Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

cron doesn't seem to work on OSX 10.4.10.
I have created (with crontab -e) a crontab file in my user account
(not in a administrator account),
which looks like this:

Situation:
files on ftp server, served via friendly ftp software through www browser.
Web site protected by login and password...
I can not connect to the ftp server, but I can to the web site.

All I was doing was quitting some apps.  But when I quit Firefox, it's
menu stayed in the menu bar but no commands worked.  No keyboard
commands worked though the mouse still functioned.  However, when I
tried using the mouse to select the Apple menu to access the Force Quit

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In a software update, I installed a new version of Airport Utility - version
5.3.1 . It no longer sees my Airport Extreme base station. I had used the
previous version successfully. I did power everything off and back on - no
change.

I'm having such horrendous problems w/Vista I'm thinking of switching to
a mac.. I do know macs, I was on a mac for about seven years in the
90's.. (I think last mac OS I used was 9.0..)
but I do need to know a few things before I do so (which at any rate,

Just received MacSpeech Dictate Monday, slapped it
into my Mac, dictated this post.
I used the supplied headset. Noticed that MacSpeech made another
great decision by including an external sound card in their package.

.i waited until they fixed the dock in 10.5.2
   to upgrade to leopard
.i was running it on my server, but i never
   paid much attention to it

I have apparently a bad CD in the CD drive on my iMac Leopard (intel)
machine. Nothing in it was recognized and now it won't eject. I have
tried to eject it and it just sits there. The trash icon looks like the
"eject" symbol and none of the icons in the doc are functioning.

I remember being 10 years old and downloading a demo version of
Macslave.  From a BBS.  With a Hayes 9600 baud modem.  Oh, the
memories.
From what I remember the game was a system 7 hypercard-esque line

I am used to command-option-dragging a Finder icon to make an alias of
a file.  Some recent version of OS X seems to have overload this
operation.  It nows also turns the cursor into a hand and drags the
window view around relative to its scroll bars.  It seems to default

I've been deliberating back & forth on how to go about adding some
more storage capacity on my system...basic options are Firewire 800,
or via a NAS.
Galaxy Metal Gear (galaxymetalgear.com) is a new-to-me brand; has

Well, I said I'd report after getting an anti-static mat to help
mitigate the little shocky problem with my Apple aluminum KB.  It's a
nice mat (Startech) with a 10 foot ground wire.  As others surmised, you
have to touch the mat for it to work so it's no different (for me) than

I am getting a new 24" iMac.  I want AppleCare. Should I buy from
Apple direct or somewhere like Amazon?

Hi - first post to this group so please forgive my barging in like
this.
I've installed Hogwasher on my MacBook (running OS X 10.4.11) -- wanna
try it out for reading news.  It seems to be a fairly standard