Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

Does having devices (all firewire 400) in a daisy chain degrade performance.
Jay

It's a new age folks! The very (very) first Mac malware is now
available in the wild. It is a Trojan Horse. It is what I call
'Psych-Malware' in that it has to psych you into installing the
crap. For the moment it is specific to porn sites. But nothing at

I filed this as radar #5574036, but it seems significant to share:
Imagine that you trash an application because of a security flaw. Say,
it handles the URL type foofoo, and is proven to be a security risk. But
the developer won't fix it (or hasn't fixed it yet), so you've removed ...

I am having a connection problem, I hope someone here can help.
The cable modem is connected to the airport, which is connected to a
G4, the G4 connection is fine.
The MacBook Pro connection is slower than molasses. It starts out fine

And I'm happy to see that my Mac Pro came with both Tiger and Leopard in
case I run into any application issues.  I only have Panther so at the
last minute I was concerned that I might have to continue using my old
Mac if any of my important apps don't work on Leopard.  Now I can ...

Apologies if this is a repost. MT Newswatcher crashed the first time I
tried to post this... (ah, meta humor)
Anyway! MT Newswatcher occasionally crashes when posting since my
Leopard upgrade. Is anyone else experiencing this?

<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars>
Very comprehensive review, will take time to digest.
Mark-

Hello group,
I am well versed in IP protocol and the higher levels networking
layers. However I do not know much about Bonjour. I am therefore
unable to effectively diagnose a problem presented by the Bonjour

I tried NoteBook, but deleted it from the system. However, when I open
Services of Finder (Finder > File > Services) it still shows. How can
one delete that in Services.
Thanks.

I have a WD Passport 250 GB Portable Hard Drive and have been trying
to put a custom folder background, so that when I connect it (USB 2.0)
and open it in Finder it will always open in icon view and with the
picture I set as the folder background. Every time I try, it

What does the symbol in the menu bar indicate? Does it gray out when
there is no airport signal or when there is no internet signal?

What's the best way to get a legitimate Windows license and install
media to use with Parallels Desktop?
Yesterday, I found at a MicroCenter retail store:  Windows XP Home,
System Builder edition, for $99.  I had to laugh: It's in a plain brown

Since installing Leopard my Mac Pro seems less interesting in waking
up from sleep. It used to be that the first press of mouse or keyboard
would do it, but for the last two days it seems to ignore this, and
only a press of the front-panel power button will do it.

I have Lightroom on the way but noticed at Adobe that it's only
partially supported in Leopard.  Anyone here running it?  If so, what
issues have you seen?
Greg

I created folders of applications, containing whole folders and
aliases, selected them all to add to the dock thinking that they would
distribute themselves along the dock as aliases. Wrong. The entire
selection became a single folder on the dock. So I removed that folder