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wow OS X has been nothing but problems...

When I install programs like Microsof Office. OSX gives them my full name... WTF... no bitch. How do I edit off my last name from the OS X system? It required one at registration and now it's happy to give it to anyone.

I deleted my library list because there were duplicates. Ive now deleted the duplicates. so how do I make itunes ask me if I want to add stuff to the library, as when I first started up the program?

I really don't want to do a re-install of leopard because then it needs another gigabyte of updates and that would take several days on my puny connection. I really dont want to do a reinstall simply because I can't access some websites..

I cannot access Yahoo nor Google from my mac. I created another account and it could access it? Which was weird. It is not my dns, I changed from my comcast dns to opendns and it's still the same thing. Edit: google.com is only accessible for a short while on the new account but after awhile it...

Hey thanks for linking a guide for Tiger when I was talking about Leopard.

I have a macbookpro but my friend has recent the black macbook. I tried to startup bluetooth and do a file transfer but it doesn't work. It just scans and scans, loads and loads, but nothing ever happens. I successfully paired the computers, but they are not "connected". I tried to right click...

So it's crap, thanks for the help.

Hi, I was wondering about File Vault stability in Leopard? I do not have it enabled but I remember in Tiger it would lose my settings and bookmarks every couple of weeks, I would have to regularly export them which is annoying. I do have backups, but since my bookmark folder is modified and...

What can I use to make a full system image? So I don't have to reinstall apple released updates again?

Is there a 3rd party program or anything that can do this? What about applescript?

So what am I going to have to get if I want to get a wireless card from a phone carrier? So I can have internet access wherever I'm at? Are there carriers that have a card for the macbook pro? or am I going to have to lug around an adaptor? If thats the case, what do you recommend?

I have a macbook pro and there is a slot on the left side, I think it's for cards? But no regular cards would fit, what does fit? What kind of things do you plug in there? I have no idea.

When I shut down, filevault asks me if I want to save the data, and I find this dialog annoying, of course I want to and everytime I shutdown, I have to wait for the dialog to pop up then hit return. HOw can I make it so filevault wont ask me anymore and do it automatically?

Ok it works now. I used it as a normal user and yes in fact I had to do the port forwarding thing on my router for it to work. This is great thanks for the help. I think I was also doing it wrong by using my public IP and not the internal IP, would it matter?

Hi, I am attempting to encrypt web traffic on my mac, I have tiger. I am trying to follow this guide: http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-session-with-an-ssh-socks-proxy-237227.php But it does not work properly. I am not sure if I am supposed to...