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    forgot my root password. Im obviosuly dumb.

    YUS! sudo passwd root does, infact work for changing the root password!!! Thanks so much everyone=) Rekindled my love for this forum:p
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    Boosting laptop sound volume?

    I've got a new 17" G4 Laptop and i find my self often straining to listen to anything through these speakers. I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to boost the volume. Weather it be through manipulation of an EQ or anything like that. Any help would be much appreciated.
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    forgot my root password. Im obviosuly dumb.

    I havn't used my root password in a while, but i just found my self needing to kill -9 a task, and i know that i need to be root to do it. So i su'd. But i forgot my password!:mad: Im kinda of weary in getting help with this because i know that asking the question "how do i get my root password...
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    .asf and .wmv?

    Where could i find more information about MPlayer?
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    .asf and .wmv?

    Is there a program for os x that can play .asf's and .wmv's?
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    Crack smoking 17" powerbook?

    This is a new power book, so it has 512mb of ram, and its been my fault but i havn't looked to see the load on my system at the times of these. But its not so much when an application is load, as when its been running for a few mins. What seems to happen is it will load up just fine, preform its...
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    Crack smoking 17" powerbook?

    Within the past week, my powerbook has gotten DRAMTICLY slower. For the simplest of tasks, Quicktime, for instance, it will sit there, with under 20% cpu usage displaying the OS X wait icon( spinny circle) After 5 min. of inactivity i decided to force quit, and sure enouh the application's name...
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    Sharing between XP and OS X not going as planned

    I have the work group all set up on both sides, windows and mac. But they're just not workin together. The only thing that seems to work is typing in the address. Which is perfectly fine with me, now that i have at least some method of accessing files on my windows PC from my mac. On a different...
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    Sharing between XP and OS X not going as planned

    well. Wow. That worked. I can't beleive it really. But now is the next thing=) How do i do it the other way around? from windows to mac?
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    execute a script by clicking

    I've tryed using the Script editor and saving it as executable only, but when i go to use it, it still opens up the script editor. And how much does the applescript studio cost?
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    Sharing between XP and OS X not going as planned

    Well, from the mac to the PC the ping works fine, 0% packet loss. So it appears that there is a connect, but something isn't cooperating. Also N45800 how would i set the apple as a FTP? If my problem doesn't get sorted out that is
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    execute a script by clicking

    is there any way i could make an apple script click executable? i tryed make it into an application the way someone said earlyer, but that didn't seem to work. Any suggestions??
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    Laptop Spare Parts

    Well mainly i want to change the color of the apple, I'm pretty sure that the paint used can be removed with alcohol but i dont want to ruin the only one i have, so if i could get a replacement to work on, that would be the best course of action. If i can't get a replacement part, im just not...
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    Laptop Spare Parts

    I'm looking for a good place to get replacment parts for my 17" powerbook. Mainly the outer casing. I'm thinking about doing some customization to the outside of my laptop so if the outer casing isn't too expensive i'd like to get one and work on that, so as not to completly mess up me laptop:P
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    Somewhat aggresive script

    hmmm im wondering if i have a older version maybe, because when i run a recordable app, it registers that just fine, and quiting it, but it doesnt record resizing and possition, and ideas on why?
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    Somewhat aggresive script

    I've been tryin to make a apple script that essencialy remebers window positions and stores them in variables. I dont have the coding knowhow quite yet, so i was hopeing you guys could help. What im looking to do is when the script is executed to have it bring up a window asking what windows...
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    Using applescript to open web browser and go to a site

    safari doesn't support record=\ and neither does IE
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    Using applescript to open web browser and go to a site

    I've been messing around with AppleScripts and i thought it would be nice to make a script that would open a window and go to a spacific site for me, but i can't figure it out. So far all i have is: tell application "Safari" activate make new window end tell This is extreamly...
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    Sharing between XP and OS X not going as planned

    I can't find the ips of the windows computers=\ Where should i be looking?
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