Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2005

ipod battery dies and then comes back to life
Hello,
I have a 20GB 3rd gen ipod and I use it quite a bit. Recently the
battery has been dying after one to three hours.

Hi,
I'm trying to replace the two cheap and noisy power unit fans in my G5 Dual 2
GHz (June 2004). I know I have to remove at least the lower processor, to get
to the power unit, but I don't know how to disassemble the G5 Dual. No screws

I'd like to plug a pair of bookshelf speakers into a Mini.  The
Griffin Powerwave USB amplifier with Apple Pro port and included
ProSpeaker Breakout cable could enable me to do that.
<http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powerwave/index.php>

Check out this great site that is giving away totally FREE Mini Macs!
Ideal for storage!
I've joined and I think you should as well.
It's a completely legitimate offer, and this company has already given

Any DVD disc with an imperfection causes DVD Player to pause, retry, and,
frequently, quit with the "Unexpected" error.
My cheap Panasonic DVD player may mute while it "artifacts" the display
during rough spots in the disc, but it rarely gives up.

System: MDD 1.25DP with Radeon 9000 Pro (stock). Current monitor is a
17" Sony 200ES (CRT). Time to move up to a 17" LCD. What do ya'll
recommend for around $400 or so and what basic specs should I look for?
This is just for home use. Thanks.

I've written a guide on how to obtain the Mac Mini for free.  Its offered by
the same company who gave out the Apple Ipods for free.  If you are
interested, please check out my guide at:
http://www.geocities.com/free_macmini/index2.html

Over time, many of my jpg image files have duplicated, some 2 or 3 times. The
names of these files have "-1" or "-2" added to the original file name.
The utilities I've found for eliminating duplicates, only see those with
identical names.

The Mac Mini is already making the rounds on the free sites.
http://free.GearLive.com/index.php?referral=146
You don't really have anything to lose.

Just had to reinstall Panther on a G4 ibook. When I restarted everything
was fine except that Garage Band and iDVD had gone missing.
I used Pacifist to try and find their packages but although their
recipts show up on my hard drive there is no sign of the install

I've got an older G4 that doesn't seem to like the DVD ...here's the
details.
I removed the DVD/Zip completely from the machine and everything is
fine, boots up great, etc. I put the DVD/Zip back into the box

Is this a plausible symptom of an aging / dying / messed-up battery,
or should I be looking for other solutions?
Computer:  12" G4 PowerBook (original version), 21 months old,
running 10.3.7 (problem started with 10.3.6).

Hi all. Hoping an audiophile can perhaps clue me in. Been running Linux
at home on an IBM desktop for the last 8 years or so, and I have an
audio cable from my sound card's "line out" jack to a mini stereo's R/L
inputs. Works great for playing MP3s. Planning on replacing my desktop

Heya folks...
Don't mind me as I ramble - I'll get there eventually, and you might
even find it a fun ride. :)
I've got the pinouts I need, all the materials, (as salvage, no less!)

i bought the dvr-106 burner and installed it in the powermac G4.
the system crashes on boot.  if only the original zip drive, or only
the dvr-106 are installed, the system boots just fine. checked the
jumpers. the zip drive (original) is set for slave. the dvr-106 is set