Newbie feeling overwelmed

I need to do something that from a logical point of view is very simple. I need to develop 3 reports for an application. The user will click on a "Report" menu entry, then the menu will expand to three different type of reports, and depending on what they selected, the report will display data from a database in a jsp page. There will be a search fields at the top of each report that allows the user to filter the report.
This is part of an J2EE application that uses the MVC and DAO patterns, but I am not sure where to start. We do not have a third party product such as Crystal Reports or anything, so its straight J2EE. I guess my question is----- what's the best way to do this. Do I use tags? web services? xml? or just keep it simple with jsp => servlet => beans? I apologize for what seems is such a stupid question, but I feel it hard to get started on this stuff sometimes. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

How are you rendering your reports? Are there images? Simple text? If the report is only tabluar text, then returning HTML may be acceptable. For more complicated requirements, you will probably end up serving your reports as PDF. If you want to go that route, i-Text is an open-source Java PDF generator that is fairly straightforward.
As for how to set up the internal plumbing in your application, I would start simple. Use JSP's, but don't delve into tag libs or Struts just yet. You should use a Servlet to collect the information submitted and to return the response to the user. Simply using JSP's on their own is bad design and probably will end up being harder to understand initially anyway. Do not worry about JavaBeans just yet. Work with POJO's (plain ole' Java objects) until you are comfortable.
JDBC is the easiest data access method to understand and implement, if you already know SQL. If not, you may want to invest the time learning an O/R mapping technology like Hibernate.
Best of luck,
Saish

Similar Messages

IDVD Newbie feeling his way....

Goal: To make a 700mb.avi movie into a DVD I can playback on any DVD player.
First, I get a message that says my project exceeds maximum content duration. Not sure
what I can change in encoder settings that will fix that (its already set to Best Perfomance),
but thats what it tells me to do...(about half the time the Project Info Option is not even
available.)
At one point I had two 700mb movies in my project, but decided I was over-reaching myself.
Yet even now, iDVD insists on encoding the second movie, which I thought I had removed via the map.
When I previewed the first movie, it would not play back. I assumed that was because it had not been encoded at that time. However, now it IS encoded and still will not play back.
I have a blank dvd-rw disc waiting in the drive, but iDVD will not burn to it. Earlier it just did nothing, but now it is consistently giving me the error I referred to above.
I am beginning to whether iDVD is really the best tool for what I wish to accomplish, or if I am just
too stupid to use it.
Suggestions, advice, and consolation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi
Can't speak about right and wrong but Your way differ markedly from mine.
(Not saying it's impossible but that I don't have tried it at all)
*• 700Mb movies*
- Mb or Gbs doesn't matter at all - ONLY Time/Duration of movie (menu included)
Professional Quality (movies up to 120 min.) - BEST
Best Performances (movies less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
High Quality (in iDVD08) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
*• .avi*
- might work I don't know - I always convert to streamingDV .mov via
MPEG-Streamclip to convert the AVI files so that QuickTime can play them
and to *streamingDV for iMovie and iDVD*.
*• DVD-RW*
- Never use them - I do a DiskImage (File menu down) and try this with Apple DVD-player
first to see that it plays OK
Then burn it with iDVD or Disk Util tool with Burn speed set down to x1
(I only use Verbatim DVD-R disks)
• I *secure a minimum of 25Gb free space* on the internal boot hard disk (IMPORTANT)
- Due to that Mac OS is UNIX and iDVD can't do it's scratch files elsewhere
Good Luck
Yours Bengt W

CFParam link to a table with no record

Guys, I'm a newb feeling my way a long with CF, and have made
some good headway. Here's my challenge de jour:
I have a main table, `customers`. I have two other tables,
`products` and `customers_products`. The latter has four fields:
its own primary key, a customer_id, a product_id, and the
product_name.
For the sake of my question, I've loaded `customers_products`
with dummy data that relates perfectly with some `customer`s and
their `products`, using their respective keys. I can easily insert
new records to this table, `customer_products`, for any customer by
using an INSERT form, as long as there is already at least one
customer record in the `customer_product` table. But, if I attempt
to go to
add_product.cfm?customer_id= from that customer form for a
customer who has yet to have any products entered in
`customer_products`, I get the error, "Invalid data '' for
CFSQLTYPE CF_SQL_NUMERIC". This, I presume, due to the null value,
as the CRParam URL is the customer_id - and there is no customer_id
in that table, yet.
I want to be able to go from the customer record form to the
add_products.cfm form, specifically for that customer, even though
there are no current records for that customer in the
`customer_products` table.
I'd add code, but I have a feeling that this is not so much a
problem with code, but lack of knowledge of how to do a common
practice: add a new record to a table and applying the correct
customer key to the customer_id field.
If you know of a site or tutorial that I can use, that would
be great.
Thank you!

