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Hello, I bought my ibook G4 a week ago or so. From the second day of usage it has shows this weird problem: When I reboot the laptop, it freezes and stays in an undefined state until the battery is fully charged. The second that the battery light turn green, I press the start button and the...

Hello, I notice that my user is in the "admin" group. Is it secure to do everything as "user" ? Should I use GUI's instead of the terminal window to start up services like sshd for example, or add new users? I am not very familiar with windows either, I dont like them much. I use a Linux...

Hello, I just bought my first mac os x. Its an ibook G4.. hence I have no expirience with mac. I would love to change my hostname but, I dont know how to do it, can someone help me? And a second quick question, how do I activate the root account? Cause I cant understand if I am a user or...