Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

AFAIUI
the current state of play with web based exploits is that visiting a
web page running Javascript allows data to be stolen from your
computer regardless of OS or browser being used by malicious

My entire Os 10.4.9 desktop moves with the mouse cursor (actually in
the opposite direction to the cursor movement). The full range of
movement is about 1/2" but that's enough to scroll the menubar off the
top of the screen when my cursor is at the bottom. The desktop also

Is .Mac good to have? What's the good and the bad things about it?
Thank you.

I just hooked up a 3 1/2" Super Drive to my Mac Plus with OS 7.1.  It
did not like it one bit.  The drive is brand new, never used.  I will
test it on my IIGS, only for 800K.
Shouldn't the MAC be able to use 1.4MB disks in the super drive

My  ~/private/etc/hosts  looks like this example:
127.0.0.1    localhost
255.255.255.255    broadcasthost
::1    localhost

<http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Symantec-Norton
-Ghost.shtml>
$70 - - - recently released, April 2007.
"Ghost", Upgraded-for-Vista  version 12.0

Is there a way to rest your default email client for Apple programs,
for instance: so that iCal would use Mozilla Thunderbird instead of
mail. I sure don't see it in iCal.
Thanks,

Bloody typical! I decide to Ebay it, and it won't boot now after 4
years loyal trouble free service!
Symptoms, etc:
1. Boot chime

So I rack up a couple of new Xserves, our previous ones had been set up
by our VAR, but these two are straight from Apple and no matter what
type of monitor I connect to them I can only see the top left corner of
the initial setup screen.

I heard that some external HD's don't work on macbook pro because they
run via USB and no power supply is needed. The USB is power is not
enough to use the HD...is this true for the following HD's
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index ...

Hello, All:
When we issue the command "xlsfonts", we get a list of 5484 names of
fonts. That's a whole lot to experiment such as when you customize
your X windows.

Because I had to disconnect the video cable on a G4 tower, I first
shutdown the user's G4.  After discovering that the connector was in
fact an ADC, I departed the user's office neglecting to power-up the
G4.  She later telephoned saying that the G4 would not start up.  When

I've just moved to mac and I'm so happy with it.
However, on Windows, I used to have the Google Toolbar's photos widget
on my desktop. I'm struggling to find a dashboard widget which does
the same as the Google widget.

FREE iPod "Scam" Investigated
"FREE IPOD", let alone "free anything", is an overly used online
marketing ad that im sure we've all come across on several occasions.
Heck, for many of us it is synonymous with the word 'scam'. Hence

I would like to create a shortcut on my desktop to another User's home
folder.
I would like access to that folder as the other user or as root,
At present the only way I can access the other User's folder is by