Small, Probably Easy Question About LaunchDaemons/LaunchAgents

Can the "weekday" value in "StartCalendarInterval" take multiple values?
In other words, if I want a LaunchAgent or LaunchDaemon to run every weekday, can I create just one that has the value "1,2,3,4,5" for "weekday"? Or do I need to create five separate ones, one for each weekday of the week?

I'm no expert but try setting the start intervals to an array of dictionaries rather than a single dictionary.

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Hello all,
I am trying to reformat my HD after I have deleted Windows XP off of a partition. The reason for this is an upgrade to Vista and a larger allotment of HD space. My question is:
I am using Backup v3.1.1. (v369) and I have FULL backup files of my Home folder, and my Music folder (as backup for my backup) for all my iTunes libraries. These are located on a portable HD. Are these the correct files to have backed up in order to have my MAC the way it was before I started the process? If so, then once the reformatting is complete, how do I get it all back onto my MAC permanently? Will all my apps and tweaks work as before?
I am sure this is a simple question, however, I have never had to do this with a MAC, and I want to make sure I have all bases covered before I begin this. Any other comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks All!

You call this an easy question ???
Just messin with ya
Your home folder is the most important folder containing your music, documents, preferences etc. but a lot is also stored in the system folder and library folder outside your home folder, if you want to be ensured of an exact copy of your current system the best way to go at this is to clone your system partition.
The app i use for this is carbonCopyCloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
To add to this.. i've heard there is software for the mac that allows you to make adjustments to the size of your partitions without having to format the drive, i don't know the names of these products but i do know that it's very risky to use them, if you decide to use an app like that make sure you have proper backups of everything just in case it goes wrong.
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Easy Question about resizing video

I searched 'Resizing Video' and there was too many unrelated results to a really simple question.
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I'm thinking there must be another way to adjust the location (or aspect) of a video clip without spending a bit of time on exact coordinates, I want to eye-ball where I want the clip to go and simply move it there. Is the Distort feature the only way to do this? If not, which is the fastest way to move and change the dimension of a clip.
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I searched 'Resizing Video' and there was too many unrelated results to a really simple question.
That's because it's not a simple question at all and yet every one of those threads was related to the OP's question. As you discovered, there are lots of ways to interpret "resize," during capture, editing, effects, output, viewing, encoding, printing. But the solution was even simpler than you thought. All you had to do was open the manual or the online help system. Start taking the manuals to the gym with you. FCP is not Premiere. You're going to hate FCP, you're going to love FCP but it will never behave like Premiere beyond the elements of the functional paradigm. Forget Premiere.
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Basic (probably stupid) question about APExp

Hi, Just one quick question. The Wi-Fi connection provided by the built in airport in my iMac covers my whole living room, but since I have many apple devices using that same NetWork, sometimes it fails. So before I buy an aiport extreme, I would like to try the airport express, and my question is: The airport express connects (and amplifies) to the wi-fi network of the iMac, so how do I know on which airport am I connecting with my other apple devices? I don't know if I was able to be clear. Thanks a lot!

Just one more question. If the APExp creates a new wifi network how do I have internet in all The devices?
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iMac - cable - modem ( existing already) - existing AirPort - AirPort express - wifi (with internet) for all the other devices ( iPhone, apple tv, MacBook, ps3 )?
My idea is to have all this devices in network ( sharing files, playlists) with internet access ( which is phisically connected to The iMac)
Is it possible? Or do I have to buy an AirPort extreme AND an AirPort express ( since I have to have a cable To my ps3...And my wife is bugging me about The LAN cable across The living room?) . Thanks

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I'm going to be shooting some video soon that I will later be editing with FCP. I'm going to shoot the video on a Canon Vixia HF10 (AVCHD) camcorder.
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Thanks!

An interesting thing about video that is shot upside down is the ballistics of the camera movement can be weirdly disconcerting. For instance, if it's a helmet- or wing-style mount, pans and tilts just feel odd.
As Eric suggests, flipping the image 180 degrees is easy but practice and evaluate.
bogiesan

Quick Easy Question About N580GTX-M2D15D5 Bios

Hey guys!!
I just have a real quick and easy (i suppose) question!
I had bios version KH0, and MSI live update found KH1, i downloaded and flashed successfully (DOS window said please restart and press any key to exit) so i did, restarted my computer, and MSI live update utlity and gpu-z and MSI afterburner are all reporting the same bios version i had with the KH0, version 70.10.17.00.01 & date November 09, 2010
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Thanks !

