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    managing power management

    greetings, I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions or tips/scripts/tools/etc for managing the power management settings of a group of computers - a mix of g5 & intel, all running 10.4.x, 10.3 server. specifically, to control the time to sleep, and a wake schedule. i've recently...
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    Changing the "registered to" person in Office 2004?

    It works. Can't believe I missed that! Here I was trying to hack through preference files and it was just a simple setting in the preferences I overlooked. Doesn't change the "registered to" name but does change the name in track changes which was all I really needed... thanks!
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    Changing the "registered to" person in Office 2004?

    So I've got a bunch of Macs out with folks here at work that were prepared with Carbon Copy Cloner, so they all started off with exact HD copies. The machines all have Office 2004 installed, and when I was making my master disk image was not thinking and put in a "generic" name (something like...
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    Selectively viewing Mail.app e-mails in plaintext?

    That does seem to work - certainly a less painful way than I was doing it... thanks for the tip.
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    Selectively viewing Mail.app e-mails in plaintext?

    Ok, here's the problem: I'm signed up to a couple of important e-mail lists that send e-mail in HTML format (and there is no option from them to receive only plain text messages.) The font size they use makes the messages microscopic on my 12" PB so I'm constantly clicking the "Bigger" text...
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    Dead iBook... help?

    Some quick background info... I have a 2001 Dual USB iBook G3/500. I didn't have it much longer than a week or two before I cracked it open and performed the resistor mods to up the bus speed to 100MHz (thus making it a G3/600.) Its been fine for 2 years until recently. The machine always...
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    iTunes freezing on CD imports

    I sampled with a Griffin iMic (http://www.griffintechnology.com/) into Sound Studio (its on Versiontracker) with my iBook because I was too lazy to bring the CD player closer to my Powermac. Definitely not an audiophile's dream but it does the trick. There seems to be a real lacking in the...
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    iTunes freezing on CD imports

    No problem :-) I went through all this stuff myself about a week ago trying to rescue a badly scratched disc. Also turned out I used a technics cd player from 1986 and it played through the disc flawlessly so I ended up sampling it and then burning myself a new scratch-free copy. As for...
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    CPU affinity

    Its not the same thing as nice. CPU affinity means selecting WHICH cpu does which thread. Its only something you consider on multiple-cpu machines. Nice changes the priority of a PROCESS. Processes are made up of one or more threads. Affinity is which physical CPU processes which thread...
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    CPU affinity

    I've already looked that over but can't find anything to do with affinity.. it doesn't even display information related to which CPU is doing what other than the overall load on each. I also noticed the unix command "pset" is missing from Unix side that would normally let you set the affinity...
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    iTunes freezing on CD imports

    Shouldn't be different... Macintosh computers pull the audio data over the IDE interface the same way they rip the data.. (PCs differ in that most of them play back the audio through an analog interface but read the data differently.) So if you can play them in theory you should be able to rip...
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    Where'd my startup chimes go?

    On a related note is there a way to just disable the startup chime? I have my computer hooked up to a large stereo system and if I forget to turn down the volume before rebooting it scares the crap out of me, not to mention rattles the windows and probably wakes up my neighbors when it happens...
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    VNC Mac --> Win

    You definitely can't do it with RDC, but with VNC there is a way to disable input on the client (meaning your keyboard & mouse movements aren't sent to the server) which is effectively an observe mode. I know the Windows clients have a checkbox to disable the input but I'm not sure off hand...
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    VNC Mac --> Win

    Sounds like you have plenty of bandwidth to go around, so you're probably more limited by CPU/video speed. VNC is pretty hardware intensive and once you reach the threshold of having enough bandwidth to do things, the CPU becomes the bottleneck. Some tips to increase speed - make sure you set...
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    Sound Studio to MP3?

    Second time I'm pushing this today but its nice software... try LameBrain on versiontracker. If all you need is basic encoding iTunes probably does the trick, but LameBrain uses the unix based lame encoding engine and gives you a lot more flexibility over things like bitrate and encoding...
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    CPU affinity

    On a multi-processor Windows NT based machine you can bring up task manager, look at the list of running processes, right click and use the "Set Affinity" option to tell which processes to use which CPU. I'm wondering if there is something equivalent on OS X so that I could force certain...
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    find, tr, sort, perl ????

    find - finds files on your drive tr - substitutes/deletes characters in a string of text sort - sorts things... perl - perl is a scripting language, the perl process is the interpreter, it doesn't "do" anything on its own, you have to feed it a perl script.. With these commands combined it...
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    iTunes freezing on CD imports

    Perhaps its a hardware (CD drive) problem? Can you hear your CD-ROM still spinning even after iTunes freezes? Can you listen to the track where the freeze occurs without problems? I'm just thinking maybe when the laser in your drive gets out near the outer edge of the disc its having trouble...
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    iTunes causes full system hang! help!

    Thanks for the suggestions but I repair permissions on a regular basis and knowing what repair permissions actually does its pretty safe to say it has nothing to do with it. I also doubt its related to a specific mp3 anywhere because like I said a song might give me trouble once, and after a...
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