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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 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

    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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    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

    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

    Let me know if this setup will work or is the most optimal. Here is what I am proposing to create for my home. I have a G3 B&W 450, I will install tiger server on it. Cable internet. Cat5e wired to all rooms with computers. A wireless access point for use when i go mobile throughout the...
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    Changing directories with a space in the terminal

    I can't seem to be able to change directories, namely in the /volumes directory. I want to access my external hard drive named LACIE DISK and it must not accept the space in between. Any help would be appriciated!
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    Terminal to login to a switch

    I use tera term on windows to login to our switches (3com and cisco) and i was wondering if i could use osx terminal to login to the switches? and what sytax to use to connect.
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    External Display iBook G4

    I have the VGA dongle to hook up to an external display, I was wondering if I can get a higher resolution than 1024x768 on the external display. It has only 32MB of video ram but if I remember correctly display resoltion only depends on the amount of vram you have and 32 is more than enough to...
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    Front Row Videos

    I have Front Row on my mac and I previously would download music videos off of limewire. I imported the videos into itunes and they work fine within itunes. Whenever I start up front row, i go into videos and the music videos show up in the movies category rather than the music video category...
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    Tiger Install Woes

    I have a G3 450Mhz 512MB Ram. I upgraded to tiger from 10.3.9 a couple of months ago. Tiger installed perfectly. I was using a Western Digital 20gig drive that I had previously on a windows machine. I pulled my 40gig Western Digital from another windows box and wanted to do a clean install of...
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    better video card benefits

    I have a 450Mhz G3 B&W with the stock 16MB pci video card. Would an upgraded (32 or 64MB) card speed up rendering within Tiger? Specifically the genie effect when minimizing windows(right now its ok, but looks choppy)? Also when using expose, while it is fast, it is choppy. Also my current card...
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    iPhoto slideshows

    I am currently running iPhoto 5.02, whenever I play a slideshow fullscreen, it changes my resolution on my monitor (17" crt) from 1024x768 to 800x600. It looks so crappy! I don't remember it doing it before. Is there some way that I could set the resolution to display them in? Or has anyone had...
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    using mac as bluetooth headset

    I am looking for software or a how to for getting my 10.4 machine to be used as a bluetooth headset for my cell phone. I successfully used it on my windows machine with the supplied software. I would like to do this also with my mac. Thanks a lot!
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