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Current Column Back From The Dead With Networking, Virtual PC, & Cable Modem Answers - September 19th Archived Columns November 2001 Networking, Cable Modems, & USB Printer Sharing - November 16th October 2001 Ethernet Fun, Word 6 Quandry, & DVD In Mac OS X 10.1 - October 5th August 2001 Palm Organizing, Upgrade Tips, & Opening .EXE Files - August 17th July 2001 Helping PC Techs With Mac Ethernet & Printing Problems - July 6th June 2001 Network Game Hosting, PC Modems, & Old Hard Drives - June 15th Advanced Networking Help & Missing Extensions - June 8th May 2001 Networking Help & Portable Advice - May 18th April 2001 IE Java Freezes & Playing DivX On Your Mac - April 20th AirPort, Upgrading From Beta To OS X Final, & Hard Drives - April 6th March 2001 Dave's FAQ: Viruses, X On Clones, & Old Printers - March 16th OS X Networking, Cube Hard Drives, & The Green Hornet - March 9th February 2001 More Toolbar Menus & Advice For Someone Coming From The Dark Side - February 26th Wiring Your House, LaserWriter Problems, & Burning Audio CDs - February 6th  January 2001 AirPort Troubles, Modem Tips, & Printers - January 19th December 2000 Legacy Peripherals, Non-Mounting CDs, & Logging Modem Data - December 29th Ethernet/LocalTalk, MP3 To WAV, & Cheap Stock Trades - December 8th November 2000 Totally Trashed Finders, Organizer 2.0, & iMac Recordings - November 24th October 2000 Dead Clones, IE 5 Problems, & Netscape Too - October 13th September 2000 SCSI/USB, Deus Ex Mice, & The Command Line In OS X - September 29th Hard Drive Tips For Mac OS X Beta, Networks Problems, & iMac DV Crashes - September 18th CD-ROMs, G4 OS Support, & Building A Gaming Network - September 1st August 2000 The Non-Bootable G3, Upgrade Advice, & S-Video Adapters - August 18th Trouble with FireWire On Your Pismo? Dave says, 'RTFM' - August 11th July 2000 Inkjet Printers, iMovie Formats, & Network Problems - July 28th .AVI Files, IDE Drives, & Weird Auto-Rebooting Macs - July 14th From LP To CD, Ethernet Problems, & Startup Disks - July 7th June 2000 Printing On PC Networks, DSL On Macs, & Upgrade Advice - June 30th Spring Cleaning Tips, G4 Modem Problems, & Shutdown Trouble - June 23rd Mix-n-Match AirPort Networks, Video Cards, & SCSI Drives - June 16th Token Rings, Open Transport Errors, & CD-ROM Drives - June 9th DSL Speeds W/AirPort, Remote Administration, & RAM Limitations - June 2nd May 2000 Add-On CDRW Drives, Network Rebooting, & Monitor Problems - May 26th Internal Speakers, Claris Organizer, & AOL Images - May 19th Mac-PC Networking, Launcher Problems, & Cable/DSL Security - May 12th File Synchronization, Digital Video Buying Advice, & Ethernet Cards - May 5th April 2000 Playing .AVI Files, Virtual Memory Problems, & More On .EXE Files - April 28th iDisk Problems & ".EXE" Files On Your Mac - April 14th Netscape Printing & "Smart Browsing," And More MP3 Quality - April 7th March 2000 Blessed System Folders & MP3 Quality - March 31st Missing Finder Menus & Networking Help - March 24th Freezing USB Mice Explained! - March 17th Using Old Peripherals With A New Mac; An Update On Freezing Mice! - March 10th Frozen USB Mice, Adding ATA Controllers & Florida Vacations! - March 3rd February 2000 USB Printer Sharing, Crashes, & PCI ATA Controllers - February 25th Upgrade Advice, Shutdown Freezes, & Using PC Parts - February 18th The Low Down On Ethernet And Data Recovery - February 11th Dave Shares Some Of His Techiques For Finding Answers! - February 4th January 2000 Font Problems, Mac/PC Networking, & Upgrade Advice - January 28th SCSI-USB Conversion, Upgrade Advice, & AGP Voodoo3 Cards - January 21st ViaVoice Errors, Networking, & Proxy Servers - January 14th Remote Control Another Mac for FREE & Help with Disk Images - January 7th December 1999 MIMEs, USB Cameras, & Controlling