skymedic 0 #1 February 3, 2005 Well to make along story short. I had enough of our desktop winblows machine. So this morning Anne and I trudged over to the Apple Store and got our selves a shiney new iMac. it's purdy for sure and is packed with cool stuff. we got iLife 05 too. Garage band is soooo neat. anyway....it's been a good day. now if I can figure out my airport express wireless mumbo jumbo. My DSL connections works great if it is plugged into the back of puter. but just wont talk to the airport express even though I can see my imac is seeing it...but it keeps searching for some ipapp thing or something. I'm gonna give apple a jingle tommorow. GO APPLE!!!!!!!! Just wish we had tiger with the parental controls. Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #2 February 3, 2005 So you play that apple game where its a puzzle of the apple logo all mixed up and you have to put it in order? I hope you like that game...not much more out there. (your semi-friendly message from AggieDave, the former Apple guy now anti-mac jokester). Ok, seriously, that's a good machine. Enjoy it. They're fun to have.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #3 February 3, 2005 LOL. I've spent the last two weeks playing World of Warcraft on my mac. Runs better than it does on my PC, that's for certain. And the PC is only 6 months old. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #4 February 3, 2005 Quote...now if I can figure out my airport express wireless mumbo jumbo. My DSL connections works great if it is plugged into the back of puter. but just wont talk to the airport express even though I can see my imac is seeing it...but it keeps searching for some ipapp thing or something. I'm gonna give apple a jingle tommorow. It sounds like your base station is trying to assign IP addresses, when it just needs to pass them through. Is your router set up as DHCP?-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #5 February 3, 2005 I dont play games on my computer so that's really not an issue for me. when I play games i play with my Xbox. Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #6 February 3, 2005 DHCP huh? no idea what that is...but gives me some idea's. thanks Tom. Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #7 February 3, 2005 If the iMac itself is working right, you ought to be able to just run the airport setup assistant and tell it to copy the settings from the iMac.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflydrew 0 #8 February 3, 2005 you should reset the airport from the little hole in the back Go to system preferences, network, show airport, TCP/IP, and make sure it's set to DHCP not (manuallydhcp or manual or anything else) Then run the airport express setup assistant (GO-->UTILITIES-->AIRPORT EXPRESS SET UP ASSISTANT) It should ask you for the type of connection you have, and the user name and password for the dsl service. You can also rename your wireless network and create a WEP password as well as change the password needed to access the airport config utility... Each time you make a setting change on the airport, it will take a minute to process because it has to reset the airport, so anticipate that happening... PM me if you have any ?'s -drew QuoteIf the iMac itself is working right, you ought to be able to just run the airport setup assistant and tell it to copy the settings from the iMac. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflydrew 0 #9 February 3, 2005 QuoteJust wish we had tiger with the parental controls. One of the Norton's products for the mac has built in parental controls. I've installed it on a client computer and they were very happy with the results. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #10 February 3, 2005 congts on the new computer............ been thinkingof going that route myself as all i do on my computer anyways is edit vdeo and surf the net....... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #11 February 3, 2005 Call Apple. That's what that 90 days of tech support is for. I had the same prob with mine, except it wouldn't connect with the ethernet cable. took me about 3 hours of messing with the computer til I figured out where the network settings were at, and then when I told Clownburner about it, he said "why didn't you just call apple?" *smacks self in forehead* I forgot that Apple actually has competent tech support. I'm too used to dealing with windows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveMO 0 #12 February 3, 2005 I see someone wants to be cool like me, all you need now are the shorts I guess if Anne's going to be using the computer you are really going to need those parental controls Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallinWoman 1 #13 February 3, 2005 you stinker....first of all, medic needs the controls more than I do... second of all....YOU WEAR CAPRIS!!!!! love ya! ~Anne I'm a Doll!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallinWoman 1 #14 February 3, 2005 The really nice thing about getting an imac is that now my home computer is compatible with my work...and our daughter's school computers are also macs.... too bad medic's ipod is formatted to a pc!!!! (although he figured out how to solve that....just a bit of extra work.) ~Anne I'm a Doll!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflydrew 0 #15 February 3, 2005 QuoteCall Apple. That's what that 90 days of tech support is for. I'm an apple tech... you can ask me too... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Nightingale 0 #16 February 3, 2005 hehe. You really shouldn't have told me that. Actually, I've been pestering Clownburner for most of my apple questions. They're mostly stupid newbie questions like "which button do I click to minimize the window" and then "um...where'd the window go and how do I get it back" after I successfully minimized it. Once I was told, I was shocked how intuitive it actually is. Because I'd been using windows, I was expecting something far more complicated! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites murrays 0 #17 February 3, 2005 Congrats! Enjoy your new iMac. We bought new iMacs for my boss at work just before Xmas and it is a sweet machine. I can't afford to upgrade from my 15" flat panel G4 iMac right now but will do so in the hopefully near future. Seeing as how you need parental controls, I assume you have kids so here is a neat thing to do on your new iMac with your digital photos of your kids...once again assuming you have been taking digital photos of themGo to Mike Matas' Blog and follow the instructions to create a Life Poster, a 20" x 30" poster composed of 98 of your photos. Enjoy!