Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

does anybody know which is the best mail program (with with I can also read
and write to newsgroups) under MacOX? My program "mail" does not seem to be
able to create newsgroup accounts. Right now I have access to newsgroups
(eg. comp.sys.mac.misc:)) only via my pc.

I use cd to back up (copy)files.  On my win2k machine all I do is to
drag
file to CD-RW whenever I want to add a file to my backup cd.  On MAC
OS X

I have some "rules" in my Mac Mail program and they've worked great -
moving messages from the inbox to the various folders I've set up -
except now they're not -  It's been a while since I set them up so I
went to help to figure out the details.  Help says go to "Mail

HELP!!  Why Won't My DVD-R Drive Work????
I have 2 separate Powerbook 1GHz G3 Powerbooks with OS 9.2.2 and OS
10.3.9.
I have BLANK DVD+R Discs made by Sony and Verbatim. 4.7 GBS, 120 minutes.

Strictly speaking, it wasn't a pop-up ad, but I'm annoyed. I saw a
flashing animation of text on my imac G5 while it was in screensave
mode. It was about an upcoming Apple event.
I think Apple assumes that their customers are all brainwashed converts

I have a old beige G3 running OSX 10.3.9 being used as a print server.
It is connected to 2 usb printers and connected via enet to the rest of
the network. I have the print sharing opt turned on on the server
machine.

I have my desktop picture set to change every five minutes.
It has always done a very nice, smooth crossfade.  After upgrading
to 10.4.5, it now cuts between pictures.
Is there a way to make it revert to its previous behavior?

I'd like to enable Remote Login on my dad's computer but have it require
a SSH private/public key (and not work with a password). The reason is
simple: I need to administer my dad's computer from time to time and
would like to do so without driving out there, but I don't trust ...

Here's a strange problem:
1) I download an application (using the Mozilla web-browser) to my
desktop
2) Since I like to archive and organize my downloaded software I've

I want to change some of my files' icons and know about the "Get info,
copy, Get info, paste" routine. The problem is that with some icons
something weird happens...
One of these problem icon sets is "LHA drives"

I've recently did a cut and paste with a text file. Apparently it sends it
to the clipboard and the text is then pasted from that. The problem is that
when I try to cut and paste another text file, it won't let me because
there's already the first one still in the clipboard. It ...

This is the first behavior in Mac OS X (Tiger - version 10.4.4) that I
can confidently say is a bug (and not have some developer use the
cliche - no it is a feature).  I created a directory in the list view,
but when I switch to icon view, the new directory/folder does not

 Here is a smattering of detail
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2006/02/multitouch_user.php
 and here's the video that first popped up, showing it off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs

The only ways I know to change the startup volume
are by opening System Preferences then choosing
Startup Disk, or by holding the Option key when
booting. Both methods are a bit slow. Are there

I am currently running a G4 with OS 10.3.9.  I upgraded to OS 10.4.  
Everything seems to work, except I can no longer connect to the internet
(DSL), because I get the message that my built in ethernet is not
connected.  I have all the network setting exactly the same as before,