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Good morning, I bought a new MBP, and it came with Lion pre-installed. There are a fair number of things about Lion that annoy me, and I would like to install 10.6 instead. Before I attempt to do so however, I was wondering if it was possible with whichever latest firmware came on my MBP...

I know the hard drives are swappable between computers (providing it has the same interface). My question though relates to formatted OS drives however. I have two Mac Pro's (MacPro1,1 and MacPro3,1). Can I swap the drives between them without losing software or reformatting? The reason...

Here's an odd one.. I have a Mac Pro (2x dual core) with 4x512MB and 4x1024MB FB-Dimms (6 gigs ram total). Mac OS X recognizes it as 6 gigs, Windows (under boot camp) only says I have 2 gigs both under XP and Vista. The memory is installed correctly (as in 2x512MB in slot 1 & 2 and 2x1024MB in...

Hey everyone, I was going through some of my music library today and noted some of the songs I ripped off my Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms CD were way quiet. I discovered that soundcheck was turned on and is screwing around with the playback volumes. I've turned soundcheck off, but it's...

Ever since I installed Tiger I've been having oddities with the "Open With" contextual menu option.. specifically, some of the programs that show up are listed twice! When I upgraded to Tiger, I installed it to a new partition. Once installed, I copied over my primary apps from the...

Just upgraded to Tiger, and ran into a problem I never had in any previous version of Mac OS X. I installed Tiger onto another drive, and now wanted to transfer the drive's custom icon from one drive to the new Tiger drive. I do a get info on both drives, copy the icon from the old drive but...

So I was playing around the VPN functionality in 10.3, and now there's an icon in the menubar (looks like a sideways battery with a bar graph) that when clicked lists your VPN connections available. I've deleted all the VPN configurations, but the icon is still there. I've tried deleting the...

Has anyone figured out how to get identd working in Panther? It appears that Apple saw fit not to include it, and certain IRC servers won't allow you to log into them without having your identd active. Anyone know why Apple left it out? Seems rather odd to me.

I noticed that one can no longer change things like the default eMail client, web browser or download path from the Network control panel. Has anyone figured out where Apple has moved/hidden these features now? Thanks.

Greetings. I was looking for a good newsreader for OS X, and all the (dozen or so) GUI ones totally suck (i'm used to Forte' Agent on the PC). :D Anyway, I thought I'd try an old tried and true standby, namely TIN. Compiling went fine (after a few test runs to get the right configure...

I encoded about a dozen music CD's at the office, and brought them home to load up onto my computer. I used a reg'd verison of MusicMatch Plus 7.2 on my Windoze box, using high quality VBR mode. After loading them into iTunes 3, it reports the bitrates as being 30-100 kbps, and the track...

Is there any way to kill this 'feature'? It drives me crazy when I reboot, and iTunes insists on launching when the iPod is connected.

Yes - It's trivial.. but I wonder why they took it down with a couple days left to go. My Apple Store order still says 'being assembled'.

Just noticed that Apple has a countdown timer for the release on their website. http://www.apple.com/macosx

Found an interesting article on The Register this morning. Apparently a company is making Apple's new iPod compatable with Windows. Read more here.

Ok.. I'm fed up with IE 5.1 beta being so pigishly slow (at loading pages).. OmniWeb has the beauty, but doesn't work for alot of sites.. like eBay! So I decided to check out Netscape X 6.2 after hearing rave comments about it.. I just can't get this sucker to work. I installed it, ran the...

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-7296687.html?tag=mn_hd I still find it odd that the news has been availabe on Cnet and Slashdot for most of the morning, but no mention on any of the 'regular' Mac sites, like MacCentral..

Have any of the unix hackers been successful in munging the configure script for Midnight Commander to work? I know it requires glib, and that's not a problem.. but the configure script also coughs up another error: % ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type...