Recent content by jer2eydevil88

While I disagree it would be ugly to have a seperate utility bar thanks for the tip of regaining the use of my Fn keys. Also having a right click button in os x would be nice for every single application I use, from copying text in Adium into Camino. Heck even spell checking in the OS requires...

I am sitting here thinking what exactly I want my powerbook to be able to do and what kind of hardware Apple should provide in its intel lineup. As you can tell by my signature I have a newer model Powerbook and while its certainly fast it is a FAR cry from my Athlon 3400+ desktop and it barely...

See thats the thing its a strange ISO because it has all the boot files in a seperate format or something and when you boot of it there are two partitions A: with the boot files and R: (ram drive) with the dos tools you copy over. So basically I can't see the A: files in OS X at all.

Tried that but if the image has no free space like this one it won't work. I need a tool that lets me add these files anyway.

I think I need to explain better. www.bootdisk.com has a cd image in ISO format it is a CD that when booted from emulates a floppy drive and starts freedos. Normally I use WinISO to copy files to this ISO image such as a PC BIOS or a basic dos utility like fdisk. I would like to be able to...

The ._ files are put there by finder and are used to hold information about the device for finder. I don't believe you can tell finder to not write these files, but you can just set permissions on the device to read only (if you don't write to it from the mac) then it won't write that...

I do pc repair from time to time and it would be incredibly nice to fill this void! I download a bootable cd image from bootdisk.com in iso format and then copy the bios or utilities onto it for work on that particular machine then burn a cd. At least this is what I used to do when I had my pc...

The best test I can think of is to try and hold down the mouse button (left button if a two button mouse) and keep holding it down while the machine boots. If the machine is actually booting then the cd drive will eject just fine, if however your drive stays shut then its a much more serious...

777 is the current permission setting...

Most likely the eject button will only work for the internal drive and the firewire drive should have a faceplate (even coming out of the tower) that you can hit to eject it. I could be entirely wrong on the matter but given that one device is connected through an IDE channel and the other is...

Sounds like a bad ram module to me since you get such abnormalities. Try replacing the RAM in it and if it boots do a clean install asap then see if reliability improves.

Mac OS X has support for wireless broadcom and radlink chipsets built in or through radlink's extra driver packages on their site. Basically my understanding is that you can add WIFI cards that are using these chipsets without installing any other drivers, now keep in mind that the regular...

If you think you have software problems now and you try a reinstall you could make everything much much worse. That being said it might also fix everything so just be sure to backup EVERYTHING you need before you go down that path.

If the warranty on the mac is still valid I would attempt to let the guys at the genius bar take a swing at the problem. Granted most genius bar employees are little more than salesman you can still find some talented college kids working there if you poke around.