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    Playing HD TV on a Mac

    Video hardware really sucks on the mac. Searching through ebay there are stacks of usb video devices but all for the PC. They could all write a driver for the mac but obviously can't be bothered. I gave up trying to find a hardware mpeg2 encoder at a reasonable price for my mac. Elgato charge...
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    [How To] Easily Increase HD Free Space on Laptop

    I ran Monolingual 1.3.4 on my G3 iBook and it reclaimed 62MB of disk space. It only reclaimed 62MB of disk space because I didn't select all those other languages when I originally installed OSX so I don't know if there's much point to it really. Just don't select all those languages when...
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    macintosh has ruined my life

    In my experience problems like these are hardware related. It could be your hard disk failing. What I usually do is put the hard disk in a PC and do a write zeros or low level format on the hard disk and see if the hard disk is usable after that and if it's not then a new hard disk is needed...
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    Editing a Bootable PC ISO Image using OSX

    If you want to edit a bootable PC ISO image or CD on OSX here is how to do it. Disk Utility can only mount ISO images as read only. It can also make an image of an ISO cd and can also burn an ISO image. Using hdiutil to edit PC bootable ISO images leaves the image non bootable. mkisofs can make...
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    Moving up...

    And if the total size of the files is not too large you could transfer them to your new computer using email attachments.
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    Moving up...

    For os9 firewire transfer to osx (panther and above) FireNet by unibrain enables firewire transfer on os9. There is a demo at http://www.adstech.com/Support/Downloads/Downloads.asp?productId=API-1394PCI&productName=PYRO%201394DV which runs for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes you can reboot and...
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    Moving up...

    If I was doing it I'd just grab a cd writer and replace the cdrom in the 6500 with the cd writer and write all the files to a cd. You can also transfer the files by ethernet and also by firewire. You would have to buy a firewire pci card for the firewire transfer.
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    MacBook Pro Heat Issue.......and Apple's Heavy Hand

    btw if you want to feel real heat on a laptop type computer you should see my ecs a928. It's a desknote which is a laptop running conventional full power (not low power) pc parts. It uses a standard 1.8ghz p4 and standard pc ddr memory. The heat it generates is unreal and you could fry an egg...
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    MacBook Pro Heat Issue.......and Apple's Heavy Hand

    I think this might be what they are saying. Seems like the cpu (gpu) heat is not getting transferred to the heat pipes properly because of the way the thermal paste is applied and the hardware heat sensors for the fans are on the heatpipes. So the hardware heatpipe sensor is detecting lower...
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    Connecting to XP from OSX Panther using FireWire.

    Make sure you know your XP user name and password (if you have not got an XP password you will have to create one). On XP goto "Control Panel" "Network Connections" select and then right click the "1394 Connection" and choose Properties. Double Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and another...
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    PCI USB and Firewire cards

    Mac pci usb and firewire compatibility depends mainly on the chipsets being used but can also depend on how the pci card is designed. Some pci cards work in later Beige G3's but not in earlier Beige G3's for example. Also some pci cards won't work in G5's. NEC usb chips and Agere firewire...
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    Dog pissed into G5. What to do.

    Sounds like it was Bill Gates' dog.
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    Apple DVD Player 1.3 anyone have it?

    I've also found out that the Apple DVD Player 1.3 is in the MacOS 9.1 update.
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    BootCamp run Windows on Mac

    How about this one. How many PC users would buy a Dell computer that can run a licensed version of OSX just because of OSX. I would suspect that it would be not many. I can't see PC users flocking to the mac because of OSX. Your either a mac user or your not. I don't think most PC users...
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    Windows on an intel mac?

    The MacBook Pro gets hot running OSX. I think the drivers you are talking about are the power management drivers which are different to a hardware sensor that controls the internal fan. Apple knows what they are doing (in most cases) when they work out what temperature the internal fan...
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