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    MBP 15" with 17" features ... when will it happen?

    Maybe starting a petition will help ... I am waiting for Apple to upgrade the 15" MBP to the level of the 17". I am not talking about processor, I know they recently did this. What I am talking about is Firewire 800 and the dual layer superdrive. If I match up the 15" and the 17" with...
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    I need a personal knowledge base ... what application can you recommend?

    I need the help of the experts here. I want to manage all my data into a smart system that I can easily browse, do searches and look for links between the data. Thx
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    Shared files ownership and permissions ... I am not getting it.

    On my Powerbook G4 I have 2 users (my wife and me) and we share our common data in the Mac OS X Shared folder. Now when I create a file on my account and later want to share it with my wife, I copy it in the shared folder. Now when she opens it and tries to update it she gets a "read only"...
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    Where did my serial number go?

    My Mac came back from repair ... backlight of my powerbook broke down over the weekend ... and when I looked in the system profiler I noticed my serial number is blank. What is going on? Any idea?
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    Copy from external HD to external HD on Firewire 800

    I was just wondering. When you have two external harddisks connected via Firewire 800 to your Mac, and you copy from one disk to the other will the traffic pass via the Mac or will it be from disk to disk? Practical setup is Powerbook G4 + 2 x LaCie Extreme 300GB Triple interface drives. I...
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    use mount_hfs

    I would like to mount (if possible) a .cfr image using the mount_hfs function. Or do I need to use another function? How does it work? What are the options? Please note that I do not want to use the Mac OS X Disk Utility for this. Thank you in advanced for your help.
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    How to have MS Excel to work with European input formats

    Can anybody help me on this. Right now all the numbers are in US format 1,000.00 for 1000 and in Europe it should be 1.000,00 My OS settings are set to Belgium (my home country). And all other applications show the numbers correctly. What can I do? Thx Dave p.s. My oppologies...
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    Apple Address Book missing cards ...

    Today I have 1800+ contacts in my Apple Address Book. When I uploaded most of them from my PC when I finally switched back to my first love (in computers) and put them neatly in static groups. Now my problem is that when I add up all my cards that are in the different groups and I see how...
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    I am not able to see my PCs anymore

    Ok, I am getting nuts overhere. I need to use a PC with WinXP for work (hating it, but that is an other discussion) and I have been sharing files with it from the first day I received my Powerbook. I only let my PC share a folder and the Mac would connect to it. Sometimes it took a while...
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    Drifting Widgets

    Maybe a stupid bug, but everytime I open Dashboard after the Mac went to sleep or after a restart, the widgets drift on the screen. It is a small drift, but I ligned up some weather widgets from the places arround the world I need to visit for work (so I know what to pack). They never stay...
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    Filevault ... anybody happy with it?

    Currently I do not have filevault turned on, thinking of turning it on. Is there anybody outthere who is happy using it? Could you recommend me to turn it on or not? Thank you in advanced for your input. Regards, Dave
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    VPN for specific application

    I would like to setup a VPN access for on specific application ... in my case this is for Mail to connect to a corporate Exchange server. But the other applications would still use the normal internet connection ... like Safari, Adium, and stuff like that. This because for one, the VPN is...
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