MacGroup: Apple Updates

Earlier this evening (east coast time) Apple released a security update for OS-X users. Get it via SUPP or from Apple's site. Very recommended Jerry Security Update 2006-002 is recommended for all users and improves the reliability and security of the following co

MacGroup: For the heck of it

From an update on /. University of Wisconsin's Mac OS X Challenge. HABITcky writes "The University of Wisconsin Security Challenge has ended after 38 hours, intermittent DoS attacks, 4000 ssh login attempts, a bandwidth spike of 30 Mbps, and 6 million logged ipfw events. During this time th

MacGroup: filemaker pro question

Have her try this (Mac and PC) http://www.filemakertrial.com/bpk/?ovmkt=O5M3PJVLTCEPRD8T2ID54FN20G It is a free 30 trial of FMP Version 8 (the latest). Related links: http://www.filemaker.com/ http://www.fmpro.org/ http://www.acmetech.com/products.html Jerry On Mar 8,

MacGroup: OS X cracking challenge

On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Jerry Freeman linked: > >> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/ >> Mac_OS_X_hacked_in_less_than_30_minutes/0,261744,39241748,00.htm > > As I understand it, he hung his mini on the Internet and then > granted

MacGroup: Closing Ports in the terminal

Hmm, this question is a bit more wide open that you probably intended, for example if you mean to temporarily block a port using your built-in firewall (only valid until a restart or resetting of the firewall) you can do something like: sudo ipfw add 100 deny tcp from any to any dst-port 52

MacGroup: Filing Feedback

As Bill has indicated, this idea may not be in the collective consciousness, after all before there were computers to lose files, there were filing clerks -- and they had to be trained in how to do the job with the more recent ideas coming from the medical profession about color coding phys

MacGroup: Apple Updates

Apple released several updates yesterday, including ones for iTunes, iPhoto and OS-X (a security update). Get 'em via SUPP or from Apple's web-site. Jerry --- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I wil

MacGroup: Todays Apple announcements

Ed, were you being amazing prescient earlier? :^) http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13985186.htm Jerry On Feb 28, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Funny you should mention that, the accessories page has a big > section on hooking this

MacGroup: Todays Apple announcements

ing room > Would be better than Tivo. > > Looking for a quad core Mac Pro's in June. > > > On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> This is a stunning announcement on the face of things (subtly back >> to being revolutionary instead of evolutio

MacGroup: Todays Apple announcements

This is a stunning announcement on the face of things (subtly back to being revolutionary instead of evolutionary), $800 gets you a little bitty dual core computer that is as powerful or more so than the original G5s and way more so than the G4s. To think that this can also run the 23" D

MacGroup: wireless questions...

Yup, it can happen quite quickly if you have taken no precautions to secure your network. Take a few minutes to read through the user manual and turn on the various types of protection available to you: making certain that you also set up the corresponding stuff on the computer end as well

MacGroup: Firewall

For OS-9, hmm NetBarrier from Intego was pretty good, they also make a version for OS-X, both are commercial ($). It may be hard to find the OS-9 version though. For OS X, if you want to use an additional firewall in addition to the built-in one then FireWalk is very good. http://www.versio

MacGroup: Problem for Safari Users

On Feb 22, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Feb 22, 2006, at 5:52 AM, RobK wrote: > >> If you need some frustrating entertainment, go to Google News and >> follow the OSX virus link. There are 45 related stories (as of >> this morning) relating the doom and gloom for Apple now that it

MacGroup: Problem for Safari Users

and gloom for Apple now that it's > inundated with viruses. > Guess Apple will just have to move to AMD or back ti IBM for those processors, huh :^). Jerry > > Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> If you are a Safari user, open your Preferences and click on th

MacGroup: Problem for Safari Users

If you are a Safari user, open your Preferences and click on the General tab. There is an option to allow you to Open "safe" files after downloading. A while back it was recommended that you leave this unchecked, but there have been several upgrades to Safari and it may have inadvertently g

