Simple start up question

Every time I start up my MacBook Pro a bunch of programs open, where can I fix this in my settings?

Lion will automatically reopen at startup everything that was open when you last shut it down. You can turn this feature off, but I don't have Lion and can't tell you where to find that option. Look in System Preferences and Finder Preferences for starters, or wait for someone else to come along and tell you exactly where it is.

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Firefox will not open or won't start (see /questions/964132 )

was Ok till recently

Please include more information, such as your Operating System (Windows?) and version, plus exactly what happens when you try to start Firefox. The information that's listed in a recent Firefox crash report, if available, might also help. See [[Firefox crashes]] under '''Get help fixing this crash''' and post any crash Report IDs recently submitted (they'll start with '''bp-''' )
Your question title says "Firefox will not open or won't start (see /questions/964132 )" I looked at that question and it was started by another Firefox user. [/questions/964132?page=2#answer-477049] has a number of suggestions if Firefox won't start. Which ones did you try?
For other possible solutions see
* [[Basic Troubleshooting]]
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up
*[/questions/958850] ''Firefox won't open after restart''
Note: A "clean reinstall" was one of the suggestions in [/questions/964132]. It means removing the Firefox application files and then reinstalling Firefox from a fresh download, as explained in the "Reinstall Firefox" step in [[Basic Troubleshooting]]. If that allows you to start Firefox, but if the problem returns after restarting the computer, you should do another "clean reinstall" and then troubleshoot your plugins by disabling all of them, as suggested in the [[Basic Troubleshooting]] article.

Simple X-fi Question, Please Help

!Simple X-fi Question, Please HelpL I've been looking for an external sound card that is similar to the 2002 Creative Extigy and think I may found it in the Creative X-Fi. I have some questions about the X-fi though. Can the X-fi:
1. Input sound from an optical port
2. Output that sound to 5. surround- Front, surround, center/sub
3. Is the X-Fi stand-alone, external, and powered by a USB or a wall outlet (you do not need a computer hooked up to it)
Basically I want to connect a TosLink optical cable from my Xbox to the X-Fi. That will deli'ver the sound to the X-Fi. Then I want that sound to go to a 5. headset that is connected to the X-fi via 5. front, surround, and center/sub wires. The X-Fi has to be stand-alone and cannot be connected to a PC to do this.
Thank you for your help.

The connector must match, and the connector polarity (plus and minus voltage) must match. Sorry, I don't know if the positive voltage goes on the inside of the connector or the outside. Any wattage of 12 or more should be adequate.
Message Edited by toomanydonuts on 01-10-2008 01:29 AM

Hey Adobe, stop asking whether I want you to install updates automatically. I DON'T. Some programs I run crash if you jump in there and start asking questions.

Hey Adobe, stop asking whether I want you to install updates automatically. I DON'T. Some programs I run crash if you jump in there and start asking questions.

You can set your preferences to not prompt you for updates, either having them done without asking, or relying on yourself to manage them

Simple Crop tool question... how do I save the crop section?

Hi,
I have a very simple crop tool question. I'm a photoshop girl usually... so Illustrator is new to me. When I select the crop section I want... how do I save it?... if I select another tool in the tool panel, the crop section disappears and I can't get it back when I re-select Crop tool. If I select Save as... it saves the whole document...and not just my crop section.
Like I said, simple question...but I just don't know the secret to the Illustrator crop tool.
Thanks!
Yzza

Either press the Tab key or F key.

Are there some simple start up instructions for a first time user of Lion Server?

Our small office has been using MobileMe to share one central calendar on a mac mini with 4 users MBPro users. We were also using a 3rd party application (Address Book Server (ABS)) to share a central Address Book contact database with the same 4 users. It was all working fine. Then we upgraded all our systems to Lion and iCloud. Calendar sharing works fine, but it broke our contact sharing. ABS used the old sync capability. Now all our contacts are on iCloud, and they won't sync anymore.
Does anyone know if there is a way to share contacts among several users in iCloud? (I haven't found one.)
We are now considering Lion Server, but all we need it for is sharing contacts (shared calendars under iCloud works fine).
Can we install Lion Server for just contacts and continue to use iCloud for calendar sharing?
Is there some simple Start up documentation available for Lion Server that I can read before I jump into it?
How much time is it really going to take to install and manage a server system?
We are not IT professionals. Just a small office of professionals, who want the conveninece of shared calendars and shared contacts. We all have our own calendars and contacts as well, and we want to be able to see them on all our devices: MBPros, iPhones, iPads etc.
Thanks so much for your help.

You can use Lion Server in place of the MobileMe/iCloud account. That would be your best bet. Lion Server has built into it an address book server and a calendar server which would take the place of what you are currently using.
Lion Server is designed to be quite easy to setup and run. It is pitched as being meant for people who "don't have an IT Department." Honestly, most of it is just on/off switches. If you have a Mac Mini and all of your users are on their MacBook Pros, you pretty much have the hardware necessary. Assuming all of your machines can run Lion, you should be good to go.
The most technical you might have to get is to get a domain name from some place like godaddy.com. The Server App actually walks ou through the whole setup process step-by-step. Not to mention that there is a vibrant community of users to be help out. And once it is up and running, there is very little you should have to do to it.
There are a lot of technical components to any server platform, and Apple is no exception, however they do a good job at hiding it. And at $49, you do not have much to lose. Plus, you only really need to use the components you want. If all you want in address book server and ical server, then just use those. You find you want to start sharing documents, turn on file sharing. It is up to you. Don't feel pressured to have to use every component.
Apple has posted they "Advanced Administration Guide" which has a lot of good information in it, and it is searchable. Check it out: https://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/10.7/

A Simpler, More Direct Question About Merge Joins

This thread is related to Merge Joins Should Be Faster and Merge Join but asks a simpler, more direct question:
Why does merge sort join choose to sort data that is already sorted? Here are some Explain query plans to illustrate my point.
SQL> EXPLAIN PLAN FOR
2 SELECT * FROM spoTriples ORDER BY s;
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT |              |   998K|    35M| 5311   (1)| 00:01:04|
|   1 | INDEX FULL SCAN | PKSPOTRIPLES |   998K|    35M| 5311   (1)| 00:01:04|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Notice that the plan does not involve a SORT operation. This is because spoTriples is an Index-Organized Table on the primary key index of (s,p,o), which contains all of the columns in the table. This means the table is already sorted on s, which is the column in the ORDER BY clause. The optimizer is taking advantage of the fact that the table is already sorted, which it should.
Now look at this plan:
SQL> EXPLAIN PLAN FOR
2 SELECT /*+ USE_MERGE(t1 t2) */ t1.s, t2.s
3 FROM spoTriples t1, spoTriples t2
4 WHERE t1.s = t2.s;
Explained.
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT       |              |    11M|   297M|       | 13019 (6)| 00:02:37 |
|   1 | MERGE JOIN            |              |    11M|   297M|       | 13019 (6)| 00:02:37 |
|   2 |   SORT JOIN            |              |   998K|    12M|    38M| 6389 (4)| 00:01:17 |
|   3 |    INDEX FAST FULL SCAN| PKSPOTRIPLES |   998K|    12M|       | 1460 (3)| 00:00:18 |
|* 4 |   SORT JOIN            |              |   998K|    12M|    38M| 6389 (4)| 00:01:17 |
|   5 |    INDEX FAST FULL SCAN| PKSPOTRIPLES |   998K|    12M|       | 1460 (3)| 00:00:18 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   4 - access("T1"."S"="T2"."S")
       filter("T1"."S"="T2"."S")I'm doing a self join on the column by which the table is sorted. I'm using a hint to force a merge join, but despite the data already being sorted, the optimizer insists on sorting each instance of spoTriples before doing the merge join. The sort should be unnecessary for the same reason that it is unnecessary in the case with the ORDER BY above.
Is there anyway to make Oracle be aware of and take advantage of the fact that it doesn't have to sort this data before merge joining it?

Licensing questions are best addressed by visiting the Oracle store, or contacting a salesrep in your area
But I doubt you can redistribute the product if you aren't licensed yourself.
Question 3 and 4 have obvious answers
3: Even if you could this is illegal
4: if tnsping is not included in the client, tnsping is not included in the client, and there will be no replacement.
Tnsping only establishes whether a listener is running and shouldn't be called from an application
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Simple start routine

Hi friends,
I need a simple start routine code.
It should only load data for first quarter.
Fiscal period is the time characteristic.
3 months in a quarter Example : 200701 - 200703.
Thankyou.

Assumed that data_package can be filtered based on Year & Month.If it should be filtered based on some date field then there should be minor modifications.
DATA : V_YEAR TYPE C(4),
V_LOW TYPE C(6),
V_HIGH TYPE C(6).
RANGES : R_YRMON LIKE <Use the same field reference of data_package table for the date field>
V_YEAR = SY-DATUM+0(4).
CONCATENATE V_YEAR '01' INTO V_LOW.
CONCATENATE V_YEAR '03' INTO V_HIGH.
R_YRMON-SIGN = 'I'.
R_YRMON-OPTION = 'BT'.
R_YRMON-LOW = V_LOW.
R_YRMON-OPTION = V_HIGH.
APPEND R_YRMON.
CLEAR R_YRMON.
*This filters out all data other than the first quarter
DELETE DATA_PACKAGE WHERE <DATE FIELD> NOT IN R_YRMON.

