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    How do I completely format my drive?

    Eject the CD by holding down the mouse button when you first startup the Mac. Be patient; it will eject the CD before it begins the booting process. Do you know "fsck -fy"? If so, do it. If not, boot from the OSX installer CD, select "Disk Utility" from the Installer menu, and "fix disk"...
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    iDVD Sound glitch

    At one time there was a problem using mp3's for the audio in iMovie. The resolution was converting the mp3 back to AIFF and using -that- file for the audio track. However, your description of the problem makes it pretty clear that the problem is in the burning and not the encoding. First off...
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    HP3700n & slow printing

    A client called me in to troubleshoot a problem with a new HP3700n color laserjet. Printing was so slow (from both OSX and OS9.1 Macs) over the network (10/100BT) that most jobs were canceled before they printed. Connecting directly to the printer via USB yielded good results with no delays...
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    ftp in OS X (do newer version decode and encode)?

    He probably means "will it bring over the resource fork?". If you use, for example, CrushFTP for the FTP server and CaptainFTP for the client, sending or receiving a Mac application will result in a broken app that is missing its resource fork.
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    Tiger blinded by Windows

    Here's the text of a posting I made at macosxhints.com. This is how I resolved the issue in Panther. On the PC, I had shared the entire drive (C:). It had been given a "share name" of "80GB (C:)" automatically by XP. I turned off sharing on that drive, turned it back on (which permitted me to...
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