MacGroup: OS Speculation

Take a look at the author of this one: Dvorak. He has been predicting Apple will have to move to windoze any day now just to survive. Problem is he has been doing this for around 15 or so years. When Apple wrings the last bit of goodness out of *nix that they can get, they will move to somet

MacGroup: iTunes CD burning format

Sometimes a gap of "none" between songs can cause some older players to think the CD is just one very long song and thus may not play. Rare, but it happens. In iTunes Prefs (Burning) make sure you have chosen to make an Audio CD and try a 1 second gap between songs. What is the format you ar

MacGroup: Aperture Questions

On Feb 16, 2006, at 2:28 PM, b3 wrote: > Okay, I have a few questions regarding Apples Aperture program. > Here is my situation: > > I have a friend that is in photography/graphic design. He purchased > Aperture for use with his business, but for various reasons he has > decided that after

MacGroup: Apple Updates

Interested in listening to the Indonesian Music now being offered on iTunes? Well then it might help if you upgrade your iTunes to the new version that Apple has released. Also out today, OS-X 10.4.5. Get 'em via SUPP. Jerry --- Someda

MacGroup: outgoing mail swishing sound

Go to the Preferences > General tab. Then New Mail Sound: and select a sound for the incoming mail. Right below this is a checkbox for Play sounds for other mail actions. Make sure this is turned on. Jerry On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:52 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > Firs

MacGroup: gingerly approaching Tiger

On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > Well, I have my new iBook, so there I am in Tiger's deadly reach. > Question on mail : I used to be able to click : mark read, or > unread. Is this feature not available in the new mail appl. ? There are several ways to do this. Select the mess

MacGroup: QuickTime up-date

On Feb 12, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nelsn Helm wrote: > The software update for QuickTime v.7.0.4 says it will cripple old > versions of QuickTimePro. > This has been the same for each of the major upgrades (ie version 4.nn tyo 5.nn to 6.nn to 7.nn) > I have never paid to up-grade QT, so > Q: it's

MacGroup: Now what.......

Usually (using OS-X) just drag the attachment to the desktop and double click it to unzip it. Or you can use StuffIt ( you might still have an old copy in your OS apps folder or Utilities folder). If you know enough about Terminal to use it, start it and type: man unzip to get some help t

MacGroup: Adobe PhotoShop Security Update

Adobe has released a security update for PhotoShop CS users http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332644.html FTA: Adobe has been made aware that the file and folder permissions for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and Adobe Help Center can permit non- privileged users to change key program fi

MacGroup: Photo Printers and PhotoShop

Hello again Linda, Glad to hear that works. (Uh keep it in mind for future reference ... :^) I know, I know, do thing the right way all the way through the color management and things will always go right and you will not need quick tricks like that one huh? http://www.computer-darkro

MacGroup: Photo Printers and PhotoShop

Hello Linda, Try this quick print test: Open your PS file in Preview (just drag and drop onto the Preview icon in the dock, it will open then in Preview). Uh, if you have multiple layers in your PS file flatten the thing, and save it to a temp PS file and use that one. Print using the stan

MacGroup: What's the location of the Spotlight indexing log file?

This may be of some help http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html Jerry On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:06 PM, R. D. Preston wrote: > What's it called? > Where's it located? > Can it be cleared and/or refreshed? > ...selectively by volume, etc.? > > Regards, > Russ Pre

MacGroup: Photo Printers and PhotoShop

Wouldn't want to do that often...jf > > On Jan 30, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> The hidden cost of the 4800 is the new desk you have to buy to put >> it on, it is too heavy for the regular 'puter printer desk :^= >> >> Jer

MacGroup: Photo Printers and PhotoShop

his doing client work...jf > > On Jan 30, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> As found on Rob Galbraith's site: >> >> Shutterbug magazine has an online review of Epson's high quality >> photo printers (there were a few questions a short while

MacGroup: Photo Printers and PhotoShop

As found on Rob Galbraith's site: Shutterbug magazine has an online review of Epson's high quality photo printers (there were a few questions a short while ago about which was a good photo printer -- these are really good ones -- though I have got to warn you, these are not $99 printers).

