Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2007

I have an Airport Extreme Base Station, which I use with my Windows XP PC.
I noticed yesterday that there was an update to the Airport firmware,
(from version 7 to version 7.1.1 I think), and I downloaded & installed
it. I also had to upgrade my Airport Utility to version 5.1.

It looks like none of my FireWire had drives support S.M.A.R.T.  Is this
normal? Some of my drives are 4 years old but some are pretty new.  My 2+
year old internal drives do support it.
How can I buy S.M.A.R.T. drives? The drive description don't seem to

I bought this processor for use in my old Sawtooth back in 2005. the
motherboard in this old Sawtooth has now passed on the the eternal Mac
fileds... Therefore I need to be able to mount the processor in a
QuickSilver Dual 1ghz, where the processor has burned off...

Desperate for help with choosing webcam
I have a friend I wish to purchase a webcam for I have no idea what this
pc can handle as I am not familiar with macs myself :( Sorry.
TIA for any help or advice you may have.

I am unable to open an Epson driver file. It downloads as a .sea.hqz
which when opened gives a .sea file. Trying to open this gives an error
message from Script Editor Dictionary saying that the file is
unscriptable. Would someone pleased try downloading the C84 driver for

FYI...
I use my PowerBook as a DeskTop machine, I am running OS X now from an
external FireWire drive and with an external monitor, and I am very happy
with it. The PB is much cooler and the speed is just fine. I also use this

Does anyone know if there is such a driver for Mac Os 8.6 to 9.2.2? I
have several of these PcI ne2000 compatible beasties that I would like
to find drivers for. Mainly so I can use my powermac g3 with 10base2
thin net coax based lans.

This is very odd. My iPod (a 4th generation iPod Photo - 60GB) works
well, except there is ONE SONG that it refuses to play ("Rockit" by
Herbie Hancock). Whenever I try to play that song, it skips ahead to the
next one. Why would it do this? The song plays perfectly well within

My airport extreme in pb g4 a 1,67 has insufficient sensibility.
There are a recent firmware?

Having the iPod 5 G. connected to the original Volvo carstereo HU 850 via
the a interface provided by Volvo I'm experiencing problems after a restart
(i mean starting the car and turn it off and restart the car).
The iPod simply doesn't start again. I've te reconnect the iPod. It ...

Maybe someone here can give me a clue here.
I have just migrated from MS to Mac, and until now I'm very happy :-)
(So: Sorry for asking stupid.)
I have created two accounts that both needs password when they logon.

There are a lot of rumors floating around claiming that apple is working on an
ultra-portable laptop which will lack an optical drive. If apple does sell such
a product, will it be less expensive than standard Macbooks due to the lack of
an optical drive, or will it be more ...

I'd like to use a hardware terminal to access my mac.
I suppose that i would need some kind of usb to serial port adapter,
some comm software, and a hardware terminal (e.g., a vt100).
Has anybody here done this?

I'm considering making my own harddrive enclosure as I want something
very quiet, compact and that looks good, so I've been thinking about
using a 19" rack enclosure such as this:
http://img-europe.electrocomponents.com/largeimages/R224256-01.jpg

I'd like to know whether a monitor with a native resolution of 1440x900
will look odd with a 16:9 ratio.
I ask as I'm looking to buy a cheap monitor, and lots of them have this
combination. My Macbook Pro's resolution is 1440x900, but with a 16:10