Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / December 2006

need to know, can I install programs on my 2 external hard drives -
120GB (HAVE 84GB LEFT)
160GB (HAVE 47GB LEFT)
I am so used to "installing all the programs" on my main internal HD , I

Hi all. I hope someone can help.
I transferred 5GB of files to my HD so I could take my PowerBook to my
Dad's house to use his DVD burner to back them up. This left only 270MB
free.

I have an iBook G4 without the install disks. I own a full retail
version of Tiger but I have a problem. Classic support is not installed
on my computer (I probably deleted it to save some space), but I can't
reinstall it without doing a full reinstall of the OS from the Tiger

I have some AC3 5.1 files that I'd like to play on my DVD player seems
my eMac doesn't have 5.1 speakers.
Quicktime/iMovie/iDVD wont recognise the files.  The only player I have
that will play them is VLC.

I am primarily looking to purchase a Canopus ADVC-50 analogue to
digital converter.  If you have one of these which you would sell, can
you please contact me either at <bjbounce2002@hotmail.com> or
preferably at <markr at eis.net.au with the details and your price.

Just got a copy of Toast 6 with the plan to copy some of my DVD
collection to take away on hols rather than risk loosing the originals.
I have a Pioneer 111d in a 400mhz G4 running 10.3.9.
The trouble seems to be that I can't copy the DVDs, it's a matter of

A friend is getting a new MacBook for his daughter for Xmas, but was
wondering if it would be an idea to wait until after MacWorld in early
January.
What is the clever money on at the moment - Will OS 10.5 be released at

Is there anyone in Adelaide with a SCSI CD or CDR available for loan or
purchase? I disposed of all my SCSI gear when I sold my old G3 since the
new macs weren't using it anymore, but now I need one to reload the OS
on a Yamaha recording desk. The desk uses Yamaha drives but I ...

MacBook Pro 2ghz 1gig ram Core Duo. Nice machine but...never again!
With 20gig of free HD space, running Word with 5 or 6 4 page documents open
slows this machine   right    down    to     a        sh.t me speed!  Are
you kidding me????!!!!!

I have a B&W 400 Mhz Powermac with a 10 gig IDE hard drive. I had OS 9.2.2 installed
and I wanted to install OSX 10.3.9 on the same drive.
I first tried to instal OSX in the same partition as 9.2.2 but it wouldn't let me, so I did a
fresh install of OSX with the drive partitioned as ...

Anyone know what this mac is? http://macdave.us/mtau/paladin2.jpg