Mac Forum / General / Networking / August 2004

When my Linux system had a hardware crash I went out and got myself a
Mac PowerBook G4 (OSX 10.3.3) and
I am trying to figure out how I can do some of my Linux stuff on it. One
of  the things I want to do is automatically

What cards will work on my PB 1400?  Is there an 802.11g card that will work?
Saw one at Home Depot the other day for $39.00 but did not say anything about
working with less than 10.x.  I am running 8.5.
Thanks!!!

any good (not too expensive per minute,
works over lots of the USA) cell phone
companies that let you hook your cell phone
to your PC or Mac and check email a lot

I prob'ly missed this being thrashed to death ;-)
If I turn on any service in System Pref -> Sharing
the firewall comes on, automagically, blocks everything
except that service, and there is no external indication.

I have a 2Wire DSL modem/router. OS9. I tried web sharing for the first
time but it didn't work. I'm guessing it is a router firewall problem.
I turned on web sharing in the controll panel. It gave me an IP of
172.16.x.xx . That is different from the IP I am actually hooked up to

I can't tell you how many times I have moused on the Back button and hit
the Red-Dot in the upper left menu and closed Safari.
Anybody know how to disable the red-dot for Safari?

Can anyone tell me if there's separate newsgroup for Palm users? I'[m
having problems getting Hotsync to send Palm Desktop datebook details to
the Palm after doing a hard reset of the Palm.
Many thanks,

I'm a biologist with a number of Macs in the lab running OS X. One of my
Macs has a static IP address, so I can access it from home. The others have
dynamic addresses. I figure, one way for me to access them from home is to
run a little program on each one which would, every 30 ...

Since WDS would be useful in my wireless network, I'm considering
switching from WPA to WEP (WDS doesn't work with WPA on Airports).
Theory aside, looking at the matter realistically, just how bad is
WEP? Take for granted that the 128-bit password will not be guessable

I am having trouble using Interarchy to access my web site, stored on
www.theboss.net. I can log in okay, but when I try to list my directory,
the server does not respond. Here is the transcript:
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I would like to know if it's possible to sucessfully download
incomplete .rar post fragments using "Extract Binaries Manually" or
some other method in a way that MacPAR deLuxe can make use of the
incomplete part in reconstructing a larger file. Can this be done? I