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I had a fruity Installer application. Not sure how it got messed up, but the result was the same as what you're talking about. I couldn't install iTunes because my installer app was mangled. So I replaced it with a copy from another machine, and that didn't make any difference till I...

Bummer. I've upgraded 3 machines and haven't seen anything like that. Might be time to run a disk utility and make sure your backups are fresh. :-(

yep, that's what I get for most of my traffic. Haven't looked into it to see if anything else is necessary to initiate the sharing, but that seems to be the port used. tcp. No doubt rendezvous is involved in the location. Finally, it's been like a friggin' year since Apple said they'd have...

Another tidbit, which cost me $0.99 - CD encodings are .m4a, apple store downloads are .m4p (protected files) not sure how protected the files are, but the contract you have to agree to says that what you have is part of an ongoing service provided by Apple and that at any time in the future...

perhaps what you want is to play something outside of Keynote? A standalone mp3 in iTunes? Perhaps you're looking for something crazy high end, like Macromedia Director? Sorry I'm not much use, haven't gotten to play with keynote yet.

OK, well I said I'd check back. My old test song that I used to determine that I needed 160k mp3s instead of 128k ones ... well using that I can't accurately distinguish between aiff, 160k mp3, 128k m4a (from iTunes) or 96k or 160k .mp4 (from QT Pro) Scrambling through my CD's for new...

command line it sudo -s (for a root prompt) cd / du -sk * du -sk * keep issuing du -sk until you see what's growing. As a normal user you don't have permission to see all the files; as root, you should. If you find which folder it is, cd into that folder, and issue du -sk * again...

QT exports aac audio as .mp4 and allows for levels of quality and options for streaming. I know that iTunes is leveraging the QT libraries, but what settings is it using? Can I change them? Why does it name the files .m4a? What's an m4a? Is that an mp4 + picture and lyric data? It's all...

Assert Crossover.cable == Patch.cable Assert failed, line 0. A cross-over cable is not a patch cable. I'm not certain that this is the issue at hand, but the G4 400 is the green button G4 sawtooth variety with 10/100 ethernet, and not the newer white button gmac 10/100/1000 models. I'm...

set up to NOT use home directories? That's the part that intrigues me. So these users who log in, do they have a home directory in which their apps can write their preferences? As for automounting an asp re-export of an nfs share, did you mean AFP? In which case, it's just an AFP share and...

The reason faster machines are always accompanied by slower applications is that users don't get faster, but programmers are expected to achieve more. So programmers depend more and more on computers being able to interpret high level code so that the programmers don't have to work for nine...

It seems that the Finer has not been significantly improved in this release. Which bodes well for this Finder version being largely abandoned and the developers working on a whole new one for 10.3 - one can only hope. Me and my 3 hard drives seem to feel slightly more abused than usual by...

The line up on Apple's home page right goes in price from lowest to highest. $500 DVD Studio, $1000 FCP, $5000 Shake. Are they limiting their pricing to plain roman numerals? And what is 5000 in Roman Numerals anyway? D = 500, M = 1000, ? = 5000. The Shake product also fills the 10,000...

Granted, there are more authoritative people with more in depth answers on this, but in short ... nope. ACL's are not Mac OS X's thing. OS X likes the simple unix permissions scheme. This is inherent in the 2 HD formats typically tossed around with OS X, HFS+ and UFS. ACL support should be...

I have heard some flaky things about the old ones, but you can't get those any more anyway. I haven't heard anything bad about the new ones. (anything that comes with an ADC connector) I have heard that they scratch kind of easily if you knock one over and drag it face down across the corner...

Yeah, let those freaks get on their MSN and get off the open internet. Let them swim in their own little proprietary pool. It's funny to see a company that is where it is because it's superior competition stayed too closed now trying to close itself down. It's one thing to not learn from your...

yeah, really, RMS is taken. Find a different acronym.

Check your firewall settings? su or sudo and run tcpdump -q to see what's getting sent and recieved.

I'll sum it up. Our machines are great for gaming. The more expensive ones are for the really hardcore gamers. ;-)

So I'm looking for an aftermarket add-on or upgrade card for my mac. So I might go for a dual head AGP card to replace my original Radeon, or I might get a PCI card to run my second monitor. Since my ATI XClaim 128 went south I really miss the second montitor deal. Anyway, I wen to ATI...