Mac Forum / General / Networking / October 2005

Any Mac users using a Motorola A1000 mobile phone?
As usual for 99% of mobile phones it has woefull Mac support. (Probably
99.9% of phones, don't think I know of any that advertise or support
Macs)

I really would like to find a Rules-based spam filtering product for
Mail.  Its internal spam-filter apparently isn't working very well on my
system.  It's not moving messages I've marked as Junk (over and over)
into either the Junk folder OR the Trash folder (after several weeks ...

does anybody use a flashed (!) USR Sportster Flash with OSX here?
When I bought the modem it wasn't yet able to use V90 but x2. I flashed
it than on a PC, but I can do what I want --- no chance to switch this
box to V90.

Is there a way (or add on software) to configure an automatic BCC in
Mail, so evertime mail goes out, it also goes to a preset BCC?

I connect to two of the three accounts of my SBC Yahoo! DSL
subscription (one main and one sub account) without issue.  A third,
however, continues to give me fits.  I have verified--several
times--that I'm using the full e-mail address as the login; am using

I'm looking for a VPN client for use with a ZyXEL Zywall firewall.
I know about 'VPN Tracker' -- are there others available?

Hi. On my AirPort Express base station, under "Base Station Options,"
I'm not able to select anything below "Enable Ethernet Port." There are
settings I want to change but cannot, like:
Enable SNMP Access

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I have an iMac running 10.4.2 and a Siemens S35 GSM phone connected to
it via a USB-serial cable that uses the Prolific 2303 chip.
The mobile does AT-commands and fax class 1 commands.
In my networks settings a new connector usbserial showed up and could be

I'm vacillating between the entire gamut of Apple products from Mac
Mini to G5.  I had thought I just wanted a quick cheap replacement for
an ailing G4 450mhz, and the Mac Mini seemed a likely candidate, or the
14" iBook.  But maybe not:

Well, we'll all have to give up Thoth eventually.
I began a migration to Unison a month or two ago.  It has gone okay,
but I still find the program wanting.  A few of the things must have
been fixed in the newest incarnation, and so I've eliminated them from

We have two PowerBooks, hers a TiBook and mine an AlBook, which connect to
the internet via Airport a Linksys WRT54GC wireless router which in turn is
connected to a cable box for RoadRunner. Both PowerBooks are running OS
10.4.2. Normally everything works just fine. The problem ...

Is Hogwasher <http://www.asar.com/cgi-bin/product.pl?6/index.html> still
under active development? I've not seen any updates since 2004 :-( Has
anyone heard anything?
Regards,

Maybe someone of you know where is the file displayed by the Console.app
application of MacOS-X ? I thought it could be console.log but this file
does not exists...
Help, my program needs access to the console log.

Hi. Is there a utility that will tell me who is connected to my Airport
network?  Or at least how many people are using my network?
Thanks.
Roger Carlson