Mac Forum / General / Networking / October 2006

If you create folders and rules to file mailing list messages in
mail.app, you may find this Applescript useful.  I do; that's the reason
I wrote it.
tell application "Mail"

I've been trying to use this USB to Serial device on Mac OSX 10.4.  The
driver installs fine, the device shows up under the System Profile USB
section.
unfortunately, the /dev/cu* devices are not created.  Anyone have a

Hi, a guy I know told me it is very difficult to uninstall Cisco VPN Clinet
from OS X.
Is this true?
Thanks,

Hey everyone--
I crawled around many Google groups postings and couldn't get quite the
answer I was looking for re. a problem I'm having with an Airport card
I recently installed in my G4 iBook.  The iBook can see the network

Having problem with a local ISP.   ($10 month dialup)
Works fine for mail and web surfing, but refuses to support any Usenet
newsgroups.
My  _regular_  ISP, (Earthlink) ,  continues to work okay.

In response to a prior question, massello advised that I should use
iStumbler to check signal strength.
I used MacStumbler because it was previously installed on my Mac. To my
surprise MacStumbler identified 5 wireless networks in addition to my

Is adding an antenna to the airport extreme base station worthwhile?
The current signal is to weak to be used in one area of my house. The
problem seems to more of distance than shielding. (I could be wrong!)
Thanks

My ISP changed from Comcast to Roadrunner (Time Warner). On my iMac G5
running Os 4, I have
both Apple Mail and Thunderbird email programs. I hardly ever use Apple
Mail (except for photos) and have Thunderbird set as the default in

I have a functioning router, but the company that made it no longer
supports home routers and mine has been orphaned. So I thought I'd
replace it before it fails. (what a genius!)
The routers I'm coming across seem to all have WiFi built in, and I've

I hope this is an okay place for my question.  If not, be nice.  I'm old.
OS 10.4.8, iBook G4
I'm going on a cruise and have asked the ship line about net access.  I
received this reply:

Are there any wireless webcams out there that work with Mac OS X?
I can't seem to find any....
Thanks for any tips,
Amanda

In one of the binaries groups that I frequent someone has started
posting using .jp2. My problem is that MT-NW does not display it. No
problems with downloading the files.  It's not a big problem because I
can view the files in an application like GraphicConverter but ... it's

A friend asked me this, but I don't know the answer:
She has a wired-only router in her house serving a number of rooms, and
it's the portal to her broadband Internet service. She wants to add her
stereo in her living room to the network via an Airport Express so she

The recent thread about the resurrection of utf-8 problems reminded me
of another font issue that has bugged me for a long time.  Often when
people cut and paste from web pages, they end up in a font where some
punctuation characters come out wrong.  In particular, apostrophes

I'm trying to sort out what is causing my connection to streaming radio
broadcasts from different servers to drop connection at the default time
set for "Server time-out" in RealPlayer for OS 10.
The changes I've made recently: