[Hidden-tech] Mac 10.4 Questions

[Peter Irvine]

Apple recently opened a store at the Holyoke Mall. You can make an  
appointment there to meet with a "genius" who will (I believe at no  
cost) answer Mac questions.

I have found significant speed improvements by boosting RAM (I have 1  
GB on my G4 PowerBook, more on my iMac).
I periodically call up Verizon and ask for a boost in my broadband  
speed, which helps.
Also, I discovered that an overly-long telephone cord between the  
wall and my DSL router was causing serious intermittent slow-downs.  
When I took that wonky cord out, my speed tripled.

My experience of disc space matches what others have said -- the  
issue is %, not an absolute number, and when you get down below 15%  
of free space, your computer might (but not always) slow down.

Peter Irvine
Law Office of Peter Irvine
76 King Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Office: 413-587-0008
Fax: 413-280-0845
peter at peterirvinelaw.com



On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Shel Horowitz wrote:

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> I'd appreciate some help with a few snags I've run into with Mac OS  
> 10.4.10.
>
> 1) I tried to uncompress a new driver for my router, which all of a  
> sudden can only find the two hard-connected computers and not  
> anything over the wireless network. Stuffit Expander told me it  
> couldn't run without Stuffit Engine, which has unaccountably  
> vanished from my computer. Searching the web, it seems it's no  
> longer a no-cost product, and nor could I find any competitors.  
> Given how few files I need to decompress, I'm not in a great rush  
> to buy a file uncompressor.  What are folks using these days?
>
> 2) Is there *any* way to change the default setting on the Finder's  
> search function so that it searches a string in a file name, rather  
> than a text string within documents? I could literally write an  
> article while it searches and I always forget to change it.  
> Besides, it would save me oodles of time reconfiguring it every day  
> if I could default to what I need for 98 percent of my searches.
>
> 3) In general, performance on my G4 iMac has been absurdly slow for  
> several months. Yes, I have a lot of files--but  I also have 11.87  
> GB of unused disk space. It just crawls--like taking several  
> minutes over broadband to download the router firmware. Any  
> recommendations to speed it up? I was thinking I could off-load  
> several gigs to an external drive, and that might at least speed up  
> iPhoto. is that a good method? Are there better?
>
> 4) I'm using Spamfire 1.0. Recentl, I started having a problem with  
> some mail addressed to shel at principledprofit.com--but when I try to  
> rescue, Spamfire gives me: "Error 450 unable to find  
> principledprofits.com" (note the s in the domain--it's not in the  
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