Mac Forum / General / General / December 2006

For three days now, Eudora (v. 6.1.1) has crashed and frozen my Mac
(G4, OS 9.1) when it tries to delete old e-mail on the Southwestern
Bell server.
Eudora gets almost to the end of deleting between 300 and 400 old

This is simply annoying. When I "right" click on dock icons, I always
have to select the function twice. For example, if I want to empty the
trash, I "right" click the trash and select "Empty Trash." Nothing
happens. I do it a second time, and it empties the trash. If I want to

Regardless of using a Mac or a PC it seems that every modern computer
these days is bloated compared to back in the old days (e.g. the
80s/90s) when computers had limited resources (memory, disk space,
processor speed) and programmers were forced to make their software

I hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday this year.  Cheers!  : )

I have asked the following question before without getting a satisfactory
answer.
I wish to change the color of my cursor. Doing so at boot time would be just
fine. The cursor gets lost on my screen and I think that changing it a a

I have an external hard drive connected to my network that acts as a
storage server.  It is always on and always connected to the network.
Is there a way that I can have my Mac OSX 10.4 automattically connect
to it?  I find it very annoying and time consuming to have to

I find it interesting that Macintosh users have a vast difference in how they
maintain their desktops, ranging from pristine (me) to cluttered (my
significant other). I'm curious as to how the opposite sides of this spectrum
defend their choice.

I installed Windows XP SP2 on Parallel (build 1970) of my MacBook.
My MacBook has 2GB memory and I assigned 512MB to Windows.
It works fine even if USB is only 1.1 instead of 2.0 which I can bear
with.

Just a few days after getting a new Intel MacBook, Firefox started
crashing on a regular basis. After LOTS of testing and researching, I
think I found the problem: Google Toolbar does not play well with FF2.
However, in my "testing," I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox

It has been a fairly sleepy in Mac security for the last couple weeks.
Despite a parade of FUD from various sources a year ago, there continue
to be zero Mac OS X malware in the wild. The total number of demo, or
'proof of concept' malware is nine. The only way you could catch

Suddenly, form input boxes in Safari have become extremely short, so short
that it's not possible to see what's being typed into it, e.g.,
    _________________
    +---------------+

One question:
How secure is information stored on an password protected diskimage
burned to a CD?
Thanks,

Mac Security Summary: 2006-12-23
Minimalist version:
This past week in Mac security can be summarized as follows:
    1) There are still zero MOSX malware in the wild.

I've recently escaped from the collective and bought a MacBook, my
first Apple in 12 years.  It is good to be back.  Now that I am
functional with the important stuff (Internet, Java sw dev, etc.) I
need to sort out "office productivity software"...but am not sure which

As many of you have no doubt encountered,
iTunes often seems to lose track of MP3s.
Upon selecting a tune, an exclamation point
to the left of the song title always tells you