If your SQL query is looking at the URL for an ID in order to
query the table and it doesn't exist you'll get a query.recordcount
of 0. You can then use this to direct the user to another
page...like an add page or something. At the same time you could
also check the ID is right before querying the database (my syntax
may be a little incorrect as I am doing this from memory at 8am!)
e.g.
<cfif isDefined("url.customer_id") and
len(url.customer_id)>

<cfif my_query.recordcount eq 0>

<cflocation url="my_add_page.cfm" addtoken="no" />
<cfabort />
</cfif>
<cfelse>

Nothing was found because the URL looks
wrong.
</cfif>

Patterns for JavaBean and GUI interaction

Forgive the newbie feel to this question.
I have a number of JavaBeans-compliant classes for several entities that will end up persisted. I can use any of a number of technologies to persist these to a database or serialize to disk. If, now, I want to add a GUI for interaction with these beans, it seems there are at least a couple of ways to go. The first is to encapsulate the code for doing so in the bean itself, perhaps extending JComponent. The second is to make a "view" for each Bean that uses multiple PropertyChangeListeners(?) to/from the Bean to maintain state within the bean. The latter seems to separate the model from the view better.
I am curious from a design point-of-view how best to go about solving this generic problem. I have done similar things in other languages with varying degrees of satisfaction with the resulting maintainability of the resulting product. So, I am aiming for something that balances complexity with maintainability and flexibility (to change a view or to change the underlying model).
Thanks
Sean

Well, thanks for your reply. My program is kind of large to be entered online.
In any case, I tried again with the synchronized keyword for the method that accesses the shared member (between the two threads) and things look good now and I do not see the problem I was seeing earlier.
One question I have is w.r.t the usage of the synchronized keyword - can this be used for methods as well as members of a class ?
I mean for example, if I have a static variable declared in a class and this static needs to be accessed outside the declaring class in a different thread, then should this static member be declared as synchronized too?
Thanks.

Couldn't we have a mentor system?

Where the more experienced members could mentor a new member to keep them out of trouble and to show them 'the ways of the forum'. Would this not be a good idea? It surely would reduce the number of newbies getting it wrong and being flamed and will reduce the anti-newbie feeling that's been hanging around here.
What does everyone think? You don't have to like the idea, it was just a thought. Every member of over 1000 posts could mentor a member under a 100 posts until they reach 500 posts or something like that. Feedback.
Big thanks to Jimbo for the below sig!
PyroMittens and Kaspa- The meaning of true love... | inside iriver

But if you think about it, despite the fact taht you may not like or agree with the member. The fact that they have 1000 post surely shows that they are a dedicated member, it wouldn't be a bad thing to have more dedicated members, even if they did have 'different ideas'.
Big thanks to Jimbo for the below sig!
PyroMittens and Kaspa- The meaning of true love... | inside iriver

I feel bad, cuz I'm such a newb....

i feel bad because i always come onto this forum whenever i
have some flash project to do, and i'm usually in hysterics about
some easy-to-do thing (and because it's usually so obvious to most
people, few tutorials bother going into the details i need). I have
zero flash advice to offer anyone else due to my severe
flashtardation, but if someone can tell me how to make a page open
up in a separate browser window (see my previous q about linking,
in which David Stiller helped a lot), I could try to help you with
a NON flash query that relates to either 1) anything Legend of
Zelda or 2) relationships (my friends call me the Sage), or 3) cats
(wow, do I sound like the opposite of a herb or WHAT?)
:D

