Mac Forum / General / Networking / October 2008

Since Comcast is getting rid of their newsgroup service, I signed up
with Motzarella.org a few days ago.  Since then, I've noticed that
MT-Newswatcher often crashes when I quit.  Nothing is lost, since I was
quitting anyway, but it's annoying.  Anyone else experiencing this?

I think it is a small app which translates part of the Macs serial
number to an approximately production date. Any pointers to this app?
Yours
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I recently upgraded my iMac on our Windows network. After the upgrade
was completed, no user on the network is able to log on to the network.
(Local accounts work fine) When logging in, the users name and password
gray out and remain for about 15 seconds.  Then the screen shakes ...

I have a beta of the new version, and it seems to be working well. One
thing that may seem good or bad, depending on your perspective is that
it doesn't let you crosspost an original message. I haven't tried that
with a reply yet, though.

I've got a friend who is having trouble downloading large files from her
email provider, probably because the cable line is faulty or has some
interference, thus producing faulty packets. What happens is that the
POP email client (Mail.app) times out before the email can be

My sweet old AirportExpress bit the dust. Not bad; eBay for $50 3 years ago,
very heavy work since. I guess I'm going to buy an n AE and so am wondering.
It will connect to the main wireless base station, a Netgear WGR614, via a
Cat5 cable. We have a couple of n machines. Will we ...

For the past two weeks or so, I have been getting the following message
whenever I try to access delicious.com. I'm not sure what it does or why
it does it, but it happens with at least two versions of Safari (2.0.4
(419.3) under 10.4.9) and the newer 3.x version included with 10 ...

I know nothing about DSL modems.
Already tried googling for "purpose of LANWAN connection,
but all I get are tech specs, nothing a newbie can understand
about what that "Local Area Network Wide Area Network"

I have been trying unsuccessfully to get two macs to work together with their
built in airport cards
One is a Laptop G4 running 10.5 and the other is a desk top intel running 10.
4. Whatever I have read on the subject is a narrative of what they can do but