The Mac GeekCat

Geek Cab number 242 for Friday, February 5th, 2010. I'm going to Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Geek Cab. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

But today it is. I'm Dave Hamilton and Durham, New Hampshire.

John and Ferrano, Fairfield, Connecticut, and I have my breakfast and also I have my

freshly ground coffee, black. Do you add water to that or you just eat it kind of ground up like at least like no I don't just

grind up the beans and eat them I had some hot water so okay that's nice do you filter out the beans or do you just sort of

let them filter through your teeth?

Nope. No, I use a conventional copymaker.

That's good.

All right, so we have, I'm traveling on Monday to Mac World Expo.

I've got some things going on this weekend,

so John and I figured the best bet, the safest bet,

was to get a show out today.

And of course, we have more than enough material

from all of you to keep us going.

So let's dive right in and let's hear from Mike because it's early in the day and what Mike does

is a great thing to start us early in the day.

Hey John and Dave

Throwing you guys a cream puff today. I know it's going to be a piece of cake for you to answer this one

Although I don't know the answer. I'm a Linux user and if this was on a Linux box I'd have it solved in about 20 seconds.

Nevertheless, I've got an I-Mac here, a G-5 I-Mac that my kids share accounts on, one of the children forgot his password.

So as the admin who also has an account on the machine, I went in and reset his password. However, that worked fine. When he logs on, his

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