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Right, so having only a small amount of free RAM is not necessarily an indicator or a shortage. A shortage, and, thus, over use of virtual memory, is indicated by many, or long spinning, SBBODs and excessive pageouts.

It does appear that there may be some threats at least from within LANs given your other recent post. I didn't have time to read the link you posted carefully, but it is interesting. While I, for example, don't always state "the" view carefully, I think the general view, rightly or wrongly, is...

It's working fine for me. I've tried most things. I was having no problems before.

1. Yep, I missed that. 2. I've seen cases where reboot/mouse down doesn't work, while open firmware does.

Have you tried connecting the Mac directly to the modem or the hub and, thus, circumventing the router?

I agree that, with 256 MB, more RAM almost always is better. Still, it is not always better. For example, if all one does is read email and surf with one tab open, then 256 MB is very likely to be sufficient. I don't mean to pick on you, but the idea that more RAM always is better just doesn't...

You are very welcome. Happy MacDriving. I find the program to be excellent and obviously highly useful.

I don't know much about data recovery, but the advice I have seen from those I think are very knowledgeable is to quit using the drive immediately and to to get to a data-recovery specialist--depending on how much value one places on the lost files.

You can use Little Snitch for entertainment; I do.

1. I can't help with the technicalities on this one. Physically, programs are installed with installers or simply placed in the Applications folder. There are other things I could mention, but how things work at the UNIX level, I do not know. 2. Check the specs online at the Store at...

Never use Norton anything on a Mac. If you do, then you are begging for problems. Norton Mac products either are potentially damaging or not needed. There is no current reason to use anything on a Mac other than its own firewall or a router firewall--plus WPA for wireless security. You can use...

Sofad provided most of the info you need. There is no good current knowledge-base page on resolving extension conflicts via safe mode. But, this badly outdated link will give you an idea of how the process works. The idea is to startup in safe mode, turn your startup items off, and add them back...

You should have no problem with the LaCie provided that you disconnect it when intalling Tiger. If I were you, then I would make a bootable clone of my internal on the LaCie for 2 reasons. First, doing so will provide you with an easy way of getting back where you started if the need arises...

Sorry, duplicate post. Don't know how it happened. Still don't know how to delete duplicates on this system. Please see below.

First, uninstall Norton everything. But, your problem is likely to be an administrative process called "update." To date, the problem with update has not been solved as far as I know. Your problem also might be with Spotlight. Check here.

Adding on. If you have another firewire-equipped Mac available, start your disk-stuck Mac up in firewire target-disk mode, and drag the icon of the stuck disk to the trash on the second Mac. Hopefully, it will eject. As a last resort, try the firmware approach: 1. Restart the computer. 2...

I concur. My apologies for over stepping my desktop knowledge bounds.

See if this link helps.

There are no viruses or malwares currently affecting OS X.

Right, that's what the maintenance is for. I am having trouble keeping up with where you are.