Mac Forum / General / Networking / June 2004

I hate it, but it happens once in a while that I klick 'Send' having
forgotten to give a 'Subject'.
Are there any scripts/options which would warn me before the message
is sent?

Does anyone know if Thoth supports secure NTTP connections? If so, how
does one implement the connection? Thanks...

Occasionally, when I am using MT-Newswatcher, I find a message that is
in a very small font size. I've looked in the preferences but there
doesn't seem to be a way to change the size of the messages to something
that I can read. How do I fix this problem  whenever it happens?

I hope that this newsgroup is the appropriate one to ask this question.
With the so many applications to download mp3s, I am rather confused
which is best. A friend suggested that I should  look at Acquisition and
Poisoned. Can people give me an evaluation of these two programs? ...

I can load my Scotiabank data to Quicken from IE Version 5.2.3 and
receive a file pcbanking.qfx with a Quicken icon, which opens correctly
in Quicken.
If I download the same data from Safari I get a file quicken.qfx but

Hi.  I have been told that a previous installation of OSXvnc and
Chicken of the VNC worked great on a G4 at work.  The OS at the time
on the G4 was 10.2.8.  The Powerbook that communicated with it had the
same OS.  I was unaware of this and wiped the G4 hard drive clean and

Hi, I have two macs sitting in a Design Room about thirty feet and two
partitions away from an Airport Extreme Base Station.
Mac 1, a G4 / 9.2 / Airport Card  picks up a signal of approx. 40 per
cent.

The local public library is promoting their new free WiFi hotspot, but it's
not using WPA or even WEP.  Just select their SSID, and you're in.  
Apparently their intention was make the network as simple as possible to
use, but the lack of encryption has me wary.  Isn't that ...

Tried iChat AV the first time today, and got audio to work in no time
after switching off the Mac's built-in firewall for ports iChat
Rendevous (5297, 5298) in Sharing preferences.
But with the exception of one brief moment I could not get video to

On occasion, but by no means all of the time, at the moment of attempting to
post a message to one or more of the Macintosh newsgroups I get a message
stating something to the effect that I cannot use Earthlink. What's wierd is
that I do not have an earthlink account. My ...

Can anyone tell me where I can obtain information on how to link a
PowerPC running under OS 9 with a laptop Powerbook G4 running under OS
X10.3.3? I can see an ethernet socket on the old machine as well as on
the laptop, so I'm hoping it can be done even though the machines are

Being used to DSL at home, I am reminded again as I travel how pathetic
modems are.
I don't mean bandwidth, although compared to my 1.5 Mb line at home a
piddling 56K is real hard to adjust to. I mean the way they throw in the

The subject pretty much says it....
Izzit possible to include an xface in email composed and sent through
mail.app?
-- James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

I have a friend have a Mac OS9.
We have checked through the Remote Access and TCP/IP settings and sure they
are correct.  Everytime when I tried to connect to the internet, it just say
go to display "Idle" straight away.  I didn't hear any dialing sound at all.

I had an old version of the freebie FAXstf X which I have recently upgraded
to the latest freebie version.
Thing is, I think I might be better off with Panther's built-in FAXing
capability.  The trouble is that I *think* that FAXstf installer actually