Need info and help with ARD

I would really like to get some information and help that would enable me to troubleshoot my mother's new Mac Mini for her. She lives in CA and I live in WA. She is new to Macs and I just KNOW there will be lots of desperate phone calls from her to me!
I should say right up front, though, that although I do pretty well with my own Macs, I know almost nothing about THIS subject. So, please, any help or information you choose to give me, it will need to be in plain, old English as I don't understand all this stuff.
My setup is this: (I don't know what is relevant or not) ......I have a desktop G4 running 10.4.3 that will be the computer I will use to remotely control the Mini. The Mini is also running 10.4.3 (or will be when I get it set up for her). I am connected to the internet through a wireless connection to my ISP. I have a Linksys router and connect to that via Ethernet. We have 4 other computers here at home connected to our network wirelessly.
My Mom will connect to the internet using a modem and AOL
This is what I have done so far but I have not been able to make a connection. (As a test, before I go to CA and setup the Mini, I thought I’d try to remotely control my iBook, which is on my network.) On the iBook, I enabled ARD in the Sharing preferences and checked "VNC viewers nay control screen with password" and then entered a password. On my desktop computer, I downloaded Chicken of the VNC, entered in the info I needed (address of the iBook and password) but it would not connect.
I've read so much about clients, servers, etc. here lately that my head is swimming and I’m more confused than ever!
Can I even do what I'd like? It'd sure be a sweet deal for me and avoid a lot of frustration for my Mom .......who, incidentally, is switching to a Mac from a PC at the tender young age of 75! Cool, huh? I'd really like to make it as painless for her as possible.
Thanks,
Kathy
G4/dual 1.25 and iBook G4/933 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

The phone line speed is the BIG issue.... there are things like DynDNS that cab help with the static issue...
now if you get her highspeed through cable...
good luck

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     this.accNum = accNum;
     this.pin = pin;
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if (accNum >10000 && accNum <20000)
statement = chk.getStatement ();
if (accNum >50000 && accNum <60000)
statement= sav.getStatement ();
     return statement;

