I just received my first Mac today. It's a dual processor G5 w/2 gigs of RAM, and it looks like a tank. I've always used PCs, but my background is in Unix. Expose is a bit freaky. PhotoShop screams. Where's the right mouse button? I have to move all my PC data over and find a decent FTP and SSH client. Any recommendations? Oh, I'm gonna move my Logitech wireless mouse & keyboard over. Really...they should ship this fine piece of hardware with a two button mouse. Come on Stevie, two buttons can be sexy too.

Has anyone ever bought anything from Tiger Direct? Are they legit?

So i downloaded VLC so i could use my secondmonitor to play the video in full screen rather than maximized, as i do my work, now whenever i go to the scene selection, and pick a scene on my niptuck season 1 dvd, VLC just closes....what could cause this?

Real Novice Question:

A collegue sent me FTP details for a server, from which I want to download some files.

But, I have no idea how to go about connecting to this sever.

Running, OS X 10.3.5 on a 1.25GHz powerbook, connected to the internet on a LAN with an authenticated FTP proxy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-DJ

Disk with OS X started whirring funny. Used Disk Utility from OSX CD. Couldn't if it. Started up from the second Hard Drive with OS 9. Used Norton Disk Doctor but it couldn't fix it either. Now OS 9 can't mount the the drive and asks to initialzie. I just Eject instead.

Norton Disk Doctor's Get Info says:
IDE disk (Mas OS Extended)
39.6 GB on disk, 3.3 GB available
Files 0 Folders 0
created Nov 4th

Am I up shits creek? I imagine the files can be recovered. Only question is how? Bring it into any Apple Certified shop or a place that specializes in data recovery? how much would that cost?

One last weird thing. Tried to startup from the Mac OS X CD again and couldn't.

Thanks in advance for your help!

X-posted Macintosh

Just tried to add artwork to some .wav files that I downloaded and it's not updating the artwork. What normally says, "Drag Album Artwork Here" reads as, "Album Artwork Not Modifiable" on the tracks I just imported. Anyone know of a way to get around that?

Running iTunes 4.7

Current Music: Bad Religion - Bad Religion

I know this is only barely OSX related, so I'll keep it brief.

Long story short, some co-workers have a home office. In their location, the only option is dialup. They have a desktop and two laptops, and sometimes need to use two machines on TEH INTORWEB at once. A little mini-itx box with an external modem running IPCop was "too hard" for them. Don't ask. They are that kind of user.

Running out of options, and catching heat, about the only thing I could find that would be both unobtrusive and seamless seems to be the Airport Extreme base station -w- 56k modem.

From what I have read, once it's configured with a Mac, the AirEx should function like any SoHo router with the addition of a automatic dial-on-demand modem.

Meaning, I should be able to give them the configured AirEx, and it should play find dialing on demand in a windows-only environment, correct?

If anyone has any further advice, let me know.

"a generation ahead"

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/But-Theres-No-Software-for-the-Mac-Right-37806.html

IS there a site where I can find out what the maximum amount of Memory my ibook can hold, and the bigest harddrive my ibook can handle?

Hey Everybody,
my second question of the day,

I have a Microsoft Access file from a friend, but don't have anything that will open it.
(i'm running OS X 10.3.5 and have MS Office 2004)

I don;t want to do anything crazy with it, just open the file in some sort of easy to read format and view the fields inside.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-DJ

Did anyone get a copy of iPodDownload 1.1 becfore it got pulled? I want to setup a mirror for it.

In case you haven't heard, iTunes 4.7 kills compatibility with 1.0

could anyone tell me why battlefield 1942 runs choppier than hell on my 12' ibook g4 at the lowest settings for both sound and video?

Current Music: arcade fire

I'm using QuickSilver as launcher in my 1.5GHz 15' powerbook G4. It seems you can send a word to be looked up by an on-line dictionary, by the sequence (Apple-space) (period) word (Lookup_word) . The problem is that, not only it doesn't work, but also it has occasionally crashed my computer!

