**The "Official" N00b Needs Help Thread**

I'm a Mac noob - HELP :)


Hi guys, I've scratched my head for a few hours and had a little shuft round the internet,

Would any of you be able to tell me, or point me in the direction of succsessfully configuring loopback interfaces to run on my Mac? (MacBook, Leapord)
 
^ I've no idea what that is sorry.

I have however had a massive problem trying to get my new Lexmark wireless printer to work on Leopard.

The drivers supplied only work with 10.3 - 10.4.

Contrary to what some clowns in computer stores might tell you, your new Lexmark printer wont work on OS X 10.5 out of the box.

In order to get 10.5 drivers you have to go to the Lexmark website and find your printer and download from there.

This may seem pretty obvious but this is a 'n00b' thread :p
 
Apple Key + J. Works in all finder windows and on the desktop. In finder windows you should make a selection and select the default for all finder windows option at the bottom. :)
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I've just been trying to do this because I'm a bit OCD when it comes to neat and tidy folders and I can't find a 'default for all finder windows' option.

I have to manually go into each folder and change the view option to 'sort by kind'.

This is on Leopard 10.5.2 btw

Cheers

Panzer
 
Panzerbjorn said:
I've just been trying to do this because I'm a bit OCD when it comes to neat and tidy folders and I can't find a 'default for all finder windows' option.

I have to manually go into each folder and change the view option to 'sort by kind'.

This is on Leopard 10.5.2 btw

Cheers

Panzer
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Open the Finder by clicking the Face in the dock, then press +J

You'll see this window..

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Click the button at the bottom.
 
Ah cheers mate, my skills of observation are obviously lacking, or I just cant read. I thought that said 'use defaults' as in it would reset everything, rather than apply it to every folder. :rolleyes: @ me.

Thanks again.

Panzer
 
Questions:

1) Is there a netlimiter/bandwidth tool available for Mac 10.5.x?

2) Can I use my headset mic with the line-in? (Can I change it to a Mic-in via software?)


'iMac G5'

Thanks!
 
Thought I'd stick this in here:

I'm trying to set the way windows and icons display, for example the spacing/sort by etc. Is there a way to make it universal? Also, it doesn't update dynamically. say it's all nice, and you resize the window, it's contents don't move. Is it meant to be like that?

Cheers

EDIT: Just seen one question half answered already !
 
Jamie I'm not sure about 1) but 2) shouldn't be a problem.

Plug it in and go to system preferences/sound/input and change it from 'built-in mic' to 'line-in'.

Should work.

Panzer
 
Thanks for the reply Panzer,

The line-in selection I've tryed before with no luck so I had to stick with the built-in microphone. This picks up a lot of fan noise from the iMac (G5 imac with the really loud fan)
 
When i plug in an external mouse there is some kind of two stage acceleration going on and i dont like it how do i tun it off?

When i move the mouse slowly the cusor moves real slow, but if i go slighly faster the cursor zooms around pity fast. I jus want it to move at one speed! The mouse is a Logitech G5.
 
JonB said:
Anyone else got any ideas, I'm still stuck with this. Its not an accessibility thing, its some option within firefox!
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it most certainly is an accessibility thing :) that box is to do with the :focus pseudo class of a link (in this case).

open up your userChrome.css and put this in there

Code: 
a {
    -moz-outline:none;
}

restart firefox and that should sort you
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
When i plug in an external mouse there is some kind of two stage acceleration going on and i dont like it how do i tun it off?

When i move the mouse slowly the cusor moves real slow, but if i go slighly faster the cursor zooms around pity fast. I jus want it to move at one speed! The mouse is a Logitech G5.
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That's actually to do with the different acceleration algorithms used in OS X (vs. Windows)

Programs like SteerMouse and iMouseFix are available to correct it, and make it more Windows-like.

Alternatively, Logitech's own mouse software let's you tweak acceleration settings.
 
Kind of a nub question:

Does my macbook's integrated gfx card get updated by Apples software update?

was getting pretty abysmal fps in WoW but i guess that's to be expected
 
Spitfir3 said:
Kind of a nub question:

Does my macbook's integrated gfx card get updated by Apples software update?

was getting pretty abysmal fps in WoW but i guess that's to be expected
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Yes.

Now and again Apple will release software updates (Leopard Graphics Driver Update, for example) and occassionally they'll roll out firmware updates.

Both will update the performance, however, don't expect 90fps from the integrated graphics, specially from the older chipset.
 
EVH said:
That's actually to do with the different acceleration algorithms used in OS X (vs. Windows)

Programs like SteerMouse and iMouseFix are available to correct it, and make it more Windows-like.

Alternatively, Logitech's own mouse software let's you tweak acceleration settings.
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Logitech's web site only seems to want o give me vista software. Ill ty these other two in the mean time. Thanks fo the help.


Theres only one setting for mouse acceleration and thats off in my book!
 
Logitech don't support a lot of their G series on OSX, so you won't see the software on their website.

*strokes G9 with acceleration controls on the mouse*
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Logitech's web site only seems to want o give me vista software. Ill ty these other two in the mean time. Thanks fo the help.


Theres only one setting for mouse acceleration and thats off in my book!
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The G7 isn't supported by the software which is rather annoying, but then I swapped to the MX Revolution which is the best mouse I have ever used. The free wheeling scroll button is fantastic and being able to program each of the buttons to do what I want is the icing on the cake.
 
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