Bonnie, hold C just after you turn it on.

and sing it like you mean it!

Bonnie, ohher possibilities include:

Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (CD, etc.): Hold Cmd-Opt-Shift-Delete during startup

Choose Startup disk before booting: Hold Option during startup

Learn to Properly Coil Your MacBook's Power Cord

Doing it wrong can cause it to break and/or become a fire hazard.

And I've been doing it wrong.

Daniel, It would seem that I don't actually have a bootable disk after all.

My friend's company gifted me with the towers...software installed...and a OSX disk. Tragically, I'm at 10.4.11 and the disk is for 10.4.6, which the system is rejecting.

My other startup disc is for 9.1, which is also not working.

Is it possible to make a bootable disk from this system, that I could then use on the other (identical) machine?

I've been googling all over for how to do this and have not found anything definitive...which leads me to believe I am screwed.

Is that the case?

Also, if you sent a snail address for the memory, I haven't received it. Try again?

Insent, Bonny.

Does the G5 and your other system have firewire? You could use target disk mode.

If you have a way of downloading it, I suppose an ISO disk of a bootable install could be burned on your other machine....

Anyone else using Firefox 4 beta 3? Anyone else annoyed by the real estate taken up by the bookmarks toolbar?

And the important one: is there a fix?

Aha, customizing it for "text" as it was before the upgrade.

I got a smartphone a few weeks ago. I've never had a smartphone before and it is AWESOME. I got the HTC Droid Incredible for Verizon and it's very shiny. And I'm gonna be taking this baby out of the country for the first time this weekend (driving up to Toronto to visit my brother.) A couple of questions:

I want to be able to 1) use the phone as a phone, to call my parents to let them know when I'm arriving & for any other emergent situations (I've done the same with my previous non-smart phone and just had $5-10 extra roaming charge for a short trip at most), and 2) disable data so that I do not incur any data roaming charges, which I understand could be ginormous if you forget to turn your data off beforehand. Now, if I put the phone in the airplane mode, it disables all connectivity so I won't be able to use it as a phone (I think) so I don't want that. I don't know if anyone's familiar with Droid setup, but I am looking under the "wireless & network" under "setting", and under mobile network setting, I see that you can uncheck "data roaming". It that all I need to do to disable the data and not get any roaming charges when I'm in Canada? There is also a "mobile network" button (right above "mobile network setting"), and by unchecking that, I don't get any connection using 3G network at all. I should probably do that as well, yeah?

Now, with the "mobile network" turned off, I don't get any data, but I have wi-fi in my place and I can turn that one and use that to merrily check my email and surf the net, etc. My brother in Toronto also has wi-fi in his house. I should be able to connect to the net / check my emails using his wi-fi connection without incurring any roaming charges at all, right?

I am fairly sure this would be OK, but wanted to make sure since I don't want to be slapped on the face with a huge-ass roaming bill next month if there's anything else I should be doing.

Thanks!

Does the G5 and your other system have firewire? You could use target disk mode.

They both have firewire. It'll look into target disk mode. Never heard of it before!

Also, package-o-memory on its way to you.