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I, too, am looking for a way to automatically mount network shares of a Win2K PC when booting MacOS X 10.2.8. Right now I'm having to manually "connect to server" (a misnomer as I am running a workgroup of peer machines, not a domain with a server) and re-enter my login username/password...

Thanks a lot, guilly. That looks very promising! [update] Well it looked promising until I read that I have to have Panther to use it, but since Tiger won't be out this year, maybe I will bite the bullet and buy Panther.

Personally, having come from a PC background and the OS/2 operating system which had a very powerful scripting language built in (Rexx, originally developed for big iron systems running *NIX and VMS, etc) and having several freeware/shareware RAD tools built specifically to create GUIs for Rexx...

I wonder if it's because I'm running the mouse through a KVM (I share one monitor, keyboard and mouse between 2 PCs, one of which is the PowerMac). Unfortunately my only USB mouse is the one-button Apple "Pro" mouse (not very "pro" with only one button but hey) so I can't be sure.

Slow emulation is one definite drawback to using VPC or Bochs on a 300MHz system. Low memory is entirely another problem. With 320megs of RAM your MacOS will probably run pretty nicely, but you have to give the virtual PC memory as well, and it gets taken out of your 320megs. For Win95...

Interestingly, Firefox 0.9 for me doesn't even support the right mouse button. Keep in mind it's pre-release software, so there are definitely quirks and issues.

Well gee, Microsoft's never done anything like that. *grin*

Well the best benchmark is the "use it how you use it" test. If you watch MPEG-4 video off your hard drive, do that for a while and see if it skips or jitters. If you convert ripped CD Audio tracks to FLAC or OGG Vorbis format a lot, do a few dozen and see if it's quick. If you only edit...

XChat Aqua seems almost incomplete after using XChat in Windows. The tab bar was shifted way to the right, for one thing. It was quite usable otherwise, and maybe the interface was the way the porter(s) intended it to be, I don't know. But either way, I am looking for a good tabbed-interface...

As a recent (like, right now) convert to the Mac from OS/2 and Windows on the PC, I can say I'm quite in the dark about "repairing permissions". I've never even heard of such a thing from my Linux using friends over the past 7 years. MacOS X is the first and only place I've ever heard the...

I'm still a buy CD kind of guy, but maybe that's because my musical tastes are a bit too strange for places like iTunes to deliver what I want. Obscure, but otherwise pop-style, artists don't often show up, or have only scattered showing, with such sites. It's just easier, once a band has been...

This is one of the most irritating problems I'm going to be facing (very soon) as a new Mac user -- that Apple refuses to support long-standing standards in their i-Apps. iDVD won't even install unless a "SuperDrive" is found -- I can record DVDs in OS/2 (possibly the least supported OS for the...

It can also be that the MPEG file was originally separate parts and was not joined properly. I've had problems like that over the years on several OSes. The only solution I found was to open them in some form of video editor (iMovie might work, I dunno) and if it can see the whole movie (by...

Has anyone pondered what the "cool new look" will be for the G5 iMac? I was thinking like a "treasure chest" (essentially a tall notebook) where you flip up the display to turn the thing on. It would have to be a tall notebook for the extra cooling needed for the G5. They could even make them...

I would think it would make more sense for Apple to kill the 1.6 altogether (or use it in the rumored iMac G5) and drop the dual 1.8's down to the $1924 or so of the current dual G4 towers. That would free up a couple hundred more to cram in 2.2. and 2.4. :)

Well I was actually concerned with converting QuickTime to other formats (like DVD) as cieran was asking, but thanks for the info.

I too have a 160GB drive, which I'll be adding to my (new, freshly installed) PowerMac. In the PC world, it's often wisely recommended to partition in order to separate the OS from the data files (and sometimes even to separate the OS from the programs). Is this a good rule of thumb with OSX...

Hmm, I get a "500 Null" error when I visit eshop.macsales.com. I'm guessing (vaguely) that this is similar to a "HTTP 500 Internal Server Error" which means their admin screwed something up. So anyway, since I cannot see the power adapter you posted, is the PowerMac G4 "molex connector" the...

Interesting. I would have thought QuickTime would be better integrated with Apple's iApps (iMovie and iDVD in particular) so as to avoid having to convert out and convert in. But as a Mac newbie myself, this is useful information. Thanks! By the way, there's a Windows program (based on...

Why would they just delete this project? Well they sure as heck killed the OS/2 version of VPC which had practically just been released when MS bought it off Connectix -- and the OS/2 version was probably 99% Windows version code with some emulation libraries. It would be much, much easier and...