there are a plethora of settings which will look fine on a monitor but jump on a television. the key is to send out a signal the tv likes. or being so drunk you no longer notice things don't match....

now there's a thought. i actually took his hung over word for it!

quote:

Originally posted by Justy:
Oh, and if the previous user's account is an Administrator-level user, create another Admin-level user for yourself, so you can then have your own settings, password, etc. You can then set the computer to log in to your specific user, as well as have the ability to load your own programs or perform System updates.

Yes, it's me and the Mac again. (I've managed to get it to Austin and given it to my folks. Yes, I know.)

I'm having trouble establishing a second account. I go to System Preferences, Accounts, and then see the previous owner's name, and don't seem to have any options to establish a second account. Can someone give me some pointers? Please, oh please?

Who are you logged in as? The previous user? And what level account is that? If you're logged in at Administrator level you should be able to create new accounts, but if you're not it gets more complicated. There are ways to hack it but they're fairly deep geek... it might be simpler to format and reinstall the OS, assuming you have the install disks. But let us know the characteristics of the account you're logging in under.

Probably not basic.

My extern HD died quietly in the night. The computer still finds it but it doesn't mount. I ran DataRescue which tells me the HD is empty. The Disk Repair Utility says it cannot repair the damned thing. Tomorrow a friend of mine will come along with his laptop and we will try if Windows recognizes the drive (and the data). If not I lost all my Mp3s (about 40G)

Any suggestions what else there is to try.

Thank for the offer though. Tomorrow we will see what happens if I connect the thing to a PC. After that I will try to use a different case. Maybe it's the case that said bye-bye.

quote:

Originally posted by tigerstripes:
Yes, it's me and the Mac again. (I've managed to get it to Austin and given it to my folks. Yes, I know.)

I'm having trouble establishing a second account. I go to System Preferences, Accounts, and then see the previous owner's name, and don't seem to have any options to establish a second account. Can someone give me some pointers? Please, oh please?

Assuming you've got Admin level privs (and you may have to validate them by clicking the lock icon from locked to unlocked), the "Create User Account" feature is embodied in the little "+" icon at the bottom of the list area.

If you don't have Admin privs, boot from the Install Disc one and choose the Reset Password feature on the Utilities menu (IIRC). Then see above paragraph.

None of the programs I tried worked so far in salvaging any data. Datarescue said the HD is empty and DiskWarrior said nothing because the HD was Microsoft-formated. I will try to get help from a friend's friend who might have some clues. If that doesn't work I will have to rebuilt my Itunes library which is not that hard because I copied the whole thing to a friends HD in January 2006. Decentralized back-up indeed.

Yesterday I cloned my start volume.

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None of the programs I tried worked so far in salvaging any data. Datarescue said the HD is empty and DiskWarrior said nothing because the HD was Microsoft-formated. I will try to get help from a friend's friend who might have some clues. If that doesn't work I will have to rebuilt my Itunes library which is not that hard because I copied the whole thing to a friends HD in January 2006. Decentralized back-up indeed.

Drat. DiskWarrior is my bestest buddy, but I guess only for HFS volumes.... If you know where you can get a well-formed copy of it, that's always better than scrounging through the drive looking for chunks that might belong together anway!

And yes, there's nothing like a little data loss to put the jumper cables to your backup religion. (I speak from experience...)

Best o' luck, Hasa!

Again, not so much a query as just an info point, I guess. Got a new vid camera today - pics in the Restroom Project shortly. Had a nasty moment when I thought it only had USB, 'cos I'm using it with a Mac and iMovie doesn't play well with USB. Turns out it actually has both, which is pretty sweet.

And... with Firewire, iMovie imports in real time (1:1). With USB apparently it's possible to just treat a tape as a disk drive, so it might be possible to upload the video to the Mac as a file, at higher speeds, then import that video into iMovie from there.

Will report back on the results of this experiment.

Thanks all for the help. The problem resolved itself, yet I don't know why. One day the computer wouldn't accept the Admin password and the next day it did -- I did run a hardware test inbetween, maybe that did the trick? Still glad to have all this good info.

