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Thunderbird prevents OSX from going to sleep — #1

Leaving Thunderbird running seems to prevent my G5 from going to sleep on it's own (due to no action on the keyboard or mouse for a specified time). Short of quitting Thunderbird e…
MacNN PowerPC by mediahound

Thunderbird prevents OSX from going to sleep — #2

First of all, nice Mac!!!! I see your specs in the post. Are you sure it's T-Bird causing the problem? I don't have that problem w/it on my G4 iBook. Hmm, I'm running t-bird 1.5.…
MacNN PowerPC by cmeisenzahl

Thunderbird prevents OSX from going to sleep — #4

I had the same problem. I had set up TBird 1.5 so that it checked for mail automatically every 10 minutes. I set the sleep time to 15 minutes. It never went to sleep. Apparentl…
MacNN PowerPC by butchfoote

Need to know about Ipods and videos — #1

As long as your videos are on itunes, will they be able to go onto a video ipod? or does it have to be a certain file type? how do I find what file type it is?
MacNN PowerPC by a7xtnt

Need to know about Ipods and videos — #2

< in before of people telling you to do a search > Hello and welcome, these are the type of movies your iPod Video can take: H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 fra…
MacNN PowerPC by angelmb

Old or New?!? — #1

Hi. I'm fed up with PC's and Windoze and all the probs that go with it, and am happily defecting to Macs. After much research, it seems I should have come to my senses and done thi…
MacNN PowerPC by Puckstopper

Old or New?!? — #2

Depends on your uses for the machine, and how long you wanna/can wait If you NEED a computer NOW, & will run only ppc software, grab an iMac NOW, & be happy. The 20" iMac…
MacNN PowerPC by bowwowman

Old or New?!? — #3

Yes, exactly. If you just do a little web surfing and email you can buy whatever you want. If you do serious things and rely on a working system, better buy a trusted ppc machine…
MacNN PowerPC by Dr.Michael

.mac sync not working on one computer — #1

I have a G5 desktop and a G4 PowerBook. I sync my Treo to the PowerBook using Missing Sync and my two computers using iSync. My Treo and PowerBook seem to sync okay, but my G5 neve…
MacNN PowerPC by kman42

MSN widescreen wallpaper — #1

Have my 12" Powerbook G4 linked up to a cinema display, was wondering if anyone had copies of the free MSN widescreen wallpapers that were offered for download a couple of years ba…
MacNN PowerPC by andycroll

MSN widescreen wallpaper — #2

hey man, i dont think i can help you there really, but is there any chance you could post some/any of the desktops you already have? I didnt know about them at the time but heard…
MacNN PowerPC by hcorf

MSN widescreen wallpaper — #3

LOL! I love how MS states at the bottom that CandyBar is the best way to customize your desktop images. Idiots.
MacNN PowerPC by MacDog

Trux Calibrating Client for Mac released — #1

some PC buddy just informed me that the much talked about Calibrating BOINC Core Clients by Trux recently had their mac release. take a look here: http://boinc.truxoft.com/core-ca…
MacNN General by TiloProbst

Restoring from a .dmg — #1

I just did a restore of my system from a dmg, onto a clean partition. Everything works great, but it looks like it created some extra directories in the root folder that were not …
MacNN General by mr breaker

Restoring from a .dmg — #2

They are not visible but they are there to stay If you want to 'see' them, open Terminal and type: cd .. and press intro/return do it again cd .. and press intro/return now…
MacNN General by angelmb

Restoring from a .dmg — #3

Thanks...but I DON'T want to see them! I guess they lost their invisible status when I restored the files.
MacNN General by mr breaker

Restoring from a .dmg — #4

Just use a utility such as XRay (check MacUpdate) to set the Invisible flag on the files, and you should be all set.
MacNN General by CharlesS

Very specific iPod nano case request — #1

I'm currently using RadTech Sleevz to protect my new iPod nano, but they are a little flimsy and don't offer much in the way of protection. What I'm really after is a case that com…
MacNN General by S_Young

Asm — #1

I need to know if Macs support ASM. This is some type of code a programer used to write one of his programs. Hes willing to try for a mac if it isn't to much trouble and wants to k…
MacNN PowerPC by jay3ld

Asm — #2

Er…ASM is shorthand for assembly language. It's totally processor-dependent. So while you can write a Mac program in assembly, whether or not that will run on a given box depends o…
MacNN PowerPC by Chuckit

Asm — #3

not all of it is in asm. he has c and c++ in it as well. but i know those are mac compatible so i was just worried about asm. So what you are saying is it will depend on what proce…
MacNN PowerPC by jay3ld

Asm — #4

If he's converting from one processor's assembly to another, he'll most likely have some issues converting the assembly code. C/C++ is relatively processor independent.
MacNN PowerPC by jamil5454

Asm — #5

Unfortunately, the only real response to "Do Macs support ASM" is "which one?" Every processor has its own form of assembly language, and it is usually very hard to port ASM code w…
MacNN PowerPC by Millennium
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