Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

Any reports yet on security holes or bugs in Vista?

Subject says most of it - I'm a new-to-X user coming from a fairly
"plush" existence on an ancient PowerMac 7500 running 9.1, and trying to
find out what the stuff I'm going to need/want most in X.3.9 is. I've
already hit some of the basics - Firefox 2.0.0.1, the X version of

A friend just got a powerbook and I was taking a look at it.  Am I
missing something here or is this not just another Linux machine with a
cleaner interface?
-Jim

Mac OS X 10.4.8
I downloaded a disc image (GoogleVideoPlayer.dmg) but when I double
clicked it on the desktop, no mounted disk image icon appeared. This
is strange because the image definitely mounted as I could see by

I have a dial up internet connection and i normally get speeds of 4KB/s
or 5KB/s and that is normaly the speed of my downloadds would go, but
today when i started my downlaod it was doenloadding at a speed of
30KB/s to 40KB/s (WOW) i was suprised that dial up could even go that

<http://www.metacafe.com/watch/403519/welcome_to_the_so_so/>

I read a review of Vista which included the following statement: "As
on the Mac, you can now drag favorite folders into a list at the left
of open windows, so it's easy to get to them".
I'm new with Macs - What does this mean?

I have set up some virtual hosts in httpd.conf, I've also edited the
hosts file so that my sites are accessible when I type 'mysite.site'
into a browser:
127.0.0.1  mysite.site

How can I kill a fullscreen application that's not responding? The
command+option+escape menu doesn't pop up - it seems to me like the
fullscreen application keeps the focus.

<http://www.metacafe.com/watch/403519/welcome_to_the_so_so/>

I was wondering if anyone could diagnose this mysterious behaviour for
me. At least, I think it's mysterious. My computer's name is
"Naughty". When I enter a bash shell, the apparent name of my computer
changes to 'carolinemccaw'. Example below:

Could someone point me to an explanation of the iPhoto library
structure? My own iPhoto Library is horrendously complicated. The
following is a review of the first level of folders etc.:
Albums-Data

The I Ching or "Book of Changes" is an ancient Chinese philosophy book
and book of wisdom. The I Ching has been used for more than 5000 years
as an aid to making decisions, predicting the future, etc. So, if
nothing else, it is a long-standing and popular source of wisdom and

I have a cron job that picks a random sequence of .JPG files
for IMG tags on a web page.  Unfortunately, the widths vary
and the results are sometimes screwy.
Is there a shell-callable tool that can take a list of images,

I was given an old G3 iBook (dual USB, 500MHz). It's running 10.4.8 and
works great as a secondary, knock-around computer. This is my first
laptop.
I'd like to be able to use a tv as a monitor every now and then for no