Someone Else's Mac - December 31st RAM, USB Gaming Options, & Mac/PC Networking - December 24th Which Voodoo3 Card Is Right For You? - December 17th Ethernet to LocalTalk, USB, and Helping A Mac User Choose AppleShare - December 10th Upgrading CD-ROMs, Networking, And My First Y2K Question! - December 3rd November 1999 Epson Printer Driver Crashes, Mac OS 9 RAM, and Finder Delays - November 26th Novell Networks, G4s, DVD ROM or RAM, And More On DSL Stalls - November 18th DSL Stalls, Word 6 Crashes, and More Bad RAM - November 11th Mac OS 9 Compatibility, And The G3 Vs. The G4 - November 4th October 1999 Should You Upgrade To Mac OS 9? - October 28th Mac/PC Security Through Cable Modems - October 21st USB Tips, Faster Internet, And MacOS 9 - October 14th Dealing With The Undeletable Folder From [That Hot Place] - October 7th September 1999 AVI and More Networking Questions Answered - September 30th Networking and PowerBook Questions Answered - September 23rd Yellow Monitors, And Dave Gets Corrected - September 16th Desktop Files Explained and B&W G3s - September 9th Products That Can Solve Your Problems - September 2nd August 1999 Networking New Macs With Older Printers - August 26th Dead Hard Drives and QuickTime 4 - August 19th New Networking Nightmares - August 12th Networking And Mac-to-Stereo Hookups - August 5th July 1999 The Honest Truth About Hard Drives - July 29th Positively Puzzling Printers! - July 22nd Mind-boggling Malfunctioning Monitors! - July 15th Dave's Rules for Backing Up Your Mac (and more!) - July 8th A Hard Drive Specification Primer and Sanford & Son! - July 1st June 1999 Newer Macs On Old Networks And A Fix For The Dreaded Death Spiral - June 24th Of Drives And RAM - June 17th How Do I Back Up My Blue & White!?!? - June 10th The Dreaded Death Spiral - June 3rd May 1999 Modem Scripts, Proxy Servers, Power Losses,and an AutoCAD Update - May 27th Mega Networking, OS 8.5 On Umax Clones, Recording, and Roadrunner - May 20th DHCP & Cable Modems, PC Emulation, and School Networking - May 13th SCSI On B&Ws, Mac Novell Networking, and SOHO Networking - May 6th April 1999 Word Problems, Power Strips, Swapping Motherboards, and Disk Errors - April 29th Word Margins, Video Cards, Stuffit, Geoport Modems, and an Observer Call - April 22nd Ethernet Printing, Netscape Prefs, Home Networks, and CrashGuard - April 15th Upgrading To 8.5.1, Multiple Monitors, Partition Errors, And Nav Services - April 8th The QuickTime/SimpleText Connection, 8.5.1 RAM, and Miscreant SCSI Busses - April 1st March 1999 The Truth About Virtual Memory, Purging RAM, and the Desktop - March 25th The Meaning Of SCSI, PC-Mac Networks, and Virus Protection - March 18th Disk Doctor, Scanners, and PRAM, Oh My! - March 11th Basic Networking, Type 2 Errors, And The Scrapbook - March 4th February 1999 Missing Trash, Aliases, and Type 11 Errors - February 25th is President and CEO of The Mac Observer, Inc. He has worked in the computer industry as a consultant, trainer, network engineer, webmaster, and a programmer for most of the last 10 years. During that time he has worked on the Mac, all the various Windows flavors, Be, a few brands of Unix, and it is rumored he once saw an OS/2 machine in action. Before that he ran some of the earliest Bulletin Board systems, but most of the charges have since been dropped, and not even the FBI requests that he check in more than twice a year. Ask Dave is here to answer all the Mac questions you have. Networking, system conflicts, hardware, you ask it, he can answer it. He is the person from whom all Mac knowledge flows.... Current Columns From Ask Dave Back From The Dead With Networking, Virtual PC, & Cable Modem Answers - September 19th Networking, Cable Modems, & USB Printer Sharing - November 16th Ethernet Fun, Word 6 Quandry, & DVD In Mac OS X 10.1 - October 5th The Ask Dave Archives