Here's some quick code review:
public abstract class BankAccount {
public static final String bankName =
me = "BrianBank";
protected String custName;
protected String pin;
protected Transaction[] history;
private double balance;
private double amt, amount;
private double bal, initBal;
private int transactions;// make MAX_HISTORY private static final, too.
private final int MAX_HISTORY = 100;
private int acct;
protected BankAccount(String cname, String cpin,
pin, double initBal) {
     custName = cname;
     pin = cpin;
     balance = initBal;
     history = new Transaction[MAX_HISTORY];
     transactions =0;
public double getBalance() {
     return balance;
public void withdraw(double amt) {
     history [transactions] = new Withdrawal (bal, amt);
balance = bal;
     amount = amt;
     balance -= amt;// ++transactions above would be elegant.
transactions = transactions + 1;
public void deposit(double amt) {
     history [transactions] = new Deposit (bal, amt);
     balance = bal;
     amount = amt;
     balance += amt;
     transactions = transactions +1;
// abstract method to return account number// why abstract?
public abstract int getAcctNum();
// abstract method to return a summary of
y of transactions as a string// why abstract?
public abstract String getStatement();
public class CheckingAccount extends BankAccount
implements IncursFee
private int transactions;
private double balance, initBal, amt;
private static final int NOFEE_WITHDRAWALS =
WALS = 10;
private static final double TRANSACTION_FEE =
_FEE = 5.00;
public static final String bankName = "iBank";
public static final int STARTING_ACCOUNT_NUMBER
NUMBER = 10000;
private int checkingAccountNumber =
mber = STARTING_ACCOUNT_NUMBER;
private static int accountNumberCounter =
nter = STARTING_ACCOUNT_NUMBER;// BankAccount has a custName attribute; why does CheckingAccount need
// one if it extends BankAccount?
private String custName;
private String pin;
public CheckingAccount (String cname, String
String cpin, double initBal)
super (cname, cpin, initBal);
custName = cname;
pin = cpin;
balance = initBal;
accountNumberCounter++;
checkingAccountNumber =
tNumber = accountNumberCounter;
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transactions = 0;
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return balance;
// same as BankAccount - why rewrite it?
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super.withdraw (amt);
transactions ++;
// same as BankAccount - why rewrite it?
public void deposit(double amt)
super.deposit (amt);
transactions ++;
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public int getAcctNum ()
return checkingAccountNumber;
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int i = 0;
String output = "";
while ( i < history.length && history[i] !=
ory[i] != null )
output += history.toString () + "\n";
i++;
return output;
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if (transactions > NOFEE_WITHDRAWALS)
{ fee = TRANSACTION_FEE *(transactions -
ansactions - NOFEE_WITHDRAWALS);
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     initbal = bal;
     amount = amt;
     public String toString ()
return "Balance : " + fmt.format(initbal) + "\n" +
+ "Deposit : " + fmt.format(amount);
public class TestCheckingAcct {
public static void main(String[] args) {
BankAccount b1 = new CheckingAccount("Harry",
, "1234", 500.0);
     System.out.println (b1.getBalance ());
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.deposit(50);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     b1.deposit(10);
     b1.withdraw(1);
     System.out.println(b1.getStatement());
// This interface specifies the functionality
requirements of a bank
public interface Bank {
public abstract int openNewAccount(String
String customerName, String customerPIN, String
accType, double initDepAmount);
public abstract void processWithdrawal(int
(int accNum, String pin, double amount);
// executes a deposit on the specified acct by
t by the amount
public abstract void processDeposit(int accNum,
Num, String pin, double amount);
// returns the balance of acct
public abstract double processBalanceInquiry(int
(int accNum, String pin);
// returns summary of transactions
public abstract String
ring processStatementInquiry(int accNum, String
pin);
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class MyBank implements Bank
private ArrayList<BankAccount> savAccounts =
unts = new ArrayList<BankAccount>(); //dynamically
grows
private ArrayList<BankAccount> chkAccounts =
unts = new ArrayList<BankAccount>(); //dynamically
grows
private SavingsAccount sav;
private CheckingAccount chk;
private int accNum;
private String customerName, customerPIN,
erPIN, accType, pin;
private double initDepAmount, amount, balance;
public int openNewAccount(String customerName,
erName, String customerPIN, String accType, double
initDepAmount)
this.customerName = customerName;
this.customerPIN = customerPIN;
this.accType = accType;
this.initDepAmount = initDepAmount;
if ( accType.equals("Savings"))
BankAccount savAcct = new
vAcct = new SavingsAccount(customerName, customerPIN,
initDepAmount);
try
savAccounts.add(savAcct);
catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
Exception savAccounts)
return savAcct.getAcctNum();
else
CheckingAccount chkAcct = new
hkAcct = new CheckingAccount(customerName,
customerPIN, initDepAmount);
     try
chkAccounts.add(chkAcct);
catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
Exception chkAccounts)
return chkAcct.getAcctNum();
public void processWithdrawal (int accNum,
accNum, String pin, double amount)
     this.accNum = accNum;
     this.pin = pin;
     this.amount = amount;
if (accNum >10000 && accNum < 20000)
     chk.withdraw (amount);
if (accNum >50000 && accNum <60000)
     sav.withdraw (amount);
public void processDeposit (int accNum, String
String pin, double amount)
     this.accNum = accNum;
     this.pin = pin;
     this.amount = amount;
if (accNum >10000 && accNum < 20000)
     chk.deposit (amount);
if (accNum >50000 && accNum <60000)
     sav.deposit (amount);
public double processBalanceInquiry (int accNum,
String pin)
     this.accNum = accNum;
     this.pin = pin;
     this.balance = 0;
if (accNum >10000 && accNum <20000)
     balance = chk.getBalance ();
if (accNum >50000 && accNum <60000)
     balance = sav.getBalance ();
return balance;
public String processStatementInquiry(int accNum,
m, String pin)
     this.accNum = accNum;
     this.pin = pin;
     this.statement = "";
if (accNum >10000 && accNum <20000)
statement = chk.getStatement ();
if (accNum >50000 && accNum <60000)
statement= sav.getStatement ();
     return statement;
Very bad style with those brace placements. Pick a style and stick with it. Consistency is the key.
Your code isn't very readable.
You don't have a SavingsAccount here anywhere, even though your MyBank uses one.
You use JDK 1.5 generics yet you've got ArrayList as the static type on those declarations. Better to use the interface type List as the compile time type on the LHS.
You have a lot of compile time problems, and some incomprehensible stuff, but I was able to change it enough to my TestCheckingAcct run to completion. No NPE exceptions.
I'm not sure I agree with your design.
No SavingsAccount. The accounts I have ALL incur fees - no need for a special interface there. Savings accounts are usually interest bearing. That's the way they behave differently from checking accounts. Where do you have that?
You rewrite too much code. If you put behavior in the abstract BankingAccount class (a good idea), the whole idea is that concrete classes that extend BankingAccount don't need to overload any methods whose default behavior is correct for them.
I don't know that I'd have separate Deposit and Withdrawal to implement Transaction. I'd make Transaction concrete and have starting balance, ending balance, and a transaction type String (e.g., "DEPOSIT", "WITHDRAWAL")
It'd be good to see some thought put into exception handling. I don't see an OverdrawnException anywhere. Seems appropriate.
No transfer methods from one account to another. I often do that with my bank.
That's enough to get started.

