PRAM (or parameter random access memory) is where your Mac stores certain info while the power's off - various Finder settings such as time zone setting, speaker volume, display and video settings such as screen resolution and number of colours, for example. Sometimes the contents of PRAM can get scrambled, and that can cause all sorts of erratic problems.
Basically you tell your Mac to restart, and while it's busy shutting down position a finger over each of four keys - Option, Command (aka Apple), P, R.
When you hear the startup chime (oops, I should have said to make sure the volume on your Mac is set higher than 0) press those four keys and keep them held down. The Mac will shut down again and restart. All done, so you can remove your fingers now and let your Mac start up normally.
All the settings that are stored in PRAM will now be reset to their factory defaults, so you may need to reset any you've changed.
Here's Apple's page about the procedure if you want to review it first. It also mentions resetting the PMU for Powerbook users... it's unlikely you'll need to do that, but you may care to read up about it just in case.
overweight people.... are much less likely to die from a grab bag of diseases that includes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, infections and lung disease.
That's got cause & effect backwards: People with diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, infections and lung disease tend to lose weight and, if they are fat when they get ill, they are likely underweight by the time they are cured (or dead).
"The ports collection is a volunteer project. Sometimes the project simply doesn't have the developer resources to keep everything up-to-date. Developers pretty much pick up what they consider interesting and can test in their environment."
"If you really need a new version of a port, you should ask the MAINTAINER of the port to update the port....if you can send patches for this, all the better. To create proper patches, you should refer to the documentation on building ports."
"software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they
people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including
modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching
machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia" — Theo de Raadt
My grandmother died from the disease. She was like an old building where, every day, someone removed a brick. Sometimes, when the light and perspective was just right, the structure was visible again... and she was back for a moment.
I must repeat what the last poster said: "Lighten Up!". Don't be so so selfish.
Lots of businesses oppose labour unions. And for good reason. It's no wonder all the American auto plants are shutting down, when you have to pay people $25 an hour for untrained labour, meanwhile, all the cars coming out of Japan can do it so much cheaper.
You are dead wrong. The U.S. has one of the lowest levels of unionization among industrialized countries. Union density was 12.4% in 2003, roughly 2/3 of Japan's (19.7%) and 1/2 of Canada (28.4%) or the E.U. (26.3%). Statistics used are from the U.S. Department of Labor.
All Apple has in this area is the iMac, which for this size of screen comes in close to $2000 or $2200
Your estimate is AT LEAST $500 OFF (33%). A 20" iMac is $1,499 at the US Apple store and comes with with 1GB ram, Radion X1600, 250GB hard drive, dual-layer DVD burner, gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g/n, built-in speakers and camera
I agree that the price of Quark is insane (for that matter, so is cost of Adobe's products and the cost of MS Office - the pro and ultimate versions)... but why the H-E-double-hockey-sticks were you pricing out a Mac Pro? The requirement was to buy a capable machine to "just get the job done", not to buy high-end system. Why didn't you pick up a prosumer computer such as the 20" iMac?
$1,500 buys a middle of the road iMac (2.16 Ghz Core Duo, 1GB RAM, 250GB HD, 8x Dual-layer DVD, Radeon X1600, 20" 1680x1050 widescreen LCD, dvi/vga out for second display, 802.11n, bluetooth, keyboard, 2 button scroll-wheel mouse)
Add in a $750 for Quark Express (list price)
and the total is $2,250, not $3,000-$4,000
...and of course there are much cheaper "consumer" macs if that's still to rich for your budget
If you absolutely need MS Access on the iMac, if people absolutely couldn't just view "their" pcs from the iMac via Window Remote Desktop (or by VNC) then you could do it the "expensive" way: buy Parallels or VMware and run Access in a windows VM (add another $200).
Sorry folks, but the cost of every technology decreases with time. CDs should cost less, not more. You could pick pretty much any mature technology for an example, but I'll choose television.
In 1966, a 25 inch colour television was the best you could buy. It cost $3,600 in today's dollars ($580 then). In 2007, you can buy a 25 inch CRT tv for about $200 and you can buy a top of the line TV set for about $2,800 (source)
What does this tell us?
the very best technology for a specific task costs much less today than it used to (20% less for television sets)
the same technology costs almost nothing compared to what it cost in the past (94% less for television sets)
CDs are the "old" technology, the 25" CRT. We should expect CDs to cost less than they did 20 years ago. We should expect any new, higher quality, recording technology to cost more than CDs cost today, but significantly less than CDs originally cost.
This is the second time Apple has been publicly bitten by a BLOB in a vver short time (the last one was a wi-fi hijack).
A binary blob is an opaque binary object from a 3rd party, for which no source code is available.
