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    Images being mounted out of nowhere at random times in Leopard

    I have sent the following to Apple via the bug tracking facility, please let me know if you have also experienced the following: Hello, today I logged into my admin account and mounted the dreamweaver image I have (made a image of my dreamweaver cd for easier access and faster installs) to...
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    List the problems you've run into with Leopard

    List the issues you've run into with Leopard... Mine: * diskimages-helper does not seem to release diskimages when they are unmounted in some cases, this results in the images having to be forcefully rm'd while that process still thinks it has the image open, not sure if this has any...
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    Leopard upgrade options

    I haven't done a Mac OS X update install, it sounds like Leopard will have a Upgrade option in addition to Archive and Install (not sure if the Update option has always been there as I haven't done a upgrade install before), would the Upgrade option be better then a Archive and Install or...
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    NoMachine NX type software for Mac OS X?

    Hello, I am in need of software that has the functionality NoMachine NX has but for Mac OS X, anyone know of any such software? Thanks! :)
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    Which amendments do these statements describe?

    * This amendment was created because of the shenanigans of Aaron Burr who tried to steal the presidency from Thomas Jefferson * This amendment was made largely as a result of the Civil Rights movement led by African-Americans in the 1960s * This amendment enabled the residents of...
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    MacBook AirPort wireless flaky with 10.4.10 update?

    Anyone else experiencing this? I have a black MacBook running 10.4.10, 2.16ghz core 2 duo with 2gb ram and am noticing that it'll drop a wireless connection after some time (viewing the network connection status in system prefs reveals that it has a self assigned IP address even though other non...
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    How do you access the EFI BIOS settings interface?

    How do you access the EFI BIOS settings interface?
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    Script to read file locations from text and then use rm to remove read file?

    Hello, I have a icky situation of a bunch of bad aliases on my server and need to remove them. I have been able to do a search in terminal that lists all the aliases however taking each file line and using rm to remove the alias would be tedious at best. Is there (or could someone please make?)...
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    Mac Plus beats AMD Dual Core PC

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    Trouble mounting external usb hard drive ufs formatted

    Hello, I have a bsd ufs hard drive that I want to mount in Mac OS X (10.4.9 PPC). Upon plugging it in Mac OS X tells me that it doesn't recognize the drive and asks if I want to initialize the drive, I of course click no. I investigate using the Terminal, and I've discovered that the drive is...
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    My Vintage Computing Archive

    Vintage Computing Files Archive It is my belief that archives like this one should be provided without any limitation to the end users ability to utilize the archive. These archives are getting harder and harder to find and because of that we all should do what we can to let those who want to...
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    [HOWTO] mdimportserver crashed or StuffIt Spotlight importer: Could not open the arch

    I noticed that after downloading some copies of vintage mac software archives I was getting constant errors like this in the Console log: Mar 19 17:04:36 macminis-computer crashdump[285]: mdimportserver crashed Mar 19 17:04:36 macminis-computer crashdump[285]: crash report written to...
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    Possible bug in 10.4.9 update (Intel Mac Mini 1.66ghz, 2gb ram)

    After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4.9, the Belkin 1100VA UPS which is connected via USB and usually always seen after login (causing the usual UPS power level icon in the top right to appear) is no longer seen after logging in. Instead every time you do something that requires you to login again...
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    Could DropStuff crashing unexpectedly corrupt the original file?

    Hello, I installed Stuffit Deluxe 11.0.2 but didn't restart after the install was done like the installer suggested as usually that's just a bogus message in my experience and the installed program works fine without restarting, it doesn't seem like this is the case for Stuffit Deluxe. I tried...
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    Name not available

    Hello, I've come into a odd situation that I don't know the solution to and as such I am hoping someone here will know the solution. Due to permissions being messed up on my old limited account hexstar (thanks to SharePoints ugh...) I logged into my admin account and removed the limited account...
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    How do you view the total disk space used by multiple files at once?

    Hi, I was wondering, how do you view the total disk space used by multiple files at once? As in you select some files and folders and instead of when you do Get Info and it opens a Get Info window for each item selected, it opens one Get Info window that has the total disk space used by...
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    superdrives don't burn dvd-r's, just dvd+r's?

    I noticed that my mac mini won't read dvd-r's and upon inspection...with all macs under the detailed specs in the small print it says: 8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) ...no where does it mention dvd-r, just dvd+r so does that mean that the superdrive won't burn dvd-r's at all...
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    Upgrade mac mini processor to core 2 duo possible?

    Hi, I have a Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz mac mini and I've heard that the core duo and core 2 duo are pin compatible and as such the mac mini should be capable of being upgraded to a core 2 duo processor right? If so, which of the core 2 duos would work in the mac mini? (Since I believe there are...
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    The Macintosh Is Dead

    Kind of a dark article that in some ways is true... :(
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    Why isn't Apple releasing patches for the Month of Apple Bug exploits???

    Why is it that there still has been just one patch released from Apple (that one that fixed the QuickTime exploit) to address just one of the many Month of Apple Bugs? These bugs need to be fixed and I really hope that Apple is actively working on patches for all of the exploits related to Mac...
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