Swedemily,
Do you want to control the size of the browser window that
opens up? Or
just open in a new browser window?
If it is just a new browser window use this:
getURL("yourPage.html", "_blank")
If you want to control the size of the window, you need some
javascript of
the html page the swf resides on and then you call the
javascript action.
Here is a sample:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/newwindow.htm
Hope that helps.
Dan Mode
--> Adobe Community Expert
*Flash Helps*
http://www.smithmediafusion.com/blog/?cat=11
*THE online Radio*
http://www.tornadostream.com
*Must Read*
http://www.smithmediafusion.com/blog
"swedemily" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:eptpoa$ch3$[email protected]..
>i feel bad because i always come onto this forum whenever
i have some flash
> project to do, and i'm usually in hysterics about some
easy-to-do thing
> (and
> because it's usually so obvious to most people, few
tutorials bother going
> into
> the details i need). I have zero flash advice to offer
anyone else due to
> my
> severe flashtardation, but if someone can tell me how to
make a page open
> up in
> a separate browser window (see my previous q about
linking, in which David
> Stiller helped a lot), I could try to help you with a
NON flash query that
> relates to either 1) anything Legend of Zelda or 2)
relationships (my
> friends
> call me the Sage), or 3) cats (wow, do I sound like the
opposite of a herb
> or
> WHAT?)
>
> :D
>

Newbie Question...I Feel So Stupid...

But, here it is:
On my old Windows PC to arrange files, icons, etc. in alphabetical order, all I did was right click and then arrange them in order (or whatever setting I wanted). Sooo, on my iMac, how do I arrange a folder full of icons, files, etc. in alphabetical order with one click? Can it be done? Surely, it can. But how?
Thanks gang for putting up with me and my Apple ignorance!
Bob

Open the window you want to organize, then go to the view drop down menu at the top, then click arange by, and there are the options to sort.
~Ryan

Yet Another Hard Drive Question from a Mac Newbie

I apologize in advance for the length of this post -- as I state in the subject line, I am a complete Mac newbie.
I just took delivery yesterday on a new (early 2008) Mac Pro. I purchased and installed an additional 8GB RAM, and ordered it with a 500GB HD (Seagate, it looks like) and purchased two 750GB Hitachi HDs for bays 2 and 3. I will be doing a fair amount of photo editing, and also plan to partition the OS drive to run XP using bootcamp, but also plan to use VM Fusion.
I am thinking of partitioning the boot drive with 250GB for OS X and apps, 150 GB for XP and apps, and ~66 remaining possibly to be used as scratch memory for CS3, though it sounds like this may not be enough. The bay 2 Hitachi would be used for all my user data (photos, music, docs, etc.) bay 3 would be for backup initially, possibly using Time Machine? (other recommendations welcomed). As space becomes an issue in the future, I will invest in a fourth internal HD, and at least 2TB external HDs for backup.
Does this seem like a reasonable plan? If so, how do I go about formatting the drives and installing boot camp, Fusion, etc., and in what order? Also, how best do I organize my existing files from my current Windows machine as I copy them to the new user data HD, so they can be accessed as needed by both OS X and XP?
Thanks for your help.

I like the boot volume to never get beyond 50% used. Enough room for burning dual-layer DVDs can be 50GB for best results. And to force the system to use the first outer tracks.
I hope you are concurrently zeroing both drives. SoftRAID is my choice for driver for RAIDs and you can cancel safely at any time. There are also excellent tools for checking sectors and mapping out bad blocks.
I put Vista on its own 10K Raptor. I had it on the boot drive but I am always changing my mind, my drives and setup. Vista needs at least 40GB and that is with all my major documents and files on another drive which holds 150GB out of 450GB.
You set the preference for what drive to use as scratch in CS3 or other programs. And you want to disable Spotlight indexing on any scratch or editing partition. Scratch can be a drive, a volume, a stripped array. Any 'normal' partition though don't use the default (journaling) feature is all.
How large? I'd have to see and know how large files, work flow, and how long you work between projects. The nice thing, erase the scratch volume between projects but it is possible to use 300GB when you work on 1.5GB files and above.
One early Mac Pro owner wasn't able to work as they wanted until they had 10-12GB RAM, boot RAID0, and RAIDs for scratch and data (saving 2GB files and not having to wait forever, which even a minute can feel like forever).
Disk Utility: Partition. You can even partition 2+ drives, just make them the same, and first create 2 partitions (100GB on each?) and then stripe the first "Untitled 1" of each into 100GB x n array. Stripe or mirror the "Untitled 2" or leave those are two unique non-RAID volumes. Sounds harder than it is.
Scratch = temp space and designed to not be saved, to be erased as needed.
SoftRAID.com 3.6.6 makes it easy to create, delete, erase volumes and arrays as needed. Leopard has improved on non-RAID but not with RAIDs (for those that change their minds).

