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hi all i have and old g3 Imc Blueberry thing, it breaks my heart to throw it away so i run osx panther on it (just) and use it as a printer server attached to mine and my wifes printers. Question: is there a better way of doing this, i only have usb printers, a way that doesnt take up the...

hi all i have a 733 digi audio G4, running panther. i just want to use it to watch tv. ie bbc iplayer and c4 OD. but it cant quite handle the video content, its a bit jerky. i dont have any other apps open, it has a gig of memory, i dont use wireless it has a nice fast ethernet connection...

hi all does anyone know how i can IM or chat maybe with video accross my local network?? i have a netgear router connected to 4 macs and we want to message between ourselves without having to use internet chat addresses.. regards andy

is there such a thing as a crash log on leopard ???? woke up my macbook from sleep this morning as i do every morning and it had slept so soundly it had turned itself off. A

hi all i've set my laptop up to be ultra secure, anyone stealing it, even if its in sleep mode wont be able to access anything interesting. my keychain is locked so that i have to type the password regularly to access sites / mail/ etc, but i want to type a short one letter password, the...

hi all running 10.4 (up to date) on g4 all working fine until, power cut yesterday. restarted ok, login window ok, desktop doesnt build,no icons, just spinning wheel + 'pls reset your clock'. have tried resetting the pram, no change starting from disk, repairing disk and permissions, no...

hi all old mac g4 (digital audio) working well this morning, then power cut, now mac is off and cant get it going. pressing power on the front of the tower, the light behind the power button comes on but no chime or boot up or fan sound .. could have an internal fuse gone? regards andy

hi all, one of my HD's in my old G4 has crashed and died, not a complete disaster as backed up...but...some months ago. at startup i can hear it clunking and grinding for a bit then after 30secs it stops and then doesnt appear on the desktop, (the other drive has the sys folder on it)...

hi all i'm by no means a high end user, a G4 digi audio with 2 mon setup does fine for me. my wife however wants a new imac, intel etc, "my old one is too slow for all my photos". she has a point, it is a G3 "blueberry" but is a 600meg proc and 60 Gig HD and i loathed to get rid of it...

any idea how i get audio out of my external speakers and out of the imic at the same time?? the sys pref's only allows a choice of one or the other. A

hi all i'm running tiger on a g4 733meg digi audio, and have a big problem. my partition with the OSx system folder on (applications, users, library etc) has gained 5GB of weight in the last 2 days. i've not processed or loaded anything on to it, but the user folder is now 5GB heavier, but...

hi all, thanks for all previous replys v.helpful. next thing is.. i've just newly partitioned a 160Gb HD and installed a fresh copy of safari on it from my DVD. why is it that when i do a directory graph with disk warrior it reports that 30% of directories are out of order. in fact i've just...

hi all just booted up this morning and noticed (heard) a lot of disk drive activity. wondering what was going on i looked at Activity monitor and mdsimport and mds? is taking up a lot of CPU time, its been going on for 10 mins now.. anyone know what is going on. i spent a lot of time...

hi all whenever i download a .ram file with safari, it assigns it incorrectly an adobe golive icon and so boots up GoLive, which is annoying.. in prefs how do i access the file helpers so i can change the assignement to quicktime or realPlayer??? regards andy

hi all if i do a clone of my osx (safari) hard drive running on a G4 with all permissions etc using CCC, can i then clone that back onto a G5 HD with no problems?? regards andy

hi all, it says in the literature that my, nvidea 2mx card in my g4 supports 2 monitors, the lcd one i'm using uses the small 3x5 pin (half inch long) one.. how do i get my old apple 15' monitor to use the other one, the male connector on the monitor is about 1" long and has 13 pins, the...

hi all as a lot of people reccomend i dont use norton utilities with osx can anyone reccomend anything else that does a similar thing. A

hi all i'm running 3 macs in my house using ethanet and a netgear router, which also has wireless (not used because i have no wireless cards). now.. i was looking at my network to get something from the other mac when i spotted 2 odd folders in the network pane, i navigated to these and...

hi all my google maps widget was working great now just gets stuck in search mode. have reinstalled app from apple but still the same.. any ideas. A

hi all as i have 2 hard drives i want to use one for osx system and the other for ALL files documents photos music etc.. so when i backup or archive i just do the 'documents' drive but Tiger seems to default to the user on the osx drive.. eg moving i tunes music to 'documents' means that when...