Tips and help with re-installing Lion over Snow Leopard

I had MAJOR issues with my initial Lion install on my Mid-2009 MBP- so much so, that I had to wipe my hard drive and re-install Snow Leopard and all my applications. My major issues were as follows:
1. All my files were locked out- I could open them in most cases, but I couldn't overwrite them- Lion had aded some funky permissions scheme that I didn't recognize, and my user name wasn't present on any of them. In some cases, I couldn't even open files, even though they were resident on my hard drive (and in my own user folder) before the upgrade to Lion.
2. Apple's own Universal Binary apps wouldn't work after the upgrade. Final Cut Pro 6, in particular, came up with a message that it was a "PowerPC" app and wouldn't run- yet Shake 4.1 would run just fine!
3. Adobe Creative Suite 3- after the upgrade, my Abode Ceative Suite 3 apps worked just fine, for about a day- that is, until I tried to correct the file permissions issue by changing permission on a few of my folders in my User folder (and electing to change permissions in the files contained therein)- at which point my Adobe apps told me that they were damaged and needed to be reinstalled. Yet after uninstaling and reinstalling the entire Creative Suite 3 times, I still would get the same message.
My entire workflow is Adobe CS and FCS2- why chould I have to pay the upgrade costs just to use Lion? FCPX is completely brkoen for my workflow and eqipment, and Adobe can't even guarantee that CS5 works with Lion- so why does Apple insist on Lion when it's hardly even compatible with its own products?
I really want to use Lion, but I am looking for some tips on instalation to kep these problems from happening again. I didn' have ANY of these problems with upgrading OS 10.2 through 10.6. Any help with prepping my system/files for upgrading would be helpful. Thanks!

any new Apple kB articles
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=articles
Me, I think clone backups are more useful, and only use T.M. as secondary.
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
I'd assume that professional apps may need to be tested still; and of course check to see what you have that depends on PowerPC code and Rosetta first. That has some in a tither.
A clone lets you still be able to boot Snow Leopard. Check out Carbon Copy, SuperDuper.

Need some URGENT help with 3 DVD mastering issues PLEASE! :

Hi there,
Firstly, I am running DVD SP 3.0.2 on Mac OS 10.4.7 on a G5 Dual 2 GHz 3Gb Ram plenty of HD space...
I am creating a DVD with: An intro sequence, a main menu, 4 sub menus, and 4 sections with around 12 chapters each.
I am having some big problems, and a pretty stuck. I will lest them separately below, numbered. If you are able to help, please refer clearly to which number you are helping with. Any help is MUCH appreciated! Many thanks!!
1. Each of the 5 menus (1 main, 4 sub) have a background video, and a separate audio track. I added the background videos by simply dragging them to the assests panel, then from there onto the menu editor window. They are created in FCP and are properly encoded. However, when I click the motion button, or use the simulator, the videos do not show up. The music plays, but all i see is plain black.
What is going on?!?!?!
2. I am really struggling with rollover buttons. I have custom created buttons, and I wand them to have a soft red glow around them when hovered over. HOW ON EARTH DO I ACTUALLY DO THIS??
The buttons are in photoshop so can be exported with/without background/glow in any format.
3. Is it possible, once I have got the above rollover working, to have an image to the right hand side of my buttons which changes with the the button rollover. i.e. hover over button 1, see image 1. hover over button 2, image changes to image 2.
PLEASE PLEASE give any help you can, I have a deadline coming up and am quite stumped. Thanks again!!

