Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

I used Macs all my life until I got to college and now that I am about
to graduate, I am thinking about buying an Intel Mac while I still have
the student discount.  AppleInsider.com says that new iBooks with Core
Solo chips might be out this month but I wonder how long a Core Solo

I've been spacebar-ring my way through a man page on "rsynch",
understanding very little of what I've read, and then I come to the
bottom, where at the...bottom "(END)" is displayed and it is
highlighted. What key do I press to go back to the regular prompt? I

I see many references to 10.4s ability to compose HTML messages -- But
I haven't found a step-by-step description and the methods I have tried
have all failed...
The services menu in Safari does not seem to email a web page in either

I can't believe how primitive this apple operating system is in this
regard. They make it so hard to remove programs from your system.
For example. I recently download the awful Flip4Mac application. I
hated it after trying it. So I trashed the application icon that I had

I've got an iBook G4 running on OS 10.4.5, and since a few days I'm
experiencing a strange problem: something on my machine seems to be
changing the machine name on its own.
I've correctly set up my chosen hostname in Sharing preferences, and it

Hi.  I'm having this problem in Mail and Entourage both.
In Mail.app, when I try to send an email (SMTP password authentication
enabled) I get the error:
"The SMTP server "mail.**********.com" rejected the password for

I want to prevent my "helpful" OS from automatically setting my
computer clock to "standard time" this coming Fall, in California.
Heck, even OS 8.6 had a way to keep Pacific Standard Time from being
set automatically.

I recently upgraded my PowerPC to OS X.4.  Since then, automount has
been crashing weekly.  Any ideas as to how to troubleshoot?
Command: automount
Path:    /usr/sbin/automount

Is it possible to use Boot Camp to dual-boot Linux and OSX? Win XP boot
is not very useful to me. Being able to boot to Linux would be helpful,
however.
(How much do we all want to bet that within five years MacOS X is in

Is there a command line equivalent of /bin/crypt on OS X? Thanks, PaulN

I'll get my Mac Book Pro by Easter:
Will I be able to use the installation CD's from Virtual PC version 7
(the one including Windows XP, has a licence number, but no separate CD
- two CD's labelled Virtual PC) to install Windows XP with Boot Camp,

  I have the plain vanilla Newswatcher for my MacBook. Not terribly
impressed since it doesn't seem to have easy ways to catch-up and
can't append signatures, etc. from my file. So, what do the paid for
version add for the money and are there any other suggestions. I

Home or business use
The key to business is relationship building that's what conference
software Does for building you relationship with customers and
potential customers.

I've discovered with with the keyboard and mouse unplugged, I can wake
my Mac Mini by picking up the telephone.  When I hang up, the computer
wakes up.
If I find my computer awake when I come home, I suppose it's because my

I have just completed upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4.6 on a PowerBook G4 by
doing a clean install and then using the migration assistant to
reinstall everything else from a clone on a FW drive.
So far everything seems to be working fine with the exception of the