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My G4 MDD power supply just died - need an urgent replacement (66 Replies)

waltd — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:20:51 -500

I have had odd things happen if there wasn’t a user with the numerical ID 501. Your mileage may vary. IDs get assigned in the order the accounts are created, starting at 501. There are countless other IDs below that threshold, and there are hard-coded defaults in the OS to keep them from showing up, except within NetInfo Manager and other admin-level tools.

Walter

On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:01 PM, WebWorker wrote:

Walter

Are you saying The first Administrator account is different to other Administrator accounts you create in OSX?

On 5 Sep 2008, 4:18 pm, waltd wrote:

Be careful when you do this. The first user you set up on a Mac has special administrative powers that are difficult to duplicate after the fact.

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Disposing of an iMac (13 Replies)

Graham Smith — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:03:13 -500

Dear Keith and Paul

Sorry but that didn’t work. The Software Restore discs that came with this particular computer contain a Mac OS 9.2 program that doesn’t have a menu, for some reason. So perhaps I have done everything that it is possible to do with this machine.

Regards

Graham Smith Bury St Edmunds, UK

On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:09, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 4 Sep 2008, at 01:26, Graham Smith wrote:

Thanks everyone for the advice. I decided to boot from the installation CD that came with the computer, but it would only let me do a Software Restore.

I know it looks as though that’s all it’ll let you do, but It’ll let you do more than that if you poke around a bit in the menus; it’ll let you run Disk Utility for instance, which is where you can erase, format, partition etc.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

www.paulbradforth.com

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Subversion (33 Replies)

Todd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:13:42 -500

~ Home$ svnadmin —version svnadmin, version 1.5.1 (r32289) compiled Aug 3 2008, 16:38:18

The following repository back-end (FS) modules are available:

fs_fs : Module for working with a plain file (FSFS) repository. On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:06 PM, waltd wrote:

errr. typo on that last one, s.b. svnadmin --version.

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Easy Flash Creation (2 Replies)

Roger Burton — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:47:36 -500

That looks interesting, I use After Effects and have to sometimes put stuff into Flash to compress it or mess around a little more and I find flash to be a bit ‘heavy’ I wonder how (and if) this does all that - must be worth trying out the demo and the purchase price is pretty good. Roger

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If you've got a gripe with Adobe product/s....look here (3 Replies)

Robert Bovasso — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:44:10 -500

Just sent in my Acrobat gripe!

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Jazz Fans...

JimS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:56:11 -500

Folks, this is waay off topic, but if you need some good music to design your site by… ;-) there is a 72 hour non-commercial broadcast of Bird and Prez on WKCR.org (Columbia University). They were among the most influential jazz saxophonists.

www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

Cheers, Jim

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Coda + Subversion (5 Replies)

Todd — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:12:22 -500

I agree that CSSEdit is a more well-rounded editor (I own and use it) but I’ve become so enamored of Coda’s UI that I’m usually willing to accept the somewhat simpler - but still very useful - CSS editor. We have it bad, don’t we? Having 2 such nice editor options to choose from. These are good times. ; )

Todd

On Aug 27, 2008, at 3:12 AM, Dan J wrote:

I’d take CSSEdit (www.macrabbit.com) over Coda’s CSS Editor. It feels like it’s super simplified yet I don’t get to see what I’m working with unless I split windows and then have to scroll a ton.

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Earplugs (was Re: New panorama of Robert Plant on stage) (2 Replies)

JimS — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:56:01 -500

These earplugs look well-made. The company’s Myspace page is entertaining:

“About me: At first glance, in-ear musician’s monitors look pretty much alike.”

One of their ‘friends’ is a group called the Whispers :-)

www.myspace.com/westonemusic

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hardware question (2 Replies)

waltd — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:33:04 -500

The lithium batteries on most modern Macs last 5-7 years. It sounds a lot like that’s your problem, and they are around $8 to replace so it would be a cheap troubleshooting step to try.

Walter

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Need help getting my boss's site updated (3 Replies)

Alison O'Brien — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:46:40 -500

Thank you all so much for replying. That’s great information.

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