Mac Systems

Can't boot iMac
My wife was given an iMac running 10.5x, and it ran fine for a while, but now, it won't boot. Specifically, it boots to the point that the screen shows blue, with a cursor stuck at the top left corner. There is also a cursor that we can move with the mouse on the screen. It will boot into safe mode, but I can't... 20 Jan 2010 00:45

Need for Islam
In article <hgaj6f$bm3$3(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Su-Z-Q <reply(a)this.group> wrote: Yah, Islam has just one itsy-bitsy elephant in the room in their so-called solution: @sshole terrorists. Eric Rudolph. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The Unabomber. James Von Brunn. The Weather Underground. Th... 17 Jan 2010 11:39

Auto convert from word (.doc) to .pdf ?
Is there a way to automatically convert a bunch of .doc documents to .pdf ? I have an old copy of Word, so I can manually open them and manually print them to PDF. But this is tedious and time consuming. Was wondering if there was some command line way to do this "in batch" ? ... 18 Jan 2010 14:16

List of patches installed by software update ?
Is there a way to get a list of all the "patches" that Software Update has installed on a system (and when) they were installed ? ... 17 Jan 2010 16:10

Punctuation marks in file names
In article <michelle-99E791.13481416012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: In the Finder you try to create a name a file or folder that begins with a period, you get the following alert: You can't use a name that begins with a dot ��.�, because these names ... 20 Jan 2010 09:30

What is "airportthru"?
In article <michelle-5CCA95.12035216012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png> Googling produced this snippet... "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung printers." ... 19 Jan 2010 13:31

Which Windows version for Parallels?
I need to share Quicken files between a PC and my Mac. Quicken files from the PC can't be converted to run on the Mac, in any way I've found. (I tried several techniques.) Therefore I'm working on a cost estimate for having a Mac running Snow Leopard to run the Quicken for Windows files. I gather that Parallel... 20 Jan 2010 00:45

Snowed in by Snow Leopard
I just recently upgraded to 10.6 and discovered that I cannot install Office 2008 without installing Rosetta. Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't one of the major points of 10.6 to remove the PPC code? And wasn't one of the major points of Office 2008 that it would be written for Intel? So why would Microsoft be... 16 Jan 2010 18:20

Server listed in pane
On my left hand panel of Folders is a listing of local servers, which I want. However, there's a PC server that has no (known) connection to me or my network, which I would like to see gone. However, Prefs, and all kinds of key combo dragging will not remove it. -- john mcwilliams ... 19 Jan 2010 01:25

SSH autologin
In article <howard-550C84.11284915012010(a)host81-136-209-74.in-addr.btopenworld.com> , Howard S Shubs <howard(a)shubs.net> wrote: I've got this working from a G5 running 10.5.8 to a MacBook Pro running 10.6.2, but not the reverse. When I try to go from the MBP to the G5, it always prompts for password. ... 22 Jan 2010 19:42