Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

  Having had desktop Mac's for years, I never had to worry about
batteries. Also, having had Mac's for years, I never had much of a
manual come with them. A tri-fold of cardboard was usually all that was
included.

I have a PBG3 Pismo and new ipod. The cable from the ipod is a split
apple product using either usb2 or fw400.  Is there a cable that will
plug into the ipod cable fw400 end and then into the firewire 800 slot
on the pcmcia card I have.

I have a G4 with 4 hard drives. One of the HD is partition into 4 sections.
On partition 3 I have a copy of my daughters ibook. She got a new iBook
becuase hers crapped out. I disconnected the other three HD's and booted from
the one HD that is partioned. I can boot into my ...

   Aunt was asking me about a couple of newsgroups (she was under the
impression that they were websites), all I know of her system is that it
is very old and runs a very old version of mac. Does anyone have a
recommendation as too which newsreader she should try and is there a

Hey. I have a 3rd generation eMac with a faulty screen (the warranty is
void). I have a spare "19 TFT and hate seeing it go to waste. Does
anyone know where I can find simple instructions to getting the eMac
into an external case or something?

how can I tell Apple Mail how to use a setup for my needs?
I do read and write Mails offline, but do send them currently via a slow
modem dialup connection.
1) send/queue: no confirmation wanted

 how could I record a .ram video streaming on my mac?
Thanks
Fed

What is the logical reason to symlink the /etc directory to
/private/etc. There has to be a benefit that I fail to understand. I
notice that /tmp and /var are also symlinks to /private. Neither /etc
directory is apparent from the GUI, but both are easily accessible from

OK, I got my Powerbook G4 17" on Tuesday morning and have been trying to
learn it for the past several days.  I'm an experienced Windows user so
the transition has been in some ways difficult but in some ways easy.
Anyhow there are several questions that I'd like the answers to ...

I'm having problems with lost mail in my regular email so opened a
Hotmail and and a Yahoo account as back-up.  Finding that Safari won't
let me attach in either Hotmail or Yahoo.  Any comments.

Does anyone have any advice on a problem I'm having using iCHAT with my
new iSIGHT Camera?
If an AIM user on a PC running Windows XP tries to start a Video call
to me from their AIM (I have a .MAC ID), I will receive their request,

Before running DW 3, Disk Utility reported nothing wrong.
DW 3.0.3, run from the CD, tells me that the original directory is too
badly damaged to be replaced by the new directory which it has created.
Three times DW came to the same conclusion. I went back and examined it

I recently went back to using one display with my G5, I have one app
that still wants to be positioned where it was on the old display. If I
use <F9> it comes in view, but when clicked, it heads off to no mans
land. What file do I need to delete with the settings for the window

Please advise for a non-mac person:
My college daughter has an iBook G4 with 30GB HDD.   Of course,
between her photos and myriad of mp3's it full!   When I recommend
offloading much of the content she insistently claims she MUST have it

Is it possible to remote desktop (with something like VNC) to a MAC from a
PC?
This would be very useful.
Kind regards