Thanks .. I remember hearing about the AppleScript icon but had forgotten how to turn it on. But now I have a related question -- if I wanted to turn off the...
Fellow Mac Users, I really need some help getting my new iMac hooked up the Internet. I have DSL and a D-Link router into which I've connected both my old...
William S. Sargent
billsargent@...
Dec 2, 2002 5:16 am
3834
Getting bounces on messages from yahoogroups to adelphia. Oddly, there is no easy way for me to deal with the problem. Yahoogroups uses an automated system to...
How about starting without the wizard? What OS is your powerbook running? Even if it's 9, and I'm assuming the iMac has Jaguar, you should be able to go to...
Allison
asheridan@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:24 am
3836
I hate to disagree with Niraj, but as I'm sitting on my 400MHz G4 Titanium that's 1.5 years old, and I'm looking at the 14 inch 800 MHz G3 iBook with a CD...
Allison
asheridan@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:28 am
3837
All my advice will be for OS X, so if you're trying to install or configure OS 9 then ignore the rest of this message, and wait for someone else to respond. ...
Charles South
south3@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:30 am
3838
I wanted to clarify my message below. I just bought a new iMac. When I powered it up, it brought up the Setup Assistant to collect my address for Apple and...
William S. Sargent
billsargent@...
Dec 2, 2002 6:43 am
3839
MacHACers, I am having a problem with the clock on my iMac. Every time I start up, the clock is set to 1/1/1904. Even if I reset the clock to the correct time,...
Randolph E Longshore
relongshore@...
Dec 2, 2002 3:40 pm
3840
I have 3 iMacs - 1 needs a battery every year, 1 every 2 years and the old Bondi blue has had one replacement battery since the iMac was first released. it's...
... I see that Bldg R1-5/6th floors are in the midst of a DHCP network upgrade. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. -- John...
John Wunderlich
wunder@...
Dec 2, 2002 4:16 pm
3842
Dennis et al, Thanks for your info on the Palm deals at CompUSA. I wish I had known about it Friday- I was right there trying to get a Sony Rio for $50 after...
I've had a Visor Deluxe for the past 18 months. The LCD came loose on the 1st one after about a month. Same experience as the others, I received a ...
Michael D Briney
mbriney@...
Dec 2, 2002 4:52 pm
3844
Marge, Thanks for the info. I think I might be able to replace the battery through the slot used to install additional RAM. Randy MAC <machome@pacbell...
Randolph E Longshore
relongshore@...
Dec 2, 2002 4:53 pm
3845
... Ahemmm... This symptom happens frequently on windows machines and is usually due to a corrupted icon cache. It goes away when the cache file is rebuilt....
John Wunderlich
wunder@...
Dec 2, 2002 5:23 pm
3846
... Hold down the command key and drag the icon off the menu bar. This works for most of those right-hand OS X menus. You can also rearrange the menu items by...
Try resetting PRAM at bootup. I think that the key combo is option-command-p-r (all four keys). You will have to setup a number of you prefs again, like...
Dennis J Kane
dkane@...
Dec 2, 2002 7:26 pm
3848
Also, if your iMac is connected to the internet by broadband or some such, then try going to System Preferences>Date and Time>Network Time, then click on Use a...
tonphanan
tonphanan@...
Dec 2, 2002 11:28 pm
3849
I bought a 500MHz original format iMac in December of last year, and got a recall notice that the battery was bad in it. You may have one of those. In any...
Allison
asheridan@...
Dec 3, 2002 4:59 am
3850
Got mine turned back on, but I am missing a dozen or more messages. They are available at www.machacers.org, but I could see how this would be a pain if ...
Last month's meeting was a big success. Brad gave an excellent talk. Please visit http://www.fldigital.com . The new website is up and it mentions a number of...
Interesting ... there is a document on the Apple support site that describes how to replace the original iMac memory (#50032), and there are a number of...
Charles South
south3@...
Dec 3, 2002 5:24 am
3853
did not know about Command-Option-Shift-Delete to "Bypass internal hard drive on boot" -- Niraj http://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/bootkeys.html Mac OS X...
... Good advice. If you read Adelphia's newsgroups, there have been _major_ customer complaints about their email service. The bulk of the complaints have...
John Wunderlich
wunder@...
Dec 3, 2002 4:43 pm
3855
My daughters iMac had the very same problem. She has a snow model that was about 21-22 months old. I tried all the usual things such as resetting the PRAM but...
Carl W Cullings
ccullings@...
Dec 3, 2002 4:43 pm
3856
Sigh .. I made the same mistake I frequently do, and didn't change the addressee to machacers (but instead did a reply to Randolph directly). For the benefit...
Charles South
south@...
Dec 3, 2002 5:12 pm
3857
The manual for the original imac was indeed on apple's website back in August. I remember reading the instructions back then, it was indeed not for the faint...
Michael D Briney
mbriney@...
Dec 3, 2002 5:13 pm
3858
If you can make it, I strongly recommend that you attennd this. DK...
AOL'S NEW OUTLOOK EXPRESS KILLER Liberty Alliance's demise must have been big news over at AOL Time Warner. The merged monster plans on releasing an update to...
Carl W Cullings
ccullings@...
Dec 4, 2002 1:22 am
3860
I was trying to find out how to measure how much RAM I'm using when things get slow, and someone suggested I try the UNIX command "top". It spews out a lot of...
