Mac Systems

Nursery rhymes (was NOT: Favourite computer history books?)
On 05-16-2010 08:22, Morten Reistad wrote: The descendents may still be able to read our literature, though. Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner, Reading his Usenet free. A little more scroll, Encountered a troll, and said, "My, how stupid were we!" -- Wes Groleau Armchair Activism: http://www.brea... 16 May 2010 10:14

FlashLink driver
My miniFlashLink installation drivers cd ( p/n:51400-00007-003) for my FlashLink Digital Media Reader (UCF-100) will not install on my Mac Snow Leopard OS (version 10.6.3). Please advise me what to do. ... 18 May 2010 05:59

130GB Flash drives
On 05-15-2010 11:19, Lewis wrote: 130GB is already far too small to be of much use for a real machine. That doesn't hodl 1/3rd of my iTunes library, much less anything else. Right. Please precisely define "small" and "real." Over the years in this newsgroup, various people have pontificated that what my s... 15 May 2010 14:49

new iPad commercial
Shows a motorcycle passenger carrying one under his arm! Sheer stupidity. ... 15 May 2010 20:16

ISO disk image question
I received a .ISO file which is purpoted to be an image of a DVD. It is about 7.57 gigs big. If I double click on it, it mounts a disk called CDROM with 0 items in it. No error message issued. But with VLC, I can *open file* this .ISO and it will run that DVD fine, complete with the menus. When I created .I... 15 May 2010 02:57

Must be running Doze
Cars� Computer Systems Called at Risk to Hackers <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/science/14hack.html> ... 14 May 2010 12:48

Using iDVD
John Wolf <jwolf6589(a)THUNDERBIRDgmail.com> wrote: I wish to made a DVD from my mini DV camcorder but do not want to burn the entire tape, just a certain section. How can this be done without the hassles of using iMovie? What is it about you always wanting to do things without going through the steps of d... 15 May 2010 16:59

Firewire & Hard Drive Recommendations
Any recommendations for a Firewire enclosure and hard drive to put in it? I have a Quicksilver 867 MHz with two internal parallel ATA hard drives, 60MB and 40MB, so I figured I would upgrade the hard drive using a Firewire enclosure. My computer has the original Firewire it came with, so it must be the 400MHz ty... 18 May 2010 10:21

Cmd-Tab malfunctioning
Sometimes when I press Cmd-Tab, only a few of the application icons show up on-screen. If I press it again, the same few icons appear. If I repeatedly press Cmd-Tab and change to one of those applications, and then again press Cmd-Tab, I see all the icons of the open applications. Sometimes pressing Cmd-Tab... 15 May 2010 01:53

Bluetooth puzzle
I know very little about BlueTooth. Bought a nice keyboard, and went through a not bad but non-trivial "pairing" procedure. Then I used the keyboard for several hours. Tonight, it doesn't work. The Macbook knows it's there, but typing on it has no effect. Pressing the "connect" button doesn't do anything... 15 May 2010 13:42