Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

Hi:-) Does anyone remember a quote which would go like "it's not how
powerful your computer is, it's how powerful it makes you" or something like
this?
I am convinced that this quotation has something to do with Apple Computer,

I've had a cron job that's been running just fine for weeks, and last
night it crashed.  The line in /etc/crontab is
/usr/bin/rsync -Eaq  --exclude 'Movies' /Users/home/
/Volumes/Backup/home/

hi i have an ibook white G3 , 128 MB  600MHZ ,
everytime i download music or burn my cds to itunes, it takes up a lot
of memory so right now i only have 252 MB, now i am not able to add
more music to my ibook. can anyone plz help me???

When I first stuck a DVD into my new iMac running Tiger I was asked to
select a regional code.
Where is this information stored and checked? On the DVD drive hardware,
in MacOS, or in the player information?

Hi, I know there's an app that makes it possible to manipulate a mac
from another mac. My girlfriend sometimes needs little help using my
G4, while I'm on the road with my iBook. Both run Tiger. Can anyone
give me the name of the app? Thx in advance.

Can Mac OS 10.4 be configured to send a fixed host name with a DHCP
request? Does it support /etc/dhcp.conf, as other Unix systems?

Sometimes I have to use my powerbook when my SO is sleeping in the same
room. I am thinking of getting one of the USB ligths to help me see the
keyboard (do envy those who have lighted keyboards!). If you have tried
a few of these gadgets, which one is the best? Thanks.

Is there any way (and how is it done) to make
this iMac with 10.3.9 accept in IP address by
DHCP on en0 from DSL, and yet continue to
communicate on en0 with the fixed IP address

http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=19490267
Follow this link and sign up to the free ipods website. After being
signed up via the linke above, you must complete an offer and get 5
friends to do the same, then you get your ipod ! It's actually really

I want a PDF to open in the Netscape browser (or any browser for that
matter), but my Mac keeps using Preview instead and I haven't been able
to find a way to do what I want. Any ideas? Thanks.
G5 Mac running system 10.2.8

Using Mac OS X as a web server
Over the last years I let a company host my two web sites, but now I
would like to put them on my mac os x system to save the money. The
two sites both have their own name (of the form www.page1.org and

I usually draw visio images for presentation.
Is there any visio program for Mac?
Thank you.

And would that necessarily be a bad thing? ;-)
Well, maybe a proliferation of Andy Milonakises would be. I suppose
it's a very small step from audio podcasts to video podcasts, huh?

In 9.2 and before, I used to label folders and files which were in the
extensions and preference folders blue as they were installed. So if
some program or installer inserted some files, I could easily detect
them and either trash them if I didn't want them there or color them

Here's a toughie, a friend has an iBook or some Mac laptop running OS
10.3.  The laptop screen is dead.
If he plugs in an external monitor the Mac treats it as a second monitor
to the right of the laptop screen.