I have one of my comics in PDF format, where all 8 pages are in one file. I got a Duplex printer for Christmas, so I want to reformat the file so I can print the pages at half the size in landscape format and make a mini-comic. If that's not possible, is there a way to extract the pages individually and paste them into Word?

Some printers will actually allow you to do funky layout madness like that in the printer properties dialog box, although printing a mini-comic involves a lot of fooling around to decide which page to print where, so I'm not sure if there'd be an option to do that automatically. You may at least have a 'two pages per sheet' option, and sometimes you can specify the exact pages you want printed by using comma-separated page numbers in the print dialog.

I was pretty sure there was some open source program out there that could open and edit PDF files, too, but I can't remember what it was.

thank you,sir. I'll give it a try.

hey there's a booklet setting on the print properties. pretty sweet.

I'm not sure this is a basic problem, but I
thought I'd ask anyway.

When taking notes surveying or when writing on
artifact catalog forms, it is considered bad
form to erase. If you have to go back and redo
something, instead of erasing and making the
correction, you just cross out the old entry (in
a way to keep it legible) and write the new
entry next to it. However, with databases, it's
common to just update entries or delete them
altogether. There's no room for superseded data.

I find myself forced to rework the database at
work (not for this reason; I need to recode some
of the phase assignments in our database) and
would like to build in a way to track superseded
data without resorting to tracking separate
versions of the database. I'm thinking about
doing something like this, but would then have
to build a semi-permanent filter for reading the
tables and also for the SQL connection to
ArcGIS.

So, I'm asking for input before I start on this
project only to find out I'm making a mistake.
Any great experiences regarding this?

BTW, this will be created on Access 2003
(WinXP).

Hmm. Okay.

Anyone make MySql work on Windows XP Home Edition? (Home environment, apache, php).

Embarrassing to ask, but there we go. ¬¬


>>I was pretty sure there was some open source program out there that could open and edit PDF files, too, but I can't remember what it was.
Sounds familiar. I didn't internet,, and after a moment's checking, it doesn't seem it's open office. (Which professes saving ability to PDF format. (Seems to work.) OO didn't even open a pdf file (some Pindar). Okay, maybe that's due to specific content, but I seem to remember failing with OO and pdf files before, tho maybe it's me.)

I don't know how your database works. But, either have a time column on another sheet, for each field, and fill in the time column each time.

Or, more sensibly perhaps, every time you change a field, move the previous content to a file or a wherever, and keep a list of all previous changes, with a date of entry, date of deletion (though effectual deletion, it being a change and changes giving the old version to the history file for that cell.)
Um, that seems obvious,, and possibly it's wrong or unworkable.

Every time you enter a content into a field, it should write to the history file/cell/column/whatever .
But that way means a larger database!
Meh, I'm sure I can spell out a suitable algorithm if you can write one. Actually, you can probably think of it yourself

>>BTW, this will be created on Access 2003
Pass. ¬¬

Give me some format to play with and I'll go play and possibly never reply lol But like I say, I don't really think you've got a problem, tho I don't know what the database can do. I have access 2000. And Open Office 2.0 Base.

quote:

Originally posted by matthew:
Every time you enter a content into a field, it should write to the history file/cell/column/whatever .

This might work, although it'd have to be
automated. Doing something like that manually
seems a bit too clunky.

OTOH, I was thinking of having a checkbox field
that signified superseded data. That's not all
that elegant either.

quote:

But that way means a larger database!

There's no way to maintain superseded data
without making a larger database. I think that's
a necessary evil. Having the superseded data in
another table, as per your suggestion, should
keep the active table reasonably snappy, I would
think.

quote:

Meh, I'm sure I can spell out a suitable algorithm if you can write one. Actually, you can probably think of it yourself

I have some ideas, although I pretty well suck
at the VBA. Thanks for the suggestion.

As for your question, I had MySql running on my
WinXP Pro box, but I don't have Home version, so
I can't comment. At least I think it was running
ok, I didn't really play with it all that much.

Doesn't Access have rollback and all that Oracle stuff now?

Thought it did.