Newbe Home user question

OK I admit I know next to nothing about this software. I am a home office user looking for a way to remotely (sometimes over the internet) make changes to my PowerMac at home while I'm traveling. As I have searched it appears this Apple Remote Desktop software would allow me to do this. However, it also appears I need to purchase the admin software to do this? Is this correct? Is a a better way to do what I am asking. Also I use Airport Extreme router, is there anything I need to do since it has DHCP turned on?
Thanks,
Corey

it also appears I need to purchase the admin software to do this? Is this correct?
Yes.
if all you need is to be able to control another computer, then ARD would be overkill. Look into the freeware VNC. That will give you control capabilities and not cost you anything. You can find VNC applications for Mac here. Most people seem to find Chicken of the VNC works well for them.

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Im trying to make the recordings sound good though now, I have two questions:
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thanks everyone!
Alex
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Best thing to do is do a search on this forum for mastering or across on AdobeMasters forum eg http://www.audiomastersforum.net/amforum/index.php/topic,4933.0.html as an example only

Is there a way to avoid a iPlanet Messaging Express home user to copy from the email message ( email content ) body and paste on to a local place( it Hard disk, for an ex )?

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Time machine back-ups do not show or contain home / user folder

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See #25 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

Brand new Dreamweaver user - question about SEND/SUBMIT button

Hello, all. Nice to meet you. I'm brand new to dreamweaver,
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> Remember, total beginner.
The very best thing you can do is to get a good book on HTML
and CSS and
spend some time learning the underlying technology. DW is
very different
from FP, and will expect you to have some of this
understanding under your
belt.
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2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the
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formulate and
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redirect the visitor
to some ending page
Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It
depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on
their computer -
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clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed
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CF, PHP, perl, etc.).
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> I can create the basic website, with teh pictures,
thumbnails, multiple
> page
> cross links..etc.
>
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page - basically a
> link
> from the home page that says APPLICATION.
> I am familiar with adding text boxes for FIRST NAME/LAST
NAME/NUMBER/BEST
> TIME
> TO CALL...etc.
>
> The only problem is I dont know what to do with that.
>
> I don't think it can automatically send an email without
smtp info in the
> script, but I wouldnt mind letting it create a txt file
or something on
> the
> server so I can view it.
>
> Or maybe it can send me an email, who knows.
>
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teh send button
> somehow
> get to my email for me to view comments, names, contact
information...etc?
>
> Remember, total beginner.
>
> TIA
>

Time Machine does not backup home/user directory (on separate drive)

I recently installed a SSD into my Mini. Due to size restrictions, my home/user directory has to be kept on another drive. I retained the stock 1TB drive that came with the Mini for this.
Ok, installed the SSD, restored a Time Machine backups (sans user data). Used a different admin user and configured my user to use the 1TB drive for it's home directory (/Volumes/1TB/home/<user>). Restart, log in as my user, all is good. All data, settings, etc is there. Everything looks normal.
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Any thoughts? I can't be the first person to have their home directory on a non-OS drive.
If I were to create a folder/file in /Volumes/1TB/<test file> ... Time Machine gets it perfect. It just will NOT touch /Volumes/1TB/home/<anything here>
Thanks!

Open the Time Machine preference pane and unlock the settings, if necessary. Click the Options button. If there is one particular folder with items that are not being backed up reliably, add it to the list of excluded items. If there are many such folders, add your home folder to the list, or add a whole volume (i.e., what Apple calls a "disk.") Save the changes.
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I'm just a regular home user with a bunch of incoming snail (paper) mail. To get rid of the hassle to file the incoming stuff permanently I plan to scan it immediately and dispose afterwards.
I would prefer a document management system to just putting the scanned files in a folder. All DMS I found so far I rather enterprise grade (like Alfreso, Agorum Core).
EDIT:
Desired features would be:
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- Indexing (of text documents)
Since I've never used a DMS before I'm not sure what is desriable.
How do you handle similiar situations?
System is KDE. Maybe there is a possibility to use the nepomuk tagging system...
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Last edited by Osiris (2011-03-26 12:14:29)

Desired features would be:
- Tagging (hierarchical)
- Key - Value pairs attachted to the document
- Preview
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Is the new "messages" app working for your networked home users?

