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    IDE to SATA adapter for external drive

    Yeah, I figured I may have to do that, but I like the lacie enclosure so much!
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    IDE to SATA adapter for external drive

    Hello all, I have a lacie d2 firewire drive (120GB) that I want to upgrade to a 1TB HD, I know that the internal connection on the drive is IDE, however I have not seen drives of 1TB that have IDE connections on them. I have seen these IDE to SATA adapters and I am wondering if it will work for...
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    Reinstall Firmware update MacBook Pro

    I think I have tried everything. I reinstalled the OS (formatted), ran apple hardware test on extended about 6 times (found nothing). Ran Tech Tool Pro and it passed all tests. I also put different RAM in and also tested mine in a windows pc and ran Memtest86+ on it, it passed. I believe that it...
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    Reinstall Firmware update MacBook Pro

    I have a late 2006 macbook pro (2.0Ghz CD) and I believe I am having problems with the video card, the computer freezes randomly, however I am able to move the mouse. I am also getting little lines of different colored pixels randomly, they show up on a screen cap so I know its not the screen...
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    Color lines/bars on screen

    My warranty has expired as of February 2008. I have since installed 10.4 tiger on an external hard drive and am experimenting with it. I have been running it for about a week with no incidents. Are you running 10.5 Leopard or 10.4 tiger? Alexandruv, can you provide a model number or serial...
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    Color lines/bars on screen

    Update: The problem came back a few days running with the programs off startup and widgets gone. I ended up upgrading my hard drive and did a complete reinstall of 10.5 and upgraded. As soon as the desktop loaded after installation, the problem arose again. Now I am thinking it is a hardware...
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    Color lines/bars on screen

    OK, disabling startup items had no effect. Disabled all widgets and it seemed to fix the problem! I ran it for a couple of days and I never saw any colored lines! Now I just have to try and figure out which widget was causing it.
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    Color lines/bars on screen

    OK, tried both options, and it still came back. Here are some more screenshots of this problem. http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mrcarson/screen2.tiff http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mrcarson/screen3.tiff http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mrcarson/screen4.tiff The next thing I am trying is to close...
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    Color lines/bars on screen

    Here is a screen cap. http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mrcarson/screen.tiff
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    Color lines/bars on screen

    I have a macbook pro (2.0 CD) running 10.5.3 my problem is that a few times a day, a bar or line appears on my screen with random color pixels. They go away after a few minutes or if they appear on the desktop, a simple killall Finder command clears them away. Sometimes they appear on apps...
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    DVD verification fails after every burn

    Has anyone been experiencing this?? I have a 2Ghz macbook pro and I get verification fails after every burn I do. I tried using Toast, some other free burning utility and disk utility. Fails on each program. I even tried other brands of dvd's. They only thing that worked was to slow down the...
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    OS 10.5 - Bluetooth problems in leopard

    heh, i had the same problem and now i figured out the reason, just go to your sharing preferences in system preferences and turn on bluetooth sharing and select your options there.
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    Leopard: Bugs/Compatibility Reports

    bluetooth file transfer from my nokia 6682 to my macbook pro, worked in tiger now it just says "sending failed" on my phone. Transfer from my computer to the phone works fine. Any ideas? or is anyone having the same problem?
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    Make files in a folder require password to view them

    I'm not sure about in a folder, but you can open up disk utility and go to file>new>blank disk image. From there you can specify how large you want the disk image to be, then select which encryption you want on it and then select a password. You can mount this image and it will act like a...
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    FTP to update a flash drive

    does it support ftp access?
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    FTP to update a flash drive

    I am in need of a way to logon to a computer via ftp and grab a whole directory and download it to a specific location but to only replace any updated items in the target directory here is the deal we have a computer at my campus that stores all of the tools we need to fix computers on a...
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    Macbook Pro expresscard wifi

    I need to know if a company makes an expresscard 802.11 b/g card that has an external antenna port that will work with the macbook pro. I need to connect to a network that is out of range of my internal wireless. I have an old orinoco pc card that I used with my old powerbook but as the...
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    compatible ibook memory

    nevermind i tried it and it worked great!
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    compatible ibook memory

    I see that my ibook G4 1.42ghz has 512mb pc2700 built in. My friend has a 512 stick of pc3200 that he wants to sell. Will it work in my computer but at a reduced speed? thanks for any input!
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    My proposed home setup

    hey thanks for the suggestions. By the way I wanted gigabit so that all of the client ethernet computers would be able to access data on the g3 at that speed. I know that I will have to have a gigabit switch and gigabit cards in each client. I am just used to having an external hard drive and...
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