-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skymedic 0 #18 February 4, 2005 Dude...that is KICK ASS!!! one problem I have is I lost all my pictures on my windows machine. as it just will not stay alive long enough for me to nab em. oh well. time to build em back up again I guess. ok...i'm gonna mess with the DSL stuff tommorow so expect a PM. my very own apple tech. kick ass!!...God I love this machine. Also we got the 17inch and at first i thought it was just not going to be that big. but man. i have so much desktop space i dont know what to do with it all. Then last night I made the mistake of opening up garage band....THAT is a cool program. heard alot about it...didn't believe the hype. but it really is neat. thanks for the tips about the AP express. Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites AggieDave 6 #19 February 4, 2005 Pull the HD and put it in another machine to save your data...then copy it all over to your new computer. If we lived even reasonably close, we could use my computer for that...but I'm sure there's a dz.commer in your area with a computer (duh) that would help you out.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skymedic 0 #20 February 4, 2005 Ahhh...good idea. thanks Dave. OK....on the airport front. I switched it over to DHCP or whatever...and also adjusted the DSL settings. seems I have a constant ISP not a switchable one. got it working right now...problem is it keeps crapping out. it'll be connected to the internet for a little while then suddenly it wont. I go reset the airport express and run the assisstant again and it works as it is now. I dont get it... help!!! please...... Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jdhill 0 #21 February 4, 2005 Go check out the Apple Discussion boards (here)... On the HD from your old machine, pull it out of the old machine and get a FW or USB enclosure, and drop it in... plug it in and bang, you should have all your old data and a nice expansion for the iMac... JAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites murrays 0 #22 February 4, 2005 QuoteGo check out the Apple Discussion boards (here)... On the HD from your old machine, pull it out of the old machine and get a FW or USB enclosure, and drop it in... plug it in and bang, you should have all your old data and a nice expansion for the iMac... J Marc, Don't give up on your photos!! They are priceless. As Josh suggests, a FW enclosure could make recovery pretty simple and not very expensive. I bought a MacAlly FW/USB2 enclosure a few months ago for about $110 CDN I think you're looking at about $80 bucks US. I think that if you get an enclosure you should copy over the data you want...like the pictures, etc. and then reinitialize it as a Mac drive. You use Disk Utility to do this and it is found in /applications/utilities/disk utility. I use the HFS + file format on mine....don't know if having it "journalled" as in HFS+ Journalling lends any advantages....perhaps someone with more knowledge could advise. Let us know how it goes.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jdhill 0 #23 February 4, 2005 QuoteI think you're looking at about $80 bucks US. I picked one up about 6 months ago for about $40... I got a 2.5" USB2 enclosure for $19.95 about a month ago. JAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflydrew 0 #24 February 4, 2005 QuoteI use the HFS + file format on mine....don't know if having it "journalled" as in HFS+ Journalling lends any advantages....perhaps someone with more knowledge could advise. From Apple knowledge base article 107249... (This article describes journaling on server 10.2, but Apple incorporated journaling into 10.3 for regular client machines too) QuoteJournaling for the Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) file system enhances computer availability and fault resilience, which is especially noteworthy for servers. Journaling protects the integrity of the file system on Xserve and other computers using Mac OS X Server in the event of an unplanned shutdown or power failure. It also helps to maximize the uptime of servers and connected storage devices by expediting repairs to the affected volumes when the system restarts. Journaling is a technique that helps protect the integrity of the Mac OS Extended file systems on Mac OS X volumes. It both prevents a disk from getting into an inconsistent state and expedites disk repair if the server fails. When you enable journaling on a disk, a continuous record of changes to files on the disk is maintained in the journal. If your computer stops because of a power failure or some other issue, the journal is used to restore the disk to a known-good state when the server restarts. With journaling turned on, the file system logs transactions as they occur. If the server fails in the middle of an operation, the file system can "replay" the information in its log and complete the operation when the server restarts. Although you may experience loss of user data that was buffered at the time of the failure, the file system is returned to a consistent state. In addition, restarting the computer is much faster. Always remember to back up your data as frequently as necessary. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skymedic 0 #25 February 5, 2005 This is great stuff. thanks guys. is there any way I can read windows documents on my mac without having to buy office which is way to expensive IMO. Thanks, Marc. Oh the airport issue i was having seems to stem from the wireless phone. was listening to airtunes when a phone call came in and bam...it went down had to restart it etc etc...and that was with robustness turned on. all in all i am very happy with it. I also added 512mg of RAM last night...that really has helped speed things up. thanks again guys... Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... 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Nightingale 0 #16 February 3, 2005 hehe. You really shouldn't have told me that. Actually, I've been pestering Clownburner for most of my apple questions. They're mostly stupid newbie questions like "which button do I click to minimize the window" and then "um...where'd the window go and how do I get it back" after I successfully minimized it. Once I was told, I was shocked how intuitive it actually is. Because I'd been using windows, I was expecting something far more complicated! