Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

A friend sent me a you tube link that didn't work.  A little
investigating showed me something weird.
In Mail.app, every equals sign in his message got a "3D" appended to it,
so this link:

Dear friends:
This is my old question: How to fully backup the BootCamp partition?
CarbonCopyCloner worked very well with Tiger, but after I upgraded to
Leopard, it fails to do the backup at a random moments during the

We've just purchased a new Thecus U4500 NAS. The NAS can run numerous
filesystems including AFP. As we predominantly use Macs in the office
(we're a design studio) I've setup AFP and let the Macs connect using
that, and the remaining PC's in the office use their standard.

About to buy the new iMac and installing Bootcamp.
At present I have a Dynamode 2 port Ethernet Router 3 yrs old
connected to my G4 iMac and wonder if that will work automatically
with Windows XP.  It's a bit slow configuring when it's been switched

I'm trying to get Leopard, running on new gen Intel iMac 20" (boss'
new toy purchased because of all my raving abut the ease of use of
Macs...), to see an external FW drive (WD My Book Premium), which for
some reason it doesn't, from which I need to download the

I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do a daily backup t external HD, scheduled
daily at 6:30. CCC will not force the system to wake from sleep, so
System Prefs, Energy saver schedule is set to startup or wake from sleep
every day at 6:15 , but this does not happen.

I have a client running 10.3.9 on a G5 iMac (no iSight). Every time
the iMac goes to sleep, it won't wake up. When you tap the spacebar
(or any other key or the mouse) the iMac shuts down instead of waking
up. It powers up fine, all the diagnostic LED's are lit. I did a

Thus far, almost every tool and package I've tried to use from 3rd
parties has problems. There are known issues listed in various groups,
forums, blogs, etc. This is ironic since Leopard is the first official
MacOS X "unix" with full trademark permissions.

The main reason I have continued to do most of my work on an old 300MHz
PM7500/Os9.1 rather than the 1GHz G4 TiBook/Os10.4.9 attached to the
spiffing Cinema Display on my desk is that I just couldn't live with
the slow Finder in X.

Ever since my hard drive crashed a few months ago and I lost
everything I have become determined to properly back up everything.  I
am running a Macbook Pro in combination with a 250 Gb Western Digital
USB HD.  The HD is partitioned into two drives (one for booting, one

I am running an iMac G5 with leopard installed.  When I repair the
disk permission, it takes 7-9 minutes, and I receive this message:
"Warning : Suid file" /library/core services/remote management/
ARDAgent.app/content...."

All of a sudden, there's weird black stripes around the icons on my
desktop, the icons on the dock and around the cursor.
They are about 10-12 pixels long, and only seem to appear in the three
places above.

Would there be any problem with using Leopard's version of Disk
Utility to repair directory and permissions on a hard drive with
10.3.9 installed?

I'm sure you've seen them lately. It started at PCMagazine with a
short pro/con review of Leopard but has been picked up by a gaggle of
Windows/Microsoft loving bloggers who are now claiming "Apple's
Leopard is the New Vista". Their game is to discredit Leopard and