Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2005

Anyone know how to take a Western digital Passport 2.5 drive case apart?
It's sure not very obvious to me, and I'm fairly clever. But the folks
at WD are more clever. An explanation or link to a take apart would be
appreciated.

Does it still work to connect a PC to a Mac using an Ethernet cable to move
files over and does anyone have a link for how to do that -- what to do on
the PC and the Mac? Also, is that a crossover cable or standard? And is
there any other cable that works? Wish that FireWire or ...

I want to build a video surveyance system.
Thinking of using some 4 or 5 Panasonic dome video cameras with built-in
TCP/IP on ethernet 10/100 mbit/s.
What hardware and software would suit that purpose on a Mac?

I've been trying to install Tiger on my G4 733 OS 10.2.8 with original
40 GB HD, (Maxtor), and have run into an issue.
for years now, Norton Disk Doctor has reported a file that it can't deal
with---

buddy gave me an old iMac 500/IN/64/20/CD/128pro/56K/FW/VGA (this is the
long number on extreme bottom of it)
can I use the ol' keyboard and/or mouse from my old powertower pro 225
mac clone? it sure doesn't LOOK like the ports are the same. are the

<this thread 'relocated slightly', sorry>

I've seen some iPod posts on this group and recently resolved my
version of a fairly popular IPod Shuffle issue pertaining to Windows
XP.
I've posted my resolution on the iPod shuffle Forum.  The click through

Bug Report against iTunes 4.9
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Title: iPod Shuffle fails to play in "shuffle" mode when synced with
iTunes 4.9.

Bug Report against iTunes 4.9
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Title: iPod Shuffle fails to autofill from playlist on iTunes 4.9.
Reproduction:

hi, i was curious, if the g5 internal 56k modems would accept dial in
connections and allow me to access the internet and of course the
computer itself.  i heard it allows me to access the computer, but can
i access the entire network?

buddy and I trying to figure out how to open the side cover upper latch
on his recently-aquired G4 tower case...seems like it "might have
something to do with" the upper -rear- 'sliding latch' with the hole in
its center, the one at the top rear of the case, but all efforts (and

I have a movie. I cut the sound using extract audio. now, trying to
edit the movie the sound is cut and doesn't stick to the video.
How to fix the sound back to the movie?
Richard

This isn't exactly about hardware, but there isn't a video Mac software
news groups. So I'll risk ticking everyone off to perhaps maybe getting
some ideas on how to do something. I have some dance recital clips
ripped from a very non-professional recording job. In between dances

Please forgive my ignorance as I am a little new to the MP3 player
scene.
I am interested in the iPod shuffle, but before buying one I would
like to know if it can only be used for purchased songs downloaded

i have an eMac with 40gb hard drive (hard drive built in the
monitor). i just picked up a 120gb external hard drive to plug in
the usb ports to add extra hard drive space.
the external hard drive can be formatted for either a pc or a mac.