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HELLO I HAVE THE MAC RECORDER FARALLON PERFECT 20 EURO

I am thinking about selling my G3 iBook and wanted to erase the 40GB
internal drive for data security. I inserted the Panther install disk
(I don't have a retail version of Tiger), ran the installer, opened
Disk Utility, went to "Erase", and under "options" chose the 8x random

Hi all, the fact is that Mac OS X provides you with a nice way of
creating encrypted home directories (FileVault) and encrypted disk
images (as I outlined here:
http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2006/11/10/portable-encryption-on-mac-os-x/

Installed a second SATA drive on my G5 dual @ 1.8 Meg, 1.25Gigs RAM;
IIRC, a Maxtor 160G.  Occasionally, it would seem that Photoshop (CS I)
would lock up, and it made sense to me in that I set a scratch disk on
the new internal drive, and I thought that perhaps the drive had ...

iv used macs loads of times, but i never noticed that long grey button
on top of all the windows on the right hand side. what's that for??

I recently used fink to install apache2 (2.0.xx), and now I would like
to add the module mod_proxy_html
(http://apache.webthing.com/mod_proxy_html/), but I just can't seem to
compile it!?  Running OS X 10.4 with XCode tools (2.2?).  Here is my

Hello!  I am having some odd trouble with my PowerBook;  I use
Photoshop CS2 regularly to edit photos and the like, but recently
everytime I try to use a feature on there it says the scratch disks are
almost full, or the scratch disks are full.  I do not understand why

I just bought an eMac from a friend.  He set it up with an administrator
password and cannot remember it.  Nor can he remember the master password.
I want to just reinstall the operating system but the only user ID that I
can log in with does not have permission to do so.  What ...

Hello;
Forgive the absurdity of my question. I am new to Tiger, and trying to
master it. I downloaded Firefox for Mac and installed it. The software
works fine as long as the notebook is running. When I shut down the

My daughter purchased a new Mac Book a couple of months ago. Initially it
connected to our home wireless network perfectly. She allowed it to do a
software update of some sort. Since then it loses the wireless connection
every 5 minutes (sometimes 10). I have several other ...

I have an issue with a OS X Tiger system (10.4.8) that is not mapping
drives correctly. I was curious if anyone knows if there are some
preferences out there that keep this information cached or if maybe
there is a preference file that is corrupted. I was able to create a

SETUP: Mac OS X 10.4.8 on a Titanium PowerBook and AirPort Extreme.
Whenever I restart my mac, the active airport network is my neighbor's
network instead of mine. This is a relatively new thing, maybe a year old.
I tried a numnber of settings using the network system preference ...

Hoping to hear from the voice of experience on this one; I am a
longtime mac user, and am developing some web content that necessitates
a video input on one of more of my macs (i have a windtunnel G4 and a
mini, both with firewire).  There are many hardware solutions, video

Running 10.4 OS/X behind nat on comcast DSL..
Unable to FTP.
Basically the connection dies.
wget ftp is fine:

IF i get a macbook now, would i get a free upgrade to the new mac os x
10.5 leopard when it comes out? or wud i have to buy it