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Forum: OS X Aug 1st, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 547
Posted By John A
Sorry, we don't support illegal activities on this forum. Either go to the store and buy a DVD of Leopard legally, or find your answer elsewhere.
Forum: OS X Feb 27th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 2,035
Posted By John A
I think there's a thread in the Linux section created a few weeks ago about this same issue; apparently Ubuntu has some issues with booting from the CD on older Macs. My suggestion would be to look...
Forum: OS X Feb 25th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 2,035
Posted By John A
>I know the linux iso disk is good because my new Macbook will boot to it
Then of course it won't boot on your PowerMac. MacBooks use a completely different architecture than the old PowerPC chips;...
Forum: OS X Nov 18th, 2008
Replies: 4
Solved: fstream library
Views: 875
Posted By John A
Well, then as your thread title says, you will need to use the fstream library from the STL. Reading in a .rtf is the same as reading in a normal text file; the only difference being that rtf...
Forum: OS X Nov 18th, 2008
Replies: 4
Solved: fstream library
Views: 875
Posted By John A
What language are you programming in?
Forum: OS X Sep 11th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,553
Posted By John A
Use Disk Utility to format one of the partitions as HFS+. It doesn't matter what partition type you use; you could even create two NTFS partitions.
Forum: OS X Sep 10th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,553
Posted By John A
You'll want to create two partitions: an HFS+ partition for the Mac data, and an NTFS partition for Windows. I'd recommend using Time Machine to keep your Mac data backed up onto the Mac partition,...
Forum: OS X Jul 4th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 3,130
Posted By John A
Okay, that's relatively simple - if there are spaces in a filename, you need to use quotes:
sudo chflags -R nouchg "/Volumes/My Book/Music"
I don't know how familiar you are with the terminal, but...
Forum: OS X Jul 4th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 3,130
Posted By John A
Yep, the terminal comes in handy sometimes. Open it (/Applications/Utilities), and run the following command:
sudo chflags -R nouchg ~/Music

Enter your password, and it will remove the lock flag...
Forum: OS X Jun 27th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,069
Posted By John A
My apologies, I understand what you're talking about now. I really haven't dealt with 1394c, but from what I've heard, it's supposed to be able to communicate directly with a regular Ethernet port....
Forum: OS X Jun 27th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,069
Posted By John A
I assume you're referring to 6 pin to 4 pin FireWire connectors. I don't know much about the physical details of the connections, other than they're compatible with each other, but the 4 pin version...
Forum: OS X Jun 20th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,059
Posted By John A
(Note: this only works in 10.4 and earlier. Leopard (10.5) no longer contains the NetInfo database or its associated utilities.)

To find the username:
niutil -list . /users

That prints out the...
Forum: OS X Feb 18th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 6,512
Posted By John A
In the installation options, make sure you choose "Erase and Install". If you're really paranoid, start up Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. You can then completely erase your hard disk (i.e....
Forum: OS X Jan 24th, 2008
Replies: 24
Views: 4,777
Posted By John A
If it's the Javascript, a temporary solution would be to disable the client-side scripting enhancements option in your Control Panel here at DaniWeb.
Forum: OS X Oct 31st, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,804
Posted By John A
Technically, that shouldn't happen on a Mac.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668

But if it does (over a long period of time), your best option is just to wipe the hard drive...
Forum: OS X Oct 12th, 2007
Replies: 4
Solved: Slow Downloads!
Views: 1,455
Posted By John A
Can you please open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities), and enter the following at the command prompt, hitting return/enter to execute:
curl http://website.com/your-file-to-download >...
Forum: OS X Oct 11th, 2007
Replies: 4
Solved: Slow Downloads!
Views: 1,455
Posted By John A
What bitrate does your web browser report when downloading a file, and what did you expect it to be? (Look in the download window, it should say something like xx KB/s.)
Forum: OS X Aug 31st, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 4,588
Posted By John A
Actually, on another bit of researching, it looks like it doesn't matter as much as I thought;

http://homepage.mac.com/techedgeezine/2005_0217-54g-inyourmac3.htm
Forum: OS X Aug 31st, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 4,588
Posted By John A
In that case, adding airport shouldn't be very difficult at all.

I should have thought of this earlier. Go to Applications/Utilities/System Profiler, and under Hardware Overview there should be...
Forum: OS X Aug 30th, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 4,588
Posted By John A
>Is the above not enough information to know what kind of wireless card it requires?
No, it's kind of important that you know what kind of a computer you're trying to stick it into. Can you get some...
Forum: OS X Aug 29th, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 4,588
Posted By John A
That's the operating system version. What type of Mac is it (iMac, PowerMac, etc.)?
Forum: OS X Aug 28th, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 4,588
Posted By John A
Um, what kind of Mac is it? "G4" is a only a processor type.
Forum: OS X Aug 10th, 2006
Replies: 2
Views: 1,352
Posted By John A
That's normal for Internet Explorer. I get the same errors on IE for Windows. I'm not exactly sure why it does that, but it does. You can try disabling IE's Javascript feature by going into the...
Forum: OS X Jul 30th, 2006
Replies: 4
Views: 4,320
Posted By John A
Well, it sounds like you have Classic automatically starting up when your iMac is booted. To solve this, open System Preferences, choose "Classic", and then there should be an option to turn it off...
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