Leopard

Hey guys, I have a 1st generation MacBook Pro. I installed Leopard and now it is very very slow. I get the colored circle all the time and a lot of "not responding" apps that I have to force quit. ...

Of course. If you give someone the keys to your car and tell them to drive no faster than 5mph, and they choose to go faster than that, then, yes, that privilege can be abused! Leopard only allows people to do what you give them access to do. If you don't trust them, don't give them access -- simple as that. Would you give your car keys away to just anyone, or only...

ve permission for someone to access my computer for the purposes of helping me figure something out, could that privilege be abused without my knowledge. I think Leopard is really dangerous if it leads people to freely give away their HD to a third party who may secretly subvert the privilege. ...

How can I tell Leopard to mount a (sparse) disk image at system start up?

I recently set up XP on a new MacPro 2.8ghz, however the keyboard doesnt seem to recognize a majority of the inputs. When trying to install multi-disk software or burn and encode movies in XP it wont let me eject the disk. Is there a specific Bootcamp version that does allow this? other simple inputs such as the volume keys do not input aswell. hm...kind of...

I read that with Leopard a 3rd party can take over your hard drive remotely if you give permission. ...

that's really useful, thanks Satcomer. I'm glad I didn't upgrade all the production Macs to Leopard. Panther works fine despite it's age.

I was a PC user who recently moved to mac. I have a macbook (intel 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD). When I was using PC, I backed up all my data to a network storage device (Buffalo LinkStation 250 GB connected to a 802.11g netgear router which is supplied by Sky) using a program called SmartSync Pro, which worked very well. Although I can connect to and mount the Share folder...

I read that with Leopard a 3rd party can take over your hard drive remotely if you give permission. Would you still be able to see the screen and what they were doing in that case? ...

I'm running leopard 10.5.2. ...