Mac Forum / General / General / July 2008

I have 10.4.11.  I installed the latest security update.  When it
restarted, it hung 20 minutes with the spinning gear.  I held the button
to shut down, hoping I wasn't causing a disaster.
Then it started fine.  The log said that the first time, the System

I would love to have Parallels use sparse bundles for its VM files.

I am curious about just how fast this 3G connection is.  I live on a
small island with monopoly dsl and no cable because the same company
owns the cable system and the telephone system.  If I download a file on
Safari, the fastest speeds I can get are 50 Kbytes per sec, and usually

in favor of the iPhone toy.  No OSXI on the horizon,  macFreaks.
http://www.macrumors.com/
"After the Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote today, Apple previewed OS
10.6 "Snow Leopard." True to rumors, the release will focus on performance

I copies the "My Documents" folder from my old PC to my new iMac to keep
whatever I need. Much of this is not longer useful or relevant. I've tried
to delete these files from my iMac, but I can't.
I've tried simply dragging and dropping in the Trash, right-clicking and

Hi Chuck,
Any good rumors of what is going on with MacSpeech Dictate?
I see they managed to get themselves into the main Nuance
website, under the hotlink "Dragon for the Mac".

I live in Vancouver, Canada and my ISP is Telus. My access to usenet
is also via Telus. About a year ago I decided to move to a later
version of MT-NW. After I installed it, the application would not
opened. I contacted Telus support but I had trouble getting some who

What is the name of the next big cat?
So we've had Cheetah, Puma, Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar, Panther
I guess that leaves:
Lion, cougar

Dear friends, see:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/06/23/rare-mac-trojan-exploits-apple-vulnerability
Any comment?
Thanks

Duh, I can't believe how Mac-ignorant I am.  Went to copy a file
(via the GUI) from one folder to a folder on a different filesystem
(NFS-mounted from a Linux box), and it gave me some security error.
Using my basic Unix skills under the terminal works fine, but I'm

When 10.5 came out there was a great deal of controversy and problems
with the firewall (mostly because it was a black box).  What is the
current level of confidence in it...?  I'm thinking about moving back to
it and turning IPFW back off...

My daughter has an old Mirror Door Drive G4 running system 10.3
Its hard drive is partitoned into 3 parts. She inherited this machine
from a distant relative and did not set it up herself. She has an
administrator password, however their are some other administrator

I just googled for sparsebundle image with both dictionary and "what
is" and can't find a definition of a sparsebundle.  Could someone
please enlighten me?

For Chicago Tribune article see:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/sns-ap-tec-att-iphone,0,3141372.story
For Wall Street Journal article see:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121494195380420373.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

I created an admin user and a managed user and turned on Parental
Controls.  Today I logged in to the managed user and tried to set up
the enviroment by dragging apps to the dock.  Since I couldn't do it,
I logged back in as the admin user and turned off Parental Controls.