Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

Mounting a USB disk formatted with NTFS/FAT32 on OS X
I would like to mount an external USB disk formatted with NTFS on my
OS X 10.4.9 powerbook
Disk Utility sees the drive but doesnt recognise its format

    I bought a 12" ibook G4 for my mom because that is the machine she
wants (she was particular about that). Now, the machine only has a cd
player and I want to put in it 10.4, which I only have as a DVD. No
problem, I thought as I have an external dvd burner which I have used,

I have just ascertained that the Oxford English Dictionary Second
Edition version 3.0 is incompatible with Apple's Boot Camp and that
OED's C-dilla system cannot recognize the original CD [and thus allow
access to the dictionary] in the partition established by Boot Camp.

Here is the unvarnished truth of what us Mac users can expect from PC
Speech Recognition app's now that we can run Windows XP Pro and Vista
Ultimate directly on our Macs, thanks to Parallels and BootCamp.
The raw uncorrected text is below, which was spoken in at 100wpm.

All of a sudden, I'm getting a WebDEV File System Authentication dialog
every few minutes asking me for my .Mac password. Since I no longer
have .Mac it's moot. But the dialog is a serious interruption. Is there
something I can delete, or what? Thanks.

I have an OS X Tiger iMac with an Epson Stylus CX5000 printer/scanner
attached.  I have configured OS X for printer sharing and have no
firewall running.  I'd like to have my linux laptop print to this
shared printer.  On my linux machine, I can see the shared printer but

I'm looking for a way to have my USB drive readable on both Win2k and
OSX, but preserve the OSX permission masks on the files. NTFS is,
unfortunately, unwritable by OSX 10.3.9 (which is what I'm using). I
haven't tried FAT32 yet, but if it's anything like the MS-DOS format

can anyone tell me which string i have to add to
com.apple.Stickies.plist to disable the annoying
"check spelling as you type"-default?
thanx,

HI All, I have a powerbook G4 and no a new user but I don't know where
to go.
The airport has been working fine, however a couple days ago it was not
working. I took the base station apart however it appeared to be

A friend of mine is thinking of moving from Windows to Mac; the biggest
barrier for her is the email messages and contacts currently in her
(Windows) Outlook Express installation.
Any hints on how she can take her email and contacts with her if she

I need to be able to configure my network settings (add new locations,
tweak ethernet settings, configure Paralell's NAT etc), but everytime
I launch the Network pref pane, it tells me "New Ports Dectected,"
asks me to configure them, and then press "Apply Now" to activate.

Can anyone recommend a product that allows virtual installs of
pre-Tiger versions of MacOS X on PowerPC-based Tiger Macs?
Why do I need this? I'm tired of keeping old hardware lying around to
test my app releases on OSX 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3. The newer PowerPC

One feature of OS X that causes me pain is the keyboard. Aside from it's
compactness (My old hands seem much too big for this keyboard), I miss
the ability to have full control over the keyboard cursor. I cannot hold
down the spacebar nor the arrow keys and have the cursor race ...

So I'm trying to clean up and free some space on my (too darn small -
*GOTTA* get another drive...) boot drive. Bottom of the window I'm
working in says 2.76 GB available. I dump a wad of stuff (Somewhere in
the neighborhood of 7-800 megs - a 300+ meg movie, 150 megs of an XCode

yes updating Mac OS 8.1 with the CD of Mac OS 8.6 ?
Thank you for your help,
Nous
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