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I had bios version KH0, and MSI live update found KH1, i downloaded and flashed successfully (DOS window said please restart and press any key to exit) so i did, restarted my computer, and MSI live update utlity and gpu-z and MSI afterburner are all reporting the same bios version i had with the KH0, version 70.10.17.00.01 & date November 09, 2010
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version 70.10.17.00.01
that's suppose to be, this is the version of the both bioses
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& date November 09, 2010
this is GPU release date, not BIOS date
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MSI live update is not picking up the update again, so my question is, how do i know if it flashed correctly
Get this: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=147603.0;attach=7931
extract it somewhere, then run info1 , and look for the last line
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since the bios date and version remained the same?
they are not the same, your looking the wrong stuffs

Really easy question about DVDs

I am about to get a new 5g iPod, and I am excited about being able to watch videos on it. But I have a quick question, is it possible to rip DVDs(like you can with CDs) from iTunes?
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This article addresses your question:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302758

Probably simple question about mailbox icons

Hei folks,
Sorry if this topic has been answered before, but my search didn't bring anything suitable up.
For the question: I have 3 Imap-Accounts, and each of these got another collection of icons in Mail:
image: http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sidebarnh8.jpg
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So why does
-> Web have an icon within my inboxes collection WITHOUT subfolders but WITH that grey (@) icon
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If there IS a solution (and probably it's darn simple and can be done with 5 clicks, huh), it would be really cool.
Thanks for reading (and perhaps answering),
Jojo
(PS: as always, please excuse my bad English)
PS2 & edit: Also - why do I have only outgoing mailboxes for web (imap) and gmx (pop) and not the others? arg!

Hi Jojo.
It seems to me that you posted in the wrong (Panther) forum, but the answer would be the same.
The accounts for which Mail shows mailboxes on the server as subfolders of the account's Inbox require INBOX to be put in Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > IMAP Path Prefix for Mail to handle them properly.

NEED HELP! Possibly easy question about 'sorting' on your iPod

I can't find the answer anywhere... You know when you sort on 'artist' (or probably anything) on your iPod, if the artist's name is "The Beatles", the artist will be found under the letter "B", not "T". Or if the artist's name is "A Perfect Circle", the artist will be found under "P" and not "A". Etc...
Is there a way to change this? I actually don't mind it, but was curious because:
Is there a way to add words that it would do this for? i.e. add the word "Tha" in iTunes for your iPod so artist "Tha Dogg Pound" is found under "D" and not under "T".
Sorry if this answer is somewhere but I cannot find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!!!

In iTunes for Windows the auto-sort feature is controlled by the file C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.Resources\<Region Code>.lproj\SortPrefixes.plist. For English the words ignored for sorting are "A ", "An " & "The ". You could edit this list or just use the Sort Artist, Sort Album Artist etc. fields as necessary when you'd like something sorted into a different position. I can't recall ever testing to see if the iPod picks up on changes made to this file so it may be that another properties file would need editing on the classic in order to achieve the same end.
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The problem is I do not understand why it is not possible, or what I am doing wrong to not be able to initialize a JScrollPane with a variable and call it later, real easy to see in the code below.
NOTE! I CAN use scrollbars, but only without initializing first, am just trying to understand how to properly do this with initialization or if it is not possible.
Thank you!!!!
just look for the First 3 commented sections with stars ******
import java.awt.Container;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
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                                                                 // work correctly, but I have heard/seems better to "initialize variables first"
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} // end method init
     // square method definition...***** This is a CUSTOM method creation..... if "Math.sqrt" was used, we would not have to do this
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     return y * y;      // return square of y this is RETURNED to the statement in "init()" that originally invoked the
                         // "square()" method - in this case line 32, where RESULT invoked the METHOD, so "result" gets the value of RETURN
                         // if it were "public int square()" that means the method does NOT return a value
The general format of a method definition is
return-value-type method-name( parameter-list )
declarations and statements
including "return;" or "return EXPRESSION;"
     } // end method square ALL METHODS must always be created inside the CLASS definition, as this one is... notice the closing
          // CLASS bracket below
} // end class SquareIntegers

Thank you!!!
I think I understand...... since the JScrollPane already assigned itself to the JTextArea....
when "adding" to the parent container, the only necessary component to call was in fact the JScrollPane with the container.add( myscrollbar); I do not know if this is correct, but I thank you for your help, because this definitely confused me, back to studying :)
I have it 100% operational, just posting this to say thank you that it worked, and it will help further my and possibly others understanding of this.

