Our first annual Geek Night! We will present Fink bringing the world of Unix to OS X! Fink makes available the world of Unix Open Source software to Mac OS X. ...
This is just an FYI to anyone that was thinking about buying an iMac this summer. You cannot get them from the Apple store online. There will be an all new...
Hi Folks --- There's an article on Tiger, w/a dozen screen shots here, for those who haven't seen it yet. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1619860,00.asp ...
Members, Hopefully someone can help out there. My daughtert brought over her dead iMac which went dark as she was trying to upgrade from 9.04 to Panther....
I have gone down this road and had the same problem with my brother-laws iMac SE. What you need is to do a firmware upgrade. The upgrade is found in the OS 9...
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Hi folks - I have a friend who is asking about burning data cds on his iMac (17", running Panther). He says he can't get the Mac to burn the data the second...
... When burning CDs or DVDs through Apple's stuff (Finder, iTunes, etc.) one can only burn a disc once, for a single session on the disc. After that, an RW...
We appear to have learned here that Apple inhibits a user from multiple ses= sion saves on a CD using Apple applications. Why does Apple do that? Just to...
... Hi everyone, Here is what I have read. First, refer to this article: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/multisessioncds.html There is an Apple Technical Document...
... Most of this is true, but there are some important errors. - Windows PCs format CDs in ISO 9660 format. If a user adds more data to the CD in a second...
Thanks for the tips, Dave. I am about ready to think the problem is the video board. I did add another VGA monitor that I know is good and it didn't work. I...
Feel free to re-post and distribute this as you wish. ... Who: Silicon Valley MUG (formerly BMUG South) When: Monday, July 19, 7pm Where: Beatles Conference...
I thought I remembered an announcement of the ability to use iChat and communicate w/our friends on the wintel platform, but just now made an attempt to come...
... The windows user needs to be running Windows XP with the latest, official AOL Instant Messenger client. In addition, they need to download and install a...
During the process of forwarding the recent SVMUG meeting announcement (Circus Ponies, etc) to the SMUG mail list, I developed a couple extra items to tack on...
Fry's is currently having another free book sale. Today (July 18th) I got Google: The missing Manual publ by O'Reilly (2004). It costs $20 + tax and they give...
Group, Are PC users locked into AIM as an interface when dealing with an iChat user on the other end, or can they also use the Yahoo! Messenger or .NET ...
Currently Apple is using AIM as its main backbone, and offers no connections to Yahoo or MSN services. A Windows client can only reach iChat people through...
The biggest issue I have with the AIM interface is the video only works on Windows XP. At work I use Win 2000, so I can't "talk" with my home Macs. Another...
For those who were remember our June meeting, Roxio has an offer to user group members for up to 33% off of Toast software, including Toast 6 Titanium, Toast 6...
My problem of help not working - as discussed at last night's meeting - has been solved (at least for now). A solution from The X Lab which I found through...
... A good tip in general; try deleting the two cache folders when things go wrong: /Library/Caches and ~/Library/Caches One can mostly feel safe that any data...
... The same problem happened to my grandfather's iMac, here's what's happening and how to fix it: Upon attempting to install Mac OS X, The Mac OS X Install...
Hello, I am passing along this opportunity for those of you who are or were recently developers as described below. Or maybe you know someone else who fits...