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    MacOSXUpdate10.1.1????

    I had a lot of kernel panic the past 6 month playing around with update after update. at first i used to do the same as you. reinstalling (not fun) then i tried various stuff, like disconnecting firewire and usb device and rebooting, and it solve the problem most of the time. (...
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    How do you optimize HD in OS X?

    Does OS X has a software to optimize the Hard Drive ( defragment) ? Are they any other third party OS X native defrag software?
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    Post your REAL desktop!

    The PC is going to another desk soon. ( only used for net meeting at this time) that is one thing that still lacking in OS X video conference support My Monitor. This is the original Apple studio display. A year ago i broke the base and apple replace it with what they had in stock (...
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    Sandisk Imagemate SDDR-05b

    Has anyone been able to get this compact flash reader to work in OS X ?
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    It's HERE: iPod

    doesn't it seem expensive $399.99 for a mp3 player... Another mac product price out of the mainsteam.. I am a total mac addict since my first Mac Plus, I upgrade almost every year... and I feel that it is expensive... Hmmm unless reprice shortly it won't do much for apple IMHO
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    login as root user, how?

    As usual the level of knowledge in this group is outstanding. Thanks for all the replies I logged in at root level in no time and was able to delete "deleted Users" that were left behind from experimenting with ftp login names Thanks Again :)
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    If this is true....

    "One of our informers has had a chance to take a few photographs of the iWalk-device that are shown below. " these are graphic prototype rendition... not even close to be photographs... The story lost a lot of credibility there... IMHO
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    login as root user, how?

    Pardon my ignorance but:rolleyes: How do you setup and login as a root user? thanks
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    very slow file transfer from OSX to win2000

    Thanks for all the reply I gave up on samba and I am using ftp as suggested I am getting 45Mbps ! transfering a 708 MB file took 2minutes and 15 sec ! Thanks again
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    very slow file transfer from OSX to win2000

    actually i just tested it anf it is about 4 times faster transfering from the PC-mac compare to mac-PC still only about 600k/swhich is about 5megabits/sec how do you set that duplex thing? thanks
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    very slow file transfer from OSX to win2000

    using smb I mounted a shared folder from my windows 2000 pro computer. I am getting extremly slow transfer. I am using a linksys 4 ports hub/router 10/100 I have a dlink 10/100 on the pc and a gigabit on my g4 the file transfer speed is apx 170k/s ( 1.7mb per 10sec interval)...
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    OS X Swap file

    I have read on various posts that setting the swap file on a different partition speed up OS X a lot. can anyone answer those questions for me 1- from a technical point of view why does it speed it up? 2- how big should the partition be? 3- I have 2 internal hard drives one with os...
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    fax and OS X

    Is there any OS X native fax software available yet?
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    Thanks Apple

    SCSI has been out of apple roadmap for a few years already. I personally got rid of all my SCSI stuff on ebay 2 years ago and went usb and firewire in anticipation of being obsolete. Apple is building a new OS from the ground up. It may be painful on your wallet but unfortunatly...
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    10.1 performance report

    I think that ram has a lot to do with the performance I have: G4 400 ( gibabits ethernet model ) 1 Gig of ram 20 Gig 7200 rpm HD ( OS 10.1) 20 Gig apple 5400 rpm (OS 9.21) and only the original AGP ATI Rage 128 pro I clean install both 10.1 and 9.21 on separate hard drive OS X...
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    need help networking OS X 10.1 and win2000

    I have never setup a network before... need help... :-) if someone could give me a step by step how to on both machine would be great. I will be using a linksys hub/router connected to cable I would like to be able to share files between the seldom used win2000 and my G4 runnning OS X...
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