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Is anyone working on a VI emulator for MSword under OSX?
I recently used one for windows, and it's pretty sweet. While the
shell
is great for using vi, having it integrated into MSword would be

I have been a Windows and Linux programmer for many years but only
recently been working on a Mac.
I have a probably naive question to ask about Mac.
I have developed a C++ open source software called QPolymer (http://

I downloaded 'The God Delusion' using a link I found on google.
The entire book is posted on rapidshare.com as a zip file - abridged
mp3 files
In finder, you can sort the mp3 files by title & play them in

I run an iMac G5 and a friend gave me an AIR Port Extreme saucer - the
one with just USB and two ethernet sockets. My iMac Airport card can't
see the Extreme. Is there a FAQ pertinent to iMac/Airport issues. All
the books I have been able to round up seem to dwell on Internet

I run an iMac G5 and a friend gave me an AIR Port Extreme saucer - the
one with just USB and two ethernet sockets. My iMac Airport card can't
see the Extreme. Is there a FAQ pertinent to iMac/Airport issues. All
the books I have been able to round up seem to dwell on Internet

Occasionally my iMac (10.4.9) will malfunction (gasp!).  One of the
first symptoms, the canary in the mine, is the jigsaw puzzles on Jig
Zone.  They will simply stop loading properly.  After that, other things
will work erratically--e.g., Safari/google will load slowly, even

A good friend of mine conducts a Macintosh user group Special Interest Group
(SIG) which is directed towards the problems beginners face. This month she
will be addressing problems presented by the beginners in attendance. Just in
case there is a shortage of submitted problems ...

Some time after installing Panther I can no longer run Nedit from the
terminal. When I invoke it I get the following.
mercury 1> ned
NEdit: Can't open display

Can anyone shed some light on these entries in my Firewall ?
My firewall is set up to block all outbound UDP apart from NTP time
packets,
the host 192.168.0.2 is a mac running OSX 10.4.9

Happiness is a common goal that everyone strives to attain.
Philosophers, intellectuals, doctors and artists alike have all
strived in search of the causes of happiness and ways to escape
anxiety.

Everytime I send a Pic to some of my friends, they cannot open them.
It say's that viewing is not allowed. Is there something wnorg witht
the way I'm sending them or is it their isp's that's not allowing them
to view the pics? Please advice.

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask all this; if not, I'd be very
grateful for suggestions as to the right place...
I work in a college where we currently use a range of PC video editing
sytem - which are very good, but they are getting old and because they

Now that macs are intel based, is there an way that you could just get
a PC instead of a mac, erase the hard drive, put on OSX and boot camp
and dual boot that way, so that your PC could become a Mac, rather
than your mac becoming a PC...or is that a technically ridiculous

A message in an ongoing thread on c.s.m.s. claims that security
personnel at airport security checkpoints can, if they wish to,
electronically examine or even download the contents (i.e., the data
storage contents) of your computer, and that once they demand to do so,

I'm new with Macs. What's with all this talk about new protection
software for Macs? I go to this site http://www.securemac.com/ and
it's telling me about all these new attacks on Macs and we all need to
buy their software. Is this all Bull*Y@@) or is it for real. My router