Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

On my iBook 800 I cannot get mail to accept signatures drop down menu.
I entered signatures and they show up in the window, but when I check
"signature" on a new message, it does not take. The signature block does
not show any of my signatures.

I have a pretty good idea of how I want to use FirmTek's 4-port
external SATA card and enclosures along with SoftRAID 3 but wanted to
run it by you guys before committing to the various drives etc.
I'm using a Mac G5 tower and am trying to build a robust and reliable

I am getting following error while compiling command line tool in G5
power mac.
gcc -g -w -mcpu=powerpc -I/usr/include/openssl -c buf.c
/var/tmp//ccccSQnC.s:226:Invalid mnemonic 'lock'

When X11 is installed on OS X, one still cannot run x86 Linux apps until
they are ported to OS X/PPC, correct?
Or, am I missing something?
Ed

I just recently got a PowerBook and wanted to copy some of my TrueType
fonts that I have used in both Windows and Linux (like Tahoma and the
Bitstream Vera fonts). I've had no issues copying, installing, and using
the fonts except for *one* issue: the text displayed by those ...

A participant in the Adobe Creative Suite forum is continually advising many
of those posting font related questions to use FontAgent Pro which he
describes as a "professional" font management tool as opposed to Font Book
which by inference becomes an "amateur" tool.

G4 Digital Audio, Mac OS X 10.3.9
I'm a newbie to Terminal - just now coming to grips with it. Need some
pointers.
I have a Unix executable file in /usr/local/bin - how can I see its

I am getting following error while compiling command line tool in G5
power mac.
gcc -g -w -mcpu=powerpc -I/usr/include/openssl -c buf.c
/var/tmp//ccccSQnC.s:226:Inval id mnemonic 'lock'

I've got a 20: iMag G5 w/ superdrive running Tiger.  I just got a copy of
Retrospect and dowloaded all the Tiger patches.
It doesn't look like Retrospect recognizes the DVD drive.  Has anybody used
Retrospect with the iMac built-in DVD drive?

I have a b/w G3 with a SCSI hard drive and ATI Rage 128 video card
(came with computer). I have plenty of RAM. I am currently running
9.2.2 and have already wiped my hard drive and formatted it with
extended HFS and also partitioned half for OS classic and half for OSX.

What are some compilers that are free that work for macs?
What is a good text editor? Will the program TextEdit that come with
macs be sufficient, I dunno if the file extension with this program is
.txt and I would like to be able to be able to open this stuff on

I just bought a new ibook this week. 1.42 GHz G4 running 0X10.4.2
and the internet is running so painfully slow. I don't have any ide
why? My old ibook was much faster (using same connection). I expecte
lightning speed from this one but when I try to open a url it think

This one took a while to isolate,
 Machine Model:    iBook G4
 CPU Type:    PowerPC G4  (3.3)
 Number Of CPUs:    1

I have a small, very reliable 10baseT LAN. Recently I changed out its
failing 10baseT hub for a 10/100 autosensing switch (it was free).
Immediately, our Blue & White G3 began having serious packet loss
issues. All the other, older, Macs continued to work just fine.

NetSNMP is broken to hell as far as Tiger is concerned, shipped version
doesn't work and compiling my own with released patches from apple
didn't work (compile errors).
Anyone know a way to extract network traffic information from OS X,