Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

There doesn't appear to be any way to partition an OSX-managed RAID set
into two logical drives.  Am I missing it?

I am setting up a san and need a server that will serve out afp, afp+,
smb, nfs, cifs etc...
It seems easy enough to find a server for smb, nfs, cifs, but afp
seems harder to find.

I just bought a Mac (used) that had Leopard installed. This is my first
exposure to Leopard.
I just discovered something very puzzling. There is a directory /home.
Can someone tell me what it's for?

word up.
i came across this excellent site: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
you download scripts and put them in your library folder (user/LIBRARY/
ITUNES/Scripts) and it can save so much time!

Camino is so small and fast.  What's the point in using Firefox? (Is
it just for the extensions and stuff?)

wtf? So I have to copy-paste URLs into Safari? Is there an easier way?
I wish I could just click on the URL

Hey guys,
I was wondering if you have tried renting movies on iTunes. What do
you think about it? I want to try it out, but I just wanted some
opinions first! :)

Wow, apparently Apple is having trouble with their new
'n' style Airport base stations?
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The MacWorld forum website lists some possible down-sides
pertaining to the new forthcoming speech recognition
software for the Mac.
The new speech software is named "MacSpeech Dictate", which

Our home network contains (among other things) an old 800 MHz G4 iMac
and a Time Capsule (TC).  The TC is currently being used to back up a
newer MacBook that runs Leopard.  I would also like to back up the
iMac to the TC.

I wanted to burn data on a 4.7GB DVD-RW2 (Verbatim) 4x, but the
problem is that
the available size shown on my MacBook is 4.38GB only. That's a lot of
size differences.

I dont know how it happened, but my "return" key on my laptop just
split in half, my warranty ran out (one year old) and i just want to
semi fix it so i do not have to worry about getting junk in the
keyboard (through the crack) and keep the darn thing usable. WHAT DO I

A week ago I upgraded my 2.16 GHz  Intel Core 2 Duo 20" iMac with 2 GB
of RAM from 10.4.11 to 10.5.2, and the automatic Sleep was working
just fine (according to my Energy Saver settings).  Then I applied the
Apple Security Update 2008-002, and now it won't automatically sleep!

A little while back I asked if anyone knew whether Apple made agregate
stats from their Software Update servers public. Nobody came back with
anything but I have just found something that at least gives some
indication:

I have two really dumb questions about various connectors
on my MacBook Pro.
I think it requires a networking geek to know the answers.
Anyone want to take a crack at answering these?