Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

Apple says an Airport Express has a "Ethernet WaN Port for conecting a
DSL or cable modem".  Can this port be used to connect an Airport
Express to  a router in a wired network?   The path from an iMac to a
cable modem would then be wireless from the iMac to the Airport Express

I have setup Master Password on my mac. But when I went to change it(I
do this every 6 months) It did not accept the current Master Passowrd.
I was wondeing if there is a way around this road block or do I have to
reset the password by reinstalling the OS

I am having huge trouble trying to tune into a radio station
(www.radiocalvia.com) on my Windows Media Player. My G5 desktop has
never been able to play it. My Powerbook and G5 Imac both allowed me to
play the station once but this was just the first time after

I recently was told I need this to run what I want to run. I have OS
10.3.9, and I thought all the Java stuff came preinstalled. I went to
Sun's and Apple's Web sites looking for a download, and couldn't find
anything. Help....

I'm considering upgrading my Mini with a bigger hard disk but will that
be okay?
I see can there are 160 GB 5400 rpm disks from Seagate and also 100 GB
7200 RPM disks from at least two companies but are they a good idea for

What AntiVirus software do you use on your Macintosh?
What AntiSpyWare do you use?
What AntiSpamWare  do you use?
I ask this as today I did a Google search with Safari and a POP-UP appeared

I bought a 450 Mhz G4 AGP Mac at a swap meet. Since it has one of those 16 meg
ATI graphic cards in it, what it the best card I can upgrade the G4 to? I've
got an ATI 7500, but its for IBM clones.
What DIMMs can I use in this machine? One 256 meg DIMM I used only had half of

I ripped about 3 dozen lp's to my iBook, I then split each lp into
individual tracks (aiff files). Next I created a playlist for each lp in
iTunes and dragged its tracks from Finder, and everything was wonderful
until I ran out of harddrive space. Now I want to convert all those ...

I have a new iMAC G5 insight with 1g of memory and 20" screen.
I found all installations went according to plan, however, I find loading
web pages very slow, sometimes around 20 to 30seconds, I have cleared my
cache files, I have even purchased two programs (Cocktail and System

I have a mixed network of macs and windows boxes at home.  The macs are
all running 10.4.4; the windows boxes run either XP home or Win2k.
From one of the XP boxes I connect to the dual G4.
"pushing" a file, copying it from the XP box to the dual G4 is very

Attempted to do usual weekly SuperDuper! incremental backup of my iBook
G4 with OS 10.3.9 to an external FireWire HD.  The backup hung up (just
stopped making progress after many minutes) during the initial
"Repairing Permissions" step.

Hi - I've just set-up a new iMAC with mail version 2.0.2 - There are 2
users.. but we share an email address from our ISP...
I was wondering if anyone knows a way we can set-up the mail so that
BOTH of us have access to the same inbox.. at the moment, who-ever

PowerMac G5 Quad
I have been having some odd results from running backup programs on this
computer.
I run either BounceBack Pro and/or Chronosync to backup the internal

I use a HP scan Jet 4670 and the soft ware that came with it and also
the upgrade from HP suck. Would someone please tell of any good scan
program that works well with my e-Mac and an HP scanner.
Thank you all up front.

If the stuff I want is already an ISO image,
how do I get it onto the CD ?
If I drag it there and click 'burn' I get a data CD
which when opened, shows that it contains one file,