Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

I have a problem where Safari doesn't remember my Google preferences.  I
set it to display 100 results per screen, but if I quit and restart
Safari, it goes back to 10.
I am accepting cookies.  I tried clearing out my cookies and emptying my

I recently posted when I was considering getting Verizon FIOS.
My home network is set up as follows. An ethernet cable from the
Verizon DSL modem goes into an Airport Extreme Base Station. One
computer is connected with an ethernet wire to the Base Station and

About three weeks ago we stopped being able to do video or voice chat
in iChat.  Whenever we attempt to do a video chat it says waiting for
response from <BUDDY_NAME>, then after 10 seconds or so a long error
comes up (error code -8 then something our error connecting SIP or

Since I found the answer to my problem I'll post it here :)
Apparently is you're running Open Transport 2.5.1 or lower you are
vulnerable to a DoS attack by somown sending you a UDP packet of zero
length on port 49152.

My husband's almost angelic Bondi Blue iMac started crashing all of a
sudden, several times a day. The trouble started while he was sending a
large jpeg-laden email to multiple recipients. (He should know better.)
He could neither force-quit Eudora nor do a control-command-power

Actually, I think it might be a mac problem. I have been using igrabnews
for a while with no problems. I just changed ISPs from verizon to cable
and all of a sudden I have lots of problems, igrab stalls out and I
can't figure out why. I also have a pc and loaded a fileseeker ...

Posted this morning, a podcast interview at Electric Politics with Ars
Technica's co-founder, Jon "Hannibal" Stokes.
Total runtime an hour and thirty six minutes.
http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2007/06/the_garden_of_technological_de.html

I'm using 10.4.9 and I want to do local development on my laptop, so I
want per user enabled cgi.
I changed the AllowOverride to All in my /private/etc/httpd/users/
username.conf file and added a .htaccess file in my Sites directory

This was leaked from the WWDC:
A Macintosh computer with:
  €  an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 or G5 processor
  €  a DVD drive

Couldn't resist:
New Apple product...
Apple announced today that it has developed a computer chip that can store
and play music in women's breast implants. The iBoob will cost between $499

When I open a folder from its dock icon, and then send it back to the
dock again, it always goes down to the bottom of the dock. (I have the
dock positioned vertically on the left edge of my screen.) I find this
behavior annoying; what I want is for the folder icon to return to ...

I am using a Brother multifunction device for scanning. The Brother software
invokes Preview after the scan. Preview typically saves the scanned document
as a pdf file.
When I used the automatic document feeder, two sheets were pulled through at

I can't find my printer on the network!!!
I have a couple of Windows XP machines and an Airport Extreme.
The Airport Extreme works flawlessly in terms of the network, seeing
other computers, and getting the internet.

I have a student that needs to reduce the size of PDFs for a faculty
member because the "Print to PDF" creates PDFs that are several MBs in
size.  I googled for such software but wasn't too lucky.  Could anyone
help us out?  Thanks a bunch!

Ive had some trouble with my classic Macs and web surfing recently.
When I'm loading a webpage my PPC 5400/200 will freze up. Even when
using Wannabee text-only browser. Is there a way to lock up a mac
remotely? I thought Macs were secure. Its happened on my 6300/66 too.