Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / November 2007

Tired of this crap:
###### !!!!!!!! ######Make BILLIONS Online Without Investment
Here's a regex that kills it dead:
(.)\1\1

As the title, whatever Terminal or X11, when i using them to access
files with chinese names either on my local mac or remote windows
server, i get only ???? for chinese. I try to use emacs, but problems
still cann't be solved.

For quite some time now, I haven't been able to get Safari to upload
files to remote sites.  (e.g., photo hosting sites and whatnot)  The
error I get when I try is:
"POSIX error: Invalid argument" (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:22)

Hi :)
I did take a look at the mail headers I was sending by Thunderbird
(Mac Os X 10.4).
Well, when it gives the HELO command to my provider smtp it also add

I recently bought a Sony 100-DVD spindle, as I have always had good
results with their product.
I've burned maybe 15 of which 5 have given me this error along the way:
Drive Reported and Error:

I am going to buy a new iMac soon. What do you think, would the
difference between a 2 and a 2.4GHz be noticeable? Would an ATI Radeon
HD 2600 be appreciably faster than a 2400?
My choice is fixed on 2GB SDRAM and 500GB disk for both choices.

What is the best downloadable software that will work with Leopard
that will enable me to take a pdf file, open it and edit it like a
Word document, like simply changing a title and saving it but keeping
the formatting, font, et-cetera. I see several products on the market.

I am using a 4 year old eMac with the latest version of Tiger and the
latest version of Firefox.  When I have a series of charts showing
from the site Big Charts, I cannot tell which tab contains a graph for
a particular stock.  All 14 tabs display the same name "Chart.asp".  I

Dear friends:
My BootCamp partition doesn't appear in SuperDuper "from" menu, but it
appears in the corresponding menu of CarbonCopyCloner. Is there any
explanation for this issue?

Can Time Machine backups be used when one upgrades their hardware?
For example, if I outgrow my current internal HD and purchase a
bigger one, install it, and restore from the latest Time Machine
backup, will that work? Or will there be a disk driver issues,

I have just instaled OS 10.5.1.
I used disk utility to repair permissions, and got a very long list saying
SUID or ACS: found but not expected on system/librarry/user/template.
So the repair took quite a while.

My desktop is an iMac. I am buying a new MacBook. Is there any way to
get most of my applications from the iMac to MacBook without
installing them?
How about getting the new iLife app from the MacBook to the iMac?

Apologies for the cross-post, but I'm not sure whether this has to be
considered an application bug or a system bug.
I've been using X-Chat Aqua for a long time, being a shameless IRC
addict (on the way to rehab ;) and having had previous experience with

I have an old PowerBook G4 (PPC) with 1 Ghz CPU speed, 512 MB of RAM,
and 60 GB of HDD. If I were to do a fresh clean install of Mac OS X
10.5/Leopard on it (still have 10.2.8 on it and seems fine, just old),
then how will it perform? Will it be slower? Or should I just wait ...