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Seemingly randomly my system hangs on me... the mouse still moves around (and its just an arrow, no spinning beach ball or anything) but I can't click or do anything. The current song will keep playing but skip on me - it will play maybe 5 seconds of music, pause for about 30 seconds, play...

This is a really old thread and I've actually gotten a new keyboard since because I spilled a beer in the other :-) I did in fact have USB Overdrive installed though (although its shareware and I never registered it and don't use it.. so I didn't think it was active.) It was installed back...

Today I went to look for a message I had sent a few days ago with Mail, so I switched to the Sent mailbox. Every time I opened a new message, it would display below in the preview window - but funny thing is happening, a FORTUNE COOKIE appears randomly in the middle of the message. Text-only...

Thanks for the suggestions but both of those threads are referring to the opposite situation... I'll clarify I guess since I didn't explain myself too well the first time through. I can map the drives in my WinXP machine on my iBook fine. (I go to connect to server, can browse or manually...

I've got a dual USB iBook G3 with Panther recently installed on it. Panther was installed as an upgrade from the developer preview release that had originally been clean installed... and I know the developer release specifically discouraged attempting to upgrade to later versions but what can I...

Just a thought - you mentioned getting kernel panics and crashes and such - you do realize that when the system isn't shut down cleanly a disk check is performed at next boot? If your system crashes it will definitely take longer to boot the next time while the disk is checked for consistency...

Another quick prehiphreal question... I want to use the two side buttons on my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical on my iBook to activate the Expose clear screen and all windows tricks.. I can configure this fine from the Expose system preference menu and it works great. I then installed the...

I have a mirror drive door DP867 that I just installed Panther on (upgrade install from 10.2.5, yeah I was behind on my updates). I'm still using the black/white/clear keyboard that came with the machine... just wondering if anybody knows why my volume up/down/mute and eject keys (the 4 keys in...

I detach a variety of ways.. most commonly simply by closing the terminal window - I'm not sure what clicking the close button quite does, I'm sure it sends a kill signal to the shell and asks if you wish to also terminate running apps.. I've also detached with screen -d at times but this is...

I'm just wondering if anybody out there has seen this.. I'm using screen version "Screen version 3.09.10 (FAU) 4-Sep-01" that I obtained and compiled through fink. I use it to keep some command line processes running after I close the terminal window and re-attach to them locally or sometimes...

From a terminal window use the 'tar' command. Type 'man tar' at the prompt to see its full usage. It works similar to a zip/sit archive, without compression, but does retain file date/permission/owner/directory structure information. You can tar up your files in one directory and untar them...

Double-click it. :) Disk copy can mount .toast images as it does .dmg and .img images. If double clicking it doesn't work, control-click and choose open with, or open DiskCopy directly from Applications/Utilities and choose file->mount image. I don't think you can burn the .toast file from...

ALL boot time key commands are ignored? As far as I know those key commands are read in and processed by the open firmware before the machine even looks at software on the disks. Try completely powering off the machine, holding down the ALT key on your keyboard then turning it on and do not...

I'd say its not your imagination. Prior to upgrading to Jaguar and prior to my overclock job my 500MHz iBook crawled along in OS X. I think I went through and used just about every trick from turning off font smoothing to disabling window drop shadows and switching to the hidden and even...

OK.. this is going to sound weird.. but I have an original model Dual USB iBook 12".. the kind that uses the same jack for headphones and the audio/video out cable... whenever I plug in a particular pair of headphones, the screen turns blue for a second as if its changing resolutions - I think...

Well even though nobody responded to this I went out and found a fix and figured I should update in case anybody else comes across the same problem.. there was an article in the apple knowledge base that described the problem exactly for G4 Powermac w/Mirror drive door users where movies played...

VNC does work in OSX.. dunno what thats about... and I would use it but it performs much slower, doesn't handle resolution changing very well and doesnt have sound support.. its better than nothing but if I'm connecting to an XP machine RDC is far superior.. and regardless still would like to...

Windows XP has a built-in remote desktop feature.. if you go to your windows control panel and go to system, you can enable it. Then, to have your windows desktop show up on your mac, go to www.microsoft.com/mac and go to the downloads section.. download the remote desktop client. When it...

Thanks for the idea, just went and checked but the only layout I have enabled is USA. I found the option to turn off the hot-key combination for scrolling through anyway just in case, I'll see if it still happens. (I also notice there is a 'font synchronization' feature - perhaps somebody...

Brand new dual G4/867... I have a minimal amount of software installed on it and I dont *think* I have screwed anything up yet.. but several times now I have been typing mid-sentence and suddenly all the characters coming out of my keyboard are greek symbols! Its not a font problem, because at...