Mac Forum / General / General / January 2008

Goodafternoon,
I am a recent convert to mac platform, and i love it. However there is
one thing that really bugs me, and i don't know if it's because of my
system- or that it's a thing that os x just does....

I am unable to see my airport card on my MacBook.  It tells me the
hardware is not installed.  I already tried rebooting and removing the
battery for a fresh start but no go.  Anyone experienced this? How do
I reset the card? I've never opened a MacBook before.

I have MacMini with only one hard drive.
Is it possible to split the hard drive into two partitions?
Disk Utility says that "The disk contains the startup and can't be
partitioned".

I set a master password on my imac using OS 10.3.9. I know the password
and am able to get into my system. It's just that I no longer NEED
that feature and would like to undo this action.
I can change the

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I'm using the Microsoft RDP client to connect from my Mac OS X
computer to a Windows 2003 server.  The fonts on my remote desktop
appear a bit blurry.  I've checked screen resolution on the remote
desktop: it's correct for my display.  This seems to be a Mac specific

Has anyone seen this before - sounds like a great idea?!
http://www.desicrazy.com/2008/01/25/build-your-own-hackintosh-computer-an-apple-
clone-for-cheap/

Shamelessly copied from macfixit.com:
Apple has posted a slew of Knowledge Base documents concerning the
MacBook Air. A few of the more useful instructions and salient notes:
Document #307379 explains how to copy the contents of the Mac OS X

It there a driver that would allow printing with an Epson CX8400 under
System 9? Mac G4 1GD Dual Mirror Door.?
  The printer works as advertized on OS 10.4.11. I previously used an
Epson CX3200 on OSx and OS9. I would like to print some documents from

MacBook Pro Updates Soon
Although there has been no news from Apple regarding the update of
MacBook Pros with the new Penryn chip and additional Multi-touch
trackpad options (read more at OS2Guy Blog)

Music Lovers Call For Boycott of U2
Paul McGuinness, U2 Manager, has called on ISPs to close the accounts
of any one who downloads a U2 song illegally and if they don't demands
they face prosecution for failing to participate in the crackdown. The

I just moved from a G5 to an Intel mini.  I have three hard drives.  An
80 GB internal in the mini, a 120 GB FW LaCie and a 500 GB FW LaCie.  My
start-up partition is using about 31 GB.  The mini internal has Leopard
via Migration Assistant on it with no partitions.  I don't want to ...

Is it possible to have a particular reply-to-address selected
automatically when emailing certain people?  I think this might have
been discussed recently.  So if I'm at work and send an email to a
friend it automatically comes from my personal email, not my work email.  

is there anyway to erase the hard drive of a macbook mac OSX version
10.4.8 without the original CD that came with it?

hi,
i am a little greenhorn using a mac - why?
well,
what did i do: