Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

Apologies if this is a common question or if I'm missing something
really obvious.
I have a mac running OS X 10.4.5 with all the updates (well, all the
ones software update gets me).  It's sitting on a private IP address

I have a G5 single cpu 1.8G. I think the vid card is the standard     
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200.
I have an LCD monitor connected to the DVI port.
The other connector on the video card looks like the Apple proprietary

I will install Mac OS 10.4 soon. I want to put the users
home directories on a different disk. Can I simply move
/Users and its contents elsewhere and put a symbolic link
in its place? Or are there additional steps?

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This blog is worth reading, even though it is filled with "softie" talk
that doesn't mean much to me. It gives a clear picture of a
disorganized, demoralized, intellectually bankrupt company. Team leaders
on Vista who think they'll be lucky to really ship in March 2007. People

I think my G-3 iBook (white, @ 800 Mhz) is in code red re its HDD. For
several years, the disk would spin up irregularly and keep on until I
slept it, or shut it down. Some times it wouldn't spin that way for weeks.
I've backed it up and was reinstalling Panther, to get the thing ...

What's the best way to get into wireless broadband so that two G3 Macs
using OS9.2, a Powerbook using OS9.2 and a G4 using OS10.2.8 can all be
able to use the broadband connection? I don't want to get into Airport
(cost, mainly), but I know there are several wireless ethernet ...

I need some help and I hope I can find the answers I need. I am try to work
on someone's Mac Laptop. The Mac is running OS-X. Sorry if I'm not too
fluent in Mac, as I normally only do Windows PCs.
The problem is this:

Before I apply the most recent Security Update, I'm curious if the
problems recently reported by some users on MacFixIt and Apple
Discussions are very widespread or very limited.
Appreciate any info. Thanks.

I am getting Darwin Text during boot up on my OSX 10.4.4.How do I turn
it off?
TIA

For those of us running MAC OSX 10.4.4, is the upgrade to
10.4.5 free?  If so where does one find it?
RK

I got a ipod nano a couple of weeks ago, For the last two days when on
the now playing screen I have no indication anymore of time
gone/remaining. It has been replaced by blue bullets. How can I get
time display back?

My Epson CX5300 persistently prints colour photos with a blue-grey cast.
This is most obvious with plain A4 paper. With Epson photo printing
paper the effect is more of an under-exposed image. Details in the
shadows just disappear completely.

I recently rebooted my new iBook G4 (10.4.5, fully patched). I had
disconnected the power adapter an ethernet (thunderstorms in the area).
When I rebooted, I heard a strange beep (not the regular startup chime),
the fan whizzed at jet speed for a moment, and I found an folder in ...

I have an applescript that worked fine until I switched from using AFP to
NFS for remote volumes.  Other things didn't work properly until I made the
switch.  There are a number of reasons why I like the idea of using NFS,
including the fact that it's a multiplatform environment and ...