Mac Forum / General / Networking / May 2008

I'm a bit put off by the wording of a certificate acceptance dialog
asking me to OK it.
The file storage and sharing website box.net has a feature that uses a
Java applet to allow you to drag-n-drop files from your finder onto

Greetings and thanks for reading this.
I can successfully use Leopard's screen sharing feature on three
different macs when on the same LAN but have yet to make it work over
the internet. (I suspect that the router does not know where to direct

I'll try to keep this as short as possible.
I have a modem box, dsl cable and an Airport wireless connection. I was
having trouble
connecting this morning. I called AT&T support and made the mistake of

Any suggestions?

Hope this question is appropriate for here. My employer will be buying
me a laptop as part of a new job I have with them. They only support PCs
for networking, but I only use Macs in my work (music.) I'd like them to
get me a macbook, and I'd run windows on it in addition to OS X. ...

Well, this didn't work:
TB[0-9]+R|T[0-9]+BR
It didn't filter out "TpB.R" (including the quotation marks).

I need a filter to kill messages whose "From" contains TBR (in all caps)
with any number (including zero) of other alpha-numerics between TB
and/or BR.

MacSOUP 2.8.2 still gets stuck fetching headers if you set it to only
download a set number of articles, but NOT if you set to download the
lot. It just flickers endlessly in the progress window and nothing is
accomplished. It happens with several different groups, but not all of

I've got an external HD which I use for TM but have a question about it and
haven't been able to find anything to explain this.  
It's a Seagate 250G and well, has a lot of room to store the backups.  Can I
burn the backups to CD/DVD and restore if needed so I can use the drive ...

Recently my 8-year old Pismo finally broke, its dial up modem
refuses to work.   Everything else is okay on it however.
I am very reluctant to junk the old Mac.
Fixing/replacing its old modem may not be feasible, or so I am

I have three computers, a G4 Quicksilver, a beige G3 tower running
OS9.2, and a Dell running Windows (there are good reasons for having
all three, plus I keep the G3 because all my software is OS9.2 and I
don’t want to spend money getting the OSX versions for software I

How many people can use a DSL line, at a time?
I'm looking for a new ISP for my non-profit. I called Covad, I heard
they are the back-end providers for some/many ISPs. They seemed to be
priced higher than the others. They said they provide a "dedicated"

First I guess I need to know where to post this problem. Re 17" G4
Powerbook running 10.4.11. There is a "BootX" icon on the desktop, no
idea how or when it got there. I can't unlock it and can't trash it -
would like to be rid of it.

Where do you go to find the ODBC drivers for Excel on the MAC.  I know
exactly what to do on the Windows side, but I know nothing of the MAC world.
Paul

I just want to ask your opinions on my connection speeds, and whether
everything is kosher. I have a FiOS 20mb down 5mb up connection. When
connected via ethernet cable (12" Powerbook G4 867mhz, 1GB RAM),
speedtest.net says I do in fact get 20,800 kbps down and 5,075 kbps up.