Simple (?) start point question.

Why can't I drag the start point like I can drag the end point? It (the start point) won't budge. When I try to drag it, all that happens is all my regions are selected, but start is still at 1 1 1 1. Y?
thanks!

Go to File>Song Settings> Synchronization .. you will see a box there that for experimenting with the bar position - you are not tied always to 1 1 1 1

A few simple (?) dimension questions...

Hi, I have a few really simple dimension questions that I just can't figure out in OWB (which I'm just now starting to play with):
1) I'm trying to create a dimension that has no levels or any hierarchy. In the BI tool, I just want this dimension to act as a "pick list" for one of 8 values (DW data snapshot dates for the last 8 weeks...) Users won't summarize by this dimension, or ever have more than 1 week selected at a time. How can I set this type of dimension up?
2) Somewhat related to #1 - just to get something working, I set up a "time in weeks" dimension not as a time dimension, just as a normal user dimension. I then added a single "weeks" level with a surrogate key (using "key" instead of "id"), short desc (as the business key), and long description. Set up a mapping from my source table, everything worked fine. The strange thing I've notcied is that the relational table produced has both a "week_key" column and a "dimension_key" column. How can I get rid of the "dimension_key" column - its just an exact duplicate of the lowest level key column? Note - we will have a dimension table with over 1.3 BILLION rows in our warehouse - so duplicating this column does add a significant amount of overhead - this isn't just an academic problem.
3) related to building this "test" dimension - my source table has 8 records in it. Whenever I run the ETL to populate the dimension table, the surrogate keys end up being key values 9 - 16 instead of 1 - 8. Note this is even if I reset the sequence number to 1 before I start, etc. My understanding is that Oracle uses a variable width number field when storing data - so having this dimension with values 1-8 instead of 9-16 saves approx a byte for every fact table record (which we're predicting will be in the range of 20 - 50 BILLION rows). How can I force the dimension to start numbering at 1?
Thanks in advance,
Scott

Hi
Reg #2, I do not think we can get rid of the "dimension key". It looks like OWB is creating this column as a default Primary Key and hence is not possible to remove this. May be if we build the base Table for dimension as a normal relational table, which will allow us to define our own keys, and then build the "Dimension" using AWM on this relation table may resolve the issue of having duplicate primary keys. Its only a thougt, have not tested though.
rgds
Mahesh

MOD answers please - simple yes / no questions on pops and crackl

Dear MOD's
Could someone PLEASE answer these questions with a simple yes / no answer.
It seems a lot of people are giving up hope on the snap, crackle and pop problem.
) Does Creative acknowledge the problem exists?
2) Have Creative replicated this problem in-house?
3) Is Creative looking into a fix?
Considering my X-Fi Fatality is the best of the best of the best, I would expect some info on the situation.
If its hardware and no software fix will patch it, then at least tell us.
Leaving so many customers in the dark is just down right rude.
In anticipation of your quick response
Bozzy

It's funny, the mods don't seem to exist when you ask them a question, but if you start swearing up and down these forums, they're on you like a fat kid chasing smarties!!
Or if there's a new product being launched, they're all over the forums saying, "check out the demo, buy Creative products now!!" Screw that!!! Little do consumers know that when they buy a Creative product, they don't get the support they need. The Audigy beta driver has been in the beta stage for 3 months!!!!!!!!!! 3 freakin' months!! You better hope and pray that when you buy a Creative products, it works out of the box!!!
Message Edited by Dr_Know on 2-6-2005 06:09 PM

Another simple classpath problem question

Hi All
Yes I know, there are a lots of questions about this matter, but I couldn't found a solution to my problem.
I have a simple program:
public class prueba {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Ahi va...");
}placed in /tmp/javier/prueba.java
After compiled, I've tried to run it from / and then problems started:
cd /
java /tmp/javier/prueba
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: /tmp/javier/prueba (wrong name: prueba)
I said, ok...it could be a classpath problem...then:
java -cp /tmp/javier/ /tmp/javier/prueba
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: /tmp/javier/prueba
Damn, another try...
java -cp .:/tmp/javier/ /tmp/javier/prueba
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: /tmp/javier/prueba (wrong name: prueba)
Jesus Christ....may be the last slash....
java -cp .:/tmp/javier /tmp/javier/prueba
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: /tmp/javier/prueba (wrong name: prueba)
Oh...no.... may be classpath to java classes..
java -cp .:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_01/lib/jre/:/tmp/javier/ /tmp/javier/prueba
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: /tmp/javier/prueba (wrong name: prueba)
Well, I don't know why this error happens....
Please, could somebody help me !!!
Thanks in advance...
<jl>

It's not too early to start following the Sun coding
conventions for Java:
http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.
tmlHi
thanks for your reply.
Yes, I agree. I use conventions with my programs. But my real problem was with a real application and then I did quickly this simple code to help others to understand the problem and give a fast reply...
Let me know if that works. (It was fine on my
machine.) - MODYes it works fine, thanks.... and Damn...Murphys law again, the only option I didn't tried is the solution to my problem... :)
Thanks again...

