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It's not as hard as it looks actually; the CD drive, hard drive and logic board all slide out as a unit held in by just two screws. There are a few cables to disconnect but it's impossible to connect them back up the wrong way. The hardest thing is getting the whole module back in as it has...

Go for Panther instead, it's far less buggy than Jag and will run fast on a 233 G3 iMac with plenty of RAM, but i'd get a cheap hard drive, say 10-20Gb and put that in or things will be very slow as the machine runs out of VM quickly with a small disk. You still have to partition your drive...

Even so, every time I've turned on anti-aliasing for someone in XP they've agreed it was an improvement, but with some older monitors the text does look fuzzy, which makes me wonder if he's using an Apple box with an older monitor which doesn't cope with anti aliasing as well... Also, if he's...

Silk from Unsanity http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/silk allows you to toggle font smoothing on and off for individual applications, but I'm not sure whether it will completely disable it just for Safari and I'm not going to try. I really can't understand why you might want to switch it off...

I don't know about that; I couldn't guarantee that Super Duper could clone the drive if there is significant disk corruption, although it has worked for me. I haven't used Data Rescue so i've no experience of it, sorry. :(

Thanks but that doesn't really do what i need. I need the icons to snap to the grid, but I need the grid to be tighter, as it was before. I'm sure that there will be a way of adjusting this via the terminal.

I've just upgraded to 10.4.5 and finally got my mighty mouse software working (previously it had been disabled). However i am still left with the annoying problem of the changed distribution of desktop icons. They used to look like this Now they look like this Call me...

THe best cloning utility is Super Duper from shirtpocket http://www.shirtpocket.com/

Absolutely. You will still find that there are invisible files that won't copy by drag and drop even in the Home folder. Also, Applications lies outside the home folder as do many of the libraries and prefs files neded by those apps, so those PPC apps that have been optimised for Intel won't be...

You can't simply drag the data from one drive to another under OSX; certain files are owned by root and you won't have permission to move them. You can do this if you log in as root but even then it will not create a bootable drive as the system folder will need to be "blessed" If your...

Sometimes a reinstall is the only way to go. One of UNIX's strengths is also a weakness; a system will continue working normally with several critical files missing, until you need them. I had a similar problem after recovering my system from massive damage caused by the 10.4.4 update. I got...

yes, I was thinking about this today and talking to someone who knows a lot more about networking than i do. Surely it's not the browser's job to resolve the DNS? Isn't this done by the ISP's DNS? So is there some reason why your computer isn't accessing the DNS? In the network panel...

Hmm, thanks for that Dicky, it's worth knowing but i doubt that I could cope with that limitation.

What i really want is to get Dashboard to work like konfabulator and leave the widgets glued to the desktop or floating like ghost above other windows. The konspose style is just irritating. I never used it with konfabulator except for some system monitor widgets...

Have you tried "Reset Safari" from the Safari menu? Failing that you could try trashing the com.apple.Safari.plist file in home/Library/Preferences then restarting Safari. That cures most things.

Easiest way is to use Super Duper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html this supersedes most other Mac cloning software and can be used indefinitely in demo mode or you can pay a couple of dollars for it and eneable the Smart Update option which allows you to run...

I'm having the same problem. I set up windows sharing in Ubuntu and i can browse files on the G4 iMac from the Ubuntu box (it's a 233 Bondi iMac G3) but Samba won't tango with Ubuntu from the G4. I can't remember exactly what i did to enable network access from Ubuntu but i remember it...