Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

Good grief. I just can't seem to get out of my way. I've done soft
resets on my Airport base station (double ethernet) several times in
the last two days. But after the most recent, when I ran Airport Admin
Utility, it told me that, yes, I had done a reset, and then it

So one day by accident, I typed UPTIME instead of uptime, and UPTIME
gives more detail than uptime.
which uptime vs which UPTIME show the same location, the same file.
So is it truly the same file / app I'm running, but the O/S just tells

I have two disks in my G4.
One is device 0 master the other device 1 slave.
I want to boot from device 1 slave.
How do I do that?

How do I get the Finder to show a files full path
at present i only get the objects name and not its full path location

I'd like to stream audio from my OS/X box. Basically anything coming
in on the audio input / sound card.
I googled Stream Audio OS/X but not having an luck.
Any simple URL's or suggestions?

Sure, why not, even when Vista and OS X are installed on the same
internal drive of the Mac.
I do it all the time, when I am running Vista.
I kick open any Mac disk or partition attached to my Mac, all from the

i have a mac powerbook g4 15 in....i wanted to know where do i install
the ram upgrade i ordered.....let me know please...like i cant find
the socket...

I've set up ssh so that I connect to my Ubuntu box from OS X without the
need for passwords.
To connect to my Ubuntu box, I would:
1. Start X11

can anyone tell me in which file on osx 10.4.9 does Firefox 2.0 store
its cookies ?

Well, well, well. I sent an e-mail to Comcast, and got a response from
their robot that was actually helpful. All it took was unplugging the
power for the cable modem for 30 seconds, which led to the the modem
and the AirPort base station working simultaneously. Nice connection

Is there ANY way of emptying part of the Trash?  I've got some video
files in the Trash (many gigs - way more than what is left of my hard
drive) so I can't seem to copy them out and empty the Trash.

Won't Boot! How do I make a OS X back-up BOOTABLE?
Both drives are Firewire.
I just backed-up my OS X drive to a larger, newer drive that I will be
using from now on.

Most advice says to backup "important" files, but so far I haven't
found a good definition of that, and clearly it depends on how much
space you have and other factors. I am using ChronoSync which is not
intended to backup an entire HDD including the system, so here are

Yesterday we switched from EarthLink DSL to Comcast Cable. No problem
hooking up the cable modem to our iMac G4, but when we try to put our
AirPort base station back into the mix, the cable modem ceases to work
and AirPort isn't working, either. Yes, all of this worked with

I was going to purchase an external HD which is powered via USB.
However, I heard that this does not work with the Macbook Pro because
the power needed exceeds how much is available.
I was going to buy one of the following external HD drives