MacGroup: Recovering from an install

On Jan 30, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Nelsn Helm wrote: > The computer was running smoothly. I saved everything, then instald > Tiger, first as an upgrade, then as a clean "erase" install. > > The key chain no longer contains my old entries. How can I "import" > my old keychain? > Open the Keychain a

MacGroup: An Even Easier One....

> OK. Apple's Mail application works both to receive and send, but > meanwhile I've gotten use to Thunderbird. And this control-click > things for Dictionary doesn't seem to work in Thunderbird. It does > in Mail. > > Anne > > > Jerry Yeager wrote: >

MacGroup: An Even Easier One....

gt; > Anne >> >> On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: >> >>> Also you can select a word or phrase in the Mail message (or in >>> other apps) and then hold down the control key while you click on >>> the highlighted selection. A context

MacGroup: An Even Easier One....

t. Words are to confuse, so that at election time > people will > solemnly vote against their own interests. -Gore Vidal, writer > (1925- ) > > On Jan 29, 2006, at 17:00, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> Also you can select a word or phrase in the Mail message (or in >>

MacGroup: An Even Easier One....

Also you can select a word or phrase in the Mail message (or in other apps) and then hold down the control key while you click on the highlighted selection. A contextual menu will pop-up with "Look Up In Dictionary" being one of the choices. Jerry On Jan 29, 2006, at

MacGroup: An Even Easier One....

This may be of some help: http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/07-2002/07-26.ws But be careful of applying things like this too quickly, most Apple keyboards have a forward delete key right under the help key (which is often below the f14 key). But if you are using a Powerbook or iBook and do not

MacGroup: things to carry laptops in

This ought to do the trick %^) (Lowepro Rolling CompuTrekker Plus AW) http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home;jsessionid=DZC6d2T9Ny! 1041539359? O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=370629&is=REG&addedTroughType=search Jerry On Jan 26, 2006, at 8:59 PM, Bill Rising wrote: >

MacGroup: skype

Some folks also like Gizmo, it works in both the US and UK. http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Jerry On Jan 25, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Norris Sizemore III wrote: > Hey Linda, > > Skype telephone does work on Macs now ;-) Use it all the time! > Great to know that it works so wel

MacGroup: MS Word lite?

NeoOffice works pretty well for those times when 'ya just gotten work with the dark side'. (It is free) http://www.neooffice.org/ Jerry On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Stuart Ungar wrote: > I thought someone on here may know the answer to this > one. I need MS Word once

MacGroup: Quick Time

Mmm, no, though the way the terms get used, it might seem like it. It might help the think of QuickTime as being a standard kind outer wrapping (envelope or big box) for various kinds of audio and video files, each of which can be in a different format (MP3, h.264, Motion JPEG, etc.) called

MacGroup: DVD writer firmware updates

Is Las Vegas' stuff not any good? He has been supplying flash updaters for Macs for a while now: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=30233 This link might be of some use to you: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/oct04/101504.html#S18246 Jerry On Jan 17,

MacGroup: iCal Question

Another tutorial can be found here: http://www.webweaving.org/ical/ Jerry On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:42 PM, b3 wrote: > Okay, now that we have two macs here at home, we would like to be > able to keep our iCal calendars in sync. > > I do not have a .Mac account (well, i do

MacGroup: iCal Question

You will have to be able to mess around some in Terminal to do this (you will be turning on a WebDAV server to run on your Mac) Try this article: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020912065811863 Jerry On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:42 PM, b3 wrote: > Okay, now th

