What you're looking for is Network Attached Storage (NAS). Buffalo has some products that allow you to plug in USB hard drives for sharing on the network. Since you're accessing i…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell What you're looking for is Network Attached Storage (NAS). Buffalo has some products that allow you to plug in USB hard drives for sharing on …

You want something called "network attached storage," and a search for such products will give you a plethora of good products. Most are almost entirely plug and play. Some requi…

Well, going several pages deep in a Google search (plus an Amazon search) still doesn't turn up any gigabit NAS devices you can plug a FW800 or e.SATA drive into. There are plenty …

I'm sort of remembering something about disk response speed and gigabit networking... I vaguely recall somthing like gigabit being faster than most drives can handle, so 100BaseT …

I'll probably just stick with non-network drives then. I'm sure a NAS like yours is great for many things, but I shudder at the thought of opening 500 MB Photoshop files over a 100…

Quote: Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock If not, are there any affordable network storage appliances that can be formatted in HFS? Why not build a cheap linux server and i…

D-link has this box. Takes one ATA hard drive internally and up to 2 more external USB drives. Connects via gigabit ethernet or wifi.

I have weird question: The set up: My iMac connects to my wireless network via built-in Airport. I have a PC running (you guessed it) XP; I only use the PC to do win apps and tes…

airport and ethernet are separate connections, you can have them both running and used at the same time.

Can anyone enlighten me as to why a foreign name is appearing on the list of my active wireless networks ??? When I click on the airport icon in the menubar, it lists my network na…

do u have ur wirless encrypted? on my wirless network with my belkin, i have it encrypted and i have mac adress filtering turned on, so i have to enter the mac adress for them to…

What that is, is another person has a wireless access point and when your wireless card scans for access points it sees all the avaliable ones that are broadcasting an ssid. The f…

As shiff says, if it's just showing up as an available network, you have no real concerns-except maybe to change your own network to some non-default channel. That may even get yo…

I changed the channel my router uses and it seems to have resolved one issue and helped to ease some of my concerns. This "Cornerstone" that kept appearing was using channel 11. …

Is there any software tools one can use to view who is accessing or using a wireless network?

Check out MacStumbler. You can probably find it at MacUpdate.com and/or VersionTracker.com

So does anybody know if Apple is planning a whole new OS (starting from scratch) for the future? I cannot believe that OS X is the last OS for Apple even if there are continual yea…

next MACdows or WindMAC

Probably not the last OS...but the foundation is good for another 10 years or more. OS X is 100 times more flexible OS 9 ever was. Judging by the patents Apple has filed recent…

Quote: Originally Posted by Horsepoo!!! Probably not the last OS...but the foundation is good for another 10 years or more. OS X is 100 times more flexible OS 9 ever was. Ju…

Mark, while I agree with you - it's a good idea to be future oriented and not to let things languish - let's not give Jobs any ideas about yet another transition to embark on at th…

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve's Sanity Mark, while I agree with you - it's a good idea to be future oriented and not to let things languish - let's not give Jobs any ideas a…

I don't think anything is even on the drawing boards at this moment. Even Steve said the yearly flow of major upgrades is slowing and I believe that will continue, each major rele…

While I don't see Apple stopping the use of OS X any time soon, I do not see why they haven't already given thought to the future of their operating system. By what Steve said abo…