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I recently came into possession of a Mac Pro and have loaded a copy of Mac OS X Server 10.6.6 onto it. The primary purpose of this system is to be an AST and imaging server, but also probably a workstation. I've gone and set up the NetBoot server, and created a bunch of netinstall images of...

It should be possible to put the Mini into Target Disk Mode to do the install. You'll need a FireWire 400 cable for the process though. If you at least have a USB 2.0 system, it might be easier to just get one of those external DVD drives for netbooks. Personally, I'd just take the eMac to...

I forget if OS X allows fonts to be installed for specific users only, but that's a possibility. Still, seems like the simple solution here is to just make her a new user account. It's probably just one of those fun instances of profile corruption. Generally pretty rare, but does happen. It...

AFAIK, only the 27" models have any kind of video input capabilities, so if you have anything else, you're SOL. There may be USB options, but that would almost certainly never work for gaming. For all the talk of "480Mbps" with USB 2.0, there are some pretty big gotchas. It's a max theoretical...

Or, if you don't want to open the thing, since working on the iMac G4 can be a touch tricky with the monitor neck, you can just by a wireless ethernet bridge. This will basically convert any wired connection into wireless.

Okay, just want to try and clarify something here. Are you connecting this device BEFORE you start your computer, or are you talking about the computer being running already and you connecting it, then the problems start?

Like already said, I'm not saying that you should rely on it completely for your security, but unless you do something to draw attention to yourself by the wrong people, the odds of you being targeted are pretty remote. The problem really isn't with the initial question, it's how the OP kept...

Let's just put it this way... Why would someone go to all the effort of trying to break into your machine, just to spy on you using your laptop's webcam, when there's literally hundreds, if not thousands, or even tens of thousands, of porn sites out there which you can get to with a simple...

At it's core OS X is just a slightly modified FreeBSD, so you could try figuring out how it's done in *BSD land. Of course one of the big benefits of 10.6 over 10.5 is Grand Central Dispatch. Which is basically a daemon that monitors CPU/core load levels and tries to distribute system load as...

Well, it would first help to know if this is a G5 or Intel system, because they are two completely different sets of processors. If it's a G5 system, we can then rule out any 10.6 options for fixing things as well. So if you go to the Apple menu and select About This Mac, what does it say for...

Holding down the space bar should also work.

To be fair, any ACMT can... Or at least SHOULD be able to. We get the same parts any Apple employed tech would use. Though at least in the US, I seem to recall there being something in the whole AASP agreement/manual thing about how if you receive a DOA machine one of the options is to sell it...

In the broad sense I would say that there's nothing wrong with refurb products. In the more specific sense, it would depend on what was wrong, and how it was fixed. If the defective component was replaced, the system was tested, and now works... It should be indistinguishable from a new...

I'd have to say it sounds like your external drive is on its way out. If you just try and access it via Finder, does it seem a bit sluggish?

Like said, if it doesn't go down on it's own to something around 1-2 hours or less, then you likely have a failing HDD.

If you buy the part through Apple, you'll pay way too much. But so long as you don't need that special little bracket on the X1900 that makes it fit into the little slot on the PCI-E area, any PCI-E card will do. You could look around to see what it'd cost to buy a X1900 retail. Or just hit some...

Your hard drive is dying, make plans to get it replaced either under warranty or yourself. You can also try running AHT to see if there are other issues.

Well, then in THAT case... That card, sorry to say, is a real POS. At an old job, they had a couple of small labs with systems like yours, and all of them had the X1900. I replaced quite a few of them after they simply stopped working. In fact, Apple's part list lists a "V2" of that particular...

Also, since Apple is a vertical supplier, distributing BOTH the hardware and the software, they only bother making drivers for hardware that they ship in their systems. So, even if you decide you're going to disregard the legal concerns, you'd still need a system that had hardware that is...

Unless the drive is shared on the domain, it shouldn't be an issue. But other options would include not installing the HFS+ driver from Boot Camp, preventing Windows from being able to read the partition at all, or having the domain admin alter group permissions to prevent access. When part of a...