I'm seeing a very odd issue where the new 10.8 "Messages" app not acting properly for users with a networked home directory. If logging in on the server, the users' Message app works just fine. When logging on from a client mounting their home directory over the network, the Messages app can send messages fine, but does not receive messages. What is odd is that the app does get the signal that the person is responding to an outgoing message showing their avatar and "...", so something is being recieved, but no message ever shows up.
Anyone else seeing this on client systems?
Thanks,
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I've got messages server running on Mountain Lion Server (fresh install) and both 10.7.4 and 10.8.0 clients are able to message each other, the 10.7.4 clients are network home users but I was forced to change the 10.8 user to a mobile home account because everytime they opened Mail all there contacts would get deleted.
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Has anyone else had the error when launching a jar from Linux (just by clicking it), System.getProperty("user.dir") returns the "/home/user" (or "~") value instead of the folder that the jar is in? Essentially, it returns "user.home" instead of "user.dir".
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(I know its not swing, but I wasn't sure where to post it)
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Cheers.
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Because, semmingly, the command is being set off as
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Migrating server home user folder to new SAS

We are currently housing our "Home" users folders on our XRaid which is hosted on an Xserve G5, but are in the process of wanting to migrate them to a new Vtrak SAS array. Would this be a simple matter of copying that partition to an new partition on the Vtrak, or is there something more I need to consider. like re-pointing the users to a new drive via workgroup manager.
TIA
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Okay - in case this helps anyone else. This totally worked. On initial set-up it migrated everything, however it does not ask you to create a new User Name, but it migrated all my stuff including the accounts.
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While there seems to be a lot of postings saying you cannot change the name of your User Account, I don't know why, because you can indeed.
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You must be logged in as an Admin on another Login (I already had 2)
Choice 1
You go to System Preferences>Users
Unlock the lock,
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This however will not change the name of the home folder which is also what I wanted. That is a little more involved but this absolutely worked:
Choice 2
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3872
I am running Mountain Lion on a new iMac (Oct 2013) - I have no idea if this works on anything older.
Good luck and thanks!

Re: (forte-users) Question-Minimizing Windows onstartup

I am not sitting in front of a Win95 machine currently, but I think I
remember a setting on the Shortcut tab in the Properties notebook about the
application, that allows you to Run the app either as 'Normal Window',
'Minimized', or 'Maximized.'
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Perkinson" <perkinson.willtowerautomotive.com>
To: "Forte Usergroup" <kamranaminyahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: (forte-users) Question-Minimizing Windows on startup
How do you minimize the ftexec window when starting the client on a
Windows 95 platform?
The application starts but leaves the forte ftexec window open in the
background. Is there a way to hide this window or minimize it on
startup?
Thank you,
Will Perkinson
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I am not sitting in front of a Win95 machine currently, but I think I
remember a setting on the Shortcut tab in the Properties notebook about the
application, that allows you to Run the app either as 'Normal Window',
'Minimized', or 'Maximized.'
/\/\ark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Perkinson" <perkinson.willtowerautomotive.com>
To: "Forte Usergroup" <kamranaminyahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: (forte-users) Question-Minimizing Windows on startup
How do you minimize the ftexec window when starting the client on a
Windows 95 platform?
The application starts but leaves the forte ftexec window open in the
background. Is there a way to hide this window or minimize it on
startup?
Thank you,
Will Perkinson
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MM end user QUESTION WEBSITE

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Hi Melhaus_dz,
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll pass it on.
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Hello dcbrower, You may be able to use the program Universal Extractor to extract the files in the .wim file.
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