Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

August 27, 2010 News

Friday, August 27th, 2010

• NEXT MEETING: Monday, September 13 • Bill Yanko, from the Lake Wildwood Mac User Group, will do a presentation on "GOING PAPERLESS." "I will be sharing my experiences about Going Paperless.  This is a project I’ve been working on for some months now and I've learned a lot. There are a number of factors [...]

August 24, 2010 NEWS

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

NEXT MEETING: Monday, September 13 Yes we changed it and it was posted on the website http://www.sierramousetrap.org/ awhile back, but I know most have busy lives and sometimes forget to check on things they know they should — I know, I am that way at times; you put it off, you put it off, and then, [...]

Permissions

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Have you ever performed a ‘repair permissions’ on your hard drive. Ever gotten a message [Warning: SUID file...] or [Permissions differ...]? After a trip to the Mac store and some research I discovered these messages are ‘ok’. Well, according to Apple. Here’s a list of some of the ‘ok’ ones. “http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448″

17″ G5 PowerPC iMac SOLD

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

SOLD 17 inch iMac for sale: $350. Contact: Katie Guilliat • 272-8678 • katie@theunion.net(WIKI) • (Apple History) with system 10.5.8 Processor: 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 Memory: 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM Hard Drive: Maxtor 7Y250M0 Capacity:  233.76 GB Hard Drive Software included: Microsoft Office 2004 iLife 09 iWork 09 + many more (or less) depending on [...]

Followup on October Meeting

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

At the October meeting (last night, as I write this) we discussed memory and CPU usage, and the value of more RAM. This article, that I stumbled across this morning, seems like a great little demo of what we were talking about. Also, here are links to some of the other sites we talked about: [...]

Firewall Safety Tip

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

After updating your system be sure and check “Sharing” Preferences to make sure your Firewall is ON. The default is OFF and it seems to revert to this setting on my computer after installation.