Mac Forum / General / General / April 2007

My ISP is reporting quite a large bandwidth usage so I suspect a
neighbour has gained access to my airport network -- in spite of all
recommended precautions on my side (closed, pwd,...). Is there a way
to monitor who does what on my network (accesses, traffic, urls or

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I don't want to start a war but I can't believe how naive most Mac users are,
including most reading this newsgroup. They use a backup program and then
they never actually compare the source with the destination.
I tested several programs, incl. rsync, SmartBackup, ChronoSync, ...

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I have a blue & white Mac that is giving me grief.
I need to install a system on it but when I boot from the 9.1 CD I get
a "Desktop cannot be created" message with an OK button. When I click
the button the Mac reboots. I have done the PRAM.

I'm looking for an application that previews Mac OS X screensavers
without having to place them in the screensaver folder and open the
Desktop & Screen Saver panel in System Preferences.  I haven't found
anything in VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

An elderly lady that lives in my mom's apartment complex bought a
printer for her computer.  She couldn't get it to print though.  My mom
volunteered me to help her out.
To my surprise she has an IMac.  I've never used anything but a PC.  I

Hi all, I kinda have an idea about what's going on with my laptop but
i wanted to run these symptoms by you guys...
I have a titanium Powerbook G4 I got in 2003. The prox is 1Ghz PowerPC
G3, 1 GB RAM, OS is 10.3.9.

I've got a problem with one of our Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.
Whenever I try to mark a message as Junk (via either the menu item or
the Junk button) Mail freezes and has to be force quit. After that it
will run fine, as long as I don't use the Junk options or delete a

im looking for an external USB DVD writer for my Powerbook G4 DVI
800MHZ
any recommendations ?

I am wondering if anybody here actively manages the cookies left by
websites on their system? How often do you examine them, and what
criteria do you use for deleting them? This is something I have never
touched, so am just curious. Thanks.

I have more information on my sleep problem on my G4 running 10.4.9.
I try putting my computer to sleep in the following ways.
1.  I select Sleep from the Apple menu.
2.  I press the Power button momentarily on the front of the Mac.

Updated transmit to the latest version. Everything in sharing/firewall
control panel is set properly. FTP won't work either on Yummy or
Transmit. Only thing that works is port 22 and SFTP. Tried deactivating
the firewall completely, still no go.

Now that Apple no longer sells the isight web camera as a stand-alone
item, what is out there for users of the olders Macs?
drt

Using a BT might mouse on a Mac Pro under 10.4.9. I am turning the mouse
(and in fact the keyboard) off when leaving the office, to save battery
power. And OS X puts up the nice graphic to say it can't find each of
them.