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  1. markpatterson

    Recent Items Menus Have Stopped Working On My Imac

    Recently I noticed that on my iMac, running El Capitan, the Open Recent menu has stopped getting updated, both in the Apple menus, and for apps, and both for the Open Recent menu item, and the list that pops up from the Dock. I checked in System Preferences | General | Recent Items, and it is...
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    How to get itunesU on imac to show up on ipad

    Hi, I have got itunes sharing going from my imac to my wife's MacBook, and there is a sub menu on the macbook under SHARED | Mark's Music for iTunesU, with everything there. But in the ipad Video app, under itunesU there are very few of the videos available. I want to watch the WWDC 2012...
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    How to upgrade my external drive

    Hi, I have a 1TB drive doing Time Machine and also storing my Aperture data. It is getting full, and I have bought a 3TB drive to replace it. How do I make Time Machine and Aperture both continue as before when i copy everything over? TIA Mark Patterson
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    Disk utility won't let me increase partitions

    Hi, I am putting my photos on a Maxtor with 500 GB. I initially just allocated an 80 GB partition when I wasn't sure how I was going to use it, with another back up partition. Now that 80 GB partition is too small. So I have tried Disk Utility, which seems to let me grow the current...
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    iTunes won't run for me!

    I was downloading a podcast, ejected the ipod from itunes, removed the ipod and itunes locked up. I had to force-quit it twice, and when I got back into it I got this error msg: The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file. I have...
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    How to get PHP running on 10.4

    Hi, I only recently upgraded my eMac to use 10.4, and now I find that PHP isn't working when I try to test a php page in Safari. It was working fine a few months ago. Can anyone explain how to do this? TIA, Mark
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    iBook has stopped connecting to airport.

    Hi, I hope someone can help. We have an emac and an ibook (and a windows machine) on our network. Today the ibook software updater applied the latest security patch, and an ipod update I think. That required a reboot, and since then the airport in the top menu has been registring zero...
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    Why can't I add artwork to an ogg?

    Hi, I just added an ogg file to my iTunes. But I can't add artwork to it. Same problem as with this guy: http://emandtim.no-ip.com/tim/weblog/2004/12/itunes_album_ar.php. Why ever not? One possible clue is that the Info describes it as Quicktime movie file. Any insights here? Regards...
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    How to make Apache serve to the internet

    Hi, I have Apache going, and it works over out local network. I have a cable modem connected to an 802.11b airport connected to an 8-way switch. There is an iBook using wireless network, and an eMac and a windows machine using the swtich. How can I use Apache to server up pictures and...
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    How do you share internet for email with the firewall on?

    Hi, I just used this technique: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107653. My brother has a windows laptop connected to my wife's ibook via ethernet. It let us use an ibook to provide web browsing with the firewall on, but we had to turn the firewall off to enable the email program...
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    How can I set up my pre-extreme Airport to use IPSec?

    Hi, I've read a number of scary stories about how poor WEP is, and that seems to be the best that the old Airports offer. Could I make it do IPSec? Would that stop the possibility of war-drivers getting on the internet via my AP? ==== Mark
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    Next problem getting PostgreSQL to work

    I've been following through this page: http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html to install PostgreSQL on my eMac, but after solving one problem on this forum, I've come encountered another. When I try to execute 2 commands, the results are different from what that page...
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    How to add a new user that I can log in as with "su -l"

    Hi, I'm trying to get into PostgreSQL. I've installed it, following the instructions here: http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html Where I had to add a user I added it with NetInfo Manager, following the page that postgres site referred to...
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    How do I run a Python script?

    I would like to get past this hurdle: How do I do hello world in a Python script. I took the advice of http://developer.apple.com/unix/crossplatform.html, where they recommend doing this: #!/usr/bin/env python print "Hello!" I saved that as hello.py, chmod +x'ed it, tried to run it and...
  15. markpatterson

    Mouse over events stop

    This isn't a show stopper, just annoying. Once a week or so on my machine, a 2-month old eMac superdrive with 512 MB, the mouse over events suddenly stop: no more dock magnification, tool tips or menu items going blue under the mouse. If it shows up in my login, the others are affected as...
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    How to get unicode into MySQL from Cocoa

    Hi, I am working on an app that would suit the international market. I'm getting into MySQL at present. It seems to be suitable, since it claims to support unicode from 4.1: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Charset-Unicode.html Since the Cocoa app kit supports unicode, I need to know the...
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    How to make iPhoto compose for Thunderbird?

    Hi, I often send pictures to our friends and family. But I find that when I send a number of pictures to my mother who uses MS Outlook Express (on Win ME), she can't see more than the first one or so. But if I use Mozilla with a number of attachments she can see them. So I was thinking, is...
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    Getting XP to connect to MySQL database on Mac

    Hi, I am experimenting with MySQL. I would like to use the Mac as a database server. I have managed to get the mac to look at a test DB on XP, and on the mac I have created a new database. But when I try from XP to connect to the one on the mac, I get the error: Host 10.0.1.2 is not...
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