Mac Systems

OSX disadvantages
It appears that you people were right and I was wrong. I will need to add 1GB more of RAM to my ibook. 512MB is just not enough. I like OSX but hate how much diskspace and RAM it eats up. I also dislike how I cannot boot from a zip disk,or boot with the os from a CD-ROM. On the old Mac OS I could also boot ... 19 Sep 2005 16:37

iPod nano/shuffle capability?
What happens if I have more songs in my iTunes library than the iPod nano has room for? Can I create a shuffle playlist like I've read the iPod shuffle does? Or would the nano just load songs alphabetically until its full? Or would it randomize on its own? These things look damn cool and I want to buy one but ... 15 Sep 2005 16:00

20" 2 GHz iMac keeps shutting down
I'm running 10.4.2. A few days ago my Mac started to shut off abruptly from time to time with no warning. The screen goes black quite without any warning and there's response from the keyboard. It will restart from the power on switch in the back, but twice it's gone deal almost immediately, once before I was e... 11 Sep 2005 09:51

sit files - what to use to decompress for free?
Surely this has been asked many times before, but a friend who has just moved to Mac (latest Mac Powerbook) needed help setting up. However, on trying to install a Cannon N1240u and downloading the driver I found it is a sit file? I worked out this is a compression standard like zip files, however I cannot ... 3 Oct 2005 19:51

Administrator password unavailable
My nine-year-old son tricked his mother into entering the administrator password and proceeded to change the administrator account to his account. He has been banned from using the computer. Short of beating it out of him (which is certainly appealing), how do I recover an administrator password? I have tri... 30 Aug 2005 17:46

Reboot help
In anticipation of upgrade to Tiger I purchased an external HD. I cloned my entire HD to the new using "Carbon Copy Clone" I got it to work and now on the ex HD i have a file called: "Macintosh HD.sparseimage" Inside of which is that white icon which when opened displays just what is on in internal HD. But, ho... 15 Jun 2005 11:45

Who is stealing my wi-fi?
I have a NetGear wireless router hooked up to my iMac and broadband cable modem. I never configured any software for this setup, literally I plugged it in and it worked. I noodled around with Airport setup and the various utilities in the Applications folder but none would let me setup this wi-fi signal with a pass... 5 Mar 2005 20:03

Bought a new G5 - Now iTunes says I'm not authorized to play songs I bought
Bought a new G5 - Now iTunes says I'm not authorized to play songs I bought Is this a feature? John ... 10 Mar 2005 16:12

In desperate need of permissions help!
I seem to be having major permssion problems with OS X 10.1.5. First indication of problems in when I try to mount disk images. I always get the following error: "file name" failed to mount due to error 192. Unknown error: 192" Second indication of problems is in NetInfo. I'm able to Authenticate. But then whe... 14 Feb 2005 20:52

How to disassemble iMac 350?
Sander Tekelenburg wrote: In article <413bccc7$0$20246$cc9e4d1f(a)news-text.dial.pipex.com>, "Rv!" <not.a.valid(a)email.address.ok> wrote: If you use a munged email address, it's much more friendly to have it end in ".invalid", as per RFC 2606. Most decent newsreaders will recognize the address being i... 14 Feb 2005 20:51