Another iMAC question

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Originally posted by Steve2701:
I for one just dont want to go putting windows onto the imac I just (well v nearly) escaped from the darn thing.

Same here Steve.

If you need sage then install windows. Its seperate from the mac and is easy to boot into on the occasion you need sage, or use emulation such as VMware fusion, which with a little configuration is very seemless.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
OK I may make an idiot of my self again, but here goes.

I'm looking at my Activity Monitor and there is a Process called Autobahn with 61 threads, A] I don't what it does and B] what threads?

When a program runs it may execute two or more sub-programs (tasks) at the same time. The program has forked in to multiple threads. Each thread will want its bit of processing time from the CPU. If you had multiple CPUs the threads could run across these to process in parallel - now wouldn't that be fun. Whatever autobahn (I thought it was a track by Kraftwerk), it is forking (splitting in two) and creating threads of execution.

You can't delete a thread you need to kill the process that spawns it.

Open a terminal windows and

ps -A | grep -i autobahn

should list the threads and give you the process numbers.

The first listed

ps -A | grep -i autobahn | head -1

should tell the process number of the original to send it in to the void do

sudo kill -9 <process number>

or

sudo kill -KILL $(ps -A | grep -i autobahn | head -1 | awk '{print $1}')

if you prefer.

If autobahn still persists then an up arrow will you run the command again above again.

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Originally posted by tonym:
I wouldn't do that Howard - there'll be nowhere for your internet traffic to go!

On Mac matters; having finally got SWMBO over to the fruity side (so to speak), she's now realised Sage stuff isn't Mac compatible. Does anyone know if there are any accounts software packages available for Macs which can be recommended please?

Tony,

Had the same problem with Quicken.

Now use Moneydance on Macs.

Joe

Ta Joe. Should have asked you first really...

Thanks for the other suggestions folks.

I've been an iMac convert for about 16 months and love it. Safari works perfectly for me.

I have this Snow Leopard OS-X Guide and find it very well written and instructive.

John.

The key to mac is drag and drop, get used to that and you have cracked it basically

I love my Macs, several generations from 90. Tho I have a year old iMac recently it's been slowing down and taking lots of time to just send or receive a message and no pics . Rather frustrating but maybe it's just my ATT server.

I remember having to click an image, save it to desktop and then put it into an email, Now it's just drag and drop. I could never do windows except those in my apartment and car.

I use corel draw a fair bit, so have installed parallels running xp - and its rather clevah (suggesting this not too cheep a way to run sage on your mac...)

Mudwolf - are you running regular Permission Repairs and regular housekeeping - Macaroni is good tool for that

Also are you running out of disc space

yeah when I get pop ups I have it download etc, I don't know about Macaroni. A friend set up my wifi with ATT for Netflix and showed how ATT was running slow. He's 4 blocks up the street and gets the fastest service but I call and I'm not close enough to the connection box. Pisser

The send me all sorts of ads to get me to buy movie channels and faster bundles tho. Never stops a sales pitch.

I turn my system off once a week to clean out the cache etc but really never do anything more. I got out of graphics as it never developed into a career for me so I only send tawdry emails, keep up with family, lurk on here and become a social nuisance. I enjoyed Illustrator and Photoshop when I had some chops but now I'd rather draw with my hand on real paper.

Very impressive, I have to admit to being very happy at present.
I seem to have gotten here without doing hardly anything at all. A lot to pick up for certain, and everything seems to have shrunk drastically, apart from the screen which now dwarfs the pc to its side. The mouse seems slightly weird at present but everything seems intuitive for now. I like how it's going for now.

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Originally posted by Steve2701:
Very impressive, I have to admit to being very happy at present.
I seem to have gotten here without doing hardly anything at all. A lot to pick up for certain, and everything seems to have shrunk drastically, apart from the screen which now dwarfs the pc to its side. The mouse seems slightly weird at present but everything seems intuitive for now. I like how it's going for now.

Welcome to Mac-land. The number of Apples in our place keeps growing (about 9 devices at present). I don't see that we would ever go back.

I decided to check for updates as there would obviosly be some - hells bells, 1.4 GB of them.
Decided not to play while this was going on, so prety much left it to its own devices till tomorrow. I just hope it carries on downloading while it sleeps, as I will not be here to keep waking it up.
I have the joys of iphoto & itunes to get to grips with next.
Never yet copied a disk to drive, so that will be entertaining.
Then I guess I need to look for a DAC any ideas < sweet smile > ?

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Originally posted by Steve2701:
check for updates.... 1.4 GB of them.

Mac updates have been completely painless for me so far.

As for a DAC, well you'll get a lot of ideas/suggestions, but I really just like the one in my SuperNait for now.

The mac mixe are all terrible. The latest one is less terrible but still terrible. Good news is most any use and wireless mouse will work on mac straight from the box.

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Originally posted by garyi:
The mac mixe are all terrible. The latest one is less terrible but still terrible. Good news is most any use and wireless mouse will work on mac straight from the box.

(Presume you mean mice.) I agree, they're really diabolical! Although the wireless keyboard's excellent most of the time, it's Blutooth communication's a bit temperamental & sometimes you don't know quite what its status is.

We've now got three Macs & have settled on wireless Logitech mice (M505) which use a tiny USB dongle & work perfectly. Think I'll get the Apple Logitech keyboard which uses the same communication method.