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Strange request, screen shot needed 721 Views / 5 Replies  
I updated today, and got the new Safari, time machine and AP, as well as the security update.

I made a screenshot of the software update panel as those three items were listed, but in a guest...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Mar 20, 2008 at 12:50 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Thanks Rich, I actually used to work in... 2,475 Views / 13 Replies  
Thanks Rich, I actually used to work in pre-press, 15 years, started on the high end Barco stuff, moved into other weird brands. I did color correction for Pixar and a few others when they...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Mar 12, 2008 at 04:53 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Help with monitor decisions 2,475 Views / 13 Replies  
Help with monitor decisions.

I am getting 4 MacMini's for a client. These are office workers, however, the owner is a bit demanding. She owns a new imac 20", and likes the display.

I am...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Mar 11, 2008 at 08:57 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
del.icio.us bookmarklet fails in Safari 314 Views / 0 Replies  
Can anyone share a workaround for getting del.icio.us bookmarklets to work in Safari, they completely fail on urls ending in jpg or gif
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jul 23, 2007 at 07:40 PM, in macOS
No keyboard control after deep sleep 440 Views / 0 Replies  
New MacBook, December Xmas present. if I close the lid at about 10% or so, usually by the next time I use it, the battery is dead. It is in deep sleep, so I plug in the power cord and get they grey...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Apr 30, 2007 at 01:30 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Yes, I know what they are, but I am wondering,... 1,190 Views / 26 Replies  
Yes, I know what they are, but I am wondering, are those Apple invented, or are they something you can universally refer to?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 9, 2006 at 04:59 PM, in macOS
GUI representation of shift 1,190 Views / 26 Replies  
On the mac we have the little symbol that represents the "shift" key, we have them for command, control etc. Are these a universal symbol, or is this something Apple made up. I can find no trace of...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 9, 2006 at 04:13 PM, in macOS
Users of Matias OS X Keyboaprd please read 644 Views / 2 Replies  
If you are using this
http://matias.ca/osxkeyboard/index.php?refID=7
OS X Keyboard, could you do me a favor and take a look at the letters printed on the keys, tell me if any of them show wearing...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 4, 2006 at 06:11 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Can you change the duration of Safari's history 466 Views / 1 Replies  
How do you alter how many days Safari holds onto browser history for?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 4, 2006 at 06:01 PM, in Applications
purging the 'open with' list 462 Views / 2 Replies  
I have hundreds, and dupes, in my "open with" menu, how can I clear this and get it nice and clean?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jan 3, 2006 at 11:27 PM, in macOS
You could do this with a one line find command in... 1,897 Views / 10 Replies  
You could do this with a one line find command in the terminal:
find ~/.Trash/ -mtime 180 -ok rm -f {} ';'

finds all files in your trash older than 180 days, and deleted them

Add this to your...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Dec 30, 2005 at 10:14 PM, in macOS
TV show preview in iTunes, cant get to work 448 Views / 0 Replies  
Is there some trick to get the itunes tv shows to allow me to see a preview?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Oct 13, 2005 at 08:44 PM, in Applications
iTunes tvshows preview 467 Views / 1 Replies  
Is there some trick to get the itunes tv shows to allow me to see a preview?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Oct 13, 2005 at 08:23 PM, in macOS
From the forum description, which I read before i... 571 Views / 3 Replies  
From the forum description, which I read before i posted:
Topics about applications (including all Apple apps, such as iLife, Final Cut, DVD Studio Pro, AppleWorks, Safari, etc.) belong in the...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Sep 14, 2005 at 10:50 PM, in macOS
iTunes auto conversion to lower quality 571 Views / 3 Replies  
I have this issue, I encoded all my CD's in Apple Lossless, cause I want them in clean form on my mac. Trouble is, when I want to put them on my iPod, of course, they do not fit, and they suck...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Sep 14, 2005 at 08:51 PM, in macOS
How to re-mount a volume after eject 616 Views / 4 Replies  
I had a external FW drive, I dont use it much, couple of things I would like to accomplish here:
on boot, unmount the thing
somehow, other than disk utility, tell it to mount on demand.
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jun 2, 2005 at 03:52 AM, in macOS
Geek tool and options to display on desktop 535 Views / 0 Replies  
I use Geektool to show me stuff in the background on my desktop. I have a website stats page that shows me the visits to my site, I would really like to get these stats on my desktop. The stats...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Apr 7, 2005 at 08:13 PM, in Applications
Safari trusted certificates 1,498 Views / 1 Replies  
Where is there a list of the certificates that safari trusts, or, where is there a file on OS X that has this list?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Mar 16, 2005 at 04:03 AM, in Applications
I agree, the viewing angle is not a huge deal,... 18,551 Views / 136 Replies  
I agree, the viewing angle is not a huge deal, though I can say, on the ibooks, it is pretty bad, at least the older ones. They may have gotten better. I was mainly calling BS to the post that...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Feb 26, 2005 at 09:33 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I don't think this is the case at all, look at... 18,551 Views / 136 Replies  
I don't think this is the case at all, look at the specs:
Apple 170� horizontal;170� vertical

