Recent content by JamesB

I turned on file vault but was able to read the home drive contents when I booted up in OS9... Any ideas why this was possible?

If you like linux you could install Yellow Dog on it... gives life to older macs apparently...! www.yellowdoglinux.com

Do you mean not recognised to export video? I can import from my Sony, but not export... didn't get to the bottom of that problem so I'd be interested to know the answer!! Sorry there's no help here!

Thanks for the info! I like the look of the one you posted last... I think the 3650 is a bit too big for me though... I just wondered if there was a USB type cable I could use to connect with iSync... Thanks, James.

Hi, Do you know if it's possible to sync a non-bluetooth Nokia with a PowerBook? I'm thinking of getting the 7250, but it doesn't have bluetooth... Any ideas? Thanks, James.

Hi, Do you know if it's possible to sync a non-bluetooth Nokia with a PowerBook? I'm thinking of getting the 7250, but it doesn't have bluetooth... Any ideas? Thanks, James.

I backed up all of my mp3 files to my iPod a while ago so that I could perform a clean install, but now iTunes doesn't seem to let me copy the files back into my Library. Any ideas??! Thanks.

Does anyone know of a cheap solution (hardware / software) I can use to copy a couple of VHS tapes I have to my hard drive? I'm using a PowerBook G3 (firewire). Presumably just a cheap video in device and some software? Any ideas? Thanks.

Excellent! Thanks for taking the time to test this!! BTW, how secure is AES?? Vague question, I know, but relative to say PGP?

Yeah, I've heard of this way before, but apparently only the password is encrypted.... :-(

Does / will OSX support an encrypted file system (similar to NTFS I assume)? I really need to be able to have data security, so that if a laptop is stolen, data is unrecoverable. Anyone know? Thanks.

I had exactly the same problem and tried your suggestion, but it didn't seem to work... What _did_ work however was to set the preamble length to 'long'.... seems as though Airport doesn't support short preambles! Hope this helps! James.

Actually, I've just tried to do passwd root and get the message 'permission denied'. I'm trying this from my admin account.... any ideas? Thanks!

Thanks for the 'root' info!! As for the /Users problem, I don't think I'm that confident to go messing around trying to find the solution myself, but thanks for your help anyway! Hopefully someone will be able to say exactly how to do it! Thanks again! J.

:confused: Hello! I'm struggling with what I believe will turn out to be a really simple problem.... How do I move my users home directory structure to a different partition? ....and also, (while I'm here!), what is the equivalent user to 'root'? I'm asking this because I have an...