MacGroup: Missing Ports on new MacBook Pro computers

On Jan 15, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > ... stuff cut out ... > The question is whether any of them will acquire Mac drivers. > > [1] > [2] Any bets whether we will hear that 'ol excuse about hardware inc

MacGroup: Missing Ports on new MacBook Pro computers

This article explains how to put FireWire800 or eSATA back into the new Mac laptops. http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/8219/ I am not sure that I believe the reasoning implied / given in this article for moving these things over to the ExpressCard slot, it sounds a bit glib

MacGroup: iPod won't charge

Lots of USB keyboards do not have the power pins (which are needed to charge your iPod) because USB version 1.0 does not call for them to do this. USB 2.0 (found on your Mac Mini does have the power pins). Jerry On Jan 15, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Stuart Ungar wrote: > > > -

MacGroup: Safe Place

Hi Tom, Certainly your heart is in a good place. This would be really difficult to do... (ignoring the broader implications from the social and societal aspects for the moment), if I build a site that can access your USB devices looking for a key, then the bad guys can certainly do the same

MacGroup: For Future Reference ...

http://www.flip4mac.com/ Windows Media Player is going the way of Internet Exploder, er make that Internet Explorer, that is to say, it is on its last legs (however I will not speculate today as to the fate of tother M$ - Macintosh apps). In the mean time, the above link will get you a dec

MacGroup: Background processes

It may depend on which version of X.4 you are running as well; there have been some comments about a bug in the launchd services that affect the cron type tasks; comments floating around on the 'net fora for a while now. Here is almost a synopsis of the stuff; http://forums.macosxhints.com/s

MacGroup: Virex

On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > I don't use any virus-protection software and haven't for about > five years. > > I don't know of any Mac viruses. None loose in the wild. > > Dan > >> I haven't upgraded to Tiger, thus did not know, just wondered why >> i never heard an

MacGroup: Former Mail Problem

Great new Anne! On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > If you remember from my previous request for help, I couldn't > compose (write) new messages or reply using Apple' Mail > application. So I switched to Thunderbird (which I like). > > Well last week I was having a problem

MacGroup: Laptop Help

occasionally. > > how are the screens on the PB versus the iB's? are they brighter? > what about the speakers? > > i think that the 64mb VRAM might be more useful in the long term. > > rick > > > On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> Will

MacGroup: Laptop Help

Will the extra 20 GB be more useful in the field to you as opposed to having the faster processor w/ superdrive? Jerry On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:06 PM, b3 wrote: > okay, so i'm finally ordering that laptop i've been posting about. > no intel iBooks today, and the MacBook is out of

MacGroup: Apple Updates

beta testing. That will be left to the third party developers. :^) Jerry p.s. Uh, No! George On Jan 10, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Yes, you knew it was coming ... the all new round of Apple updates! > > QuickTime > Bluetooth (for Mac mini owners

MacGroup: Apple Updates

Yes, you knew it was coming ... the all new round of Apple updates! QuickTime Bluetooth (for Mac mini owners) iTunes OS-X 10.4.4 Some Application updates too many features to list here. Get 'em via SUPP or from Apple's Web-site. Jerry p.s. In other Apple news, they also

Re(2): MacGroup: roxio toast and NPR

On Jan 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Marta Edie wrote: (stuff cut out) > effort in that direction. And then there are topics that sometimes > are more upscale, they need to be held on one's back burner until > the revelation comes or the necessity to delve into that particular > subject becomes in

MacGroup: iMac or eMac avaliable?

I am surprised you missed the gimmee: SCSI, but I submit that UNIX, XGrid, and Java should not be in the list :^). On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Schoun Regan wrote: > PRAM, PMU, PPP, TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4 IPv6, VPN, PPTP, L2TP, DNS, SQL, > IRC, QTSS, RTSP, SLP, SASL, 802.11b,g,a DVD, CD, HDI, DI

MacGroup: insight blockage? [Solved?]

