Mac Forum / General / General / July 2007

There doesn't seem to be a newsgroup for this problem so ... since I'm
using a Mac to write the shell script (which in turn writes the
Multipart/Alternative email),  I hope no one will mind me posting
about this here.

Found a link that tells how to set up a Linksys wireless router for MAC.
Found it to be very easily done with this explanation.
http://tinyurl.com/26mpbo

I am going to get my new IBook by tomorrow delivered at home...  but I
don't want to give up from my old and beloved Cube.... so my wife is
going to be trained on it ..
Presently I have an adsl internet connection

I have bought my iPod battery from www.ipodbatterydepot.com and they
were great.  The prices were very inexpensive, the installation was
easy, and the battery is lasting a very long time.

I just received my iBook ..  OS X is alreday installed
I need to install XP to run a specific program , how can I install XP
in another partition  ? should I reinstall OS X ?
thanks for your help

Hi.  I decided to use thunderbird as my email client.
When I use iPhoto's send email ability it wants to invoke apples mail
client.
How to I tell the OS that the default email client is thunderbird?

My clunky old local network runs at 10 MB thru a hub. Recently, I got a
cable/DSL router which included a 4-port 100 MB switch. I moved my three
Macs to the switch to get the speed. It was nice! Then I noticed that
iTunes sharing wasn't working anymore. I figured it was because ...

Is there a way to have a disk automatically open and show its contents
on inserting it?
At the moment I go up to the Finder Window and click on it in the
sidebar to reveal its contents.

I have a video file that doesn't play sound in quicktime (7.2.0) on
Imac (20", MacOsX 10.4.10). VLC tells me it uses the following codecs:
stream 1: XVID
stream 2: mpga

So, I've Googled for this information with little success.  This could
well be a very obvious newbie question with an equally obvious solution,
but I'm not having any luck.
I'm trying to get Safari to open PDF files in it's own browser window,

Here is one for the Unix gurus amopng this community:
How do I make an fstab entry so a 2nd hd, which is on a SCSI card,
mounts? The disk can be manually mounted with mount -t hfs -w
/dev/disk1s10 /Volumes/Users  (or whichever directory one wants), but

I had a half year old MacPro with 2 Seagate 750 GB hard drives in a
RAID1 configuration (boot disk).
This disk developed bad errors, unrepairable by Disk Utility. On a
suggestion here I tried Disk Warrior.

About two months ago, my husband switched from his two year old Vaio
to a new MacBook (2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB memory, 120GB hard
drive, SuperDrive). The switch hasn't been a positive for him; if you
can bear the story, perhaps you have some suggestions on how to

Another reckless bit of file juggling between internal HDs of two
different G4s (a Quicksilver and a Sawtooth) has resulted in the loss of
all my OS 9.x audio- and image-editing apps (Photoshop 5.5 is the
biggest loss here). What I did was to copy all my OS 9 apps from the

I have bought my iPod battery from www.ipodbatterydepot.com and they
were great.  The prices were very inexpensive, the installation was
easy, and the battery is lasting a very long time.