Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

When I run a long running perl script and go away for awhile,
when the computer goes to sleep (power save or whatever you
call it) it seems like the perl script is also suspended
until I wake the machine up.  Is this how things actually

I'm trying out MacSoup as a newsreader.  I've set it up as per the
instruction manual, and it all works well.  Just three little problems.
1.  How do I set up and send a signature with a news posting?  I can't
find it in the manual.

I have a sound effects CD with more than 100 tracks. I'd like to rip
MP3s from this disc, but OSX seems to only recognize the first 99. I've
tried lots of different ideas - iTunes, Finder, Toast - Terminal, even.
Nothing seems to be able to see beyond the 99th track.

I tried this on two different systems. I'm using a Powerbook G4 15" with
a gig of RAM and the latest OS. I'm using iPhoto 5.0.4.
I edit a picture. I open the Adjust panel and adjust the sharpness of an
image. When I am done, it says the changes are saved but they are not.

I tried holding the normally recommended keys down when it was starting.  
Then when I used a Tiger CD (the first out of four) it worked fine.  
Anything else I should be checking?  I really want to be able to reinstall  
from the DVD in the future.

I'm the new owner of a G5 iMac.  I'm delighted with it, but just want to know
if a .mac account is worth the £69 per annum charged.

I have a Wacom Intuos 2 that works fine on OS X. However, I can't install it
on OS 9 because it does not see that it is plugged into the USB port, which
it is. Wacom told me I should be able to install it.  I'm trying to install
it into OS 9 in OS 9.  Can anyone help me?

WTF is going on. Every time I go to the ABC web site my browser
crashes and closes within 15 seconds or so.
I've tries Safari & IE for Mac. Neither one is working?
~~Phil~~

I'm looking to write a script or automator action which will check my
e-mail and look for key words within the body of the message.  I would
then like for the action to find pictures on my hard drive that are
tagged with those key words, select a random one, attach it and reply

I have an iMac OSX 10.3 box with sharing enabled. The Mac's printer is
shared too. This is all via a wired LAN using DHCP.
However, when a Windows (XP) attempts to connect to any shared resource
on the Mac, it asks for a username and password, with no obvious way to

I'm interested in using Apple's new Backup 3.0 to backup data to a
webdav server that I have.  Is it possible to do this?  I know OS X has
built-in support for WebDAV, as I often use my server for manually
backing-up files, but it seems that Backup 3.0 only supports .Mac,

Looking at Ebay, many people are selling Tiger DVD's that are said to
be for emac or just for Mac mini, etc. Is apple really making different
dvd's for different models?

I know how to CHANGE the program assigned to open a file type (using
the file inspector), but how do I RESET file type associations in OSX?
I.e. if a program for some reason assigns itself to a file type
improperly, how do I un-assign the file type? The Finder only wants to

Looks like the latest security update breaks emacs 22.0.  Not a big deal
for those of us who build it ourselves - just a matter of building it
again.  But if you downloaded some random prebuilt version from the web,
you're probably out of luck until you find a new one.

I've just noticed that when I start a terminal session (with any
terminal app), the command line is prefixed with a weird Vigor2
notation, like this:
Vigor2:~ ben$