Mac Forum / General / General / July 2008

I've lately taken to shutting down my iMac (running 10.5.4) at night,
because of electricity problems in my aparatment (I always used to keep
it on but asleep).
I've found that it turns itself on at 1 a.m. and I have no idea why.

First, thanks everyone for all of the useful information. Second, sorry
about breaking the posting rules. Just wasn't thinking this morning.
I'm trying to understand this. iStumbler shows my network as Open
(which is something I've been meaning to change for sometime now and

I read a comment a while ago that certain characters we can use in Mac
filenames cannot be read by Windows. Does anyone know what characters
those are?
Thanks.

This is most weird. I asked the question about wireless connections,
got a response and then replied back to that response. Later on that
day the response and my replies disappeared and just my original
question remained.  What appened? The first reply to my question was

obviously Apple silently removed the "virtual" numeric keypad from the new
Macbook Pro. But not only the little numbers depicted on the keys but the
functionality as well :-(
Thus, is there a way to reinstall this functionality? I don't want to add an

Gang,
I have a new iMac running OS 10.5.4, and a Powerbook G4 running
10.4.11.  I logged into the admin user account on the Powerbook from
the iMac, and now it won't let me log out.  I want to log into a

I was wondering what folks' experience has been regarding the use of
various disk interfaces to the Time Machine feature.
I've run USB 2.0 and Firewire, but have not really noticed much of a
perceptible effect on performance. Has anyone noticed any real

I need the Toast Titanium 5.2.1 --> 5.2.3 updater, but it is no longer
downloadable from the Roxio web site. Does anyone have this updater?
Thanks.
Mel Comisarow

I have a powermacG5 which is running os 10.4.11 and I'd like to run os 9
on it. My problem is that I cant' boot my os 9 cd. I've read a lot and I
found that the 10.4 system wants 9.1.  When I try to boot with os 9
disks it always boots os X and asks for me to put in my password.

Forgive the newbie question but do wireless routers lose their signal
strength after a couple of years of use? I've always had good luck with
Linksys routers (wired and wireless) but over the last year or so I've
noticed that my signal "meter" on the laptops drops to one or two bars

I don't have a laptop, my work computer is a Windows machine (and I
synchronize Opera and Firefox bookmarks from there to home already).
I don't have Apple's preferred provider, so the iPhone is not an
option.

In setting a monitors Hz rate is that just a flicker thing?
Is a higher rate always better?
Will a higher or lower rate cause the monitor to wear out or consume
more power faster?

I have a web server that is provided by a vendor of a system in my
office.
It's a linux based server, and lately since I've updated my Safari the
web access to the server seems busted.

http://www.colorado.edu/its/oneonone/oneononespring08.pdf
Includes:
"Some might be surprised that Apple OS X is mentioned in the previous
paragraph. Ever since the Month of Apple Bugs (January, 2007

Oh hai guis
What you if a person is looking at private stuff and a 7eet haxxor
manages to use one of the many many unpatched vulnerabilities. they
could see exactly what you are up to: your banking details, your likes