Mac Systems

OS X housekeeping
In article <jollyroger-DE84D5.14530407022010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: Is this preventing necessary housekeeping from occurring? no. it runs when you wake it. Nope, not necessarily. Whether it runs when you wake it depends on which version of Mac OS ... 10 Feb 2010 16:48

Tragic iMac Non-Response?
I just migrated my wife from an old PPC iBook to an old G5 iMac. Computer worked fine for a couple of days. Periodically it wouldn't wak up from sleep and had to be rebooted. Now it's hibernation seems more permanent. While asleep we hit keys and wiggle mice. Nothing. Hold down the button to turn off. P... 7 Feb 2010 16:28

ssd in a tower G5?
Hi have been trying to find out about putting a Intel� X25-V ssd drive as boot system in a macintosh G5 tower witch dose not have an Intel processor. I have read that my operating system dose not support trim,will this matter if I do not intend writing to this disc? Also is 80gb to small as a start up disc tha... 8 Feb 2010 07:46

You may be right Mike about RAM
John wrote: Mike it appears you may be correct. No, Mike *is* correct. Whether or not it in fact turns out to be bad RAM. Please re-read what he wrote, reply to that thread, and refrain from top posting. -- lsmft ... 8 Feb 2010 16:49

Removing
After I installed a printer driver, I now have two duplicate widgets. Does anyone know to remove one of them? I went to ~/Library/Widgets, but there's only one there. Thanks, F... 7 Feb 2010 09:46

Can't scan with new HP8500 on iMac Snow Leopard
I hooked up my new HP 8500 printers/scanner/fax to my wireless lan. My two Windoze XP boxes had no problem. Everything checked out. My new iMac with Snow Leopard can print and fax, but when I scan, I get a "Sorry, an unknown error occurred"... Very Windoze like error. I downloaded the new drivers from HP, b... 7 Feb 2010 06:29

slower usenet DLs
I just added WPA2 password protection to my wireless network. As far as I know, that's all that changed. Now, my DL speeds on usenet have gone from 14.5 to 5.8 Mb/s. I noticed this the first time I DLed a file after adding the password. Could the password protection be affecting my DL speeds? What else can e... 7 Feb 2010 18:42

iTunes 9.0.3
In article <95412086-2f31-4043-b9e3-ddb1f369194e(a)n7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, commiebastard <oraclmaster(a)gmail.com> wrote: Downloaded it, now unable to authorize my computer to play purchased songs. "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred. (-42408) There... 7 Feb 2010 17:35

Will a keyboard and mouse work with a PCI USB board?
Will a keyboard and mouse work with a PCI USB board? Been told maybe not I have a blue and white G3 tower running 10.3 and 10.4. ... 7 Feb 2010 13:07

Buying a new Mac soon
In article <jwolf6589-63123E.23420705022010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: Soon I plan to buy a new Mac. I wish to buy the MacBook Pro, but I wont buy a Mac that will need to be upgraded whenever Mac OSX Lion, Cheetah, or Mac OS 11 show up. cheetah was 10.0... 6 Feb 2010 23:59