do you have roommates? -r.

It was both logged in and at the login screen? Huh? Like, you have both root and fast user switching enabled and the root account had the icon next to it?

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomchu What do you mean "logged in as root" with the login window sitting on top of everything? Like literally a desktop, Dock, etc. running under t…

Check NetInfo Admin to see if root is enabled. If it is, someone knows your admin password. And if it isn't, something's very strange.

I'm willing to bet it was a friend playing a prank. It could have also been a screenshot set as the wallpaper that possibly contributed to the effect in some way.

Do you have your computer set to turn on at a certain time? It's not possible to send a remote command to a computer that is truly powered off without using special network cards d…

Oh wait, I thought of something else, do you have your computer set to turn back on after a power loss? If so, maybe you had a power outage? I think if the machine is already off w…

Thanks for the replies. root is enabled on my computer and it was scheduled to start up everyday at 7:30am. The door to my room was locked so no one had physical access to my co…

The root account is an account of its own, so you can change that password any way you can change the password on your regular account when logged in. You can also use the "passwd"…

In /Applications/Utilities, open Netinfo Manager. Under the Security tab on my system, there are three headings: Authenticate Change Root password... Enable Root User I suspect t…

Hmmmmm. You don't have Patchlink installed on your system do you? A nasty (potentially) bug has been discovered recently where Patchlink spawns a Finder process as root, giving an…

No patchlink installed. I've now changed my root password and main user account passwords. Filevault is also enabled. Not sure what else I could do to secure my system in case t…

I came across some .exe files which belong to Photoshop. Spotlight indicates they have something to do with droplets, is this normal? I thought .exe files were found in Windows onl…

.exe files will only run on windows, not on OS X.

The droplets from Photoshop are indeed .exe's and run fine in OS X; however, they are more "cross-platform" scripts as you can pass them between Mac and PC's without issues.

They're scripts for Photoshop. If you right-click an image in the Finder and go to "Open With...", you'll be presented with those various scripts to do whatever it says they do to…

Something got screwed up with my iDisk and I can't fix it. Everytime the finder tries to access the iDisk I get the spinning beach ball of death forever. That includes shutting o…

It sounds as though your local iDisk image is corrupted and the Finder is stalling while trying to mount it. Try turning off iDisk synching altogether (not just switching off autom…

Just ran into something really annoying. Illustrator CS: We have a user that all of a sudden logged in as that user, Option-Click an image or text box will not copy anymore along w…

Every user can have their own preferences, keyboard shortcuts, etc. She probably just needs to set that up properly. Though the shift-resize issue is strange. Might try rebuilding …

I wanted to learn more about SQLite and decided to use my Yojimbo database as a test subject. I've got data coming out of it and displaying to a web browser now. Just some early ex…

I've been loathe to invest time in another DB now that I'm getting comfortable w/ MySQL. I'm wondering what you experience as benefits of SQLite? How "lite" is it? Does everyt…

SQLite and MySQL are totally different. SQLite is a library/api of functions an application can use to manage data in database form, without the user requiring a database "server"…

if im lucky for quicktime to even play my files it only plays maybe the first 1/5 of it. are there any known issues about this? this is my first mac too so not too sure if there's…

try to re-install it maybe there was files that is not installed properly..