Mac Forum / General / General / September 2007

Hi I'm looking for a port knocking client for os x 10.4x.
I already know about Darwinports and fwknop but I am looking for a
client to knock for access using a traditional port knocker like Knock
for windows (if anyone has heard of that). Thanks

I have been using network time servers to keep my Mac's clock set for
years -- even before the OS supported NTP, and a third-party app was
required. Of course, I have set up the Time control panel of OS X to use
a time server. Now, I don't shut down my MacBook, and only reboot it ...

I'm kind of sound sensitive. I don't like having my G5 in my office.
It's kind of quite, and I've controlled the nap so that it doesn't
make that awful
electric buzz and set my power options to further quite it, but I

I was just looking for something in my folder of saved c.s.m.s
posts and I came across a three year old one by Mark Conrad in
response to my helping him to disabuse himself of some wild
misconceptions he held about disk partitioning on the Mac. Not

the upgrade has done a real sh.t with my previous sites: iWeb 2 lost
all their formatting, all embedded images are not found. the website
on line is ok. How could I download to iWeb my previous sites to
recover them?

Tried using... System Prefs>Keyboard & Mouse>Application Keyboard
Shortcuts
Both for "All Applications" and "Internet Connect"
But nojoy.

I would have liked to put the university lectures at
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978433
on my iPod (for long bus rides) but they are streaming realplayer files - is
there a way to record them on my Mac?

Running iMac G5, OS X 10.0.4
Is there a way to hide a single account from the user login screen?
My interest is just cosemetic. My family is four folks, each with an
account; that's nice & neat onscreen. When I added a fifth account as

I'm creating a folder action so that when our editors drop some Targa
files into the folder the files get FTPd to our 4 on-air graphics
devices.  And I'm trying to do it with just the tools included with OS X.
I'm running into one shortcoming of curl which I have a workaround for

The just introduced iPod touch can communicate via WiFi and can run a version
of Safai. The iPod touch includes a keyboard interface. But missing from any
information I've been able to find is whether or not the iPod touch can both
read and write dot.mac mail via the Safari ...

The recent discussion in another thread about how to write URLs in
Usenet posts prompted me to set up URL handling in my Usenet client.
As someone pointed out, in slrn you only need to hit "U" while reading
a message and you will be presented with a menu of all URLs in the

Ever since I got intel Macs, X11 has been crapping out. It comes up, but
 if I try to resize the xterm, it quits.
Anyone else having this problem?
Anyone have a fix?

My brothers and sisters everywhere! With this essay, I am not singling
out the adherents of Islam - to which I ascribe - but rather I am
writing this essay to every man and woman throughout the whole world.
I ask Allah that He facilitates tat this essay reaches every ear,

Now that i've decided on a 20" iMac, and will await to buy when Leopard
is installed (Oct?), i need something to put it on.
Has to be on wheels or casters (vinyl flooring) but nothing extravagant
as a Medical cart ($$$).

A couple questions about the wifi-capable iPod:
1)  Will the Safari browser on that device play streaming audio/video
in RealPlayer, Windows Media and Flash formats?
2)  Will it be possible to update your podcasts via the iPod's wifi,