Re: boot from O X CD: able to grant user admin rights?
On Oct 1, 2005, at 6:30 PM, G-Books wrote: If I boot from the OS X CD, can I grant admin rights to an existing user, or just change the admin password for the existing admin? thanks, Brian I can't answer your question directly, but you don't need to boot off of the CD to do that. You can grant admin rights if you're booted from the HD and logged in as an administrator yourself. Just open the System Preferences, choose Accounts and click the box Allow user to administer this computer for any other user that you want to grant that right. Luis Sequeira -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: boot from O X CD: able to grant user admin rights?
on 02/10/05 06:18, Luis Sequeira at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I boot from the OS X CD, can I grant admin rights to an existing user, or just change the admin password for the existing admin? Yes, you can change it from the install CD. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] go flatline: v. [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] (also adjectival `flatlined'). 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline. 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Sync Mac to iDen/Nextel phones?
Does anyone have any tips for syncing contacts from Entourage or Apple Mail to the phone book of a Nextel iDen phone? I'm specifically using a Motorola i850 and a Pismo running OS 10.4.2. Motorola has a Windows-based iDen phonebook manager which will download the phonebook, and that file can be opened up in MS Access which invites some CSV file opportunities, but there is some coding in the phonebook file that I'm not sure what to do with. Even if there's something to sync from Windows Outlook or Outlook Express to the iDen phone - I can deal with that if I have to. (Mac to Windows to phone.) Any tips, experience or pointers to sources of info would be most appreciated. -Sam -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: airport express
On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Clark Martin wrote: At 9:24 PM -0400 10/2/05, Dennis Goglin wrote: Ok...I've downloaded macstumbler. Thank you. From what I see I'm the only one on channel one. The other activity is pretty much on channels 6 and 9. Curious though...the signal strength is only in the medium range. Even when I move over and sit right on top of the airport express it barely reaches the lowest extreme of what is considered a strong signal. Strong being 70 and above. I'll keep an eye on this for a while and try to see what happens when my network disappears all together. I'm starting to suspect there's something wrong with my airport express. It's been like this since I got it, but with no way to be sure of it's performance (that I know of) I've always assumed it was something else. I'll also try moving it to another power outlet. My condo has been wireless via Airport for over two years now. I've had a similar problem that you are experiencing. What isn't discussed as much as it should be, books, of all things, can diminish your signal. My ABS (snow) was hooked up in the livingroom originally, and my PowerBook spent most of it's time in my at-home office. The problem I had was that the signal went through a wall that has a ceiling to floor bookshelf filled to the gills with books. While this isn't a frequency issue, for some reason, it will decrease the signal strength. I was only reading an average of three bars via my Airport card. I ended up moving my ABS into my bedroom so the signal goes through a wall with very few obstacles. Since then, according to MacStumbler, my signal strength is an average of 70 to 101. Also, you want to make sure that there isn't any metal objects near your base station. Metal is another less talked about interference problem. As far as 2.4 gig home phones go, my phone base is on the opposite side of the condo from the base station. . . a simple fix, with the kitchen not even being in line with the wireless signal. The best channels, in my experience, are 8 and 11. Good luck! Zoltan the Tech Man -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: sluggish PowerBook
My PowerBook is running more and more sluggishly (is that a word?). I run Disk Utilities and OnyX probably weekly. What other routine stuff should I be doing? Thanks, Claire Claire, What model of PowerBook? How much RAM? What are you using it for? Have you tried login out and then login in? -Laurent. My PowerBook is the July 2004 17 1.5 GHz with 2 GB RAM. About a month ago I loaded VirtualPC and Windows XP Pro (the real estate situation), but it was sluggish before then. I manage a website for an athletics association using Freeway Pro. I have 1088 songs in iTunes and 4866 photos in iPhoto. It's my home computer that also goes everywhere with me, such as taking notes at meetings, etc. I burned over a thousand photos onto three CDs and still have those burn folders on my desktop -- does stuff on your desktop slow down a computer? I use AppleWorks for word processing, draw docs, and spreadsheets. Last May I created a 29-minute DVD movie (using iPhotos and some QuickTime clips) that is still on my computer. I'm not really a power user as far as PhotoShop, etc. Regarding login out and login in, I've NEVER done that. I will give it a try. How could that affect speed? Thanks, Claire -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: sluggish PowerBook
On 03/10/05 14:20, Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My PowerBook is running more and more sluggishly (is that a word?). I run Disk Utilities and OnyX probably weekly. What other routine stuff should I be doing? Thanks, Claire Claire, What model of PowerBook? How much RAM? What are you using it for? Have you tried login out and then login in? -Laurent. My PowerBook is the July 2004 17 1.5 GHz with 2 GB RAM. About a month ago I loaded VirtualPC and Windows XP Pro (the real estate situation), but it was sluggish before then. I manage a website for an athletics association using Freeway Pro. I have 1088 songs in iTunes and 4866 photos in iPhoto. It's my home computer that also goes everywhere with me, such as taking notes at meetings, etc. I burned over a thousand photos onto three CDs and still have those burn folders on my desktop -- does stuff on your desktop slow down a computer? I use AppleWorks for word processing, draw docs, and spreadsheets. Last May I created a 29-minute DVD movie (using iPhotos and some QuickTime clips) that is still on my computer. I'm not really a power user as far as PhotoShop, etc. Regarding login out and login in, I've NEVER done that. I will give it a try. How could that affect speed? I would think that login out then login in could possibly help. The system should be able to get rid of a few swap files used to manage virtual memory. I have 1.5GB in my 17 and the number of swap files still grow consistently. Login out forces many processes to exit which helps the system to get rid of unneeded swap files. How long have you been running your PowerBook since the last reboot? Also, how much free space do you have on your hard disk? That could also be a factor. I recently started experiencing brief freezes on mine a few weeks ago. For 4 or 5 seconds, everything would freeze. I later discovered that my internal hard disk had developed bad sectors. Did backup my startup partition and did format the partition before pulling everything back. Not a single freeze since then. BTW, when you run Onyx, what are you doing? What operations are you executing from Onyx? -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA Usual disclaimers apply *** -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
