Mac Forum / General / General / July 2007

I recently took a job in a small production studio, and will soon receive a
new Mac Pro with FC Studio 2.
Being new to macs, can someone offer advice on
1) a few utilities I should consider installing.  Preferably freeware apps.

This is too costly to be commercially available but is worth just
looking at it.
http://www.nachofoto.com/foto?i=4c89ac96b347

"top" shows CPU and memory usage in the terminal.  is there a similar
command to show network usage?  if i were sitting at the machine i
could just use ActivityMonitor, but i'm not.  thanks.

Anyone had any experience exporting Outlook Contacts into Mac OS 10.4.10
Address Book?
I'm not having much success.

Can anyone suggest a quick and convenient way of backing up my entire
hard disk?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to make an image of it - data, software,
the lot - that can easily be restored. I am going to have to send my

I had a perfectly functional install of OS 9.2.2 on its own partition of
a LaCie FW HD, for use as Classic Mode when booted from a G4 Quicksilver
running OS X 10.4.10. I got the system on the Classic Mode volume to
boot the machine once, too, before I started messing around with ...

please give me a recommendation for a external DVD drive that can read
MiniDVDs for my iMac OS 10.4.10 machine.
I can't seem to find one on google search

Does anyone know of any reason OS X 10.2 and above could not print to
printer queues on Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit edition?
We are currently migrating a customer from the Novell platform to the
Microsoft platform and the client has almost 3000 Macintosh clients

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While troubleshooting a problem that resulted from a power failure, I
discovered something funny that seems to be related to the OS 10.4.10
upgrade.  My Intel iMac can no longer see one of my printers when the
ADD button is clicked in Printer Setup Utility.  (The iMac was not ...

After successfully "wiping" old deleted files from my Mac's hard drive,
WITHOUT harming any legitimate files inside my Vista partition, I am
getting greedy, want more!
I now want to wipe the slack space in disk file "clusters".

I've used 'Finder > Go > Connect to Server' before to connect to
servers and work with file like they were on my mac, which is
amazingly handy, but I have setup a server of my own now, and can't
quite figure out what I need to do to use this feature.

I've been using Slack Linux for several years as gateway/firewall for
LANs. Would like to convert to Mac Mini for space as well as software
advantages.
Two issues come to mind.

I would like to discuss Vincent Van Gogh's mental health as revealed
through a study of his self-portraits.  I think this is relevant to the
following newsgroups for the stated reasons:
comp.sys.mac.portables - I photographed the self-portraits on a MacBook

I have checked both my .bash_profile and .profile and neither sets the
path to what its eventual value is.
current path
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin