My hostname has changed...why?

I just got this message "This computer's local hostname 'firstname-lastname-iMac.local' is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to 'firstname-lastname-iMac-2.local'."
what does this mean?
Is this a security issue?

Sometimes this message means that you have two simultaneous connections to the same local network: probably Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Disconnect the Ethernet cable or turn off Wi-Fi.
Sometimes it happens because a device that gets its network address from the router wakes from sleep, and the address it was using before has been assigned to another device.
Rename the computer in the Sharing preference pane.

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In keyword hierarchies, some keyword levels a used just to categorize keywords, but they would be never used. In Lightroom 2 the keyword count for parent keywords, showed the numbers of images to which this keyword or any of its childs was applied. This way, one could easily see, how many images were assigned within a keyword hierarchy. In LR 3 the count number only represents how many images are assigned with that particular keyword, child assignments are no longer counted. While there are arguments for the usefulness of each counting methods, I wonder, why that has been changed, and why the older method of LR 2 has been omitted. It could have been left in as an option without too much effort. In general, it is bad practice to change program behaviour in such places, because you don't know, if people use the former method in their workflows and actually prefer this.
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Flowers          79 If "Flowers" would be applied to 2 images, "81" would be shown here)
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      Tulip         22
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In general, I find the new behaviour inconsistent, because if I click on the arrow to the right of a parent keyword, the images are filtered to the parent keyword and all of its child keywords, whereas the counting does not include the childs.
In genral I would prefer that Lightroom would include both numbers:
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   Rose          45
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Kind regards

Thank you for the explanation. However, instead of taking the older method out, which at least some (perhaps many?) find useful, the engineers could have made this configurable. I don't know, why they take always the easier route. Making things configurable isn't that difficult. Let the user decide, if his equipment is well enough suited to digest the perfomance penalty caused by the LR 2 method. I can't really understand the complaints about the LR 2 method. For what do we actually have keyword hierarchies? The LR 2 way of counting was one of the nicest features of Lightroom's DAM capabilities. If such a thing confuses some and others not, the way to do it is to make it configurable. Best practice, I would say.
My friend is using keyword hierarchies heavily for organizing images (shouldn't be anything wrong with that). The LR 2 method of counting keywords was pretty crucial for her workflow. I suggest bringing the feature back and let the customer decide to use it or not.
Not very good practice, the product management is showing here.

HT1338 I suddenly keep getting a message my local hostname has changed.

I suddenly keep getting a warning message that my local host name has been changed. xxx-xxx-imac-#.local. The # keeps increasing. What have I done to cause this constant change?

Try temporarily disabling your firewall and anti virus software and try again...
See here for Connection Issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1379
From Here
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/troubleshooting/

NOthing in my computer has changed, why can't I hotsync?

This is the message I get when I open the Hotsync Manager:
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What nxt? I can't perform the sync. I reinstalled the Palm software, nothing.
Help.
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I am running Vista and Windows Mail, I can not open PDF files when in Windows Mail, I must save to Desktop first, this has changes recently and I do not know why or how to fix.
Why after 6 year's this has changed?
I would like to open PDF's straight from Window Mail.

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iPad 1 (iOS5 latest)
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Cheers
T

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