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  1. Lt Major Burns

    Wanted: Original AirPort card (old style)

    I have an AirPort-less iBook G3, that i'd really like to get online, free of wires and dongles at last. I was wondering if anyone happened to have one knocking around in an old imac or something that they'd be willing to part with? it tuns out that they're quite difficult to come by these...
  2. Lt Major Burns

    Underclocking a Dual G5

    Hello all, not posted on here in a while, but i know someone will be able to help here! I have a late 2004 dual G5, which was once the powerhorse that served me very well, but now sits in the bedroom at home serving music and occasional internetting. i like to listen to music in bed quite...
  3. Lt Major Burns

    Changing the Home Folder Directory, 10.5

    With Netinfo Manager having been removed from 10.5, what's the terminal command to change my home folder to a folder on a separate volume? cheers people!
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    iBook G3, new Aiport b card, not recognising?

    I've just bought myself a brand-new (sealed/never used) old Airport card for my iBook G3, i put it in, makde sure it was snug, attached the antenna, and booted the iBook up again. It doesn't though appear in Sys Prefs, and not under the Airport section in System Profiler.. what am i doing wrong?
  5. Lt Major Burns

    10.5: clean, archive or upgrade?

    i'd rather just upgrade to 10.5. but i know that clean is the best way to do these things.... is the upgrade improved in Leopold?
  6. Lt Major Burns

    new product line revealed (?) in the new online store?

    clicking on the apple tv link clearly reveals a space... for something... take a look:
  7. Lt Major Burns

    my new workspace.

    my new workspace.
  8. Lt Major Burns

    replacement for Airport aerial for powermac G5?

    i've lost my Airport aerial. how much for a new'n, and can i pick one up at an apple store? couldn't find one on the online store... need it for internet!
  9. Lt Major Burns

    WWDC 2007. thoughts? guesses?

    What do we reckon could happen at WWDC, besides Leopard? any surprises? what could happen with the secret 'hidden' features of the next stage in our OS? new computers? new product lines? will they release anything groundbreaking? any speed-bumps? new equipment? will steve do the whole...
  10. Lt Major Burns

    vista ramblings.

    Right, i know that's it's just graphical bloat etc etc, but i can't help thinking that Vistas new GUI makes OS X finally look dated after all these years. I'm not on about underlying funcionality, or usability, or security or anything like that, it's purely aesthetic. We, as mac users, are now...
  11. Lt Major Burns

    Free Wireless Broadband from Google

    http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&oi=promos&cad=hppweb%3Aen_extra&ct=pro&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ftisp%2F&ei=f44PRqKHH5KiiALswejzBQ&usg=__KU5Zb_KCw6dryKLhNwdvu-CLTs0= looks good, if a little unorthodox ;)
  12. Lt Major Burns

    iTunes: Crossfade with shuffle only?

    is there an applet or a script or something that will turn on the crossfader when shuffle is turned on? crossfader's horrid when it's not (who wants Dark Side of the Moon with 12 seconds of crossfade on each track?), but really nice when it's shuffling... i never use crossfader becuase i...
  13. Lt Major Burns

    amazing screen saver for Tiger.

    http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/en/index_en.html apple needs to buy this company and have this as the default screensaver for Leopard. Core Animation would make light work of this. runs a bit slowly across two screens on my dual 1.8 g5
  14. Lt Major Burns

    Apple Unveils Product-Unveiling Product

    http://www.theonion.com/content/news/apple_unveils_new_product
  15. Lt Major Burns

    Dock crashing. very bad.

    for possibly the fifth time in the last 10 days or so, i've come back to my power mac to find the dock and all it's processes completely unresponsive (this includes, of course, Command+Tab, Exposé and Dashboard) and so the system is pretty screwed. more worryingly is that a force quit from...
  16. Lt Major Burns

    character hierarchy

    in os x, what are the highest and lowest characters? like, for example, exclamation marks are higher than full stops, which are higher than apostraphes, which are higher than quotations, and numbers come befo0re alphabet characters, then spaces are below z. does anybodsy have information as to...
  17. Lt Major Burns

    advanced ID3 tagging?

    i have about a thousand tracks in my itunes which aren't part of any larger album, but still have album tags. as they're not part of a full album, it's starting to get messy, so i'd like to rename the album to something like 'other'. however, i'd still like to keep the information that's...
  18. Lt Major Burns

    technology moves a step further: 32GB Flash drives announced

    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070104-8555.html 32gb is easily enough for a notebook, and it's the size of an ipod drive, and it's silent. and fast. and $600. and i know fryke wants this in a macbook.
  19. Lt Major Burns

    thought i'd add mine...

    and here we go.
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