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| Inserting non-standard diacritics
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Does anyone know how I can place a circumflex above a lowercase italic p - as in the symbol used for a sample proportion. (command-i only appears to work with vowels). BTW I'm using a British...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Dec 9, 2005 at 12:41 PM, in Applications |
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| Precision Recall - federated search/research
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I was wondering if anyone has tried Precision Recall (http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/10/25/precision.recall.released/) and what they thought of it, or if anyone knows more information about it than...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Oct 27, 2005 at 11:44 AM, in Applications |
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| /Library/CFMSupport
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I was just clearing out some old files from my Library folders and came across a file in /Library/CFMSupport called edb1drv which is a shared library (Version 5.0.0. (worldwide) Simple Software...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Oct 2, 2005 at 08:33 AM, in macOS |
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| My Network (Airport) setting is set to "by...
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My Network (Airport) setting is set to "by default join: preferred network: my network" and is set to ask before joining an open network and require the admin password before changing wireless...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Sep 26, 2005 at 11:01 AM, in Networking |
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| From ADC:
system keychain
A keychain that...
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From ADC:
system keychain
A keychain that belongs to the system as a whole, rather than to a particular user. System keychains are usually used by system daemons and services, but can also be...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Sep 2, 2005 at 07:26 AM, in macOS |
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| Thanks but I know this about keychain etc., but...
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Thanks but I know this about keychain etc., but what is unclear is what the System keychain is for when only my Airport Network Password was stored in it. Furthermore, even though my Mac OS X login...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Sep 1, 2005 at 12:33 PM, in macOS |
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| System Keychain
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Can anyone tell me what the "System" Keychain is used for?
On my machines the only thing stored in it is my Airport network password. When I tried to view the password stored in it my keychain...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Sep 1, 2005 at 12:07 PM, in macOS |
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| Logic Board problem?
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I noticed my PowerBook (15" 1.5 GHz 1GB RAM (512MB each slot) was running slow after I updated to 10.4.2. I checked the system profiler and it only found the 512MB RAM chip in the upper slot. I...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Jul 13, 2005 at 05:01 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| This is the new security featrure in Tiger which...
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This is the new security featrure in Tiger which attempts to prevent malicious programmes from being run at startup. I don't know what application is featured in the dialogue box - but if you don't...
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 9, 2005 at 10:25 AM, in macOS |
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| Tiger Disk Images - Major Bug
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The developer of SuperDuper! (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html) is warning of a major bug in Tiger that he has reproduced.
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 6, 2005 at 07:39 AM, in macOS |
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| Disk Utility - Erase free space (Zero, 7 and 35 pass)
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Disk Utility now allows you to erase free space on your hard drive: Either zero out space, 7-Pass or 35-Pass.
Disk Utility > Select your HD > Erase tab > Erase Free Space
Undeleted files are...
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 5, 2005 at 06:06 PM, in macOS |
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| It would make sense to me - especially since the...
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It would make sense to me - especially since the Finder Spotlight search seems inacapable of searching for mail messages - however, having had a good look, I don't think it is possible to save...
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 4, 2005 at 09:40 AM, in macOS |
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| One way round the problem of not being able to...
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One way round the problem of not being able to search for mail messages with Spotlight in the Finder would be to use Automator to build a Spotlight workflow, and then save the workflow as a finder...
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 4, 2005 at 09:22 AM, in macOS |
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| I'm not sure why you would encounter strange...
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I'm not sure why you would encounter strange results. The method I detailed allows you to refine a search down to a specific attribute if you desire.
I should have been clear that I wasn't posting...
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 4, 2005 at 09:05 AM, in macOS |
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| No, you can include many different kinds of data...
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No, you can include many different kinds of data such as word documents, ical appointments, address book entries etc. You can refine what you are searching for in the Finder/Desktop by clicking on...
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 4, 2005 at 08:36 AM, in macOS |
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| Tiger Firewall Advanced settings
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I use an Airport Express for my wireless network, and since activating the Firewall log in the Sharing Preferences in Tiger, it has been logging incoming network traffic trying to access my machine....
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 4, 2005 at 07:27 AM, in macOS |
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| <snip>
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<snip>
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 4, 2005 at 06:59 AM, in macOS |
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| New Mail feature
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You can now move Mail messages that you have replied to to different mail boxes (and move the sent messages to different mailboxes) and Mail will find the reply you have sent when you click on the...
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| Posted by m.brown, on May 3, 2005 at 07:50 AM, in macOS |
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| Ordering Spotlight search results
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Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but you can change the order of the results delivered by Spotlight by dragging a category in the Spotlight system preference search result tab.
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| Posted by m.brown, on Apr 30, 2005 at 07:45 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: Re: Missing mail.app
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Thanks for the reply and fixes. I can't be 100% certain that I did not accidentally move Mail to the trash and empty the trash. The directory structure was fine. In the end I decided to go for an...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Mar 29, 2005 at 11:57 AM, in macOS |
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| Missing mail.app
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I just turned on my PowerBook running 10.3.8 after a normal shutdown last night, and I've noticed that Mail.app is missing from my machine - it was there last night but now it has disappeared from my...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Mar 25, 2005 at 07:14 AM, in macOS |
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| If you click on "Show Completed Jobs" it should...
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If you click on "Show Completed Jobs" it should display what you have faxed and when, along with information if the job was cancelled or completed. Not ideal, but at least you can confirm if the fax...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Dec 13, 2004 at 03:55 PM, in macOS |
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| MDCPd process
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Does anyone know what MDCPd is? It's running as an admin process and taking up 80+% of my CPU.
[EDIT] On further inspection it's found here:
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| Posted by m.brown, on Nov 24, 2004 at 01:11 PM, in macOS |
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| "I've never been overdrawn" "message"
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It's bizzare. I was just listening to the Bush vs. Kerry debate and over my PowerBook speakers comes "I've never been overdrawn" in a british accent (I am in the UK).
I have Bluetooth built-in and...
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| Posted by m.brown, on Oct 6, 2004 at 05:27 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: New iMac is up on Apple Site!!
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Ha ha! Look at this image from the UK HE store: new iMac (http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/8352/346/store.apple.com/Catalog/uk_inst/Images/cp_top_indi_imac_20040831.jpg)
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| Posted by m.brown, on Aug 31, 2004 at 07:11 AM, in Mac Desktops |
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| Security in perspective
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From BBC news (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3840101.stm)
I think that puts that "security" thing into perspective.
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| Posted by m.brown, on Jun 25, 2004 at 01:00 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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