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #17 February 3, 2005 Congrats! Enjoy your new iMac. We bought new iMacs for my boss at work just before Xmas and it is a sweet machine. I can't afford to upgrade from my 15" flat panel G4 iMac right now but will do so in the hopefully near future. Seeing as how you need parental controls, I assume you have kids so here is a neat thing to do on your new iMac with your digital photos of your kids...once again assuming you have been taking digital photos of themGo to Mike Matas' Blog and follow the instructions to create a Life Poster, a 20" x 30" poster composed of 98 of your photos. Enjoy!-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #18 February 4, 2005 Dude...that is KICK ASS!!! one problem I have is I lost all my pictures on my windows machine. as it just will not stay alive long enough for me to nab em. oh well. time to build em back up again I guess. ok...i'm gonna mess with the DSL stuff tommorow so expect a PM. my very own apple tech. kick ass!!...God I love this machine. Also we got the 17inch and at first i thought it was just not going to be that big. but man. i have so much desktop space i dont know what to do with it all. Then last night I made the mistake of opening up garage band....THAT is a cool program. heard alot about it...didn't believe the hype. but it really is neat. thanks for the tips about the AP express. Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #19 February 4, 2005 Pull the HD and put it in another machine to save your data...then copy it all over to your new computer. If we lived even reasonably close, we could use my computer for that...but I'm sure there's a dz.commer in your area with a computer (duh) that would help you out.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #20 February 4, 2005 Ahhh...good idea. thanks Dave. OK....on the airport front. I switched it over to DHCP or whatever...and also adjusted the DSL settings. seems I have a constant ISP not a switchable one. got it working right now...problem is it keeps crapping out. it'll be connected to the internet for a little while then suddenly it wont. I go reset the airport express and run the assisstant again and it works as it is now. I dont get it... help!!! please...... Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdhill 0 #21 February 4, 2005 Go check out the Apple Discussion boards (here)... On the HD from your old machine, pull it out of the old machine and get a FW or USB enclosure, and drop it in... plug it in and bang, you should have all your old data and a nice expansion for the iMac... JAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #22 February 4, 2005 QuoteGo check out the Apple Discussion boards (here)... On the HD from your old machine, pull it out of the old machine and get a FW or USB enclosure, and drop it in... plug it in and bang, you should have all your old data and a nice expansion for the iMac... J Marc, Don't give up on your photos!! They are priceless. As Josh suggests, a FW enclosure could make recovery pretty simple and not very expensive. I bought a MacAlly FW/USB2 enclosure a few months ago for about $110 CDN I think you're looking at about $80 bucks US. I think that if you get an enclosure you should copy over the data you want...like the pictures, etc. and then reinitialize it as a Mac drive. You use Disk Utility to do this and it is found in /applications/utilities/disk utility. I use the HFS + file format on mine....don't know if having it "journalled" as in HFS+ Journalling lends any advantages....perhaps someone with more knowledge could advise. Let us know how it goes.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdhill 0 #23 February 4, 2005 QuoteI think you're looking at about $80 bucks US. I picked one up about 6 months ago for about $40... I got a 2.5" USB2 enclosure for $19.95 about a month ago. JAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflydrew 0 #24 February 4, 2005 QuoteI use the HFS + file format on mine....don't know if having it "journalled" as in HFS+ Journalling lends any advantages....perhaps someone with more knowledge could advise. From Apple knowledge base article 107249... (This article describes journaling on server 10.2, but Apple incorporated journaling into 10.3 for regular client machines too) QuoteJournaling for the Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) file system enhances computer availability and fault resilience, which is especially noteworthy for servers. Journaling protects the integrity of the file system on Xserve and other computers using Mac OS X Server in the event of an unplanned shutdown or power failure. It also helps to maximize the uptime of servers and connected storage devices by expediting repairs to the affected volumes when the system restarts. Journaling is a technique that helps protect the integrity of the Mac OS Extended file systems on Mac OS X volumes. It both prevents a disk from getting into an inconsistent state and expedites disk repair if the server fails. When you enable journaling on a disk, a continuous record of changes to files on the disk is maintained in the journal. If your computer stops because of a power failure or some other issue, the journal is used to restore the disk to a known-good state when the server restarts. With journaling turned on, the file system logs transactions as they occur. If the server fails in the middle of an operation, the file system can "replay" the information in its log and complete the operation when the server restarts. Although you may experience loss of user data that was buffered at the time of the failure, the file system is returned to a consistent state. In addition, restarting the computer is much faster. Always remember to back up your data as frequently as necessary. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #25 February 5, 2005 This is great stuff. thanks guys. is there any way I can read windows documents on my mac without having to buy office which is way to expensive IMO. Thanks, Marc. Oh the airport issue i was having seems to stem from the wireless phone. was listening to airtunes when a phone call came in and bam...it went down had to restart it etc etc...and that was with robustness turned on. all in all i am very happy with it. I also added 512mg of RAM last night...that really has helped speed things up. thanks again guys... Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