I am still having problems regarding issue Number 1. PLEASE ANYONE HELP?!
Sorry, I'm not sure about the motion menus. I avoid those whenever possible. But you might click on the menu in the storyline tab (whatever it's called -- the hierarchical view with the disc, tracks, slideshows, etc.) and look at the properties and see if there's anything you have to enable specifically for motion. And be sure the motion button is on on the main display/preview area, but it sounds like you already know how that works.
For your information, here is a screen grab of the menu I am trying to create:
http://www.redhavoc.co.uk/stuff/menu.jpg
I think it is obvious that when a button is hovered over, I want it to glow red, and the image to the right will change to match the respective button.
IS THIS GOING TO BE POSSIBLE????
Yes.
First, your menus have to be layered menus. Unfortunately, there's no way to convert non-layered menus to layered menus, so if you already have non-layered, you'll have to just delete them and create new layered menus. The button (and menu item) to create a layered menu should be right by the normal new-menu item.
Next, the graphical work is all in Photoshop.
Side tip: You may already know this, but I found it's best to use 640x480 for the Photoshop document. When I do text and leave it as a text object in the Photoshop file, it resizes poorly in DVDSP. So this ends up being another 720x480 vs. 640x480 square/rectangular pixel conversion thing. DVDSP plays in the 640x480 world, at least as far as the designer can see. So I keep my images at 640x480, and it doesn't have to resize, and everything looks right.
Moving on... Set up your basic background, the part that won't change (or will have other things covering it, like for your square image).
Then put in all the buttons and images you'll be using, each part in a separate layer. This could have fifteen buttons (you have five buttons, and there can be three versions for each -- inactive, selected, and activated versions) and five or six square images (you said one for each button, and you might want a blank default if, say, you want to add a "back" button on the menu and want some blank or default image for the square when they're on the "back" button).
Sometimes people don't bother with a separate "active" button state, but you usually want some visual feedback that they clicked the button. Also, I usually just build the default (unselected) button into the background; that's less hassle later on, and it will just draw the selected or activated buttons over that when the user is on that button.
Line up all your buttons and images. All the square images lined up perfectly on top of each other, all the buttons in the right places (so you'll have three buttons stacked on top of each other in each spot). Give each layer a short but quickly recognizable name, and line them up in a consistent order. (button1-default, button1-selected, button1-active, button1-squarepicture, then button2-default, ... etc.) Photoshop and DVDSP don't care, but it makes it easier for you later.
Note that earlier versions of DVDSP won't show Photoshop layer effects. (They handle layers, just not the effects, like inner glow, outer bezel, etc.) I don't remember when they changed this, but I think it was version 4.something. So if you're using that method to make your buttons glow, you may have to flatten each selected or active button layer, and you may even need to create a dummy blank layer underneath it first to give it something to flatten onto.
Save the file as a standard Photoshop file (.psd). Drag the file onto your DVDSP layered menu and set it as the background.
Now, in DVDSP, create all your buttons. Just drag boxes over/around the button pictures you have. Feel free to make them extra-big; users won't see the actual area you've selected, and bigger areas makes it easier for people to hit them if they're using a mouse on a computer to watch the DVD. You can point the buttons to their targets now if you want, and set the end jumps on the tracks if you want. (I tend to set the end jumps on the tracks so they automatically select the button for the next track.)
Now's the fun part, since it will actually hook everything up and should be easy if your naming layer order were consistent. Click on the layered menu (in that hierarchical view) and look at the properties window. (Sorry I can't remember the technical names for all these windows; I'm doing this all from memory. So feel free to ask more questions if you can't find what I'm talking about.) One of the properties tabs should have a grid of checkboxes with a list of your layers. Make sure the background is checked for all of the states. Then check the layers you want to show for each button state, as well as the corresponding square image to show for each.
Again, I'm doing this from memory, and I can't remember exactly how things are listed in that grid. But I remember it keeps your layers in the same order you put them in the Photoshop file and shows you those names, so it should make it easy to go down the list and check the right boxes.
And another side tip: You can update the Photoshop file, but once you've put it in DVDSP, if you change the layer order, it will screw up the check boxes you checked. It always shows you the layer names correctly, but it keeps the checkboxes in DVDSP simply assigned to the layer number, so the fifth layer will keep the same checkboxes even if you juggle them so some other layer is now the fifth layer. So if you do juggle the layers in Photoshop, go back and fix the checkbox list in DVDSP.
I put a sample Photoshop file based on yours in
http://dan.black.org/layered-menu-sample.psd
It's quick and dirty, but shows the layer layout, and you should be able to drop it on DVDSP to play with. (I also won't leave it there forever, maybe a few weeks, so anybody reading this in a month or more probably will get a 404 for that url.)
Again, doing this from memory, so feel free to ask if anything doesn't work or doesn't make sense.
G4/dual867 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2GB/0.8TB

Hey i am unfamiliar with how to use icloud for storage. Can some one slowly( lol ) help me to understand how this thing works. I also need someone to help with how to transfer pics from your iphone to your flash drive.

Hello i am needing some assistance as i am not very good at how the cloud works. I need to delete my account and start over. I don't want to loose all of the things that i have on phone. Help!

