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Hi, I would like to connect a DVD burner to a G3 Mac and I was wondering if I can get an external firewire case and put a drive in it. This is a way cheaper option than buying an external drive "prebuilt". I would also like to be able to burn with the software built into OSX. Which drives can...

Just wondering if it is fine to install a system on an external hard drive and then once the set up is complete, swap that drive into my iBook. Will that work? Tobes

Hey all, Im about to embark on a semester of exchage in Canada, which needless to say is a long way from where I live (Sydney). I have an iBook with a combo drive running 10.3.4 and access to a new powerbook with a superdrive. I would like to make a complete back up of my computer onto DVD...

Hey all, Fire has an annoying habbit of not responding occasionally. Ill be typing a message and it doesn't update the display for up a to a couple of minutes sometimes. While its doing that I cant do anything else in Fire at all. So are there any solutions to this or alternatively...

Im running rather low on space on my comp at the moment and I have the developer stuff on but Im not using, I cant delete it by just dragging it into trash. So should I hack it out with terminal or is there a more elegant way. tobes

Nope nothing of the sort. Just running LyX and viewing docs in gv or xdvi tobes

I found a work around: I just have to do sudo xauth merge ~username/.Xauthority and it works again. Maybe not the best but Ill be trashing my whole system ina week or so to do a fresh install of panther. tobes

Bugger forgot to update the post here about that. I am running 10.2.8 with x11 beta 3. I will upgrade to panther etc AT (That is after I hand in my thesis) tobes

Hey guys, My thesis is due in less than 30 hours (eep so much to do). Anyway I keep getting errors when trying to use x11. I can use it fine for a while when I first open it but after say spawning and quitting a few applications (such as viewing my thesis in gv) I get this error message...

Last saturday I plugged my adapter in and it shorted or something, it got quite hot, the lights didnt come on, I quickly unplugged it and smelt that bad burny electrical smell. Left it for a while tried to get it to work again etc. So I went to apple centre and they have ordered me a new...

Ahh that sounds like a kernal panic to me. Tis the equivelient of a BSOD. It means that one of the core routines in the OS went haywire. tobes

I have just networked my dads place and he wants to be able to share files between a win98 pc and a os9 machine. Is Dave the only option. Also he would like to be able to print fomr the win98 machine to a printer connected to the mac is this possible. tobes

Hey all, Wasn't sure where to put this post so here it is. Ive just put a 120Gb HD into an external firewire/usb case. Now I want to be able to move the data between PCs running winXP and macs running osX what format would you guys recommend for the drive? ie FAT32 etc tobes

It only has one account on it, my ISP one. There is no .mac account or anythign else. tobes

Whenever I try to send mail in the mail up it starts sending then gets to some random %'age sits there for a few minutes and then gives up. I tried all the different settings and everything. Then I installed Eudora and it sent fine. Whats going on here guys I would prefer to stick with Mail...

I had this problem as well just booted to single user mode (hold down CMD+S when booting) and deleted the file from there worked a treat. tobes

I had this problem as well just booted to single user mode (hold down CMD+S when booting) and deleted the file from there worked a treat. tobes

Well I found that preview really struggles to print a decent sized pdf docu properly. Although maybe thats just on my set up at uni, printing to a windows printer via samba.

Well as it turned out the HD is about to cark it. I noticed lotsa ticking coming from the HD and when I asked mum about she said it ahd been doing it for a while. Ie the hd is about tocark it. Getting a new one put in and also taking the chance to put more memoery in and be rid the house of...