LCD/HDTV help for a newbie

I am a longtime BB customer and am finally taking the HDTV plunge. I have narrowed it down a bit to the Insignia NS-L37Q (32" is too small, 40" is too big) versus a Dynex DX-37L150A11. I am not a cinephile so the basic features are fine with me and the price is right (I am a cheapskate). It is a 37", 1080p LCD HDTV. This is for basic TV, sports, DVD viewing. Please indulge a few newbie questions.
1) The one small reservation I have is the Insignia's native contrast ratio at 1400:1 and brightness 500/cd/m2. Should I be concerned that it isn't high enough? I note the Dynex 37" in the same price range is 4000:1 but 450/cd/m2.
2) I have DISH satellite but may switch to DirectTV but assume both are similar. I assume I'll need a special HDTV box from them, correct? And HDMI cable to connect from box to set?
3) I have never bought a service plan in my life but am considering one for this. The Insignia already comes with a 2 year warrenty and this extends it to 4 as I understand it. Is $89 on a $549 LCD worth it? I'll be ticked if a pixel goes out in the middle of the screen, but does "burn in" still even happen on these units?
4) I run the DVD player through my stereo currently (because I am too cheap to buy home theatre sound) so would I just hook that up the same way through the audio inputs? I understand it won't be digital or anything.
5) It has 3:2 inverse pulldown. Is that good and why should I care?
Any help from the experts here is greatly appreciated.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I would recommend the Insignia, as both are Best Buy house brands but I've noticed better image quality and reliability with the Insignia's as opposed to the Dynex tv's.
1) While the Dynex has the better contrast ratio, the difference between 1400:1 and 4000:1 is not very staggering. Disregard this comparison.
2) Yes you will need a set-top-box from DirecTV, fortunately you can pick these boxes up at the store and can subscribe to your DirecTV account while you shop.
3) $89 for 2 years of peace of mind on an LCD tv is worth it, though I don't think it extends the contract to 4 years, rather, the service plan covers "normal wear and tear/heating issues/power surges", whereas the standard 2 year warranty only covers manufacturer's defective parts and labor. $89 is fair, cheapskate or not.
4) Your DVD player setup will work fine, but consider getting a blu ray for next Christmas, you'll thank me later.
5) Don't worry about this.
I don't claim to be an expert, but I am an enthusiast, so any "experts" out there feel free to chime in and correct me if I may be wrong.
If you like posts that I make, be sure to click on the star underneath my name. Thanks!

Some newbie questions

dear all smart men, i am a newbie in xml domain, there are some quiestions that i can't make sense yet, anyone can help:
1. dose the xml is independent from protocals? we can bind xml to http and sock too, and something this kind of?
2. soap is called a "protocol", but in fact it's a kind of xml application with standard format. we all know that xml is used for describing data, and soap has this functionality too, but why soap is isolatable from common xml? what is its purpose?
3. jxta is a set of protocols used for p2p purpose. most of these protocols are also used in xml, but how they get their goals. For exmaple the ERP protocol in JXTA, it can route the routine the message transimited. but it seems the network protocol can achieve, how the xml can do this? (i have read some docs about this i can't make sense about it yet)
all above are some questions i met by now, for i am a newbie in this field, so i may have some misunderstading about xml/soap/jxta, if any pls feel free to critise, that i can step further =).
Thanx, and good luck to you all.

Thanx Dodossot =)!
your answers are quite helpful really, now i feel the cloud dispersed already.
about the 3rd question, for you have answer the first and second, the third is not a problem now. what i need is to read more about JXTA protocols. if you are interested about them, you may find some docs at www.jxta.org for more inf.
at last i will say thanx again, and you don't hesitate to say you'r smart =).
best regards.

Preloader problem - feel like an idiot

I feel like a total idiot. I can't seem to get my
preloader to work. Here's my code. What am I doing wrong? The
problem is that myApp.swf loads successfully but the .onEnterFrame
function thinks that loader_mc is 1 frame and 0 bytes long.

Again, I much appreciate your help. I had put some trace
statements in trying to find out what getBytesLoaded/Total were and
they were coming back with values I didn't understand, so I kept
thinking it was trying to get the values of the empty_mc I had
instantiated instead of the thing I was trying to load and I kept
scratching my head as to why and tried a lot of different things
and was baffled. At any rate, in the end I think it's a timing
issue if I understand correctly. In other words, I think the
function started executing before it could really grab the correct
information about the .swf that I was trying to load. Is that
right?
Oh well, I'm out of the ditch with that silly problem now and
moving on to my next set of challenges. :-)
Again, thank you so VERY much for being a willing helping
hand to us newbies out here.

