Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005

Does anyone know if you can put 8cm DVD-R disks into the slot drive
or can you only use normal size disks.
On another subject does anyone know if the iMac understands "USB
Camcorders" and not just "Firewire" ones. This is because I am

My Epson C82 printer pooped out on me. It got clogged and can't become
unclogged. So it's a paperweight. I am now down on Epson. I once had a
C80 and bought the C82 when that got too clogged to work. My wife and I
had matching C82's, til hers died, and we had to share mine. Now ...

I have an issue
at home I have a external HD, I dropped a bunch of data on it to clear
some room off of my internal HD, (G3 Cube, OS 10.2.2)  now when I try
to open this stuff the external HD freezes and the data won't copy back

I'm looking to put my short film work onto DVD, and would like it to
look at least semi-professional.. which is sort of what I am.
Unfortunately I have very little money at the moment.
I've just bought a cheap standalone (set-top) DVD recorder (DVD+R/RW).

A friend of my has an iMac G3 blue and white (transparent case).
After several power failures in his house, the iMac is not starting
up, there is even no light burning on the thing if you push the power
button.

Does anyone know of any 3rd Party Wireless 54mbps that works under osx
if so could they let me know which ones
Thanks

My G4 does not boot.  I get a flashing blue globe in a box.  I have
recently installed 10.3 and it is updated.  I installed 2 additional
drives and set them up as RAIDs.  My ethernet port did not work after
that.  I installed a ethernet card and everything was fine, but I would

I've got a older iMac, 350Mhz Blueberry running OSX 10.3. I was hoping to
find a TV tuner for this machine. Obviously it will need to be USB.
Can someone suggest a unit that would work?
Thanks!

are there some hardware solutions for triggering external relays with an os
x mac? i think off a little usb box or so...
and what about the software? a commandline tool for switching on/ff woudl be
perfect.

With the iPod carrying a lot of music I wonder if its possible to
create filters an my pc or mac that can be applied on-the-go?
to get some good metal music i would apply
genre - metal

I just purchased a Seagate 80gb ide hd to add to my
G4/400 OS 10.3 with an existing IBM 30gb master.
What are the advantages/disadvaantages of partitioning?
Should I just have two partitions (for OS9 and OSX)?

Ok, so I've more or less decided I've got to get an iPod (40 Gig
probably) and I've read up on a lot of reviews (cnet.com) but I do have
a concern about the battery. Lots of people are saying that it must run
down eventually - when?, and what happens then - will Apple be ...

I've got a Quicksilver 2002 with the Pioneer D107 superdrive installed.
After installing Panther, it can now read DVD+R disks.
I need to extract the DVD content off of a disk to use in iMovie, but I
can't seem to get it to work right.

I have a rev d (333mhz) imac. I like to upgrade the cd to a de-rw.
Can you recommend a cd-rw which would work without altering the front
flap? I don't like to ruin the face of the imac.
Cheers

I recently took out the zip drive that came with my Gigabit-ethernet
powermac as I have no use for such a thing.  I do though still have a
number of floppy disks around.  Since the form factor of a floppy drive
is the same as that of the zip drive's I was considering installing the