Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

I've been given a choice at work.  Dell D820 (Windows or Linux) or a
MacBook.  The Dell would have 3GB ram, a better video card, larger/
faster hard drive, and a 15" screen.  The MacBook would be Maxed out
in terms of RAM, and I may be able to move up to the 100GB hard drive.

I have most of my photo collection imported into Iphoto. My question
is, is there a way to have the albums auto update as I ad more photos?
or do I have to keep reimporting them?

Is MT-NewsWatcher still the best choice for Mac users?  Or is there
something else out there that's better?
Thanks,
earle

On a MacBook, how do I determine how much space I have left on my hard
drive and how large my hard drive is. I looked in About My Mac but
nada ....

Im looking for a Global Torrent Search tool which allows me to search
multiple
torrent sites from the one interface,
There is a tool for windows called BitChe,

Much to my dismay I've lost all entries in iCal earlier than May 1.  Not
the biggest thing in the world but it had some bicycle ride entries I'd
like to refer to.  Somewhere around May Day something must have went
fubar with iCal resulting in everything disappearing before then.  ...

I've enabled sharing for my user account on my mac.
I can see my home directory on my mac from my pc.
However I have files on a second drive on my mac that I can't see from
the pc.

My father uses a G5 iMac.  I perform all of the maintenance on it for
him since he's 74 and he wants to use computers, not maintain them.  
Part of the maintenance that I perform is to boot into single user mode
and then run /sbin/fsck -fy.

i'm finding that my computer no longer has any account in the admin
group (except for root)
i've started in singe user mode and tried to add a user (tom) to the
admin group by:

i think i might have done some damage to my system that i could need
some help with.
while trying to setup cvs on my system i edited the
/etc/group

On my G3 iMac running 10.3.9, I would like to know exactly what cron
task weekly does. I freely admit that I am a terminal novice and a
unix newby, but would appreciate some pointers to discovering what
it does so that I can determine if and how a part of the weekly task

Hi Group,
Does Mac OSX support POSIX Message Queues?
I am porting a program from Digital Unix that uses POSIX message
queues.

I am curious if it is possible to purchase an antenna for
an internal laptop Airport card that will allow it to receive
more faint and distant signals.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Looking to back up my MacBook data. But I want the whole drive,
photos, Ical data, etc, everything stores somewhere where I can just
easily download it and it opens like my computer without a lot of
fancy reconfiguring. Ideally, it would store the Windows side of my

I'm looking to replace an ancient Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR.
The things that matter to me are reliability in intermittent use,
high resolution and a standard interface in both hardware and
software. From my experience PostScript was a good investment,