Mac Newbie TM & Spotlight issues

Hi All,
I got my new iMac on 21 September 2012. I have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) drive on my Netgear DGN 2200 router which Spotlight never really managed to index - it always estimates a huge amount of time and even if I let it go it doesn't get it done.
When I started TM backup it extimated about a month and I let it go because I thought it would figure out that it was a new / empty machine quite quickly and the estimate would come down. After two days and only 2-3GB backed up I stopped it and deleted all of the backup data and started again. Same issue.
Then I turned off spotlight and eventually got a week-long backup done.
I then updated to 10.7.5 supplemental upgrade which apparently fixes long TM backup issues.
Now, with spotlight turned back on TM has been taking forever with its incremental backups. For example, I turned it on an hour ago and opened pages & Chrome, then it started a backup 50 minutes ago. It says "Backing up: 116.6 MB of 116.6 MB" but it's still going 50 MINUTES later!!! update: 75minutes later
Spotlight is still not indexing my external storage which is an issue because I have all of my work on the external.
I have been trawling through this forum but being a mac newbie I don't understand all of the jargon - sudo this and that, and if I get a solution it does need to be step by step. I have always been tinkering around under the hood of previous M$ machines and would be a 'power-user' so I'm not stupid but it's a whole new language for me.
Should I upgrade to Mountatin Lion?
Is there any way I can downgrade to 10.6?
Is there any way to search without using spotlight? On the pc I used to be able to search non-indexed locations, it would just take a little while.
Time Machine is not trying to backup my NAS drive is it? From my understanding it doesn't do that but maybe it's confused ... ???
Thanks for your help.

I don't use raid myself so I'll leave that explanation to others. I configure my Mac Pro with 4 drives. My main drive is my boot drive and has about 300+ gigs free. I have a backup drive for that which I use SuperDuper for backup, creating a fully bootable backup drive in the event my main drive has a problem. I only back up to that drive when my machine is "good and solid". That allows me to throw on the most recent update without much concern. If there is a problem then I just boot from my backup drive and I'm back up and running just fine. I also use the backup of my main drive for my Final Cut Pro scratch drive. I copy the files for my movies to external drives for archive when needed. For my data drives I use another set of 500 gig drives. One for data (mostly photos) and one to backup using superduper whenever I feel like it. You could automate it all with Retrospect for the data drives if you wanted to. I don't think Retrospect will make a bootable backup of a main drive. I use Western Digital WD5000KS ddrives, 500 megs each. They make another model for those wanting RAID. Set up RAID, by all means, if squeeking every ounce of speed is your goal to be sure. My setup is conservative, redundant and very safe. A simple search here or on google for RAID0 or such will turn up much info on raid configuations.

How to enable exporting video. newbie

Hi all, I know this is elementary but have pity on me as I'm still a newbie. I have a sequence with a few audio tracks onto a video track. I want to File/export to a vimeo video file. When I pick export, it only allows me to export the audio. I *know* its some setting I hit but not sure where. Also, this is what I have for my video and audio tracks and I have a feeling it's because Video 1 doesn't have the small tab at the beginning clicked as the Audio tab has "A1".
I click on that small block but cannot get it selected.
please advise ! thanks!

Jim, thanks for taking the time to answer. My confusion came from the fact that I could not click on the 'export video' box. however, once I changed the file format to something other than "export audio" I was able to set it to vimeo hd.
thank you!

Live CD for newbies and dial up users

From comments I am receiving abut the usage of AL-AMLUG Live CD, it helps newbies to install the native Arch Linux in HDD. Without any "headage" it does all the major configures (X, sound, network, and LILO) for you. The "hd-install" includes Hwd (hardware detect) and net-install with DHCP & ADSL setup.
Does sounds good for a newbie? Anything good also include a "but...". Disadvantage with hd-install, in my opinion, you will miss the learning of Arch Linux's configure system what you may need for post configure of new hardwares and programs..... sooner or later you have to become an Archer
The live CD is also for the "dial up users" with 56k modems, when the packages in Arch Linux's latest installer CD getting outdated. Example, AL 0.5 was released July 21, 2003. The current live CD 0.4.2 with the base, KDE and common packages updated on February 12, 2004.
http://amlug.net/new-projects/live-cd/p … list-0.4.2
GNOME users may not be happy. For your information, there is still 280MB space on the live CD for more packages. Total space: 1.3GB (compressed to 700MB).
AL-AMLUG Live CD project page:
http://amlug.net/new-projects/live-cd/a … ve-cd.html

