Assorted questions

[Charles Martin]

> From: Jerry Krinock <dearjerry at mindspring.com>
>> 4  I find Word X crashes on me often.  Is this common and are there
>> remedies?
>>
> Word X crashes on me about once every 5 hours or so.
>
I haven't had any problems of that nature with Word. Make sure you're 
running the latest update. If you are, you might try the old "deleting 
prefs" trick.

>> 7  I have a one-user set up in OS X and I am, by default, the 
>> administrator,
>> but I find there are details I cannot change in my user account, 
>> namely the
>> 'short name'.  I entered it wrongly the first time and can't fix it.  
>> It
>> pops up on various occasions and I have to retype it each time.
>>
> I've wondered that myself.  I believe there is no way to change the 
> short
> name.

Yes, there is a way to change the short name. It's complicated and 
involves using the terminal. If you're still interested, I'll explain.

_Chas_

"Executives in the PC business use the word "sexy", in such a way that 
I'm always surprised to discover that their children aren't adopted. 
The Mac interface is not "sexy", and it would be grotesque to want it 
to be. It is, in fact, playful, often well over the line into 
frivolity. The bouncing icons (and the puffs of smoke and the 
pipe-organ speech synthesizer and the way dialogs tidily resize and the 
drop-shadows on the windows and the jellybean buttons and the eject key 
on the keyboard) are not individually rationalizable on utilitarian 
grounds, and they do not pretend they mean to be. They are there to, in 
aggregate, change the nature of your relationship with the device. They 
are joyful, and they hope their joy is infectious." -- Glenn McDonald