Mac Forum / General / Networking / January 2004

Act as a bridge to another wireless base station?

For the last four days mail.app has refused to fetch any mail from my
pop account.  As far as I know, I have made no changes to my system or
the mail app.  I know I have new mail because I can access my mail via
pine on the shell account at the isp.

Yes, I realize that most of you lucky (Mac)ducks have broadband but,
alas, living in between three state forests, I am still stuck with a
telephone modem.
Several people (Windozers) have told me that they really liked AT&T as

I have several partitions on my hard drive. On my other Mac, I use the
Go menu to mount the first machine's partitions. All partitions except
two mount. Two of the partitions refuse to mount.
Someone suggested a bad AppleShare PDS file. I couldn't find that file

I'm pretty unhappy with the performance of Thoth in Mac OS 8.6 which
I've been using for binaries for a couple of years.  After using MT
Newswatcher, Thoth is pretty aggravating. In particular, transfering
messages into the download queue takes way too long and prevents you

I cant seem to play many things in quicktime (mpg, mov, or even many
avi files). I get many difrent error mesages, but mostly ones that say
QuickTime has prematurely come to the end of the movie, or that a
software component is missing. I'd say that maybie 80% of the things I

I'm trying to hook a canenna wi-fi antenna to a 2003 powerbook
http://www.cantenna.com/
If anyone has done this I'd be interested to know how. Also if anyone
happens to be in New York I would hire you to set up a working wi-fi

TidBITS#714/26-Jan-04
 To commemorate this week's 20th anniversary of the Macintosh, Adam
 talks with Bruce Horn, who wrote the Finder, about what he did
 at Apple, where he's been since, and what Macintosh projects he's

Not sure if this is the right group for this questions, so apologies
in advance.
My problem is that I have a small 3 Mac network set up, and I want to
have a central file server on one of the machines, so that any file

I'm looking for information/testimonials/comments on Apple's iBook.
I'm currently in the market for a laptop.  I'm one of those guys who
hasn't used an Apple computer since elementary school, when the Apple
IIe and Apple IIGs were popular.  I've been using Windows computers

We are hearing over and over again that there are email worms spreading
by including an executable Windows attachment to a mail and having
unsuspecting users execute it on their MS Windows system.
While of course this should not bother Mac users more than any other

I can't stand it anymore!  My OS X always freezes when I am using a
browser! I MEAN ALWAYS!! THIS IS DRIVING ME FREAKING CRAZY!  And I
even reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything after I did
a partition between OS X and Classic!  And I am STILL GETTING MAJOR

I just recently upgraded to MT-NW 3.2.  What happened to the Cmd-Shift-S
and Cmd-Shift-A shortcuts for Filter This Subject and Filter This
Author?  The Version History web page says that 3.3b1 adds back some
shortcuts, but doesn't say which -- are these coming back?

I have just migrated to Panther and everything is going along smoothly
until I hit specifying group access to a folder on my machine (current
network consists of G4 tower and 2 titanium laptops)
My problem in a nutshell is that I want to have a folder on my machine

I have Personal File Sharing enabled on a system whose hard drive has
several partitions. When I connect to that server via the Go menu, all
volumes mount except one. When I try to explicitly select only that one
volume, it fails to mount on the desktop.