Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

I've backed up my normal boot drive, but when I boot from the backup, I
can't get the normal boot drive to unmount. How can I do that? Thanks.
Dave

Ok, I'm new to Mac (5 days and counting) and after a couple of days of
frustration things are beginning to make sense. I've install the slrn
Darwin port, but I've yet to figure out how to get the mouse to work
in (i.e use mouse to select an article, menus, etc). Is there a trick

at
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107083
It says to go to the apple menu, choose system preferences

I recently purchased a 500gb external drive for my G4-Dual867mhz Mac.
Since this Mac never came with a USB 2.0 option, I had installed a 2.0
PCI card some time back.
But when I plug my new drive into the 2.0 slot, the hard drive is not

My wife's MacBook (and her iBook before it) loses its wifi connection to our
cable modem when it goes to sleep, so she must log on again, with a
password, even if she just had the computer closed for a few minutes. This
may be a "feature" but it's an annoying one for her. Is ...

im having a problem with several mac ppc g4 1.25ghz, connected via one
planet wgsw-14020 gigabit-switch to a ppc g4 733mhz running mac os 9.2.2
and filesharing via tcp/ip.
running os 9.2.2 on the clients everything seems to be fine, booting osx

太空食品
1:饲用禽流感疫苗(解决特大型养殖厂给每只鸡注射的难题)
2:转基因/克隆花卉和水果(把玫瑰的香味转移到兰花上,并让兰花一年四季盛开)
3:太空螺旋藻(2004年9月第20颗返回式卫星搭载育种----2006年10月投产,是航天基地特供食品)

I recently had my Airport express set up to play music wirelessly
through to my stereo and thus speakers. I have moved and now have a new
DSL wireless provider, I've plugged in the express and I can't locate
the network.  I have forgotten how I set this network up. Any

In a mixed Mac and PC environment the Terminal program on the macs is
used to connect to the companies Headquarters in Texas, we are in
Virginia. The macs timeout after thirty minutes of inactivity. The
Windows machines stay connected until you manually log off. I don't know

im having a problem with several mac ppc g4 1.25ghz, connected via one
planet wgsw-14020 gigabit-switch to a ppc g4 733mhz running mac os 9.2.2
and filesharing via tcp/ip.
running os 9.2.2 on the clients everything seems to be fine, booting osx

i a macbook for the first time and i wana use idvd with my jvc
camcorder. The format of the files when transfered to my mac is .mod.
i found out that the .mod codec is just acually mpeg 2, but it still
doesnt play with quicktime and i need it to so i can edit the videos

Can anyone recommend a good USB to RS232 adaptor for the intel Macbook?
   That is, one with solid OSX drivers!
Cheers,
- Martin.

Every so often my computers clock keeps changing to the mid 70's !  Is
my computer half hippy ?? Anyone know whats up ?
Thanks.

I just bought a Macmini and I want to reformat my ipod (to the Mac). I
want to transfer my iTunes library (it's all music off of CD's) to the
Mac.
Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm new to Macland, and am enjoying my powerbook very much
(as a Windows and Java programmer, and old Unix hand).
Here's my little question:
When I scroll in a Firefox or Safari window *using the arrow keys*,