At 2:23 PM -0800 1/2/2011, DLC wrote:
Apparently, he wants to replicate the "lock screen" action found on Windows (I believe it is the MS key plus l - I really am not sure what that does except maybe do a quick screen blank which requires password entry upon wakeup) - short of logging out or invoking the screen saver, I was not aware of such an action on OS X (his unit is on 10.4.11).
I've seen some 3rd party applets that will do a blank screen; check MacUpdate. *shrug* IMO, better to just enable the password to get out of the screen saver. Then the user can shove the mouse into the activate hot-corner and it's ON.
His report on command-option-q is above, but I cannot replicate it on my Tiger iBook.
cmd-opt-q does nothing on my Mac either. cmd-shift-q is logout tho.
The "popular" You Tube stuttering issue - again, he is using Fire Fox (latest flavor I presume) in OS 10.4.11 on a 733MHz Dig. Audio, which is equipped w/ 1.5 Gb RAM and a 64 Mb NVidia "TwinView" video card pulled from a 800MHz DP QuickSilver.
The main cause of YouTube stutter is network throughput. On my QuickSilver, I've seen YouTube's flash go smoothly when I'm getting a steady 800+ Kbps throughput. But if it dips lower, things start stuttering badly.
Try adding "&fmt=5" to the YouTube urls. This tells YouTube to serve up a lower compression / resolution video, that is often easier for older machines to render.
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