Mac Forum / General / General / December 2006

My 6 year old nephew loves to play songs on iTunes on his parents' iMac
G5 and sing along. I'd like to get him a microphone to plug into the
iMac so that he can sing and have his voice amplified. Is that
possible? What hardware and/or software do I need?

My old 4 year imac has a 10 gig hd. I am getting an 80 gig ipod video
for christmas. Most of the space on my imac hd is taken up by 5 gigs of
.mp3s. I'd like to drag my itunes music folder to my ipod video and
store it on there. If I do store my .mp3's externally on the ipod. Will

Hope you are all learning something - I certainly am.
Q: You work as an administrator at Troyec.com.  Personal File Sharing
is enabled on a Mac OSX computer that contains a standard user a/c.
You use your admin a/c to connect to the computer via AFP.  Which of

Could someone help me with this question please.
You work as a support technician at Troytec .com. A Troytec user
complains that her Macintosh is exhibiting system problems. You tell
the user to reboot her Macintosh in Firewire Target Disk Mode. You now

I'm starting to do some development on my newly purchased Mac and need
to ask a stupid question. I realize that home and end keys do not act
the same way under Mac OS X and Windows, however how do you get to the
end of the line when your editing a line in Konsole? I tried the

Isn't the numeric pad on the keyboard supposed to work with Thoth?
Everytime I time I use it in Toth/Safari it hangs my Mac.  There's not
a "Numeric Lock" or anything.......
Or is it supposed to do this?

I'm looking to get one of the new MacBook Pros.  There is one piece of
proprietary software that I REALLY need to run, and that's Xilinx ISE.
I can get versions of that for Linux, Windows, and Solaris., and
running any of those would be just fine.

Here's the answer:
http://urlcutter.com/IpodvZune

What's the latest on running Vista on a Macintosh?

After years of occasional PC usage (at some point more intensive, but
that's been a while), my brother has decided to get a Mac laptop. He
talked to the local Mac reseller, who offered to get him a G3 PowerBook
from eBay after Christmas. While I'm ecstatic that he's finally

I've had sporadic occurances of my Firewire drives preventing normal
bootup. I know this because if I disconnect the main cord, the computer
then boots. I assume that a cord is responsible. I have 4 Firewire
drives (Maxtor OneTouch v. 1, driver updated) and a G4 1.25 Dual

I just got my first Mac about a week ago (it's running OS X Tiger and
patched).  While it's not a powerhouse machine (1.83 Ghz and 512MB of
RAM) it seems that Firefox 2.0 really eats up a LOT of RAM and starts
to slow things down.  A top show FF2.0 using between 425-450M of RAM.

Hi im new to terminal
Ive switched from tsch to bash in terminal
how can i revert back, what settings do i need to change?

I'm hoping someone can help me. Upstairs, I have a Netgear WGR614 v6
wireless router which has my internet connection and an engin phone
attached to it.
I also have an old graphite Apple Base Station not doing anything.

i am trying to find a way to disable a USB device in OSX. I am running
Parallels and would like to be able to use my USB device from inside
Parallels, but unfortunately OSX grabs it immediately when i plug in
the device so Parallels can't use it, says the device is already