Dell
Image Max H-View Angle: �88�
Image Max V-View Angle: �88�

Thats a huge difference, If I...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Feb 26, 2005 at 08:43 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Finder window styles and options 423 Views / 1 Replies  
Does anyone know where the "new finder window" prefs are stored, or at least how to make all new windows inherit some other windows?

I once seem to remember a app that would help you with this, I...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Feb 2, 2005 at 01:50 AM, in macOS
USB Overdrive and a tough one to troubleshoot 579 Views / 0 Replies  
Hopefully there is strength in numbers.

Here is a email I sent to the developer, who has replied, but I am still stumped, and would like any feedback here, and any reports of others who are having...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Feb 1, 2005 at 06:21 AM, in Applications
Kyeboard and Mouse pref pane preferences 384 Views / 1 Replies  
I have been trying to figure this out for ages now, where are the Keyboard and Mouse prefs stored at?

I have tried setting the mouse speed to as slow as possible, resetting PRAM, hunting pref...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Feb 1, 2005 at 06:10 AM, in macOS
What the heck is a computer to computer network, and who am I connecting to? 891 Views / 6 Replies  
Ok, this is bizarre, I can usually google stuff out pretty well, this is not happening to me, but to a friend, and I am damn curious.

Laptop, 10.3.7 current updates. Laptop is connected via a...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jan 8, 2005 at 04:53 AM, in Networking
nope 1,321 Views / 15 Replies  
nope
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Dec 16, 2004 at 04:45 AM, in Mac Desktops
How do I figure out what G5 I have 1,321 Views / 15 Replies  
Trying to get specs on my G5, I see on the apple.com website that they list:
Power Macintosh G5: Specifications - 2004.06
Power Macintosh G5 (Original): Specifications - 2003.07

Since the dual 2...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Dec 16, 2004 at 01:48 AM, in Mac Desktops
CUPS password issues 492 Views / 1 Replies  
If you go to 127.0.0.1:631 in a browser, you should get to the CUPS admin for your printers. Try to do to some pages and you are asked for a password. roots password does not work, which I have...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Dec 9, 2004 at 04:05 AM, in macOS
Kensingtons software is pretty good with one... 646 Views / 3 Replies  
Kensingtons software is pretty good with one major show stopper for me. If you click the resize corner of a window, app, safari etc, and if during that click you are moving the mouse, it will ignore...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Nov 27, 2004 at 07:07 AM, in Applications
Logitech control center 646 Views / 3 Replies  
I am not happy with the Kensington software, I use usb overdrive but it does not support chording or a curve on the mouse speed.

Can someone post screen shots of the Logitech software or email...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Nov 27, 2004 at 02:09 AM, in Applications
Mouse does not respond to click while in motion, test please 549 Views / 3 Replies  
I only really started noticing this rescently as a PC user friend of mine was always having trouble clicking on links and took many many clicks to get a link to load. It happens to me sometimes, but...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Nov 26, 2004 at 08:22 AM, in macOS
How do I know if I need the firmware update 671 Views / 2 Replies  
Power Mac G5 Firmware Updater, June 2004, how do I know if my Dual G5 needs this? I can not remember what month I got it in, plus, that could be off anyway since it may have been sitting in the...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Nov 18, 2004 at 10:07 PM, in Mac Desktops
Anyone else have printing problems after 10.3.6 573 Views / 2 Replies  
I went to a clients today, she had been printing fine to her USB printer, I think it was a HP photosmart something. She had ran the 10.3.6 updater, it would no longer print. I tried it direct USB...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Nov 17, 2004 at 02:08 AM, in macOS
Missing icon in System Prefs 514 Views / 4 Replies  
I can not seem to find the answer here, I know I read about it somewhere. If I open system prefs, mu CD & DVD icon is gone, the text is still beaneath it, it works fine, but the icon is no there.
...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Nov 11, 2004 at 04:37 AM, in macOS
Looking for artist 501 Views / 2 Replies  
Please excuse if this is the wrong forum.