Slowly
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
but surely
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/10/18/how-to-sync-email-contacts-and-calendar- with-icloud/
we will come
http://transfer-iphone-contacts.blogspot.com/p/iphone-contacts-sync-via-icloud.h tml
to understanding
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519
on how icloud sync and backup work.
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/backup/
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
And here we will find instructions on how to backup (import) pictures to computer, cause there is no direct transfer to flash drive.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4083

Need a little help with RAF logic

So Im making a program to give different users, different rights. This is the method that appends them to file and Map
     * Writes the players rights to the appendages
     * @param playerName Player to update
     * @param playerRights Rights to give the player
     * @param pointer The lines index in the files
     * @throws IOException If a read/write error occours
    public void writeRights(String playerName, Rights playerRights, long pointer) throws IOException {
        rightsRAF.seek(pointer);
        rightsRAF.write(("\n" + playerName + "::" + playerRights).getBytes());
        if(rightsRAF.read() != '\n') {
            rightsRAF.seek(rightsRAF.getFilePointer()-1);
            rightsRAF.write("\n".getBytes());
        rightsMap.put(playerName, playerRights);
    }1. The RAF goes to the predetermined index in the file, pointer, which is the line the users name starts on. Entries are stored in the file as "name::RIGHTS"
2.It writes out the players name, and rights
3. It checks to see if it accidentally wrote over the \n
My problem now, is that some rights are longer than others. For example, if there was already an entry, "name::MODERATOR" and you overwrite it, with "name::OWNER" then it would turn into "name::OWNERATOR" because the rest of the line wasn't overwritten.
I need some help with logic to determine how to overwrote the entire line, because sometimes you could go from a short one, to a long one, and need to append a new \n character, and sometimes you could go the other way around from long to short and end up with two words fused, I cant figure out how to determine whats a word that got partially overwritten and whats a new line totally.
Thanks

As pointed out you need to have fixed size records, or at least a maximum size.
You also have another problem nobody commented on yet (I don't think) with the getBytes() calls. At that point in your code you will mangle most unicode Strings.
All things being equal here I think your best solution is to use an embedded database like JavaDB with JDBC. I think you will find an XML solution to slow for your purposes.
If you decide to continue the RAF route though here is an example. I know this is not exactly what you are doing but you can extrapolate from this...
public void updatePlayerName(String playerName, int playerIndex){
   int recordlength = 200;
   byte[] buff = playerName.getBytes("UTF-8");
   if(buff.length>recordlength){
      //truncate bytes. this is also not great because a character at the end could be mangled
      byte[] temp = new byte[recordlength];
      System.arraycopy(buff,0,temp,0,temp.length);
      buff = temp;
   long pointer = playerIndex * (recordlength+4);// plus 4 bytes per record for actual length
   raf.seek(pointer);
   raf.writeInt(buff.length);
   raf.write(buff);
public String getPlayerName(int playerindex){
    int recordlength = 200;
    long pointer = playerIndex * (recordlength+4);
    raf.seek(pointer);
    int lengthToRead = raf.readInt();
    //length to read should be checked for sanity or bad things will happen next
    byte[] buff = new byte[lengthToRead];
    raf. readFully(buff);
    return new String(buff,"UTF-8");
}And then of course you'd have to add storing the "rights". It gets complicated in a hurry. I do really recommend the JDBC route.

Need some quick help with redoing a website

Hi, I did my website done in iWeb in 2008, published it, and have it hosted by GoDaddy. I want to take it offline for now and design a new 'under construction' site, but there is a chance that I might want to still go back to the original version.
I see the current 'Domain' in Home Folder>Library>Application Support>iWeb.
Can I just redo my site (still working in pre-2008 iWeb), publish it, and if I need to, use the old 'Domain' to revert to my current website?
If yes, how do I do that....and, if 'no', what should I do?
Thanks!

Hi and thanks. To reply....
I published the website in iWeb and it is on my MobleMe. It was done in iWeb v 1.1.2, and I have not upgraded iLife on the computer that I designed the website on, as I feared losing some/all of it in an upgrade.
I do, however, pay GoDaddy for my corporate URL AND hosting....which I suspect is the forwarding and not 'hosting' per se....but on my Hosting account on GoDaddy it does say 'Shared Hosting'.
I do not want to 'overwrite' my current site just yet, as I am uncertain about the next one's content or the time to do it the way I envision it. What I want to do is SAVE my current site in case I want it back and, in the meantime, put up a page that says Under Construction. Can you help with that?
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