Mac Forum / General / General / August 2007

When I click the lock to make changes in NetInfo Manager, it asks me to
authenticate (which I want it to do, so I can enable root user). It
shows my short username, and asks for my pw. I type in my pw, and it
tells me the username or pw is incorrect! How do I solve this, either ...

Mark,
truly excellent!!!
You had the biggest a.sholes on the group swimming in a blind frenzy.  You
are the master, - they are the slaves.

Have a small design studio and we back up to DVD's almost monthly. I
would like to be able to add an external carousel of some sort to read
these DVD over the network and pull jobs from the archive DVD's -
anyone know of anything like this? Having a difficult time finding

On on PPC 10.4.10
The Dock disappeared on me (I haven't yet gone through logs to find out
why) and what was left of Finder was behaving extremely slowly.
I know that using the Dock it is possible to restart the Finder, but I

5'd like to get an idea on how the iPhone is selling. Could people inquire
at their locat AT&T or Apple Store how many they are selling each day and
send the information (store, location, number, e.g. "AT&T, NY 5th Ave, 20")
to

I took my little iBook to a local Apple repair shop because suddenly
the screen had developed a jagged line across it, beneath which the
screen was a mass of absract colors. I left it overnight and the next
morning the tech called and said the LCD was cracked and that

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Is zero the same as nothing?  (...in computer talk)
No.
Thread showing why is in NG   comp.sys.mac.general
Mark-

Excuse me!!
Would you stop for a moment?!
O...man...Haven't you thought-one day- about yourself ?
Who has made it?

Now Mail just deleted messages when I renamed the folder they were in.  
They didn't end up in the Trash.  For a program that I never have
problems with, its sure giving me grief now.  Has anyone else had this
problem?  Also, when I renamed some of them (changing them from all

I don't know why I never really cared, but what do you usually press to
wake your Mac from sleep?  I find myself just pressing the space bar if
no mouse is involved, say on my Macbook (trackpad doesn't do it).
Rog

I have been having trouble figuring out exactly how I will need to
partition/format the drive in my MBPro.  I am going to put XP and
parallels on, because I will occasionally want to use autocad, as well
as a few very small technical windows applications.  On the Mac Side,

Right, Ive got LOTS of fonts, mostly in the correct places, and can turn
them on and off enough to screw up Mac apps fine..
BUT MS office ignores fontbook. Indeed after 4 hours of searching I have
yet to identify WHERE its fonts are coming from.

How can I speed my Mac significantly?
I have a 2006 Imac which I bought "off the shelf" with the standard one
gigabyte of RAM.
The color wheel spins often on my screen while the computer is