at what it reads and what it won't, this doesn't seem to be the cause. It's rejecting a bunch of good stuff, and still reads some discs that are absolute crap. Go figure. Still reads some discs that are beat up like you...
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    Madness and a Matshita CW-8571

    I have battling a slowly-worsening optical drive for the last four months now. I need some help now. The drive in question is a Matshita CW-8571. Originally the problem started that sometimes it wouldn't read some discs burned in OS 9, and then it stopped reading all discs burned in OS 9 as...
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    AIM unexpectedly quits on launch, every time

    So anybody else have tis problem? One day AIM 'unexpectedly quit' like it's done a few times before. No big deal. I restart it. The icon bounces once and then I get the message saying it had unexpectedly quit again. Hmmm. So I restart. Same thing. So I reinstall. Same thing. So I...
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    Picky optical drive....but why?

    Ok, this one has me puzzled. I needed to pull some scans off of about 8 different CDs and quickly found that my G4 would only recognize some of them. Others, it tries to read it, thinks about it for about 30 seconds, and then spits it out. I consistently spits out the same discs and reads...
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    Instant Messaging- Trends in who uses which service?

    I'm 20 and here at Ohio University just about everybody uses AIM. MSN has it's perks, but never seemed to get along with my G4, and ICQ is just really $*&#^@ annoying. Once in a while I'll run into someone doing the whole Yahoo messenger thing, but they seem few and far between.
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    10.2.2 and DVD Player errors - any standard fixes?

    OK, so I found my own solution. I had tried re-installing the 10.2.2 update several times. No dice. Then, tonight, just for the heck of it, I installed the 10.2.2 combo update. Now DVD Player works without a hitch. Go figure.
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    10.2.2 and DVD Player errors - any standard fixes?

    Also posted this question on the apple.com forum, but thought it was relevant enough to ask it here too. Hope you don't mind. So anyway, it appears that a good number of people have encountered problems with DVD Player after updating to 10.2.2. Most of the time, people seem to be getting...
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    Gotta resinstall DVD Player....oops....

    Oh yeah....the obligatory problems with DVD Player after the update are several random error messages indicating things like DVDs possibly being scratched or dirty (which they're not) or that it detected some manner of serious error or something along those lines. Same kind of thing others seem...
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    Gotta resinstall DVD Player....oops....

    Well, after I installed the 10.2.2 update the other day and subsequently tried to play a DVD, I ran into the problems with the DVD Player that seem to be a by-product of the update. Something in that update really screws with the DVD Player app. Anyway, after fooling around with settings and...
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    AVI file converter utilities....any good ones?

    Hello everyone - forgive me if this has already been discussed exhaustively in the past. I'm fantastically new to this forum (found it all of 10 minutes ago), so please feel free to refer me to old threads. Anyway, my question is this - does anyone know of any programs/utilities for...
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