Easy question about install time

Hello,
I have been having a lot of problems with my MacBook and after posting on the forums it seems a re-install might help. This is my firt time doing a wipe/install so I backed up my files and booted from my Tiger install DVD and did a wipe/install and I am staring at in installing right now. It seems to be taking forever! It has been going for about 2 hours now and is about 1/3 of the way finished and says it has 3 hours 43 minutes to go. Is it supposed to take this long?

Hi,
I haven't installed Tiger on an Intel Mac but have installed Jaguar, Panther and Tiger a number of times on PPC Macs. It never took more than 30 minutes to complete.
I would suggest you let the installation run its course and then see how the computer is working.
It might be that your HD needed repairing... did you check it with disk utility before starting the installation ?
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Easy question about checking a string

hi guys i have a problem that im sure most of you will know and im probably doing something silly, I have a record and am wanting to check the values in some fields so i have:
IF Rec1.next_record = 'Renault' AND Rec1.prev_record != 'Vauxhall'
the != part doesnt seem to be working, should i be using a different method to check if the string is not equal to the given text?
Thanks.

thats the problem then, the value is null, so you would think if i done
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Thanks for the information, quite helpfull.

Easy question about buttons and panels

Hey all,
I have a problem with button visibility.
When I put buttons on a panel and then make the panel invisible,
you can still see the buttons if you move your mouse over them!
Strangely enough this only happens when I use a panel in a seperate class. Does anyone know why this happens, or better yet; a solution?
Thanks

Somehow I don't believe you. What do you mean "...you can still see the buttons if you move your mouse over them...". Is there a chance that you hae mixed AWT and Swing? Please post a small code example(of course formatted using the 'code' button).
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Easy question about 'javac'...

Yeah, at school, we're so used to using a program like CodeWarrior or NetBeans to do all our programming with. However, here at home, I'm trying to code simply in Notepad, and I'm having a little trouble.
Basically, I'm getting the NoClassDefFound error. The problem is, though, that I can't actually COMPILE the .java file I wrote in notepad - whenever I try to use the 'javac' command, it gives me an error saying it's not recognized as an external command, blah blah blah. So, there's no .class file.
Yeah, before this, I had downloaded the runtime environment, and it all went fine, but there still isn't any 'javac' command. :/

You know how states are always debating whether we (Americans)
should have the ten commandments carved in stone in front
of our courthouses? - or something like that...
Well i think someone needs to carve the god-d@mned classpath
instructions beside the heads at Mt Rushmore, lol.
Darkslime, dont feel bad everyone has this problem when they
start (at least the people that dont read the installation instructions).
This is what you do.
Install the SDK (not the JRE)
Take note of the installation folder.
Recent installations (1.5) seem to be in:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\
Find the \bin folder. it contains the "javac.exe" and "java.exe".
these are the 2 exes responsible for compiling and running
java programs.
the final path should be:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin
go to MY COMPUTER
right click
go to PROPs
ADVANCED tab
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES button
Under SYSTEM VARs:
"CLASSPATH" - i keep this empty
"PATH" - add your installation path
(i.e.: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin )
make sure to add a semicolon " ; " to separate it from the last entry.
SAVE all of this.
when you compile "cd" into the directory your project is in.
try compiling. if it doesnt work try:
javac -cp . Program.java
and
java -cp . Program
NOTE: you can add other folders to the classpath by using a
semicolo ";" ....
java -cp .;Folder1;Folder2 Program
NOTE: the " . " means "this folder"
If this doesnt work read the BILLIONS of threads about this
subject all over these forums and the net.
Good Luck
oh - and for gods sake use TextPad and not NotePad.
TextPad has a "compile" button for Java.

Easy Question about end jumps

Here is my menu lay out. Three buttons.
Play all (Want it to play enire movie)
Play part one ( Play up to track 6 and return to menu)
Play part two (Play from track 7 to end)
Can someone please tell me how to do this correctly? What am I doing Wrong

Hi Deon - it's hard to say what you are doing wrong if you don't tell us what you are doing!
What I would do to set this up is place all the footage into a single track, set markers between each section and use stories to define which chapters play when each button is pressed. Your 'play all' button would point to the track itself. Your 'Play part 1' button would point to a story container, inside which I would place chapters 1 to 6. Finally, the remaining chapters would be in a second story and this would be the button target for 'Play part 2'.
You do not need to have the assets in separate tracks at all - if you want to play a single clip it can be in a single story with just one chapter marker in - each story can have an end jump setting to return back to the menu...
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