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OK, sorry to bring it back the topic. However I just received an notice from Apple that stated that you could access the built in dictionary by doing a "Right-Click+ D" within any application. Only problem is they did not explain how to do a right click in OS X. I have a MacBook running OS...

Wow, if that was a snake, I would have been a goner.... Thanks I got it.

I followed the link and did clicked on the "Lock". It already had my user id so I typed in my password. The lock opened up. The next instruction was to enable "Root login", however there was nothing on the screen that mentioned anything to that effect. Am I missing something?

I am running 10.5.2 and I was looking for "Netinfo Manager" and I could not find it. Granted I am new to the mac. However I used the sudo command to change the password for root. Once that was done, I was able to do an "su" to the root sign-on. I needed access to root to add hosts to the...

Thank you. I had not had time to look at your reply until now. I will look into what you suggested.

I have question regarding Mac OS X and Linux ext3 file system. Will Mac OS X write/read an ext3 file system. I have a linux box that has a ton of disk space and I wanted to know if I could use the linx box for the "Time Backup". TIA

Thank you for the reply. Coming from a WIndows environment I would be looking for an "Un-Install" method.

I was getting ready to try a bata version of Open Office. Before I down loaded the software, it dawned on me what if the software does not work the way I want it to? How will I un-install or remove the software from the Mac? TIA

Great, thanks I will look into the software. The drive is only a 350GB drive but that should be sufficient to backup all the machines to one drive since I only backup the documents and anything of value from the Window boxes.

Well I have experimented with the USB drive. First I mounted on the Windows box and backed up all of the data to an internal drive. Then I removed the partition off the USB drive. I then mounted the drive on the Mac and went to the "Disk Utility". The mac recognized the drive at this point...

I opened up a terminal session and poked around looking for "fdisk" and "makefs". I found the "fdisk" command and it does what I would expect it to do. I did not find any command that jumped out at me that would create a filesystem. I then powered up the USB2.0/Firewire external drive. The...

OK, that being the case do I have to buy an external hard drive that is already formated for the Mac? or is there a command to format a new partition for the Mac?

Ok, I have been playing with Linux for some years now and to add a new partition in Linux, you first use "fdisk" to create the new partition on any hard drive. Then you use "makefs" to create the file system on the new partition you created. Finally you add and entry into the "fstab" so that...

With MacDrive, should I leave the drive with just one NTFS partition and still be able to write to it with the Mac? I want to use the external drive with TimeMachine. Will this work?

I have an external dirve tha I can connect iether via USB or Firewire. I partitioned the drive into two partitions. Each partition is 150 GB in size. One partition is NTFS (I still have a windows box), the other half has not been defined for the Mac yet, hence my question. How can I...

Sorry, after I posted the question I saw the date it was put out there. The reason I was looking at all those postings is that I am new to Mac's and I am trying to get up to speed on it. But I have been playing around with Linux for several years now. Sorry

Why did you copy the files instead of using "tar" to backup the files? By using tar you would use less disk space on your samba share.

Sorry I did not start a new thread, since this thread was related to my question I figured I could use it to post my question. I did follow the link provided above and it helped me install both printers. FYI one printer is an HP Deskjet 520 (connected via JetDirect) and the other printer is an...

I am brand spanking new to OS X and I am trying to access a printer that is connected to my Windows XP Pro. When I try to connect the windows box using my user id and password, I get a message that states the user id or password is incorrect. I cannot seem to get past that message. Once I get...