Other than that, QuickSilver has given me no trouble. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Besides Crucial, what other RAM companies are worth buying from?
TIA

Current Mood: lazy

I've had my Powerbook for a month now and I've been happy for the most part. I've been trying to find an answer about battery life for a while, but I've been unable to get anything from Google or other forums. I probably should have asked here...

Does the battery drain gradually even when it's running off the power adapter? My battery maxes out at 99%, but it has dropped four percentage points in the past two weeks of normal use. It was off and unplugged for about 12 hours one day, but I never turned it on without the power adapter. At night, it's put to sleep.

Is this normal?

Thanks.

Ok So I use AIM and Fire sometimes....

When I try and delete certain buddies, and lists... they come back the next time I log on...
is it a bug? or is there a way to do it?

MacinTech Users Group, Inc., the Macintosh users group in the south Denver metro area, will have a special guest at the November general meeting. Andrew Stone, founder of Stone Design will be in Denver to talk to attendees.

Andrew is the founder of Stone Design, which he began in 1984. In 1989, Andrew shipped the first 3rd party commercial application for the Next Computer. Since then, Stone Design has shipped many software titles for the NextStep and OpenStep operating systems, and now for Apple's OS X.

Andrew will talk about his many software titles for graphics and multimedia. Stone Design software helps you to create graphics, PDFs and web sites. Titles include Create, a feature rich draw studio, web content development and page layout application, PhotoToWeb, which makes photo albums, interconnected web sites with images and full-screen slide shows, TimeEqualsMoney, a time tracking and invoicing application, and StampInStone, which lets you watermark and ID your PDF files.

The November MacinTech meeting will be on the evening of Tuesday, 9 November. The meeting will begin at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the BridgeCenter, an office center located near the intersection of I-25 and C-470. A map is located on the MacinTech web site at www.macintech.org.

For more information, contact

MacInTechAndrewStone@mac.com

Saturday Night - Street Signs - Ozomatli</span>

I have a g3 ibook 700. It's served me well for more than two years, and though I was planning on upgrading next may, it seems I may have to do so earlier.

Just this past week, my screen has started going black depending on how I bend the lcd. If it's really close or really far back, the screen is fine, but if the position is in the middle, it blacks out. Other than that, it works perfectly.

Has anyone else had this issue? Should I get it repaired? How long until the whole screen goes? I'm going to South Africa for the month of January and really don't want it to conk out while I am far far away from a repair place.

Thanks so much.

I think my USB keychain drive just died. It got really wet today walking home in the rain, and I was transferring some new stuff off of it back onto my hard drive, then all of a sudden (about halfway through the transfer) the little green light turned off, and Finder started beachballing. It still is, has been for about 15 minutes :-/ This made me think of how the Explorer of Windows, the rough equivalent of our Finder, quickly and ruthlessly brings down the entire system when it goes even a tad bit wonky. But even though because Finder is being weird, my PowerBook in general is still running perfectly fine, because Finder is just another (almost) normal application, and the underlying process management isn't connected to it like Explorer is weirdly tied into the entire Windows OS. So I'd just like to take this time to praise Finder for crashing so nicely :) I'm about to just yank the keychain drive, force-restart Finder, and try the keychain on another system.

If it still doesn't work...anyone have good recommendations for a new 256 or 512mb keychain drive? My current one is a 256mb Sandisk Cruzer Mini, about a year old, and I love it. So I might just replace it with the same model, unless anyone has other really good suggestions.

Current Music: [ Jimmy Eat World :: Work ]=[ Futures ]

i have a powerbook i got last may that has been wonderful until today. i keep restarting, but no matter what i do, safari and mail do not work anymore. itunes, and internet explorer, and firefox , and it seems likeall my other apps work fine. dug. now this is looking crazy too- do i need to reinstall everything?!