Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

10.5.1 - In terminal I've noticed some files are listed as:
rw-rw-r--@  4  j j <date & file name>
I've looked through man pages and haven't found it.
What does the '@' signify?

The London Times, having been the first is "The Times". The rest are
known by their city names.

I am using my iMac to share an internet connection with my laptop and
kinda paranoid about it. Is there anyway to see who is connected to the
iMac besides my laptop?

Hey guys,
I was just wondering, how the Zune compares to the iPod. My cousin
just brought a Zune, and he loves it. I think my cousin is crazy, but
I don't want to make the wrong decision with Christmas presents! :P

My backup external drive will not show up on the desk top. Is there
something I should do? The drive is there and does copy but I have to
open ultil to see or close the drive.
Thank you.

Hi.  Can the OS X Speech Synthesis Manager handle languages other
than English?  If so, where exactly can one set the language?
I'd prefer to keep my general system (Finder, menus, dialogs, etc.)
in one language, and limit the use of the second language only to

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1433&blogid=4
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/23/iphone_activations/
26,000 activations -
hahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahaha

After several years of using the USB iSub, I am sure I can't go back to
life without it.  If anyone reading this newsgroup can fix the broken
driver in 10.5 and sell that software, I for one would pay a reasonable
amount of money for it.  That would be preferable to buying new ...

My Leopard now works fine. I will try installing 9.2.1 to bring back
some old System 8 games that I still like. I also have a few OSX apps
that either don't work at all or are clunky. I am confident that there
will be patches soon for these apps. I am also confident, hopefull

I have just transferred all my mail addresses from Eudora 3.1 to Apple
Mail 3.0 (Os 10.5.1) and I'm struggling to get back some of the easy
functionality I enjoyed in Eudora - hopefully only because my ignorance
is showing.

I have just run into problems using Toast 8 with Leopard. Is it me or do
others have such problems as well?
Bill

In all the time I've had with Windows I have never had more than one user.
On the job it's been a company lan and not my problem.
I have thus far 3 users on my MacBook. For maintenance, is there anything I
need to do that would not be necessary if I had one user?  I should know

I just received my Leopard DVD and read the small pamplet they include.
Also, been going thru Robin Williams's  book on Leopard.
Apple's little book gives a brief tute on installing Boot Camp, and says
nothing regarding Parallels.  Ms. Williams book (at least on a quick look

Apparently my Mac Mini will run 64-bit code transparently even thought I'm
on a 32-bit OS. What I want to know is, how can I compile my code to
64-bit?

I have a 17" Powerbook.  I have since 2003.  I take meticulous care of it.
People looked at it and thought it was a brand new Powerbook because I had
taken such great care of it.
Yesterday, I took my son to the pediatrician first thing in the morning.