Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

I have an iMac G3.  I would like to backup the entire harddrive. I have
an external firewire drive.
I seem to remember in the classic days you could boot from cd and the
copy things.  Can you boot from cd in MacOS X and get into the GUI?

I was wondering since G4 has two 5.25" faceplates would it be possible
to get a different drive cage for inside my PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics)
so I can put a non-Apple DVD burner as the second drive internally?  Is
it possible to "hack" it in there?  Perhaps someone else thought of

-rw------T    1 root  wheel   67108864 Jul  2 14:41 swapfile0
-rw------T    1 root  wheel   67108864 Jul  3 15:52 swapfile1
-rw------T    1 root  wheel  134217728 Jul  4 18:05 swapfile2
-rw------T    1 root  wheel  268435456 Jul  4 21:50 swapfile3

I have a Beige G3 233 with 320 megs of RAM and a apple 6 gig HD. Its
stock all the way. It has been running OSX 10.2.8 for as long as OSX
10.2 has been out with no problems as a print server.  It has been
slowing down lately, The sytsem hasnt been cleaned in yrs, and two days

I have a few questions about setting up a MAC OSX machine its an Imac.
Im a PC user and am very unfimilar with most of how things work, so
please bare with me.
1. How do you set up permanent mapping of a remote drive?  for example.

Subject line says it all.
I burned an mp3 DVD+R from iTunes to send to a friend and he said his
powerbook (a G4 model) could not read the disc.
Puzzled, I burned another one and took it to another mac (a G4

This question is asked purely out of curiousity and has no practical
importance to me...
I note that when creating a disk image you are offered the option of
AES-128 encryption (which I assume is a 128 bit encryption scheme).

I was given a set of disks containing OS X 10.4 (They're quite legit!
Got the Apple logo on them and everything.)
However, they are for the EMAC and supposedly won't install on my B&W
PowerMac.

I used a Mac mini to present a slide show for our local photo club.
This was without monitor - but directly cabling the mini into projector
for screen display.
I was wondering if there is an improvement in the screen presentation

<http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/>
This is not a joke. If it's a hoax, it's one perpetuated by Apple.

Is there a way to switch an application's windows with the keyboard?  I
find moving the windows around with mouse tedious...
TIA,
Dan

I'm studying animationfilm and computers are a big part of the time and
work you put into animation.
At school it's all mac G4's but at home it's an old iMac DV+ 450Mhz.
I'm at the point of buying a new system but can't make up my mind

I have a secondhand Powermac g4 350.. I have a 512 mb stick, a 128,
and a 64. Granted it runs fine on 512, but the 170 would be helpful.
It only recognizes the 512 - even with the 128 and 64 and 512, it says
512 megs free.

The DVI lookalike on older Macs (a G4 from 99) is a bit different from
normal modern ones. Is it possible to use a modern PC adaptor, or need
it be an Apple thingy?
The visible difference is that the female connector on the card lacks

I read David Pogue's recent post in the NYT regarding his experience
with Naturally Speaking 9.0  which dealt only with the Windows
environment.  He mentions dictating directly into M$ Word.  My question
is, with Parallels, could one dictate directly into the M$ Word OSX from