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So when you go into go to join the wireless network are you using the same settings as your sons and it won't take it? The Airport ID? Do you mean the wireless network name with security setting you are trying to join?

That airport ID is the MAC address of you internal airport card. The only way to make that match is to install your sons airport card into your machine (if compatible) and then your machine will have his actual airport ID (unless you spoof the MAC address somehow). But regardless, that has no bearing on your connection. I would check the router for any MAC address filtering that may have been set up to allow only certain computers to connect....

Have you booted your present iMac to that Disk Warrior CD? If the DW disk is older than your current iMac, it might not boot to that disk. In that case, you would simply use your iMac restore disks to install OS X on your external drive. When that's complete, you can just copy the Disk Warrior app from your DW disk to that external hard drive. Then you can boot to your external, and run DW from there to rebuild your internal hard drive.

Good call, ElDiablo! Clamshell mode. What was I thinking?

My Mom recently purchased an ibook g3 (700mhz 256mb of ram) running Mac os x 10.4.11 off ebay as a Christmas present for my sister and I checked for updates the first chance I got. It showed two updates, quicktime 7.6.4 and some security update labelled 2009-005. While these updates were downloading/installing I noticed iTunes was version 8 and so I told it to install 9.02 but nothing seemed to happen, so I decided I would just do that when...

When you open the MacBook, the internal display will again activate, leaving you with a dual-monitor setup again. It sounds like maybe you had the dual-displays configured in "mirrored" mode. You can change this by visiting the "Displays" pane of the System Preferences and selecting "extended desktop" mode. This will allow you to configure the resolutions of the screens independently, and...

Guys, uh one more pic. W t f. . . . . . . is this :C Now the Koreans are looking me up

Guys, this is an issue with Entourage Tasks & Categories and Apple Sync Services that is known and documented and not solved simply by any of the applications on the market. Please, I'm requesting replies from people who have implemented a solution that they use for syncing Entourage Tasks (& categories) with a Windows Mobile PDA or similar.

Scoops - this helps on a forum i help run http://www.stopforumspam.com/ It is a list of IP addresses form spammers, we check new sign ups and ban them if they are on the list. The last month it has been chinese IPs using gmail addresses for some reason, but sometimes it is Americans using hotmail, it is like their are spammer fashions!

Thanks! I've got it working by creating a new user and deleting the old. It works much better in general now.