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What you are seeing is called a kernel panic. Apple Knowledge Base article 25392 offers some hints on troubleshooting KPs. KPs can be caused by software issues, but hardware is by far the most frequent problem. First clear out any setup issues by booting while holding down the...

This discussion on the GideonSoftworks site is the best discussion of the entire topic of ownership and privileges I have seen. You cannot discuss privileges without ownership and vice-versa.

RAM does age and as it ages the timing etc begins to drift. Eventually it can drift far enough that it becomes marginal or even out of spec. This happens even with the Apple branded RAM that comes in Macs from the factory. I have had third party DIMMs that were dead or unusable on arrival. But...

Most likely either the Launch Services database or possibly the Whatis database. Cocktail can rebuild both databases and I am sure there are other utilities as well as Unix commands that can do that as well.

Give credit Microsoft where credit is due, they had the good grace to change the names and they did not copy Apple's code, just the functionality. The underlying technology may be a bit different but the end result is the same.

This Digital Digest article is a bit long, but it does a good job explaining the differences between the DVD-R and DVD+R standards. Apple has only very recently supported the DVD+R standard because they felt DVD-R offered more reliable compatibility. Personally with the advent of Blu-Ran and...

Kernel panics can be a result of software problems, but more often they are caused by hardware. The most common "suspect" in hardware created kernel panics is RAM. Memtest, or if you don't want to fool with booting into single user mode Rember are currently about the best memory tests available...

The guidelines for a successful upgrade are pretty universal: Repair permissions before the upgrade If it is the best you have run Disk Utility > Repair Drive to be sure your volume and file system are healthy. If an error is found rerun Disk Repair until no error is found. If there is an error...

There will be some minor changes on the menu bar and the file and search by content will be very different. It uses a brand new technology. As far as I know there were no updates required for Office, but virtually every cocoa application, all file and disk maintenance utilities, all haxies, and...

Apple Knowledge Base article 301332 contains lists of the Tiger fonts that cannot be disabled and what directory they are supposed to appear in. Which is where I would start if I were you. Apple Knowledge Base article 301245 discusses an issue with the Helvetica Fractions font that causes...

For most OS X applications there are two and possibly three files to be deleted The application file itself (which is actually a special kind of folder and my include over a thousand bundled files. The preference file which is found in your home folder ~/Library/Preferences. By standard the...

Marginal or bad RAM can cause that as can any attached USB and Firewire devices (including hubs), third party PCI cards.

I would go for more RAM before a dual processor. 256MB is the required minimum for OS X 10.4 (Tiger). For satisfactory performance, 512MB to 640MB is a more realistic minimum RAM.

The first thing we need to know is what version of OS X are you using? The search by content functionality has changed with virtually every release of OS X so we have to know what you are using before anyone can help you make it work.

You will loose all your Autofill data, but try Safari > Reset Safari and see if that does not clear up your problem. (That is also a recommended fix for Safari slowdown issues.) Also check Safari > Preferences and see what the text encoding is set to. Mine is set to Western (ISO Latin 1) and...

OS X does not slow down, but Java applications may be a step slower than carbon or cocoa applications because they are running in the Java Virtual Machine. When Carbon and Cocoa applications are compiled they result in a binary code that is directly executable by the PowerPC processor in your...

Norton Antivirus will do that and Symantec has acknowledged the problem.

The first thing to try is deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ical.plist and then the other ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ical.xxxxx.plist files.

The major vector graphic applications on the Mac used to be Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia's Freehand. But I just went to the Macromedia site and found to my chagrin that since Adobe bought Macromedia, Freehand is no longer catalogued. :( However, it appears that Macromedia Studio and its...

Double click on the Dreamweaver installer and it will open the .rsrc file.