Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

I've had no luck trying to find an online 'how-to' for updating the firmware
of a FW drive with Oxford chipset. Can someone please point me in the right
direction?

System1: DP MDD G4 with a DSL enet connection thru a Linksys WRT54G
router. OS 10.4.9
System 2: DA G4 sharing the same DSL connection only wirelessly thru
the WRT54G router. OS 10.14.9.

I have some music videos in .mpg format. I have converted them into mp4
h264, they go into the AppleTV movie list, is it possible to covert them so
they appear in the Music Video listing.
John

youtube wont accept a song (my friend) in WMA format,
Will it accept MP3 ?
How do I convert the WMA on my Mac to MP3 ?
TIA

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It seems that it works pretty fine.
SY,

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I've been painting pictures that look like I've mastered oil painting
all morning.  They are abstract, but still dimensional.  I can't wait
until some of my how-to draw artbooks come in the mail so I can really
start learning about how to draw.  I'm really going to teach myself

a couple days ago my daughter updated my son's Macbook Pro (dual core
2.0) with Mac OSX 10.4.10.  Since then when he tries to play Call of
Duty Deluxe the mouse pointer moves in a jerky, hesitating fashion
making the game unplayable.  The mouse (using either the touch pad or

I love my iMac and iPods...
I am starting to really like my AppleTv especially because with the
addition of YouTube integration it looks as though I will get more and
more functionality out this device over time.

I have a MacPro with a RAID1 disk (2x750GB Seagate).
Lately it had difficulty starting up, later announced it would rebuild
one slice of the RAID1. Then it did not start up.
I did a repair permissions, worked ok.

My G4's internal combo drive went south a long time ago, but I had
already acquired an external Firewire DVD burner, so I've just been
using that.
Unfortunately, there's that loathsome system restriction that won't let

To hook up my new Mac Pro to cable tv?    Is it a special card or an external
device (usb?).  I'd like to be able to record programs on my Mac and then
burn them to DVD.  My wife can do this on her Windows machine so I'm assuming
Mac has something as well???

I've noticed two problems (one minor, one not so minor) since I've
updated to OS X 10.4.10 on my MacBook.
1) As everyone knows OS 9 Applications will not work on a MacBook since
it has an Intel CPU. Prior to OS X 10.4.10, if something was an OS 9

I have two computers, a PowerMac Dual G4 867 and a new 17" MacBook Pro, both
running OS 10.4.10.
I have two external 160 GB FW drives, a La Cie and an Ice Cube.
They both work perfectly with the PowerMac. The La Cie also works perfectly