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I have Snow Leopard (currently 10.6.1) running on my macbook and I have Tiger 10.4.11 running on a mac mini with a firewire drive attached mounted as DATA. On the mini, I set the permissions for read/write access and have personal file sharing turned on. When I use finder on Snow Leopard I...

When reading message headers, in mail, you can easily press delete, then the next message will be hilighted. I just noticed that mail, on my machine, if you hilight a message then click on junk, the next message is not hilighted. Thus, you have to hilight a message, click junk, hilight a...

I created a .tcshrc file in my ~/user folder that creates an alias like so : alias fantom='cd /volumes/fantom/ ; clear; echo Current Directory $PWD ; echo ; echo ; bash backup.sh' (The above simply changes to my firewire drive and then uses bash to run backup.sh to zip up my data files.)...

Hi, I've been diggin around with this for a while to no avail, so I figure someone on the forums might have found a solution or have some recommendations. First, I'm considering purchasing a new sound system for my mac. ---- What I want to be able to do play all the music/sound from...

I burned some files on an XP machine to a DVD. When I open the DVD, in finder, on my MAC running OS/X 10.3.9 with all updates, when I click on some of the files they disappear. (this happens when file names are too long -- but, from what I gather OS/X supposed to support 255 character names just...

Hi, I have a DW6000 internet connection and trying to A/V in iChat. To no avail, after scouring the web, I still can't seem to get it to connect to other users. Running DW600 on Mac OS/X 10.3.9 with all service packs up to date. If anyone could help I would really appreciate it! Thank...

Hi, just going through Apples tutorial to build the Currency converter. I have a question about the code in the tutorial. When adding the code to the implementation of the convert: method the sample is as follows : here is the link ...

Hi, --- :eek: I've come from about 18 years or so off the pc. I've done assembly, c/c++, pascal, basic, turbo basic, and even old cobol. Over the past 6 years I've focused on web development using Perl and that last 5 years PHP with heavy OOP (I run a web dev business). Ok, history...

Hi, I just can't find a straight answer anywhere. I'm looking at possibly purchasing a logitech zoom silver that supports OS/X. Logitech mentions you can add video, but doesn't clearly state video with audio (full A/V conferencing). Simple question, will the logitech zoom silver allow...

Just a tip for those of you doing a clean install. Consider making sure (this time around) all of your data is stored in a single folder and that your apps like mail, etc, store their data in that folder. Next time you need to do a clean install, all you have to do is drag and burn that single...

Hi, I run a web development business and it is critical that I have a stable system. I've held off on Tiger, like any software or OS there are going to be some initial issues. I was wondering if anyone has had compatibility issues with : Macromedia Studo MX 2004 / Dreamweaver, Flash...

Maybe someone can help me out here. I'm running OS/x 10.3.9 and have a direcway 6000 installed. Fetching http requests are super fast. However, if I ftp into servers (even hosted with different companies) the connection is slow, I mean slower than dialup. I'm using RBrowser as an ftp...

Hi, Got a simple php script as such in a file called TEST.PHP : <?php echo "test"; ?> When running PHP at the command line like : php < test.php I get this error message : PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './php_gd2.dll' - (null) in Unknown on line 0...

The other day I unzipped a folder with lots of fonts. I used the font manager in OS/X to install the fonts from the directory, however, I did not have "copy fonts to fonts folder" set. Later, I deleted the folder where I originally unzipped the fonts. When I open up any app, the fonts are...

Hi, 18 years and moved to Mac and OS/Kik-Arse Simple question...coming from a PC / XP background. In OS/X im looking for a way where as when I use an application all I want is that particular application and it's child windows in focus. Example : If I'm working in dreamweaver, the...