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Wow, those are what? 6-7 years old? You're looking at a format and reinstall scenario if there's no hardware problem, and at this point a hardware problem is likely. You could try running a fan on the machine to see if the problem is heat related... All of my other solutions involve buying...

I have some Finder issues like that which creep up over time. My enigmatic voodoo solutions include running a permissions fix, rebooting into safe mode and then back into regular mode, running disk repair utilities, and deleting all of the .DS_Store files. I don't know which ones really...

Why does Apple have 2 lines? Because it can. Seriously. If you're selling a million of each you've already reached the benefit of mass production. If you can slightly vary your product to slightly expand your market with negligible increase in cost per unit, you do so. I think the two lines...

I like the implication that "stolen" is a format. So to complete the lunacy for mr. balls-to-the-wall-mer I've gone and renamed all of my .mp3's to .stolen and associated the .stolen extension with iTunes. Yeah, and I'm part of Dumbledore's Army. We're coming to get you! ... I'm just...

So I've made a one off build of my image just for iMac G5's and hope to throw that away and go back to a unified deployment image when 10.3.6 rolls around. This whole building an image from scratch for a new model is so ... PC. yech. I'm glad it goes away. Having images for purposes like...

I'm trying to migrate our current macintosh image to some new iMac G5's, and the build needed for the etch-a-sketch iMacs is newer than a fully updated version on any other machine. In classic Apple fashion I'm hoping that 10.3.6 will unify the image again. I'm wondering if it's worth building...

well hey, look at that, almost exactly a direct correlation to clock speed on those two.

System and 10 are generic, and so long as their use is not intentionally misleading there's no problem. Somebody had OS9 trademarked. So unless there would actually be confusion about some other operating system that shipped with macintoshes, I don't see an issue. As for panthers being...

macnewguy, your problems are not consistent with anything else I've seen from Panther. I think your problems are only tangentially related to your OS upgrade. It may be time for a wipe and reinstall for you. Can't make Chess crash, and the only problem I've had with safari and dragging images...

I will certainly bow to anyone with an actual station that can confirm or deny any of this; but even with the ability to do standalone wireless to wireless bridging, the base station would have to be a client to an existing network. I'm not sure that's going to happen without the cooperation of...

OK, well since we've decided to unearth this horse and bit him around a little, here's what I know. Apple's X-Serve does hella RAID5, and what level it does reads and writes at is immaterial to me as it does it all in hardware before my server ever sees it. Also, the uptime on the box is...

While I don't own an extreme version, I'm gonna hafta say ... no. The external antenna is not an additional transceiver, it's just an antenna, and you either plug it in and use it or you don't. Extending the network through wireless retransmission is sketchy on a good day, and I suspect that...

I reckon you can't put it toward a .mac renewal. ;-) I'm glad I got the Sims. That's a pretty crappy deal man. How long is it good for? Maybe you can hold on to it until you actually need a piece of hardware or software shipped to you? I've stopped dealing with rebates and other funny...

alright then ericl, I too hope I didn't come off too harshly, but if your skin is as thick as you say then we're probably just fine. My age, yeah, closer to 19 than 53, by about 16 years. Sun seems to generally be good about documentation, and the javadocs make me so happy sometimes I could...

I think I'd just copy stuff off assuming I could re-create the system from the new install rather than using Carbon Copy Cloner if I'm short on disk space. To make a 4 GB image with CCC, you need 8GB of free drive space on the destination volume. That's just the way it works, it makes an...

yes yes yes, expose will let you change which keys. That's good. Applications which do not afford you the same flexibility on fn keys is bad. I'm still using photoshop 5.5, so if they started hard coding f-keys after that I don't know about it, but I wasn't aware of photoshop dictating f-keys...

yeah, I'd let you refer me if I wanted to change my e-mail addresses every year. It's the opposite of an upgrade discount, you pay more to keep an address than you do to get a new one. Kind of "get addicted" type of plan. I think they should give me $50 toward my existing .mac account for...

Yeah, and that's the point. The PPC chips haven't been real movers in terms of clock speed, but they have serious ability to get work done in each clock cycle. However, the distributed.net client is about as artificial a benchmark as the one described at the beginning, unless you happen to be...

I've had some trouble getting the iLamps to forget OF password with the typical access to the internals solution. Other machines have reset as described in the documentation, but iMac was persistent. Good to know that it can be done, even if it takes a while. Keeps me from fearing that one of...

odd. MIME is totally the way to go though. If she can't read a jpeg that comes in as mime, it would seem to be her (machine's) fault. I haven't heard of roadrunner messing up stuff in an e-mail, but I suppose anything is possible. I do a ton of cross platform e-mail work, largely with...