I'll try the VLC. I downloaded DivX for Mac and that got me to the Green screen, but no farther. I'll let you know how the VLC goes. Thanks for the advice.

Hey Kanzen. I've been wondering, whenever I had a PC I was able to clean up my computer by running a defragment program. Now that I have a mac, is there a way to do this to clean it up? Thanks for any help.

Defragmentation is handled by the system automatically. For additional system maintenance (manual cron, log flushing, database maintenance, etc.) you can use Onyx, MainMenu, or Cocktail.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582/onyx
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17111/mainmenu
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10909/cocktail

Expose: It's great. Wonderful way to navigate through your windows. I found that setting my top right corner to "Show All Windows" and my top left corner to "Application Windows" is a great way to "step back" and see what the hell is going on. apple menu-->System Preferences-->Expose--> Set corners with drop down list.

just a quick tip.

hey kanzen, i have another question. I was wondering if you could give me any tips about file encryption for my mac. I just got a new external hard drive and wanted to keep it somewhat protected in case I ever lost it. Any tips would be appreciated.. Thanks.

Depends on the situation fuckface17.

1. If you need these files to be cross platform compatible, encrypt each file on a need-by-need basis with a file format like RAR or 7-ZIP. Just choose a lengthly password that will be hard to guess.

2. If you need these files for only your Mac, just create an encrypted Sparse Disk with Disk Utility. Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. From the menu select New > Blank Disk Image..., a dialog will pop-up asking what options you want. At the top put the filename you wish (preferably ambiguous). Choose a Volume Name, then the size of the volume (Choose a good sizeable chunk for a good allocation of files. Then in the Encryption choose either 128-bit AES or 256-bit AES and then from Image Format "Read/write disk image" and click create. A dialog box will appear and ask you to input a password. Enter one and then again into verify. Make sure to type it and not copy&paste. The password strength will be shown to you. If you are having trouble picking one, click the key button for a password generator. Once done entering a password, uncheck the "Remember password in my keychain" and click OK. Drag the files that you want onto the disk image. Once you're done, unmount the volume. Whenever you mount the disk image again, you will be required to enter the password. DO NOT FORGET THE PASSWORD, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVERY ANY OF THE DATA IF YOU DO NOT HAVE IT.

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Originally posted by Kanzen

Depends on the situation fuckface17.

1. If you need these files to be cross platform compatible, encrypt each file on a need-by-need basis with a file format like RAR or 7-ZIP. Just choose a lengthly password that will be hard to guess.

2. If you need these files for only your Mac, just create an encrypted Sparse Disk with Disk Utility. Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. From the menu select New > Blank Disk Image..., a dialog will pop-up asking what options you want. At the top put the filename you wish (preferably ambiguous). Choose a Volume Name, then the size of the volume (Choose a good sizeable chunk for a good allocation of files. Then in the Encryption choose either 128-bit AES or 256-bit AES and then from Image Format "Read/write disk image" and click create. A dialog box will appear and ask you to input a password. Enter one and then again into verify. Make sure to type it and not copy&paste. The password strength will be shown to you. If you are having trouble picking one, click the key button for a password generator. Once done entering a password, uncheck the "Remember password in my keychain" and click OK. Drag the files that you want onto the disk image. Once you're done, unmount the volume. Whenever you mount the disk image again, you will be required to enter the password. DO NOT FORGET THE PASSWORD, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVERY ANY OF THE DATA IF YOU DO NOT HAVE IT.

If you prefer pseduo-doing things from a command prompt, I could provide some very basic scripts (can't use spaces in the file name) that lock/unlock individual files using "openssl" (included with OS X, but is FOSS). You can then chose any encryption type supported by openssl, which is quite a few.

ZUNE Vs. Ipod


Oregon Trail?

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Originally posted by franklin

ZUNE Vs. Ipod


Oregon Trail?

Zune sucks balls... whats a zune?

Oregon Trail was teh awesome....

Leopard Guru's
Since I am still coming up to speed on Leopard and Mac's in general I need to pick the Mac gurus brains.

I need to set up an automount on a Imac running Leopard. I went in and went to edit the .fstab file and realized it isn't there.

So my question is...

How do you set up an automount on a remote system on an Imac running Leopard?