Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

Okay, that's a rubbish analogy but you know what i mean.
You are seriously impeding your mac performance if you are running on
less than 2Gb these days.
Go to Crucial.com and get a RAM upgrade at sensible prices (not like

How can you save an image scanned with GraphicConverter at the desired tip
(or leaf) of the tree? That is, how can you navigate along the tree of
folders (directories) to place the file exactly where you want it?
I have no problem starting at the root Desktop and then going to ...

I have a mac book pro (intel core duo) with the following config..
   System Version:    Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8L2127)
   Kernel Version:    Darwin 8.8.1
and Airport Wireless Config as

I have Tiger 2.0.3 and Mac osx 10.4.6. I am trying to login to an
existing AIM account.
It keeps timing out.
I can login to AIM using my PC with Internet Explorer.

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i downloaded this app. just wanted to know if it is safe to have the
fans running at about 4000 rpm all the time?

I was given a Mac 6500/250 computer.  Will someone please tell me how
to get the tower cover off?  I know about the plug-in unit in the back
and I have taken that out, but I can't get the tower cover itself off.
 I can feel the two push buttons on the bottom of the front of the

I have assigned the MAC addresses for my wired/airport min, wired PC and two
XP laptops to secure the wireless connection. Do I have to additionally turn
on WPA to make the network secure, or is the MAC access permission OK?
I googled this but got 1.4million hits. I thought ...

my macbook is no getting like 61 degrees Celsius, when all thats open
is safari..... nothing else is open
also on start up its taking a bit longer, about 5-7 seconds longer
does anyone know how to fix it? is there like a system restore

I've bought Apple with MAC OS X (Tiger).
I'd like to know if SNMP-Service is active. I have never before used
MAC OX  - only Windows and Linux. How can I check if snmp-service is
started (and if not, how can I start it)?

So I had 30 something GB left on my Macbook, and now I have less than
700 MB. I didn't install/load anything crazy, and there is no reason
that 30 GB have disappeared. Is there a way to see what was "recently"
saved or something to figure out what's going on?

If I have an airport or wifi card in a Power Mac G5 (single CPU), can I
connect a hub or other computer to the G5's ethernet port and get the
wifi and ethernet to pass traffic to each other?

I have discovered the secret of the soul
The soul is the emotion. The soul and the emotion are completely
nonmaterial existence. The consciousness and the emotion are
inseparable, which means each consciousness accompanies the

I have noticed that my Lacie external HD is not spinning down
(sleeping) after scheduled, automated shutdown; however, the external
HD does spin down after system goes to sleep.  How do I automatically
force the HD to goto sleep just before system shuts down?

Using ICS on an iMac to share a wired connection to airport users.
The client (wireless) machine is used by teenagers and the parents
would like to enable logging on the iMac to understand what websites
are being visited. (The teens learned quickly how to clear their