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…

.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…

P2P software (Gnutella, FastTrack, etc. networks): Acquisition, Xfactor, Poisoned, umm... there are other fine alternatives too. Search MacUpdate for "p2p" or perhaps a specific ne…

acquisiition works great for me! Limewire : destroyed my old dell (eww), and a friend swears his powerbook started falling apart since he started using limewire aswell

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…

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 …

You MUST have something to connect to the downstairs machine. You can do it wirelessly, or wired, or a combination of both. I think the Express will support you. Read the manual…

Thanks Glen, Do you mean I need a wireless adapter for the downstairs Mac? I will have an ethernet bridge to get it onto the wireless network. What I'm wondering is if the netwo…

The ethernet bridge will work well for you; I like these a lot more than USB devices because they tend to be better implemented (read: ethernet is a real standard you can't fudge),…

Ok, thanks again Glen, I'lll give it a go and see what happens. I've done this same thing wired, just wondering if it works the same way wirelessly. Thanks again

The point of wireless is that it should be the same as wired, except without the clutter. It should look and work just like a wired network, only without the wires.

Often times this can be fixed by launching GarageBand.

That did it. Amazing. I have looked everywhere on google for an answer to this. Thank you so much.

I fixed it by opening Audio MIDI Setup (in Applications/Utilities) and choosing Audio Output Format @ 44100.0 Hz & 2ch-16bit.

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"…

You should try some troubleshooting steps. The Mac can do everything you asked just fine. Chris

I doubt it, When I boot up my powerbook with no network cable, just airport connected, I have a box running OSX.4 server that connects some network shares. If I connect a network …

Not sure what you are saying in the 2nd post, but I have a 15" Alu Powerbook here, connected to my G5 and a windows box (AFP & SMB) and I hop between ethernet and airport all t…

I understand what you're saying, but the reason it's happening is because you're going about it all wrong. Once you've MADE a connection (whether to a share, FTP server, SSH server…