Mac Forum / General / General / June 2008

There's an interesting discussion here:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml
(the exploit works on my machine).
Like one guy says, you have to have physical access to the machine, it

This is my question ,
is brokenstones.cn as good as they say or newsgroups are even better  
can you guys compare them for me pros and cons
Thank you

I am looking to converse with a Tiger Server Guru..... Someone who can
assist me in the intricacies of final tweaking of a 10.4.11 Server
Package running on a Dual G4 1.25 Ghz MDD. Email or chat would be just
fine.

This morning I bought a Time Capsule, originally just to use it with
Time Machine for my iMac. But when I read the installation handbook,
I thought I should do more.
- Connect the DSL modem and printer to the Time Capsule and connect

Dual G5, 10.5.3, lotsa RAM. Suddenly (meaning that my wife has been
able to read PDF's in Safari for years) my wife is getting a "License
Agreement" pop-up when she clicks on a PDF in Safari. The dialog reads
"To continue, you must accept..." There is a drop-down labeled "Select

My wife has a problem on her iMac where an instruction
tells here to press the 'command key' but can find no such
key.
tia

After a HD-crash I'm busy building things up again.
I have a backup from a few weeks ago. Mail is rebuild & running, but
were can I find the data that make the calender and adressbook files?
Thanks!

I have several large files - 10 Gigs plus- on several
machines/partitions that I'd like to add to my existing iTunes on my new
iMac (24" 2.8 Ghz, 500 G) but without having to go through and remove
duplicate files. There will be many such, as I guess that over 80% of

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Can anyone recommend for - or against - any particular duplicate finder?
 I want to find just the large files, mostly JPEGs, RAW or MP3 files
that I have duplicates over a wide range of computers and external HDDs.

Trying to get a password from Keychain, and it's now asking for a "Login
keychain password". I have no idea what that would be! Of course,
there's no "Cancel" button, so I have to either select "Always allow",
"Deny", or "Allow". I have no idea what I'd be allowing or denying. I

I have a used G4 cube without a power supply and would like to know:
   1.  How can I tell if it has an ethernet card?
   2.  Will the mac systems in the G4 Cubes run a zip drive or do I
need to install software for this?

The UMAX web site has no scanner Software for the UMAX Astra 1220S and
OS 9.1.  Where can I find this software? Thanks

So, shiney new browsers to try out, how do they work? Opera 9.5, first
attempt to import bookmarks results in, nothing. No import, no error,
nada. Trash it and reinstall, and it works, sorta. It'll import the
*first* bookmark from any list, html or plist, but that's it, nothing