Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

In Tiger (10.4.10), I can have files, folders & aliases on the desktop
which will display up to 36 characters (even without being selected).
In Leopard, items in Finder WINDOWS will display this many characters,
but the same item transferred to the desktop will only display 6

The midrange Macbook Pro is listed as 2.4GHz. On Craiglist I see for
sale a lot of 2.33G machines. I can't seem to figure out if this is an
older model of Macbook Pro, or if this is the same as the 2.4 model, and
the 2.33 is the actual megahertz, and the 2.4 is a marketing number ...

Pasting release:
http://www.intego.com/news/ism0705.asp
OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings to
Redirect to
Malicious DNS Servers

This seems very suspicious to me.
Either:
It saves Whole Documents every x time period, in which case, even with
a gigantic external hard-drive, it would fill up fairly quickly with

So I installed Leopard tonight on my new Mac Pro, Tiger was installed on
it but it came with the Leopard DVD.  When I created a regular user
account I went back in to Advanced Options and changed the home
directory for that user from /Users/ethant to /Volumes/Home/ethant.  I'd

There's been some conflicting info and I'm a bit confused.  I'd
appreciate any ideas on how to best set up my 3-Mac (wireless) network
w/ Leopard & TM.  What I have now:
Airport Extreme Base Station (old one)

I'm thinking about upgrading my laptop to an Intel Mac.
I do have need to run Windows on this machine as I have some Windows-only
software.
What's the preferred way to run Windows on the Intel Macs? I know of Boot Camp

I'm using an Airport Express with a Buffalo Wireless Router (AirStation
54g) and my 12" G4 PB. I can listen to iTunes on my stereo via AE just
fine, and/or surf the net. I cannot however listen to my iTunes on the
stereo WHILE surfing on the net, as it requires me to switch my ...

This is from Intego's web site.
Does typing one's password in an installer dialog really give the trojan
"full root privileges", or is that simply hype from Intego?
Besides, no Mac user would ever be browsing porn sites, would he?

Does any sort of commercial spam blocker exist for the mac?  I am trying
to ween my self off of my PC, but am getting an inordinate number of
offers to supersize selected body parts,  An excellent filter is
available through cloudmark that I have been using on my PC.  Anything

ola' from a former Nextstep developer, who might get back into the act
of coding ObjC.
what HW config should a system be for doing software development ? I
couldn't find that info in developer.apple.com

Finally got Leopard installed this evening.  Straight upgrade install,
must've taken around 70 - 80 minutes or so.  Fantastic so far and I'd
guess a slight performance improvement.  Very happy that features like
Cover Flow work as well (FAST) on this old G4 PowerMac as they did ...

got any hardware that could use 2x
512 MB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz
I am upgrading, just email me (email address as is).
Andy

Received a file purportedly created in Powerpoint, on a PC, natch. It
was sent to me with the extension: .pptx, and would not open in
Powerpoint on either G5 or MBP Macs running updated Tiger. Also removed
the x and tried it, Powerpoint the app. says the file may be corrupted