Glad to hear that the impending demise of your computer was somewhat exaggerated. On Dec 31, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > Hey folks, > > I went back into work, and lo and behold, all the services are > working fine - ssh, http, etc. So, the things that I've learned: > > . when at h

MacGroup: Design Software

Try hitting version tracker http://www.versiontracker.com/ with a search for CAD. It will give you quite a list of fully commercial and smaller shareware OS-X options. Jerry On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Greg Schoettmer wrote: > Any design experts out there? I am

MacGroup: insight blockage?

, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:32, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> Satan: Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it >> >> Since you cannot get in, maybe you need to break in. >> >> SATAN is a tool to help systems administrator

MacGroup: insight blockage?

. Maybe you will be able to use the tools to diagnose the problem. Some of the tools plow right through "blockages". http://www.porcupine.org/satan/ On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > On Dec 22, 2005, at 20:53, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> I seem to be able to

MacGroup: insight blockage?

I seem to be able to pop right in (both via the 12.2 and via the rising.homedns.org address) to view your intro and follow-up page with the appropriate showing of Edvard's "The Scream". Do you think it will ever be returned to the museum for public viewing? Are you using any kind of trac

MacGroup: insight blockage?

Maybe the recent political revelations have something to do with it. :^) On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > Hey folks, > > This is a pretty specific question: has anyone else found problems > recently when communicating with home computers over insight? > > Up until, oh, say, 3

MacGroup: Sharing Entourage Address Book

Would one of these scripts help? http://www.scriptbuilders.net/?search=Sync+Entourage-Address+Book Jerry On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Jim/Marcia Bennett wrote: > I am trying to figure out how (or if) I can share an Entourage > Address Book > between two user accounts in OS X.

MacGroup: duplicating DVD R in tiger?

Yup, If you would like a step-by-step listing, go to the finder, and from the Help menu choose Mac Help. Enter 'copy DVD' enter the search text box and you will get a list of topics and a list of articles, these should cover what you are wanting to do. Jerry

MacGroup: Tigger Tricks

Today's online MacWorld.com has an interesting tip for folks that have Tigger installed and running, a nice how-to for making lists in various apps that use the 10.4 text input routines (TextEdit and Stickies are used as examples in the tip). The tip comes complete with a short movie demonst

MacGroup: Unicode?

Only if passively verbalizing nouns is also permitted... On Dec 6, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > Ed, > > What OS are you using Grammarian Pro X with. And may I still end > sentences with prepositions? > > Anne Cartwright > > > Ed Wiser wrote: > >> Marta a great program that I use i

MacGroup: Programming Tools

Currently (as Lee suggested) the best option is probably the freeby stuff from Apple: XCode. CodeWarrior used to be the end-all-to-be-all programming set-up for the Mac platform, but there currently are no plans to take CW to the next machine base, that is no to CS running on the Intel based

MacGroup: Apple Updates

Apple has released a security update; get it via SUPP. From the promo copy: Security Update 2005-009 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components: apache_mod_ssl CoreFoundation CoreTypes curl iodbcadmin O

MacGroup: Mouse pointer

Try going to the Universal Access Preference Pane (in your system preferences) and look to see if the options available to you with the Zoom portion will be of any help. Jerry On Nov 16, 2005, at 10:06 PM, Glenn Hoehler wrote: > Does any one know how to make

MacGroup: Help with Address Book!

Uh attachments are a problem, in that some ISPs do not pass the email with the attachment correctly onto the subscriber instead sending them a mess, so we normally ask to not include them in the regualr litany of dos and don'ts. The digest version will bypass the attachment, but by that time

MacGroup: Help with Address Book!

It sounds like something is a bit odd with your Mac, Mike. Are you missing other applications or is this the only one? Jerry On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Mike Watkins wrote: > Dan, > > I don't even have an address book listing in my Applications folder > when I double-

MacGroup: Help with Address Book!

