John and Dave take this snowy New England Monday afternoon to dig through the mailbag, answering questions and sharing tips about things including encoding video on your Mac, the telltale signs of damaged preference files (and how to fix them!), getting a locked-up Mac to speak again, and much, much more.

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Stuff mentioned:

MultiSpeedPlayer
VLC Media Player for Mac OS X
Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode
SSH in Mac OS X
TouchTerm
sysctl
netstat
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test
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MGG 236: Video Encoding, Damaged Preferences, Unfreezing Locked-Up Macs and More