beniro,
after week of not even touching this thread i still have to say that i fail to see what is derogatory in my comments. derrogatory is where you put down something for the sake of putting something down. i hardly ever do something like that. i may be blunt but hardly ever derrogatory.
look in the mirror? i have done that alot i have looked in the mirror i have tried to understand the way some people came to the conclusioned they did about me. perhaps i a m blind or stupid but when have i ever not tried to get something positive for the community? when i look in that mirro i see someone who put alot of time and effort into helping the community with problems. i see somebody that where ever they have gone always express what they feel despite what blowback may happen. i don't believe in bottling things up. in the end though all people see is the negative.
nifan,
there are lots of ways to help a friend out installling any distro. but in the end if you don't know the guts then expect things to go bad at some point. linux is not designed for someone who just wants the computer to do everything. indeed if linux were like that then there would be a whole host of security risks presented.
as for me slamming arch. well if you didn't notice i having only been too willing to always air out arch's dirty laundry. i have been harping on the documentation and so have many others. should those others move on too while the developers/community continue to bury their heads in the sand and feel they can keep marching on? if somebody didn't do who would and where would arch be then?
i am here EVERYDAY. EVERYDAY since i joined this forum. i have asked and answered questions, i contributed on the irc channel, i worked for the distro everyday for almiost a year. i know what was going what went on. i still point out some thigns to aid the developers. in the end my view of kiss never really strayed from the documented version of arch's kiss statement and i felt arch had and was continuing to. there were just too many small things that bothered me and i decided to use another distro.
now that i have moved on though i needed something to keep my desire to help occupied and crux does not have a forum nor can i help out that much on irc because it is distro mainly used by europeans and our clock are just not synced. i still know arch fiarly well and actually crux is very similar so why not help. i have nothing against the community.
why do i get bitter then. well to beat dead horse. i try to help or try to voice an opinion and the response i commonly get back a tirade against my person. now it is at the point now where some people do not or refuse to see any constructive or helpful posts i make here. take al ook at rasat he is someone who has been the victim of many a criticism from me and he never once made any insults towards me nor did he ever not put the blinders on to what i was saying. after nearly a year of taking the odd jab from me he still knows exactly why make the comments towards his projects i do.
in the end i don't really care what he does as his work does bring people to the arch community. i just try and make sure that he can design his projects in such a way as to not create a pile of mindless users that need their hand held through everything. from what i remember of early versions of hwd for example he made it still a very hands on approach for the user. ultimately that is what i wanted him to hear and he did.
if you don't think that the system taking control of your work environment is a burden on the community take a look at just how much help we need to give here and on the mail list. if people had come from a more hands on environment they would rarely have to use irc, forums or mail lists. linux is hard to get used to because it is desigened to be hands on sytem and anyone who does not want this should really not be using it. thats mean but true. with ease comes security risks.
belive me i am lazy i came from the least hands on distro before arch and i would NEVER go back to distro not like arch or crux or ... i have learned alot and there is very few issues i cannot figure out. arch's kiss approach taught me alot and crux has brought me back to it.
in the end i am here to help and if you doubt that then well you just should not bother with any of my posts because i WILL piss you off eventually whether i am trying to or not.

Newbie.....garageband wont work

hello all i am a new mac user.. converted after the **** of vista came to be..
anyway thought id try the mac.. few minor issues..
here is my problem.. i got my mac book 3 days ago.. and u know i am playing around trying to get to know it and what not.. so i found grageband.. so cool.. so i played .. then today i went to play agian and i went to mac hd icon selected applications and clicked gragband.. it bonced in my dock and then tried to iniatalize and then told me it closed unexpectedly retry or send apple a report.. so i did that 5 times or so .. then restarted whole system
even checked and downloaded updates
still nothing..
not sure if others are malfunctioning.. but i am new with this.. so if any of you have some time to help a newbie.. feel free to im or email me.. i could use it..
thanks so much
annie
ps sorry if this was already talked about u can post a link to that thread i was having some trouble searchign for it.

took some work to get threw that site
if you let the page fully load, the proper query is at the top of the page
that permision thing.. am i to do that when exactly.. like every time i am about to install
it depends if you're "Ms. Safety". i almost never bother, unless something's acting a little flaky. there are some that run a repair before every install of anything, and immediately after the install. in the end, it's your call, it's not required, but it can prevent oddball probs when something weird happens and isn't obvious until you try to run or install one particular thing.
hmmm, i think this should get added to the FAQ, that's a good question you asked B-)>

Newbie feeling overwelmed

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for