Hello Mike. Did it work? Jerry On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > Have you tried opening the "Applications" folder on your hard drive > and double-clicking on the "Address Book" application? That should > open Address Book and use your current AddressB

MacGroup: Apple Updates

How best to answer this ... hmm ... What I have looked for when I relay "No widespread reports of problems" about an update is I look at what kinds of problems are occurring and being reported. Say for example, an update comes out and suddenly a major portion of the Mac OS-X using internet

MacGroup: addendum

Hmm, we need to start over on this one a bit Marta, to clear up some confusion on how things happen and when :^) Your browser (either Safari or Camino or which ever) will indeed be the thing that downloads the files, not really Acrobat or Preview. The browser fetches the file for you and the

MacGroup: Apple Updates

There are several reports that opening the Energy Saver Preference Pane and changing the processor performance setting to something different than what it is (from Automatic to Highest or some reports say to Reduced will cause the fans to spin back down. Yet some others claim that just tog

MacGroup: Apple Updates

So far there does not seem to a large number of reported problems, so if you missed the news, Apple has released a few more updates recently including 10.4.3, but you will most likely want a high speed connection to download it, as it is around 93MB in size. Get it via SUPP or from Apple's s

MacGroup: Viewpoint Media Player

If you do a Get Info on this file (I am guessing it is sitting on your desktop) does it have an extension that ends in .sit? If so, you are being asked to locate the StuffIt app to expand it. Jerry On Nov 2, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Charles Parsons wrote: > Hey group

MacGroup: Re: deleting multiple iTunes playlists?

This may help, from the site: http://playlistmag.com/help/2004/09/trubitunes/index.php Symptom: You've got a mess of duplicates in your iTunes library. Cure 1: This can occur when you've used the Add to Library command one time too many. To start fresh, select everything in your iTunes libra

MacGroup: WriteNow question and Apple Updates

Apple has not only been releasing new hardware, but they have also been tossing out new versions of their apps (for example iTunes has been updated again) Check your SUPP over the next few days for new versions of things. On the the Write Now question? Also keep in mind that MacLink Plus h

MacGroup: Apple Aperture

The photography sites are of course really discussing this one... After taking a look I think I agree with those that this seems more aimed at Capture One (workflow) than PhotoShop (editing). Of course Bridge does come with PS, but... few would buy Bridge if it were solo as Capture One has

MacGroup: difficulty with email overseas

Via con Dios Marta, Jerry On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:20 AM, Marta Edie PB wrote: > Thanks, Mike, I got it. Amen twice. It is working. > Marta > On Oct 19, 2005, at 01:44, Mike Watkins wrote: > > >> Amen! >> Mike >> >> On Oct 18, 2005, at 6:44 PM, Marta Edie PB wrote: >> >> >>> Jerry,

MacGroup: difficulty with email overseas

It sounds like there is a problem with your settings for the .mac account. But first things first is your .mac account registered with the list serv? On Oct 18, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > > > > MARTA > > > From: Marta Edie PB > To: MacUser Group MacUserGroup > Date: Tue Oct 18,

MacGroup: Computer won't shut down.

The Blue and White G3 Macs had / have some very odd things with their video cards that cause strange oddities to occur using OS-X. If you have access to another video card (and driver) try that. On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Joseph Jutz wrote: > Hi Folks, I'm running a Blue & White G3 Macinto

MacGroup: Apple Updates

Apple has released updates for iTunes and for QuickTime readily available via your hardworking SUPP. Jerry --- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one.

MacGroup: file will not open on system disk

Already tired of watching movies on your new video iPod ehh Nelson? It looks more like it is locked at the system level (you are not the true owner). Change the owner to be you, then you should be able to do more with it. Jerry On Oct 13, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Nelsn Helm wrote: >

MacGroup: force to trash [bcc][faked-from]

I will leave it to Lee and Jerry F to follow up on the ideas they are discussing with you (both approaches WILL work, but there is a bit more that needs to be done (how to log in as "other" or how to deal with files that have spaces in the names when using terminal and sudo) Lee and Jerry a

MacGroup: Old Apple Quicktake?

