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    need advice on moving Applications folder

    The system drive is always going to be considered '/'. If you cd to /Volumes in terminal and ls the directory, you'll find your system drive there as well. /Volumes is just a pointer to all mounted volumes on the system. You'll find CDs there, floppy disks, network drives, etc... as long...
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    Frustrations with OS X

    My current favorite text editor is TextWrangler by BareBones. It's free as beer and has a lot of the great features of BBedit, only it's free as beer. It also installs a command line tool (edit) that allows you to open files from the command line within it. It also works well with Services...
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    need advice on moving Applications folder

    Theoretically, you could probably move the directory and then create a virtual link to point to it, but I've heard that this breaks software update. Anybody try this?
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    Viruses On Os X

    Luce- Do you notice any odd applications running when you do a top command or list all of your processes? Also, you might try looking in the Activity Monitor. Does the redirect only happen when you try to go to google or for other websites as well? You might double check the proxy setup...
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    Mac Mail - Email Gone Missing

    Don't know if this is related or not. Just upgraded my grandma's computer from Panther to Tiger. Opened mail (before saving a backup copy of her mailboxs) and Tiger Mail converted the mailboxes to their new format and lost all the old mail. :confused: Can't believe I forgot to back up...
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    Quake 3 Mac to PC

    Probably a firewall issue, or something of that sort... I play Q3A across the net with my PC friends all the time... I should have added... What is the network setup for both locations?
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    Loss of Audio?

    Okay, I have to admit that going into it, I was a little dubious, but... IT WORKED! What the heck? Can anyone explain why? :confused: Many thanks Mikuro...
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    Loss of Audio?

    Hmmm. I'll give it a try. GarageBand is the one iLife app that I don't have installed (not much into music).
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    Fave old school Mac games

    Awe man... Completely forgot about Dark Castle and Ancient Art of War... Gotta throw in Ancient Art of War at Sea too... :D
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    Fave old school Mac games

    Ultima III Cyborg Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Marathon 1 & 2 Myth Sheesh, two of those are word games...
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    Loss of Audio?

    1.42 GHz G4 (Mac Mini) 1GB RAM MOSX.4.3 Something strange has occurred. I've suddenly lost all audio in a handful of games I play. Among the affect games: Starcraft and MarbleBlast Gold. Other games such as UT2k4 and Ultratron are unaffected. I've repaired disk permissions, but can't...
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