Mac Geekery

Can someone please help me! I’ve had an on-going problem for over a year now ever since I installed some dumb screensaver.

There are loads of pixels everywhere on desktop, surrounding icons or folders, it also appears in my dock and around open windows. They are not static, they move like crazy if you move the icons or folders.

Its not my screen, as I tried an alternative screen, and a projector, and they are still there.
I’ve zapped the pram
Run Tech Tool Pro
Disk First Aid
Norton

I’ve reset Mac back to factory settings with a clean-erase install.

I have attached a snapshot for you to see.

I’m baffled….

Any help would result in me finaly sleeping after a year.

Cheers
Phil

p.s. you may need to open it in Photoshop to see

You may have purchased many songs from iTunes online store. It will be ok if you just play it on your computers with iTunes, or on your iPod. You may have also purchased some DRM protected wma audio files from Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music or some other websites.

However, you may need to use these DRM protected audio files for some legal personal use such as inserting the music in a Power Point presentation, listening it on your mp3 or mp4 player like creative Zen, Sansa players, Anchros and PSP, or on your mobile phone like Nokia N-series and BlackBerry. Unfortunately you will find that you are not allowed. There's more »

Hello,

I noticed a strange phenomenon yesterday on my G4 Quicksilver running OS 10.4.10. I normally use a regular user account for security purposes, and noticed that I could go into my Admin Documents folder. It was just by accident that I noticed it. Has anyone seen this behavior or have an explanation? Is it a flaw in the OS 10.4.10 patch?

Hi, is there a way to open a specific port under leopard?
When I used Tiger I could choose application and port.

Now when I’m running Leopard under Security -> Firewall: I only can choose application..

I have problem with azureus.

Keep getting this question:
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2386/picture2pm0.png

I have added the azureus application under the firewall settings but it keeps asking me the question.

Think it’s the same as:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6218715

any ideas?

by terminal is possible to recognize the chipset of a PCMCIA?
on LInux (debian distro) I use CARDCTL IDENT, there is a similar/equivalent command for Mac?

Hi. I switched to my beautiful mac about a year ago, and am still every now and then running into things I could do on a pc, but cant seem to work out on my mac, possibly because I never really understood what I was doing in the first place…. It is getting a little slow and temperamental, and on a pc I would format it, but I dont really know what I can do to tidy it up a bit, and get it up to top form again.
thanks
Deborah

OS X 10.4.x

After having seen the Jay Beale article on Apple’s firewall [link http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/jay/dc14.pdf], I tried playing around with ipfw rules through Flying Buttress & the command line, and that was fun, but no matter what I tried, it seems that traffic was still passing through the Apple-ipfw default rule (65535).

sudo ipfw list
…
35000 deny log logamount 65535 udp from any to any in
65000 deny ip from any to any in
65500 deny log ip from any to any
65520 allow log ip from any to any
65535 allow ip from any to any

The next-to-last rule was added in the attempt to pick up what I had obviously failed to elsewhere block. Made no difference.

sudo ipfw show
…
35000 0 0 deny log logamount 65535 udp from any to any in There's more »

I’d like to have people logging in to a system via SSH to have a different home than /Users/username.

Is this possible? It looks like it might be, but the documentation isn’t too clear.

The company I work for bought me a new MacPro running OSX 10.4.10. There are several Macintosh computers running on the network operating on the latest system software available. We are printing to an imagesetter that has a software RIP, (Harlequin), that is configured to broadcast several names across the network. (ie., multiple black, multiple neg, etc.) The other machines don’t seem to be experiencing the same problem. The problem is that the new computer I am using is naming files the same name as the printer that I am printing to instead of the actual name of the file. What can I do to get the Macintosh to recognize and send the correct name of the file that I send to the printer. Why does the naming convention matter, you ask? There's more »

The company I work for bought me a new MacPro running OSX 10.4.10. There are several Macintosh computers running on the network operating on the latest system software available. We are printing to an imagesetter that has a software RIP, (Harlequin), that is configured to broadcast several names across the network. (ie., multiple black, multiple neg, etc.) The other machines don’t seem to be experiencing the same problem. The problem is that the new computer I am using is naming files the same name as the printer that I am printing to instead of the actual name of the file. What can I do to get the Macintosh to recognize and send the correct name of the file that I send to the printer. Why does the naming convention matter, you ask? There's more »