I am looking to hire an artist that can create for me a single icon in the style of the Adium ducks. I thought this would be a good place to start since...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Sep 2, 2004 at 08:10 PM, in GUI Customization
This is horribly inaccurate info... That link... 1,193 Views / 17 Replies  
This is horribly inaccurate info...
That link will give you apache2, with apache, the latest version is not always the best, the 1.3 branch is still in very active development, they are 2 different...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jun 15, 2004 at 10:31 PM, in macOS
Here is what I suspect is happening... There... 986 Views / 8 Replies  
Here is what I suspect is happening...

There are a few ways to add a crontab to cron, once such way is to create a file, call it anything you want, such as 'mycrontab' then in the term to load it...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jun 15, 2004 at 10:13 PM, in macOS
macosrumors.com down 1,864 Views / 49 Replies  
Anyone know what the story is behind macosrumors.com being dead, at least to my connection, for a few weeks now?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 25, 2004 at 09:25 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I did do research, there is one problem, this is... 699 Views / 7 Replies  
I did do research, there is one problem, this is the only Mac USB printer that I know of that HP ever made. It is specifically deemed "no longer supported". All my searches for data on it yield...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 23, 2004 at 10:23 PM, in Networking
Ok, but this is a USB only printer, if I were to... 699 Views / 7 Replies  
Ok, but this is a USB only printer, if I were to get the 175x series, I assume those have a USB port on them and also a ethernet port?
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 21, 2004 at 08:17 PM, in Networking
HP LaserJet 4050 USB Mac Printer and Netowrking 699 Views / 7 Replies  
I am trying to get a printer set up for a client, it is the HP 4050 USB one, anyone have experience with this, I need to get it networkable, as in I need many machines to print to it.

It works now...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on May 20, 2004 at 09:34 PM, in Networking
You can not easily jail ssh, nor would you want... 620 Views / 10 Replies  
You can not easily jail ssh, nor would you want to anyway, your file system permissions should protect anyone from doing any harm anyway.
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Mar 28, 2004 at 03:11 AM, in macOS
While PureFtpd will work, perhaps there is not a... 620 Views / 10 Replies  
While PureFtpd will work, perhaps there is not a need for such a full fledged ftp server.

To do what the OP wanted, first, if it does not exist, create a file in /etc/ftpchroot and in that file...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Mar 27, 2004 at 11:36 PM, in macOS
Excessive afp traffic 513 Views / 0 Replies  
Here is a totally bizarre one. I have 2 computers, both run 10.3 and are fully up-to-date. On my G5, mount a afp share of the G3 imac. It is a 120GB Volume and has all my mp3 files on it as well...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jan 5, 2004 at 04:20 PM, in macOS
I had this happen once, it was simple to fix,... 612 Views / 3 Replies  
I had this happen once, it was simple to fix, just change it to something else. This assumes you have the root user enabled. Open your terminal, type su and enter in your root password.

now...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jan 4, 2004 at 07:01 PM, in macOS
Reading mesages in your terminal is not all that... 1,393 Views / 7 Replies  
Reading mesages in your terminal is not all that fun, you certainly can do it.

It is normal to see a message that you have mail. It means you have turned postfix on at some point, and you are now...
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Jan 4, 2004 at 06:59 PM, in macOS
Call me a dolt, but how do you get to the... 4,692 Views / 32 Replies  
Call me a dolt, but how do you get to the console, I have told it to use it in the startup of the game, but all I get is normal play, I see no special window.??
Posted by ScotHamedia, on Dec 23, 2003 at 03:27 AM, in Gaming
 
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