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Mac OS X quality is definitely declining but you sound like you hit something else. I would try trashing the Preferences for the particular app. Make sure the disk verify is good and permissions are good. If you have the patience, boot from the CD and 'repair' the drive. If it doesn't need...

It sounds like your disk died. Even if you magically get some small signs of life, I would be very afraid that you are living on borrowed time. If you are up to it, find a page via google that tells how to take about your laptop and just unplug and replug in the drive to start with. If that...

I have Airtunes and it works fine for music but when I play podcasts through iTunes it does not play over AirTunes. Is there any way to change this?

In the past, an application's preferences file would get corrupted and the fix was to trash the file and start over. I thought that this was one of the weakest points on Mac OS X. They needed a more bullet proof way for applications to update their preference files. I've noticed that I have...

Thanks. I'll forward this back to the shop that made the CD.

What is an "optical drive" (other than a CD of DVD drive which is what the Mac has)?

I have two Mac's -- roughly 2007 Mac Book Pro's. One is rather beat up. Both are running the latest 10.6.4 I got a CD with data on it from a film processing shop and put it into the Mac and the Mac eventually gave me the same prompt as you get when you put in a fresh, unburnt, writable CD...

A "Trojan" is always a real threat on any computer. Don't assume that a virus or worm is the only way to attack. I read this article this past week: http://w2spconf.com/2010/papers/p27.pdf It illustrates that the threats can come not to your computer but to your online accounts directly...

I thought I might chip in... A "virtual core" or what is often called a virtual thread is simply a second set of registers. I say "simply" not to down play it or to say that it is easy to do but to indicate that this is a simple way to think of it. These processors for a long time operate...

My system is hanging for about a minute or so. Then it recovers and continues for a while. I suspect that it is a hardware error. I can't find a hardware error log. Nothing is showing up in my system.log except for spam notices from amavis. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to...

Someone asked me to post steps to recreate this. It is hard to do so this may not happen all the time but it seems to be a quick way to make it happen for me. 1) Download this Power Instruction Set Architecture Version 2.06 If you want to see what you are downloading before you click, it is...

I still have the same question... what does "condition: check battery" mean? Anyone know?

Anyone know what this means? I do "About this Mac", then pick "More Info", then pick "Power". In the Battery Information, there is a small stanza Health Information: Cycle Count: 249, Condition: Check Battery I've done the Apple Portables: Calibrating your computer's battery for best...

The new emacs flipped the command and alt keys making the command key be "super" and the alt/option key the "meta" key. It is (of course) configurable if you know the options. It is the "ns-alternate-modify" and "ns-command-modifier". Both are customizable. Do "customize". Then click...

I've not used it so take what I say with a grain of salt. I was / am doing a port of it to AIX but that project has not progressed very far. FUSE appears as a file system type in the virtual file system table. It ties into the virtual file system level inside the kernel and then sends the...

The cure to this is FUSE. It should be able to do read/write ftp, ssh, etc etc file systems. I've not used it but I've poked at it a bit. A google search yields some Mac projects to port it.

I have this issue too. I'm 99% sure that I do not have anything blocked. I'm running 10.4 server. This happened when Leopard came out. I assume Apple just abandoned 10.4.

Huh??? I thought it was part of the http chit chat back and forth and ultimately it comes out of your language settings. It would be an interesting test to see. If you go to these other countries to see if the prices change.

In 10.4 days, when I got an invitation into mail, I'd double click it or click it and iCal would open up and there would be a thing for me to click that said "accept" and a reply email would be sent out. In 10.5, I can't find how to do that. Is it gone? Do I have something set up wrong? It...