Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

I have a Macintosh desktop G4 computer.  Unfortunately, for the past 6
months it's been freezing a lot (about twice a day at least!),
especially when I'm reading emails on Microsoft Outlook.  That's one
problem I need to fix.

I am duel booting my computer with linux & osx. I recently learn that I
can't mount linux parition on mac. Is there a way around it? My linux
partition is reiserfs. I was thinking about creating a thrid partion
"vfat". Will I will able to mount it in osx?

I need to get rid of my MacBook to pay off some bills.  Perfect
condition, black color, 13" screen, 2gHz Intel Core Duo, 80 GB drive,
1GB of RAM, Office preloaded.  Need to move fast, will accept payment
through egold.  Mail to confirm, I'll hold it for you and send

It's been working great until about a week ago. Any ideas?
Thanks - STMouse

I purchased a Kaser external drive as described in the subject line but can't
seem to find software to run it.    It says PC/Mac on the package but only
had an .exe install program.  
Anyone have an idea what would work to backup my entire HD to this thing?

I have a Mac Powerbook G4 with a built in Airport card.  I upgraded my
router from a Netgear 802.11b to a Netgear 802.11g (the 54mg, not the
108 or "pre-N").  It worked internittently at first.  I also have a
Windows laptop and it made the switch beautifully and works fine.

Hello, I've been wanting to try a mac forever.  I finally
picked one up.  Problem is, I'm so used to Windows XP and
PC's, I don't know that I'll ever be able to comprehend how
to use it, or realize what it can do.

Mu login screen all of a sudden is dsiplaying at a very low resolution.
So much so that I now have to scroll much more to see the user names
in the list.  Please let me know how I can fix this.
Thanks,

How do I setup dial up access on a Mac, and will a new latest Mac come with
a modem built in as standard?
I am helping someone setup a computer for internet access and they have said
they prefer Mac and therefore will be purchasing a Mac with all the "bells

I have been interested in purchasing a jump drive so I can swap files
back and forth between the various freelance gigs I have and home. I
was interested in the Kingston 1GB U3 DataTraveler USB 2.0 Smart Drive.
Problem is I believe I only have USB 1.1 on my machine. I have had

Okay, so my iTunes and iPhoto have been acting wonky lately, and I
decided to delete both and reinstall both. iPhoto reinstalled, but is
still having the same issues - whatever. However, when I tried to
install iTunes [I tried once from an iLife CD, once from a download],

I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing there was a way to stop junk email--not
stopping it from arriving in my inbox but making it economically impractical
for the sender. As things now stand it costs virtually nothing for the sender
to mail out literally thousands of emails and the ...

I recently had smart errors on my main HD and created a dmg before
bringing it in the to the apple store to get a new drive installed .  I
have another post about this and won't ellaborate here.  The apple
store installed the new disk in one day (much faster than their 7 day

I bought my first Mac last week (MacBook 2.0 ghz w/ 1 gig ram and 80
gig hdd) last week and I'm absolutely loving it.  I'm a long time PC
and Unix/Linux person (I'm a CIO).  The last Apple I had was my //c in
1983!

Hey y'all.  I'm newish to the mac community, but I have a question that
I don't *think* is a newbie/faq, that I'm hoping is easy and
non-troublesome to talk about.
I'm running the latest version of osx 10.4 on an ibook g4.  I have an