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The other day, for no cause that I can recognize, my powerbook started behaving strangely with respect to battery charging. When I plug in the AC adapter, the computer immediately registers that it's running on AC power, but the battery doesn't start charging until 10-15 seconds later. If I plug...

My 12 inch powerbook (1.5 GHz G4) is having some recharging troubles. It was in sleep mode for a couple days (although it's done that before and had no problems) and now it's doing the following things: - When plugging in the power adapter, it immediately registers that it's under AC power...

Fairly frequently (but not every time) when I try to visit a web site, my browser starts contacting the server and fetching the page, but hangs for a while instead of bringing the page up. If I stop and reload, the page comes up quickly. The browser itself doesn't hang, the UI still responds...

When I open Mac Help, I get a blank help window. If I either press the Home button in the toolbar, or invoke MacHelp.Help directly from where it resides in /Library/Documentation I get the initial screen, but none of the links work and searching for a topic doesn't work either. All the help...

Every time I start up X11.app, or it gets started by way of launching an X11 program, an xterm window comes up. Is there any way to disable this?

I have a 1.5 Ghz aluminum PB G4 12" which I use for general web stuff, schoolwork, and programming. Recently I've been working on a realtime graphics app for a large school project. When the app runs it takes the CPU to full usage and thus raises the temperature of the machine quite a bit. After...

Is there any way (either a OSX utility or a BSD command) to find out the full path to the program running in a given process? Using ps -A I can get the full path to most, but not all running programs. I want a way to associate any pid with a specific executable file and I can't seem to find one.

Disclaimer: I am the paranoid type when it comes to keeping things running smoothly. A few days ago while looking at the activity monitor, I noticed that the configd cpu usage would spike up a percentage point or two every few seconds, hovering at zero the rest of the time. I don't believe it...

I'm running a PB G4 12" 1.5 GHz. When importing a CD in itunes, the processor gets up to about 138 degrees F (normally it hovers around 108-110). I understand that copying CDs is pretty processor intensive, but that seems a little hot to me. How hot is it safe for these machines to get?

I've got a 12" Powerbook G4 1.5 ghz. I have the system sleep time for battery power set to 15 minutes, display sleep to 7 minutes, and HD sleep is at 10 (I don't think this is configurable though...) When I leave my machine idle, the display turns off as it should at 7 minutes sharp, but the...

I've got a 1.5 GHz, 12 inch powerbook G4, with 768 megs of RAM. My battery life is good, 3-4 hours under normal load, so I think my battery is OK. But, when it's in sleep mode it seems to drain about half a percentage point every hour from the battery, which seems like kind of a lot to me...

I have a 12" powerbook, on which I mainly do software development. I frequently use a lot of CPU time doing processor intensive tasks like compiling code, etc and want to get as much battery life as possible out of my machine, even if it runs a bit more slowly. To this end, I decided to set my...

I'm using XCode 2.1 for a personal project. It seems that (in the text editor) sometimes after saving, XCode "forgets" what line endings the current file is using and saves the file with unix encodings, even if the file currently uses Windows endings. This makes for very annoying diffs...

I've got a project that I've had building in XCode for a while now, and I've just upgraded to 2.1. My project setup had the executable (package) going into the root of its own directory structure that contains data files, log files, etc. I realize that this probably isn't the best way to do this...

I'm running 10.4.1 on a 12" powerbook, 1.5 ghz. Recently I noticed the fan coming on more often than it used to, and I started watching the Activity Monitor's CPU history. I notice that usage tends to spike up from its idle every few moments (maybe around once per minute, give or take a few...

I've heard that powerbook batteries are hot-swappable, as in you can sleep the machine and remove the battery, and even if not plugged into AC power you have about a minute to put in a new battery, courtesy of a small backup battery. I've also heard this feature is not present in the 12"...

I've got a new aluminum 12" powerbook, which I plan to take back and forth with me to school a lot. The carrying solution I decided to go with was to put the 'book in one of SpireUSA's horizontal boots and and carry it in my backpack with the rest of my stuff. This means though that...

Is there any way I can, from the terminal, open a new terminal window in the current directory or any arbitrary directory? It gets kind of annoying having to use apple-N and then navigate where I want to go every time I want to spawn a new window.

I've read threads about forcing your powerbook to keep running when you close its lid, but I'm interesting in trying to make my 'book not wake up when I open the screen. Does anyone know of any ways to do this?