Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

My console (and system) log show the following (in the message I have
changed the name of the computer and the username for safety)
Feb 20 11:39:53 mycomputer-26 DirectoryService[42]: Failed
Authentication return is being delayed due to over five recent auth

Don't know if this is the right group, please redirect me if not.
I have a problem importing CDs into iTunes and then onto my iPod. It
puts them all in the wrong order, which is very irritating! I wouldn't
mind so much, but there doesn't seem to be any way within iTunes to

I finally got Panther installed on my daughter's G3 SE iBook and it
seems to run rather well, despite that it's only a 366MHz + 192 MB RAM.  
But the drawback is that it only has a 5.5 GB drive in it so I need to
make more room because after the installation, only 2.2 GB are left

Whenever I delete a song that is in my iTunes music folder, I click
*move files to recycle bin* after this iTunes freezes and I have to end
the process.

On a 10.3.9 iMac: multiple icons for the same file will appear on the
Desktop. If I trash the duplicates they often regenerate. They show up
when I look at the Desktop in a Finder window as well. How can fix this
problem?

Working on an old beige G3 266MHz tower with 768MB RAM and a 10GB hard
drive. I¹d like to use this for my old classic games and such. Anyway...
The hard drive was wiped when I got it, and so I tried installing OS 9.2.1
from a retail CD. The hard drive formats HFS+ just fine, and ...

I'm having this irrating problem w/ browsing.
In summary, a lot of browsing is S-L-O-W.  Always has.
Controlled test:
 1. go to www.newegg.com

A few weeks ago I, a MAC newbie, wrote a query about Mac security and
was assured that there was nothing to worry about. Although I still am
not worrying, there is news on the CNN web page about a MAC worm
spreading by exploiting a security hole in Bluetooth....is this the

For MT-NW users:
I had the thing configured to highlight my name, and star threads that I
posted to (which istm was the default).
After a kernel-panic, both color-highlight & * vanished, & I'll be

Not much to worry about, but good to know:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=13911&Page=1&pagePos=2

When I do a port scan at www.grc.com, it shows everything closed (or
stealthed by my ISP) except Port 554. I know this has something to do
with QuickTime, but I don't know how vulnerable this is or how to shut
it off or what the consequences of shutting it off might be.

When one of my users logs in, about 100 (or more, lost count) windows
open up and cause the computer to give the spinning rainbow cursor for
about 10 minutes. I checked the Statup Items in the User Accounts
system preferences and the only things in there is iChat and 2 aliases

How do you do things like check your IP address, MAC address,
Gateway and DNS on a MAC?
Can you do it on the command line and how do you open a command prompt?
Thanks,

I have been working for days resetting my network after much trouble.
I now have a win98se computer printing to the HP 3550n printer.  I have
a wireless 4-port router (only using the hard wired ports now) and a
8-port switch.  There is another g5 and another win98se computer, but

Does anyone know of a script for importing entourage x mail and
contacts into apple mail 2?