My 4th generation 40gb iPod has had problems in the past (freezing up and noisy hard drive, and eventually, the dreaded sad iPod icon), and I just got it back from the repair shop.…

When it's wiped, an iPod is restored to the factory settings, including being "formatted" for a Mac, NOT a PC. You need to run the Windows iPod updater-the current one- to get it …

Tried that. The iPod updater froze up and didn't do anything for 15 minutes.

What was it doing when it froze? Loading? Looking at the iPod? And have you talked to the shop yet?

It usually freezes when it's loading. The one time it didn't freeze, a message popped up saying that it couldn't update the iPod because it was being used by another program. I did…

Redownload the updater and try it again. It sounds like it got corrupted somehow, and a fresh download should fix that. And of course a fresh restart of the computer is indicated…

Just tried redownloading it and reinstalling it and it's still freezing. No, I haven't talked to the shop yet. Could this just be my computer being quirky? It's been known to c…

Restoring can be done on ANY computer, though you'll want to use a PC if you're interested in syncing it with a PC. But if you're having this kind of problem, and it IS the PC, I …

I have to remember to turn my Epson printer off before booting from the 8.5 CD. No way to turn AppleTalk off. Is this something I just have to accept and put up with? I ended up …

Since its a CD you have to just accept it. The Chooser Prefs that keep AppleTalk on are burned into the CD and cannot be changed. Sorry about that..

Is there a way to get Toast 3.5 to make a UDF formatted CD-R. I'm a DVD Author, and it sure would be useful to make a CD-R of a DVD project (the menu system at least) to test on h…

Use Adaptec Direct CD to mace UDF disks. It does this well.

True, but be aware of this... Based on my experiences, the version of "UDF Volume Access" that comes with the new Blue and White G3s, version 1.2, is incompatible with discs creat…

I've bought 10 blue and white G3's for my compnay. Over a period of a week, 3 have discontinued to boot. No chime, but power is on and the drive spins up. After a little troublesho…

Thanks for the infor. My company bought 42 and one of the new g3 montior card when south. Got a replacement in two days. ------------------ David Stafford dms@fastlane.net

I have heard that FileMaker Pro Server for windows NT is much faster than FileMaker Pro Server for Mac OS. Is this true? And do you think the Mac OS X version will be faster than N…

I would wait and hold out for OS X Server before making a switch over to NT. NT is a good product, but there are a lot of little bugs and fixes to know about if you are running a M…

How many user's and database's are you supporting? Are your user connecting by AppleTalk or TCP-IP to the FileMaker Pro Server? Connecting to the database via IP better than AT. …

Our office is composed of Mac workstations, and Sun servers. Our one token NT machine is the File Maker server. We haven't had any problems with it, It has never crashed on it's ow…

I work in an office with an NT 4.0 network, Novell 5.0 & Unix networks. The NT is a piece of crap. We'd feel lucky if it only crashed once a month! Novell, on the other hand…

If anybody has purchased Mac version video cards such as Mirro Motion DC30+ or Mirro DV300 by Pynnacle Systems and are frustrated that the company has failed to update drivers for …

ok, I was wondering if anyone knows the real difference between the 300mhz/350mhz/400mhz B/W G3's, as far as the Mhz vs Heat. Could you over-clock a 300mhz B/W G3 to run at 400mh…

Hi, I want to overclock my Rev A. iMac next week too. Is 266MHz the max speed Rev. A can support? Thank You

You can overclock alot higher than 266 but I choose to just goto 266 because I didn't want to deel with heat problems. I've talk to one guy who overclocked to 300 but his iMac wou…

You can clock your B&W G3/300 to 400 MHz with no adverse effects because the 300, 350 and 400 MHz models all use the same motherboard...the only difference is which sets of pin…