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I'm running 10.5.6 and recently installed MacPorts. I wanted to get xemacs so I tried sudo port install xemacs which appeared to complete with no problems. But when I try to start xemacs from an X11 xterm I get the following error Unresolved inheritance operation Any suggestions?

I have a Powerbook G4 which I got about 2 years ago - I cannot remember if the firewire is 400 or 800 - how can I find out?

When I want to listen to something from eg the NPR All Songs Considered website, I click on a link that says, you know, "listen." In the old days (pre-Tiger) this would pop open a player, such as RealPlayer. And music came out of the speakers. And it was good. Nowadays, after...

Now that I've upgraded to 10.4.1, when I try to play a song by clicking on it at eg the NPR website the song appears to download and Quicktime opens it but then nothing happens. Any solution? Or how do I change the player Safari uses to play downloaded music?

I've synced my to-do lists from my Treo to iCal using iSync. On my Treo, these lists are organized by category (eg books, house, work) but they appear in iCal in one group with no category info. What gives? any way to recover the group information in the To-Do list(s) in iCal? thanks-

When I look at the System Memory in the Activity Monitor, I see that often a few hundred megabytes out of a total of 1 GB are in an "inactive" for the RAM on my iMac G4, running Panther. What does this mean? The amount of inactive memory grows as I open applications until at times its...

I have a Powerbook running Panther. I am using a bluetooth Microsoft mouse. The connection between the mouse and the laptop usually gets lost whenver the Powerbook goes into power save mode. Any solutions?

Has anyone who ordered one actually received an HD 30" flat panel display? I ordered mine back in July and am still waiting. The Apple website claims that they are shipping.

I just installed Panther on my iMac, which was perfectly happy running Jaguar. Of course now my iMac is unhappy. Upon restart it comes up with the error message "The application "Transport Monitor" could not be launched because of a shared library error". Then when I try to launch almost...

Are there any problems with hooking up non-Apple (e.g. Dell in my case) flat panel displays to a G5 using the DVI connectors? thanks-

I just updated my iPod because I got an iTrip and needed to transfer the station playlist. But now there are no playlists on my iPod after the update. In the playlist category on the iPod, there is a subcategory called <my name>'s iPod and in there is simply a list of every song on the...

I'm trying to install xemacs on my iMac, running 10.2.8. Using Fink Commander I've downloaded and installed xemacs, xemacs-base, and xemacs-efs. But when I try to start up /sw/bin/xemacs I get the following error /sw/bin/xemacs & [1] 1831 [c-67-164-73-74:/sw/bin] adam% dyld...

Is there a reasonable way to get Greek letters into a Keynote slide? going through applications/utilities/keycaps seems unreasonably difficult to me. thanks-

I'm having trouble with the Mail application hanging. This appears to happen only when I click and drag a message from the Inbox to a folder for filing, though it does not happen every time I do this. I am using version 1.2.5 and OSX10.2.8. Is there a fix or more recent version of Mail I...

Is it possible to copy my iTunes library from my iMac directly to my Powerbook? if so - how? thanks-

I'm trying to install phpBB2 on my iMac. I've downloaded it from the www.entropy.ch site and been following the installation directions. I unpacked phpBB2 into my Sites directory and then pointed safari at ~me/Sites/phpBB2/install/install.php. This brings up the installation page which wants...

I have an iMac, about a year old. How can I tell if its Airport ready?

Is it easy to add memory to a Powerbook? If I do it myself, do I invalidate the warranty? and the Applecare plan if I have one?

I'm having a problem with what I think is x11 forwarding. I reguarly ssh from my iMac (running Jaguar) at home to my Linux box at work and then remote display programs such as kmail back to my iMac. Last week I had to reboot my iMac after installing some software and when it came back up and...

I ordered a Powerbook G4 about 5 weeks ago and was told today that due to delays in getting parts at Apple, there would be a delay in delivery of "several more weeks". Is waiting 2 months for a Powerbook G4 typical of Apple these days?