Mac Forum / General / Networking / March 2005

I have set up a wireless network in my house that is as follows.
The gateway computer is connected to a cable modem via a Linksys
wireless router and signal booster. I have WEP encryption enabled,
because the Airport Express card only seems to want to connect to

On February 18, I posted a question about using a Hosts file to block
ads on an OS 9.2 system.  I was able to get that working correctly, and
am pretty happy with the results.
However, even though it seems to block most ads seemlessly and

Can the AirportExpress be used as a Print server, that is
without connection to Internet.
That is with printer accessible wirelessly from
a computer equipped with wirless.

I'm brand new to this web log analyzing thang. I was wondering if some kind
soul could help me configure Analog 6.0 to analyze my web logs.
I tried running the program on a log and this is what I got back...
Processing...

My boss has a new MAC G4, the OS version being 10.3.7. He has IE 5.2,
Firefox and Safari for browsing the internet. The connection is through
a proxy server here.
The problem he's facing is that he can't browse https pages on Safari

I'm putting together a custom system and I'd like to go with TNC connectors
all around. But "N" connectors seem to be the standard, presumably because
they have less attenuation of the signal.
Can anyone tell me if the difference is that significant?

I've got a Powerbook 17, and was wondering if I should get a headset for use
with iChat or a voip client.
Anyone have any recommendations?

     What do I need to do to use Logitech quickcam or another devicee to be able to video conference with Ichat AV? Both computers have Panther installed. Thanks.

Hoping someone can help me out here.  I am trying to network two G5
MACs with OS X in order to access an external hard drive linked to one
of them.  Is this possible?  Or is there a better way to accomplish
accessing the external hardrive from the other computer?

These days I get burts of spam (usually I get about 30 messages/day, 4 days
ago I got 300+, today 190+)
Today I got a message from http://www.unsubscribenow.net/ hinting that I
should subscribe by them to decrease spam.  It smells strongly like it's

This weekend I installed the new security update 2005_002 via software
update.  After this was installed, my VPN using PPTP (via internet
connect) stopped working.  It worked fine the day before.
The connection log shows entries that look like this for all of my

One of the main reasons I hang on to Eudora is that you can edit mail
you have received. The main advantage of this is to make archived mail
more useful --- for example by getting rid of excess irrelevant
quotation or in some cases, fixing messages with so many typos and