Mac Forum / General / General / December 2006

I am constantly getting a message box saying 'mail was unable to verify
the
identity of this server, which has a certificate issued to
"imap.server.ca"  The error was:

We are thinking about purchasing a mac.  We have some questions that we
need real answers to , rather than Apple sales answers.
1) Is a Mac really secure from viruses?  How about worms or trojans?
If a Mac is secure then how come there is a Norton Antivirus package

The speed in which the mouse pointer tracks the mouse seems to be
non-linearal, almost as if it were accelerating.  At slow speeds the
mouse is way too slow, sometimes not moving at all, but at faster
speeds, it overshoots.

Hello, All
  Just bought a used MacBook Pro and am trying to integrate it into an
existing [XP-hosted] workgroup.
  The deal is: While on the mac, I CAN access xp's shared files, but

Yesterday, there was a change on the news server apparently. Usually rr
retains around 1000 articles for about a month on a text group such as
this one. This group is showing 6222 articles going back to last march
starting with this one;

I have a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR 105 Rev.A506 in a Dual 1.25 PPC MDD
OS10.4.8 . It'll burn DVD's and CD-RW's but when I try CD-R's I get a
sense-key(?) error. Any ideas?

Hey all,
Does anyone know if there is any way to manipulate Spotlight's search
so that it doesn't search inside files but only in the file title and
in the file's Spotlight comments? A strange request, I know, but I have

What is the MacOSX Terminal equivalent for the Windows command-line:
ping <IP address> -t
I.e. keep pinging the IP address repeatedly.
I use this quite a lot to see when other servers on my network have finished

I had written (a long time ago) a metadataimporter for spotlight...
I'd like to disable it but can't remember how...

I had earlier posted this to .system, this is a cut and paste of that
post.
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We have an iMac (flat panel) running 10.4.8. It prints to an HP 2600n

I want to make a list of files which I have in a folder, sorted by
creation date. I sort them in the Finder using the "Date Created" view,
copy the list, then paste it into a text processor (I've tried both
BBEdit and Word); but the resulting pasted list is sorted in reverse

I posted this on a non-computer forum.  The recommendations for apple
intrigued me.
I'm reposting it with the intent of probably switching entirely to Mac.
Now I'm new

I just got an external USB numeric keypad for my MacBook Pro. When I
plug it in, the keyboard wizard starts up and asks me to press the key
to the right of the left shift key, which I obviously cannot do on a
pure numeric keypad. How can I make OS X recognize this keypad? I could

Someone had suggested a program by avs or something like that but it was
windows only and I'm running mac os x here.  I did try iSquint but it
didn't work.  I really don't mind paying for Quicktime Pro If I know
it'll do it for sure.  

Is it safe to add a font to the system folder in 10.4.8?
I just tried to add Futura, but it wouldn't go in, because the Fonts
folder is locked.
I then used Terminal to try to unlock the Fonts folder (following the