To quote Jonathan Gray of the OpenBSD team: "Drivers that are binary-only or contain a binary-only portion (binary blob) run on the computer, in the computer's memory. They typically run at the most privileged security level possible due to their requirements to talk to system memory and the like. This gives them access to anything on your system, and if they screw up it can be a disaster.... People who use binary drivers become dependent on the vendors who provide them for fixing bugs and if a vendor decides to drop the driver, you're out of luck. Not running the latest hardware with the latest approved software? Sorry, too bad"
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Try zapping the PRAM
PRAM (or parameter random access memory) is where your Mac stores certain info while the power's off - various Finder settings such as time zone setting, speaker volume, display and video settings such as screen resolution and number of colours, for example. Sometimes the contents of PRAM can get scrambled, and that can cause all sorts of erratic problems.
Basically you tell your Mac to restart, and while it's busy shutting down position a finger over each of four keys - Option, Command (aka Apple), P, R.
When you hear the startup chime (oops, I should have said to make sure the volume on your Mac is set higher than 0) press those four keys and keep them held down. The Mac will shut down again and restart. All done, so you can remove your fingers now and let your Mac start up normally.
All the settings that are stored in PRAM will now be reset to their factory defaults, so you may need to reset any you've changed.
Here's Apple's page about the procedure if you want to review it first. It also mentions resetting the PMU for Powerbook users... it's unlikely you'll need to do that, but you may care to read up about it just in case.
That's got cause & effect backwards: People with diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, infections and lung disease tend to lose weight and, if they are fat when they get ill, they are likely underweight by the time they are cured (or dead).
Where did you get that number from?
The ports tree is 3rd party stuff, not OpenBSD. Why don't YOU contribute instead of whining.
When a Port Is Lagging Behind the Mainstream Version
"The ports collection is a volunteer project. Sometimes the project simply doesn't have the developer resources to keep everything up-to-date. Developers pretty much pick up what they consider interesting and can test in their environment."
"If you really need a new version of a port, you should ask the MAINTAINER of the port to update the port....if you can send patches for this, all the better. To create proper patches, you should refer to the documentation on building ports."
"software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia" — Theo de Raadt
Reminds me of the mid-90's when "People Eating Tasty Animals" registered peta.org
My grandmother died from the disease. She was like an old building where, every day, someone removed a brick. Sometimes, when the light and perspective was just right, the structure was visible again... and she was back for a moment.
I must repeat what the last poster said: "Lighten Up!". Don't be so so selfish.
...the second guy ducks
Shouldn't that be: "are business interests trumping consumer and technological needs?"
Go to either MacUpdate or Version Tracker for Mac software with user ratings and reviews
You are dead wrong. The U.S. has one of the lowest levels of unionization among industrialized countries. Union density was 12.4% in 2003, roughly 2/3 of Japan's (19.7%) and 1/2 of Canada (28.4%) or the E.U. (26.3%). Statistics used are from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Will never happen, thanks to US crypto laws & software patents.
You can find Jolt at Safeway stores in Canada. Look in the energy drinks section
A friend of mine recently had his dog "fixed". What, exactly, does ATI intend?
In the Linux world, there are many projects who's purpose is to organize and distribute software with a linux kernel.
The OpenBSD project is about building an OS, not about creating a distro. You might as well ask Linus why he doesn't distribute ISOs.
Nothing prevents someone else from rolling their own OpenBSD "distro" and distributing the ISO files.
Hopefully we do have to wait!
I just couldn't stop myself from posing that
Keep those geeks away from the weight bench!
ROTFLMFAO!
I agree that the price of Quark is insane (for that matter, so is cost of Adobe's products and the cost of MS Office - the pro and ultimate versions)... but why the H-E-double-hockey-sticks were you pricing out a Mac Pro? The requirement was to buy a capable machine to "just get the job done", not to buy high-end system. Why didn't you pick up a prosumer computer such as the 20" iMac?
If you absolutely need MS Access on the iMac, if people absolutely couldn't just view "their" pcs from the iMac via Window Remote Desktop (or by VNC) then you could do it the "expensive" way: buy Parallels or VMware and run Access in a windows VM (add another $200).
Sorry folks, but the cost of every technology decreases with time. CDs should cost less, not more. You could pick pretty much any mature technology for an example, but I'll choose television.
In 1966, a 25 inch colour television was the best you could buy. It cost $3,600 in today's dollars ($580 then). In 2007, you can buy a 25 inch CRT tv for about $200 and you can buy a top of the line TV set for about $2,800 (source)
What does this tell us?
CDs are the "old" technology, the 25" CRT. We should expect CDs to cost less than they did 20 years ago. We should expect any new, higher quality, recording technology to cost more than CDs cost today, but significantly less than CDs originally cost.
This ham-fisted FUD is designed to distract the opposition from the real objective, proposed changes to Canada's copyright law.
A binary blob is an opaque binary object from a 3rd party, for which no source code is available. To quote Jonathan Gray of the OpenBSD team: "Drivers that are binary-only or contain a binary-only portion (binary blob) run on the computer, in the computer's memory. They typically run at the most privileged security level possible due to their requirements to talk to system memory and the like. This gives them access to anything on your system, and if they screw up it can be a disaster.... People who use binary drivers become dependent on the vendors who provide them for fixing bugs and if a vendor decides to drop the driver, you're out of luck. Not running the latest hardware with the latest approved software? Sorry, too bad"