Mac Forum / General / General / February 2008

Luckily, I've been backing up my system before I install any Apple
update since the Quicktime update royally screwed up my system a couple
months ago.  This latest update did a number of bad things(tm):
1) wiped my loginwindow.plist so that all the programs I run or mount

"In a study, it was shown that poverty-stricken, uneducated, emotionally
insecure, semi-retarded Italians whose mothers and fat sisters had
worked as bus-girls at Hooters in South Flahda were more likely to be
homosexuals than any other Italians with non-incestuous family ties and

What keys are used to move around in a document one is editing in
TextEdit?  For example the "Home" key doesn't move the insertion point
to the end of a line. But "Control + >" does move the insertion point
to the end of a line. I tried  looking in the help file but couldn't

Xbench is sort of a standard yet it seems like its got tons of
inconsistencies and problems.  I'm wondering what other hardware scoring
systems are out there?  Geekbench? Others?  Especially for memory, cpu
and hard drive tests.  Video card performance is not very important now.

Since the iPhone/Touch SDK has been released, when do you think we can
start looking for 3rd party apps? A month? Several months?
Where do you think they'll start appearing? Will iphone.com start
featuring them, you think?

FYI:
I just installed SP1 on to virtualized Vista in OS X 10.5.2 on my Santa Rosa
MacBook.
Works great

Any software suggestions?
dzelnio

OK so here's the deal, my friends and I took a G5 and turned it into a
makeshift file server. Basically we have a shared hard drive on the G5
that contains 5 directories.
Then I have 3 users, each one having read/write access to the hard

I lost the ability to access my wife's iPhoto Library.   I can't get to her
Pictures folder.
My wife didn't change anything.
So I did a "Get Info" on her Pictures library, clicked the lock key, entered

Yikes. He's spent the last 48 hours researching me.
They should make internet stalking illegal, I think Alan Baker has had
practice researching the little kiddies he likes to molest.
Anyone thinking of hiring this internet stalker Alan Baker from Vancouver,

I installed 10.5.2 on my wife's iMac.  Afterward, TimeMachine is
reporting that a backup failed.  When I click on the little red "i"
icon for information, it says "Unable to get status of backup volume".
However, if i click upon the icon itself for the TM backup drive on the

Dear List,
I am a newbie to programming for the Mac.  Can anyone suggest a GOOD book to
get started programming applications for the Mac?
TIA

I'm a new Mac user, but I miss OE.  Is there any such thing?
If so, where can it be downloaded?

Just posting to see if anyone can confirm it the new MacBook Air comes
with a removable battery?
Thanks

So I just realized my internet still works when my PPPoE password is
wiped out or replaced with the wrong password in Sys Prefs, Network.  My
ISP can't figure it out.  I wiped out all the keychain passwords.  Does
anybody have any idea how its getting the password?