Mac Forum / General / Networking / April 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/techbits_wi_fi_theft
The charge is unauthorized access to a computer network. The defendant was
parked outside a guy's house using the guy's wifi via the defendant's
laptop.

Does Apple Remote Desktop work when monitor is asleep? I set up a
router and a Mac Mini at a location far from home. The Mini is running
OSX 10.4 and ARD3 with VNC. While still at that location, I verified
that the Mini accepted VNC connections from outside the router (I set

I'm setting up a G3/350 for my sister 100 miles away.
It's her first mac, and I'd like to be able to work on it from afar.
Not file sharing, rather looking around for any trouble shooting.
I have OS 9.2 on hers and 9.1 on my G3/350.

I've been connecting wirelessly to the Internet via an Airport Express
Base Station. Today I went to connect to a web site that I need to be
able to access daily. I am no longer able to connect to this particular
web site. The page does not load.

Seems to be shot.  I took it out once when the machine froze because I
couldn't get it to shut down.  Ever since then it's charge has been very
limited.  Only about a third of it remains if even that.  I've tried a few
tricks posted to reset it with no luck.  So, this morning I'm ...

In my network there is a Mac with OS X and 4 other Windows XP PCs. For all
Windows computers everything works just fine: NIC negotiates gigabit speed
and actual speed is about 25MB/s (propably due to disk performance). The
Mac however negotiates gigabit link but actual speed is ...

A few days ago I mistakenly complained about someone not formatting a
posting where they tried to use some simple "ASCII art".  It wasn't
really art, it was just a reply that had a little pointer to a character
in the original posting.  I complained that they forgot to use a

What is the best way to view PPT files using OS-X (2.8)?   I've tried
unsuccessfully with icWord and just about blew up my machine installing
it.  Don't know exactly what happened, but it sure didn't like it...

I have an Airport Extreme base station (firmware 5.7) connected via
ethernet between my cable modem and a Windows XP desktop. From the
airport I am running another PC desktop, Xbox and Powerbook G4
Titanium. I have been running this configuration for several years.

Can anyone recommend low - mid-range headphones with mic that has decent
sound, good audio pickup from the mic, without capturing too much
background noise?
I'd be especially interested in some that are not uncomfortable with

I have most of the strange behaviour with
- iBook G3 with Airport 802.11b
- iMac G3 with 802.11g adaptor on Ethernet port
- both running OS X 10.3

I just purchsed a Adaptec  USB2Connect  thinking I could hook up a USB
wirless adapter but I can't even seem to get the USB to be recognized.
Has anyone done something like this?

I have a webserver on my home G4, it works fine and my domain is
forwarded to my home web server and it can be found via web browser.
But now I want to add my Belkin Router, Airport Base Sation (not
Extreme) and Win XP system. Can anyone give me some advice on how to

I was trying to order some linen from this website.  I tried 2 different
browsers and could not get a secure page.  So I called and the woman
insisted that their page is secure.  She would not take my order unless
I filled out the (un-secure) web page!  Go to this page:

I have two Macs <-> Airport Extreme <-> ADSL router
The router (10.0.0.2) acts as a DHCP server.
Recently one of the Macs started to have a 169 address and wouldn't
connect to internet. It looked like the local DHCP server ran out of