Mac Forum / General / General / August 2007

So when i first set up this new MacBook and set the Airport dealie to
'Default' it immediately connected me to the Internet... Even though i
didn't have a Internet Account...!!!
So i was feeling very guilty about this, and i've been asking around

Do you have a rather large Clitoris, or a small Penis?
IAC, I can make you a star.

Does anyone know how to make the meta key work on the mac in a
terminal? Alt or the Apple key would be a fine solution but I can't
seem to find how to do it. I googled around and experimented with
encodings and mapping in the terminal profiles preferences, without

I'm not a Mac user.
I'm a Linux user that may be sending a lot of files to a few Mac users.
I'd like to know what compression formats OS X supports "out of the box".
I understand you can compress/decompress gzipped tarballs in a terminal,

I recently opened System Preferences on my MBP Core 2 Duo to find a
new panel called "Processor", which simply shows my processor info
(and for some reason seems to think I have a dual-core Pentium M).
Does anyone know where this panel came from? I never installed it, but

I've been trying to make my Mac visible to my Windows machine.   I can
mount Windows shared directories on my Mac, but so far have failed at
the reverse.
I simplified my computer name from "Patrica Brazee's Mac" to

i just got this macbook a few days ago, and a couple of time, like
right now... it's making this weird hissing noise, like static,
apparently coming from the speakers...??? but maybe not...???
now it's fading...

Oftentimes Camino 1.5.1 will not even go the the cnn.com site, let
alone play videos (even though I downloaded flipmac). It seems others
are having the same issue. Any suggestions? thanks.  stk

Hello and thanks in advance for any help. I'm a long-time Mac user but
have never been able to get the following setup to work. I have an
intel iMac connected to broadband internet. So does my colleague
several miles away. Is there an easy way to network our two machines

I just purchased a used eMac and need to install new software.  I don't have
the Administrator Password and don't want to format because I want to keep
some of the installed programs.
If I do a restore, will I be able to keep some of the apps, or is there no

I just got a Lexmark 2500, and for a cheap printer, it works really
well. Does anyone know how to use the scanner portion of it on OS X?
Or had any luck using the FAX function?
TIA!

I've got a 2.4 GHz MBP with 4 GBs RAM, Parallels and XP.
I want to run only two windows apps... Skype for skypecasting,
and Ultrafractal 4... an art program.  That's it... no more.
How much memory must i allocate to windows?

My trusty old Pismo connects to my home router via an Airport card. All
of a sudden this evening I lost connectivity. The Airport connection is
good; but it won't ping the router.
I'm wondering if something has failed on the Airport card; or if this

I was wondering if any Firefox enthusiasts out there can point me to
some good sites where I might possibly add keyboard shortcuts to the
latest Firefox on the latest OS X?  
And for customization, is their any other browsers that have as much

Try this: Create a new folder and change the name to "test.p7" or
"test.p10" and it should change into a file.
Anyone seen this before?