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You might also want to look at the Apache error.log (or error_log, I can't remember) file. It may give some hint as to whether it's a problem in your PHP setup or in your PHP coding.

It sounds like OSX is not recognizing the disc as being a blank recordable disk. What type of disc are you using (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, etc)? Also what type of drive are you using it in (a 3rd party recorder or an official Apple ComboDrive or SuperDrive)?

It would help to know what version of Toast you are using and what OSX version you use. What codec to those AVI files use? Do they play okay in Quicktime or VLC? Also, have you tried using a different brand of DVD-R disc to see if that helps with the errors?

On a side note, PC users who have gotten used to 2 and 3 button mice can rest assured that 2 and 3 button mice will also work in MacOS X. The Control-click mentioned is just another way of saying "right click" (or to put that another way, the right click under MacOS is a shortcut for...

Ha! Love the NES-PC. I haven't laughed so hard in weeks. I'd buy something like that.

The idea that a 0.9% increase compared to a 1.4% increase the previous month is a "stall" is the same mentality that says earning $26million in profit one year versus $27million in profit the year before is a loss... it's a common business foolishness that tries to pretend that making less...

First and foremost, be sure you've dragged your videos to the timeline (at the bottom) in iMovie. If they're just sitting in the library (right-hand side) they're not really being used -- they're just available to be used. You need to arrange them the way you want them in the timeline as if...

The saddest part of that is that in the late 80's and early 90's, MS and IBM co-developed a PC operating system that was able to install to and boot from any drive letter (yeah, they still used drive letters, but you were not restricted to C:) and MS still hasn't brought that power to its own...

The whole idea of the iMac line was simplicity, not upgradability. GF FX5200 may be crummy by modern standards, but it's good enough for Average Joe's all-in-one system that will probably never be upgraded anyway. Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition cards have come down in price recently. For most...

But who wants a pidly small 23" display to watch HDTV in their living room? That's what 36" and 52" TVs are made for. 23" is smaller than my (non-HD) TV. Best to get a PowerMac and 30" LCD or just hook up to a real HDTV as your display in a living-room-Mac.

Well just for the sake of fairness, Apple didn't exactly invent the design for the G5 iMac. Years ago there was a PC called the Monorail -- system components housed behind an LCD screen, slot loading CD-ROM (or CD-RW maybe). Apple seems to have its fair share of original designs but it does...

And if the Mac is older/does not support large drives over 127GB, there's always the option of getting a new UDMA (aka. ATA, IDE) card (assuming of course you're not using an iMac or eMac whcih have no PCI slots). The newer cards will support large drives as long as your OS version supports them.

Don't most people normally make their slideshow in iPhoto and export it (Share) to iDVD? I don't know; I've never used iPhoto but do enjoy iMovie and iDVD. Just seems that iPhoto is more suited to the task of a photo slideshow than iMovie is.

The big question (big in terms of time spent waiting for iDVD to do its thing) is: Does iDVD 5 make any use of CoreVideo-level GPUs to speed up the encoding of menus and such? With just a handful of chapter menus, iDVD 4 on a dual 1.25GHz G4 can take 20 or 30 minutes just doing that one...

Hear hear! I've never seen software install and uninstall so easily! I mean c'mon, installing an app in OSX involved nothing more than dragging one file into your Applications folder! It doesn't get any easier! Uninstalling those kinds of programs is also as simple as dragging that one file...