Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

Using OS X 10.4.7 with 1.25 Mini with 1024 mb ram.  Is this normal?  The fan
is going as fast as its little legs can take it. The whine is gruesome.  I'd
love to replace this garbage fan/heatsink with something that can dissipate
some real heat.  If you throw away that goofy hard ...

test

Hey folks,
I'm hoping that some of you who are more familiar with iPhoto can give
me some ideas for how to solve this problem. I have several Albums
which I have created in iPhoto yet when I go to upload photos for

This is a sincere post, I promise.
We're a PC family and are considering buying an Apple when we upgrade
our laptop. So I thought I'd post to this group for genuine reasons as
to why are Apples are better than PCs. I'd also love to hear reasons

Here is the deal. Mac OS X doesn't come with a news reader. ISP's like
webforum thing, Apple likes Web Forum thing so as result: There are
lots of people who doesn'T know the comp.sys.mac tree on usenet.
Google is popular. It purchased Deja and now they made this "google

Anyone know a good router that can split dsl internet access with a
windows xp pc?
I have never used a router before. And the whole thing seems so
confusing. Also will this compromise my internet speed? For example, if

I set up Firewire networking between my Powerbook and my windows
desktop and, before you jump on me for not knowing what I am doing, it
works.  I have all the network services I need going and I have both
computers accessing the same firewire hard disk directly (though it had

-This could be considered off-topic by some-
I'd like to set up some type of timing system for the individual
players on my soccer team to measure themselves when they are doing
sprints (5 - 10 secs with tenth of second accuracy).

I have been experiencing an intermittent problem with an NFS mount that
doesn't always work after waking a sleeping G4.  Most of the time the
mount works after a sleep but sometimes the system log shows the
following and never manages to remount.  A reboot fixes the problem:

Which wireless router should I get to go with a MBP ?
Are most non-apple brands compatible  ?
Thanks.
Steve.

I have an imac which is currently running OS 9.2. I need to upgrade
this to OSX as 9.2 is obviously well out of date. What would be the
best way of going about this? I'm fairly sure that my mac doesn't have
the memory to cope with OSX, would I need to wipe everything off and

Hey all,
On one of the workstations in our graphics department, I am unable to
access the chooser. When I try to open the Chooser, it opens, but all
you see is a small box like the one you click to close the window. The

A .dv movie file that I imported from my camcorder is 4.6GB for 20
minutes worth of movie. When I try to backup this file on an external
USB disk using rsync command, it balks that the file is too large (my
backup HD has more than enough room for it, so space is not an issue). I

Every idea and innovation has it's Use By Date.
Just as Morse Code, manual telrphone exchanges, vinyl records, black
and white TV, VHS VCR Players each were the "state of the art" in their
day, so has USENET come to its UBD.

I've recently bought a digital camera and I believe a device icon
showed up on my desktop in the beginning, where I could actually access
its memory card contents straight from the desktop.
The icon no longer shows up there. I am however able to import my