Starting up question

Please help!
I'm sure there's a simple solution to this question, but...
every time I start the computer up, it decides to forget everything I saved (onto the desktop, itunes has to be signed in again, etc, etc) the previous time i had the computer on.
All is not lost since computer makes up a new sub-folder inside the "Users" folder. with a number next to it. However, this has lead to some confusion when searching for files saved, say, 3 or 4 days ago, or longer.
What are the correct settings needed to rectify this? Does it concern start-up disc, or Accounts, or Internet and Network?
I tried to solve this problem myself, but it has persisted.
Thanks for any help, if you happened to know the answer!

Gosh communist,
why, I have exactly the same problem. The answer must lie somewhere in the following:
select the Hard Disc, go to File and click on Get Info.
You will be given a drop-down description of owner and list of options to read only/read and write/no access. choose "read and write" for all the options to do with Ownership and Permission, and the Details.
The next button to mouse on to might be "Apply to enclosed items" which I dare not click on because then the message reads "you cannot reverse this".
However, despite my efforts, my computer still refuses to remember the settings during the time the computer was on the last time.
Does anyone else hold the key to our problems?? I also thought there would be an easy answer to this...

Simple 3D shape question

I'm a total PS 3D newb, so I'm sure this is a dumb question, but any help will be greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to make a simple 3D disk shape with blue rounded edges like this...
I cannot get anything that looks like this either by modifying the standard shapes or by using Repousse on a circle shape. Can anyone suggest a way to create this in Photoshop?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi,
3D> Repoussé is the quickest place to start, assuming you have Ps CS5 Extended. Getting the lighting set to do what you want is the trickiest part. Here's an attempt that's using the Bend: 360 for a lathed shape (as opposed to the Bevel approach above). I added a feathered white fill on top of the 3D layer, as well.
regards,
steve

My problem is too complex for a simple one-line question. Is there an upload facility where I can describe the problem in some detail?

My Problem with Word and Excel for Ms Office 2011
I work on a MacBook Pro (Mavericks, v.10.9.1) as an editor of a scholarly journal.
I regularly receive submissions as Ms Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, mostly created on Windows computers.
For the past 10 years I have been using Ms Office software for Mac without any problems to open and process these documents.
I have since 2012 been using Ms Office 2011 for Mac without without any problems.
About 10 days ago, I started getting error messages when trying to open Ms Word and Excel files, but I have no problems with opening and editing PowerPoint files.
Failed Clean Reinstallation Attempts
I completely removed all traces of Ms Office from every nook and cranny of my Mac, following the procedure “How to completely remove Office for Mac 2011” from the MS support website at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768, and then made a clean reinstallation of Ms Office 2011, followed by two recommended updates. The problem is back.
The Error Messages
When I click on an existing .DOC or .DOCX Word file I get the following error message:
(1)
"The Open XML file Normal-dotm cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents or the file might contain characters (for example, \ /)."
Details
No error detail available.
It then lists the name of the document that I was unable to open.
(2)
If I click on the image of a Blank page in the Word Document Gallery the following error message is displayed:
"Word cannot open the existing global template
(Normal.dotm)."
(3)
If I then click on OK, a blank document 1 opens up. When I type information and try to save it I again I get the error message:
This is not a valid file name. Try one or two of the following:
*Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly.
*Select a file from the list of files and folders.
Workaround Solution by Editing Ms Word Documents Via Pages
I can open the Word documents that Word cannot in My Mac’s Pages word processing program, and after editing, export them again in Ms Word format, but cannot open the in Ms Word for Mac to see if everything is alright. This is no way to work, using Ms Word.
Any suggestions how I can solve the problem, sort of buying Ms Office 2013 for Mac?
(By the way, I am writing this message in Mac’s Notes application).
<Edited by Host>

Rembrandt,
Did the two updates to Office 2011 get you to 14.3.9? That's the latest Mac version of Office.
I use Office 2013 and Mac Office 2011 on the same machine and have no problems opening any files shared between the two. You followed the instructions for uninstalling and updated your new installation correctly, I have to assume. It sounds as if there is a problem with your cuurent configuration but if it's not an update problem, or an installation problem, I can only direct you to the MS Office for Mac user community -> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac (sometimes you get lucky and get an actual MS employee answering your question).
Good luck,
Clinton

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