Mac Forum / General / Networking / June 2008

The friend who is visiting me is using my laptop, a PowerBook G4 running
10.4.11 with a wireless connection to my router. I am using a recent
iMac OS 10.5.3 with a wired connection.
When she runs Safari, she frequently gets the message "the computer is

I keep getting bitten by an annoying bug in the TCP/IP system.
You can change from say a DHCP network configuration to a static
IP address. No rebooting needed; this is a real OS.
You can change it again, great...

For the past several days, I've been unable to connect to Adobe.com. I
get a timeout when I try. This happens on both my Mac and my PC. A
friend says he gets on just fine. Any ideas as to what could be wrong?
TIA!

i have a personal computer running win XP
and lap top running win XP
i just want to connect the laptop to the pc, to transfer some
documents to the laptop.

For those of us who don't need or want all the features of mobile me,
will apple offer a stripped down version?  In other words, will there be
a mini-me?

Time Warner-RoadRunner has made good on its threat to discontinue
UseNet. While they are wrapping themselves in Mom, The Flag, and Apple
Pie by claiming to be fighting kiddy porn, they are actually just
exercising their monopoly power to limit free speech by discontinuing

i have a personal computer running win XP
and lap top running win XP
i just want to connect the laptop to the pc, to transfer some
documents to the laptop.

A friend is trying to extract some files from a OS9.1 Beige G3 tower prior
to its retirement.
If you enable the Ethernet port for either Appletalk, or TCP/IP;
it shuts off the port [The Ethernet switch link LED goes off]

Brand new iMac 24", 3.06GHz, 4GB RAM, 10.5.3
500GB Time Capsule
The iMac was installed with 1 user.
Then another user with documents, Settings and programs were "imported"

When I download a video from Youtube (flv) and play it with VLC it works
fine.  When I export it from iMovie the video works fine on other programs
but the sound is gone.   Any idea what's going on with the audio part of the
file?

I'm interested in having an old MDD G4 in our computer room for
occasional file synchronisation.
As usage is intermittent, having the machine asleep most of the time
seems sensible.

I have a Time Machine that I'm using as a base station and an Airport
Express.  They're both capable of 5 GHz.  I also have a WiFi printer and
a iPhone(*) on the network, but they can handle only 2.4 GHz.
Does the Time Machine communicate on both frequencies, or does it revert

After installing security update 2008-2, and rebooting, A dialog
appeared asking if I wanted to block a port for Executor.  Before I had
a chance to read it fully or click on any buttons, the dialog closed by
itself.

One of the nice features of MT-NewsWatcher is the auto complete
for email addresses.  
Where are the addresses stored?  The reason for asking is some
have changed and I would like to edit the list of stored addresses.

...unless I pick one specifically in it's prefs. What the HELL could be
causing this? It just started happening today. Shouldn't it be using the
address of account I was last in? Instead it's using the last address
entered in the email address field in Account prefs.