Re: How should a family of five share one computer?

On Nov 22, 10:42 pm, "Tina K." wrote: > > And set a firmware password. > > Tina Setting a firmware password introduces some admin complexity. A Google search shows that people can have problems doing it correctly. Here is Apple's article on how to proceed. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352 W

Re: G4 Sawtooth problem

I'd bet OP meant encode and burn. I still love my MDD G4 (so 1.25Ghz) and saw 2 hours encode time per hour of DV. On Nov 21, 3:13 pm, hecowan wrote: > Did you mean burns DVDs in 5 minutes? 5 hours seems a little slow. > > I put a 22x DVD burner in my Quicksilver, it burns DVDs pretty fast. > > Fi

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

On Nov 23, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Dan wrote: > hum. Things are getting messy. > Maybe or just another fork in the road. > An interesting read... > > > >

Re: DVD, Webcam, Pix, and Images: why are they soooo different

On 2010/11/16 09:18, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: DVD's are encoded via MPEG2, which is an asymmetric codec: it's significantly less computationally intensive to decode versus encode. (this is how it was developed to be, to allow cheap DVD players. Also why it takes iDVD all night to encode

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

On 2010/11/23 08:32, Dan so eloquently wrote: hum. Things are getting messy. Corporate America has peed in the pool yet again. Feels like Oracle wanted to play rock-paper-scissors, but has come up lizard. Couldn't have said it better myself. Not sure that I could say it at all without lau

Re: USB stick read only

At 6:01 AM -0800 11/23/2010, Geke wrote: Is there some way to make the Mac ask permission for writing on a volume when you mount it? I mean like this: I insert a stick or connect a HD and a dialog comes up asking: "How to mount volume Backup?" with options "Read&write" (default) and "Read only".

OpenOffice vs Oracle

hum. Things are getting messy. An interesting read... Anyone using the 3.3 beta builds? Feels like Oracle wanted to play r

Re: How should a family of five share one computer?

>>set a single user account for all > > Simple initially but in the long run it could become far more trouble I agree; also you'd want to give each kid their own desktop, picture folder, etc. The extra Admin account for yourself is a good idea, especially as their mom might change the password, t

Re: USB stick read only

Yes, that's a good point in this context. Remember what everyone told you about floppies?: "Don't carry them in your shirt pocket! Always put them into their sleeve!" Fortunately, my stick is not gone yet: I used a standing-around PC laptop to copy the data (3 GB or more, that would have taken age

Re: Any tricks for PCI video card in a Beige G3 MT?

I'm an expert on the Beige, which is about as hard as they come for Macs. It has a lot of little quirks and just plain voodoo behavior, but problems with PCI video cards isn't one of them. I'm assuming the card is an ATI card, hopefully a Radeon, but perhaps a Rage? I'm guessing you didn't