Hello Beth, The camera was called the "Quicktake". I remember them well, as they were the start of digital photography (Canon and NIkon and the others got into this end of it after Apple showed it was possible to make $ at it). The format is the older pict format that Apple used for graphic

MacGroup: Safari

s. I think I asked Jerry about > that strange quirk once before. Maybe somebody can tell me what I > should do . > Marta > To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - > Edmund Burke, > statesman and writer (1729-1797) > > > On Sep 26, 2005, at 23:30, Je

MacGroup: Safari

/Users/YOUR USERNAME/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist It is in the Apple dictionary plist format (like xml) Jerry On Sep 26, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Tom Guenthner wrote: > Does anyone know where the bookmarks for Safari are stored? I need > to copy > these to another Mac. > > T

MacGroup: Mail attachments

It all started back in those wild and turbulent '70s. The gold rush was on. Electronic mail was being sent from computer to computer using FTP programs. You did read that right, it does say FTP. Every one using a computer on the internet knew what Get> and Put> meant. But this FTP stuff pos

MacGroup: Apple Updates

Last evening or there about, Apple release a couple of security updates for 10.3 and 10.4 users. So far there have not been any widely spread problems with them. These updates are of course highly recommended. Get them via SUPP or from Apple's site. Jerry p.s. There was also a

MacGroup: FTP

Make sure that "no limits" is really in place all of the way through, that is use terminal to look at the uploaded field to make sure that the perms did not get clobbered, that ftp user really does have read and write (not just write permission -- which is drop box mode). How are you running

MacGroup: Apple Updates

Get 'em as they apply to your Mac-hine(s) via SUPP or from Apple's site Java Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2 delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java on Mac OS X v10.4. This release includes Java 2 Platform Standard Edition versions 1.3.1_16 and 1.4.2_09. iTunes Phone iTunes 4.

MacGroup: SATA cards for Macs

Lately it seems that Cassandra only works 9 to 5 ? have you chatted with the folks at Delphi? 8^) Jerry On Sep 19, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > On Sep 17, 2005, at 17:03, Jerry Yeager wrote: > > >> In a stunning bit of prescience Bill R., a few

MacGroup: SATA cards for Macs

In a stunning bit of prescience Bill R., a few days or so ago, asked about finding an internal SATA card (he was hoping for one that had only 2 internal ports) to allow using the new whopping big hard drives that are on the market. Well, MacNN posted an announcement by the folks that make th

MacGroup: OSR9 vs. OSX, etc.

10.0 Puma 10.1 Cheetah 10.2 Jaguar 10.3 Panther 10.4 Tiger 10.5 (is supposed to be Leopard) 10.6 Tabby (just kidding 8^) ) On Sep 15, 2005, at 6:39 PM, NPfield at aol.com wrote: > Response to Jonathan, who wrote, ?[OSX] typically goes WEEKS or > even MONTHS between restarts. NO one can s

MacGroup: re-installing ical, address book, mail

IIRC, I believe that you have to import the mail "twice" to get it to work (the first time of copying the files to the right place lets Mail know the folders are there, but you still have to tell Mail again that the messages are there as well. The import mailboxes command is one of the File

MacGroup: sata controllers

out, if these could be used in place of DRAM that could be well something to write home about, 8 x 16GB main ram, 1 x 16GB video ram hmm! On Sep 13, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > On Sep 13, 2005, at 0:39, Jerry Yeager wrote: > > >> The folks over at BareFeats have th

MacGroup: sata controllers

On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Ann Richmond wrote: > I'm curious (and incredibly ininformed much of the time) about the > older Macs not seeing big drives. > I have seen this mentioned before but it just occurred to me that I > am using a 9600 (350mhz 604e) running OS 9.1 with a sonnet firewir

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