Mac Forum / General / General / March 2007

I am currently running my Mac mini G-4  on OS X 10.4.2.
My question is, can I use a USB 2.0 external drive as my Startup Disk,
or do I have to have a Firewire external HD to do this?
Thanks in advance.

Hello, a question about a problem which is driving me mad: could it be
that the continuos crashes of my iMac G4/700 MHz (running Panther
10.3.9 with 384 Mb RAM) are not caused, as I thought, by a  harddisc
problem or some incompatibility, but by the DSL connexion via TV

So I'm reading books about perl, which may not be quite as powerful as
C++ but at least has more power than C & is very easy to learn from
the manuals.  I'm also buying books on C++, and books about algorithms
for C.  It isn't easy to learn it though, and I have been trying to

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>

I just bought a Mac Mini. Up to this point I owned a couple of old
Macs, a 6290CD and a Quadra "something". The 6290CD still runs (I
picked it up in a Goodwill back in 2000). I have it setup in my spare
room, just replaced the CMOS battery a few weeks ago, and it is rock

Not sure anyone is interested but on Steve's website saw that he has a
company selling his signed book.
Here is the link:
http://www.woz.org/book/index.html

Looks like GIMP has gone OS X native.
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2007-March/017587.html
jt.

Is it possible to set "automatic deletion" of a podcast after you play
it once on the iPod?  I know you can manually set a podcast to be
deleted but I want to set all podcasts to be deleted after I play them
once.

Why don't I just plug my laptop into the tv?  
Thanks,
Rog

I'm over in the states next month an apart from getting an American two pin
plug for charging are there any other things I should consider?
I'm purchasing it in the States purely to save money over the UK price but
if there are any other perceived problems I may reconsider.

I have the above mouse on my MacBookPro. It has stopped working. The
red light on the mouse is on and I have changed the batteries a couple
of times. The keyboard still works.  Looking at the round receiver
thingy that goes into the USB port, the lights that shows a signal is

The display and demonstration of Apple TV (ATV) in the Apple retail
stores commences today, Friday March 23, but stores had them for sale
yesterday. It appears that I was the first to buy one from the Apple
store in the Annapolis (MD) mall yesterday. I have about *two* *hours*

Is it possible to have two or more EyeTV-250 units receiving and
recording at the same time?
This is the setup I am contemplating:
Analog Cable -> Splitter -> (2) EyeTV-250 units plugged into a powered

Built in iSight on MacBook Pro (Intel) - is it possible to aim the
camera independently of the screen or macbook itself? Is there some
control somewhere?  (I am imagining something like Logitech has with
their better cams - face tracking, that kind of thing).

OS/X 10.4... Unable to fink selfupdate. Below are the last few lines
from the running of fink selfupdate...
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wmissing-prototypes" is valid
for C/ObjC but not for C++