Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

This is a newbie question.  According to Apple's web site a Power Mac G5 can
hold up to 8GB of main memory.  Given that this is a dual-processor system,
how much of this is actually available to a single threaded application?
4GB?

As subject really, I want to get some older stuff off my G5 iMac and it
would be nice to have some sort of mirror/sync/backup in place for the
stuff I do keep on my local HD.
I'm thinking Lacie?

I'm wondering if there are services to whom I could send my Jaz and Zip
disks and they extract the data onto CD-ROMs and send them to me (the
CD-ROMS)? This is not data recovery; there's nothing wrong with the disks.
If you know of such or where to look, I'd appreciate hearing about ...

I am using MAC OSX 10.4 (imac G5).
I am trying to load a JNI library libxxx.jnilib through an applet.
The code is as follows...
System.loadLibrary("xxx");

Is there anywy to change how the time shows when burning an Audio Cd.
At the bottom of the burn disc window, it shows time in 1.1 & 1.2 hour
increments. I would strongly prefer seeing the amount of minutes I have
when  burning a new disc. Sometimes 1.2 hours is only 73 minutes. ...

I've brought a 1GB stick off ebay - pc2700 33mhz - but fitting this no
life from the mac mini so not compatable or RAM is dead I don't know
but can anyone tell me exactly what RAM spec and make is ok for it ??

Anyone have any idea if Apple plan to release a peripheral device allowing
owners of old iMac G5¹s to run the newly announced FrontRow technology?
Surely this must be possible. All I can imagine it would require is an
infrared receiver and the software.

Spotlight is making me crazy. It simply isn't indexing everything it's
expected to.
My boss has like 30 examples of files on his HD that contain the word
"reprint" and spotlight only found one of them. It found a second after

Greetings all!
I hope this is a quick, and easy question. My Powerbook remembers my
work wireless network. Unfortunatly, right now it isn't working. It
gets an IP address, and it shows data passing to and from it, but you

I installed Tiger a couple of weeks ago. Eventually after doing a bunc
of other setup, I noticed that only a few fonts were available to apps
even to the Finder, though I'd installed not only the default ones bu
the extra font package. Looking in the main Fonts folde

I'm hoping someone can tell me whether or not this is a legitimate
logic board problem.
My father has an iMac G4  (OSX v.10.1.5 - 256 mb RAM - 700 mHz - 40
GB).  It has operated trouble-free for years.  Recently he switched

Just getting my head around Tiger and have a few questions.  I'm coming
from a Windows background, so forgive me.....  :)
1.  Is there a quick way of maximising a document window so that it
fills the entire screen?

Well...I know theres a way to do this.  But could anybody help me
out?  My cd-rom on my imac broke, but I made .dmg's on my other
computer and shoved them over to my mac over the network.  Now I
have 5 cd images but can''t figure out how to boot my mac using

I have an G4 iBook and a G4 iMac that i want to sell to fund a new G5
iMac but I’m not sure how to make sure all my old files & preferences
& stuff are wiped out so that they are ready for a new user??
Any help would be much apreciated as the G5 is going on the credit

Have a G5 iMac with a combo drive and am looking for an ext. DVD burner. Any
recommendations?