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An ethernet cable is the easiest way to do that - to use the firewire cable you'd need to restart the other mac in target mode.
All you need is a regular ethernet patch cable, link the two machines and enable personal file sharing in System Preferences/sharing on both machines. Then in finder, click on Network in the sidebar, and it will show you an icon for your other computer. Double click on that, and enter your login details for the other mac in the dialog box that pops up. Check the add to keychain box.
You're then given a choice of what drives to mount, or your home folder. Select which one you need to mount. You can then open it like a regular drive or folder. I find the easiest thing to do then is to create an alias for the folder you access the most on the desktop, then opening that will automatically mount the drive next time.
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