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I just downloaded a MIDI file to my desktop from a web site with Safari
and wanted to Get Info on it to see when it was created. I pressed
Command-I without noticing I was still in Safari, not the Finder, and
that's how I discovered that this is the keyboard shortcut for a command

I find the my laser printer (Samsung) always prints the last page first
on a 2 page job.  Is it possible to print the 1st page first?  What also
is odd is that in the Preview area it says 1 of 1 but its 2 pages.  ??

Hi. I have a G4 Cube I want to sell.  It's running OS 10.4.11.
Before I sell it, I want to change the Name of my Account so it's more
generic, instead of using my name.  I went into System Preferences and
selected Accounts.  I was able to successfully change the Name field.  

Someone said there are no dumb questions -- only dumb answers.
About a month ago, I used the 'Rules' in Mail.app to do an automatic
response -- something simple like:
  "I'll be away from my office until Thursday, May 8."

New to the group.  I have searched through the various mac related groups
and only come across a couple of old posts on this topic (2006). So please
accept my apologies if this subject has been done to death already.
I just got my first Mac (24" intel with leopard) recently and am ...

I got the miseries.
Why oh why was I born handsome, instead of rich.
It all started when I got a bit sloppy with my backups.
I did not make any backups for my Mac Mini, figured

In the middle of the night, I want to determine if anyone is sitting
at a Mac and if they are not and have not been recently, I want to
kill the open applications and shutdown the Mac (for energy
conservation).  If there are open files (`lsof -u macuser` or

Despite the lack of Darwin-specific traffic on c.s.m.s, and for
archival reference, I am hoping for some insight on the state
of X-11 implementations for Darwin, independent of OS-X.
I have Darwin 8.0.1 ppc installed from the binary distribution

I spilled some tea on my iMac keyboard earlier this evening.  I removed
some of the keys and removed the bottom cover to clean it.  I then put it
back together but now I find that some of the keys don't work (the diagonal
which includes the - [ ' and right-hand Shift).

So I was watching diggnation and they were plugging the Zune ("welcome
to the social").
Are Microsoft still doing the whole Zune thing? Seriously?
Why??!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!?! The iPhone & iPod is king, why mess around

I have two leopard disks, an upgrade dvd and a full install dvd. I put
disk in drive (while tiger is running), I click restart when OS ask
me, but on reboot a folder with question mark in appear, the disc is
ejected and pre-existent OS (tiger)  start. This happen with both

i just recently discovered the E key has come loose and fallen off...
Upon examination, the very fragile looking tabs on the back ( one
side ) of the key have fallen apart...!
The key mechanism underneath still works ( with some difficulty! )

I am sadly surprised by the lack of a Darwin or even OS-X specific
N.G.  The name of this N.G. is the closest to being on-topic for
discussing details of this O/S, but there seems to be little
technical traffic here.  Has no one seen fit to newgroup an alt

I have used Text Wrangler to change the character coding and line ends
of some documents that I have imported from Windows systems but which
did not display correctly in Text Edit.
I saw lot of options, and decided to look at a OS X generated text