Mac Forum / General / General / July 2008

I had to download the free version of Stuffit because I bought a piece
of software that comes in .sit files.
SmithMicro now owns the Stuffit brand. They immediately began spamming
me. After about the third day I clicked the "opt out" button.

Very long subject there :-D Sorry.
25/07/08 7:20:09 PM DashboardClient[10553] _NXMoveWindow: error moving
window (1001)
25/07/08 7:20:10 PM [0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock[159] 2008-07-25

I have a 20" Cinema Display that has started Blinking the Power Button
Light, in a 2 short Dot and one long Dash, sequence and being Off the
rest of the time. Does anyone know, or remember, just what this
signifies?  I don't use the Power Button, and have it DeActivated in the

My New Zealand friend is still on Windows, but he persuaded his
80-year-old inlaws to switch to the latest Mac.  To give an idea
of what he's up against, he had to make an alias to Mail called
"Send" and an alias to TextEdit called "Write"

'ipod update 1.1.2' returns zero useful results on Apple's downloads
site. I love you Apple!

I have a Apple Personal Laser 320 printer. How do I stop the test page
that is printed every time I turn the unit on? I once had stopped it
with using some utility. And does it matter if the computer is booted
up before I turn (plug in) the printer on. It has no on and off switch

It's a longshot, but does anyone know about this repair? I dropped my
Pismo (I know, dumb). It works fine but now it won't charge battery. I
tried different power cords but no dice.
I'm thinking that I must have jiggled the power connector and possibly

It seems that increasingly if one wants to find the price of an item online
one has to go partway through the ordering process for the item just to see
the cost. I don't know about others but I find this exceedingly annoying. If
I go into a store to buy an item of clothing do I ...

Have a friend with a MacBook that can't get the thing to drive a
projector, even with the adapter from Apple that connects to the
external video connector. What other methods for driving external video
are available?

ls -al /bin
total 18568
drwxr-xr-x@ 40 root  wheel     1360 Jun  7 23:24 .
drwxrwxr-t  40 root  admin     1428 Jul 22 10:13 ..

Anybody suggest a way to copy or clone a volume that contains a lot of
aliases that point to files on that same volume, in such a way that the
aliases on the new volume will point to those same files on the new
volume?  Or alternatively, suggest a way to retrain a lot of aliases ...

Intrusion Detection Strategies
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Until now, we’ve primarily discussed monitoring in how it relates to
intrusion detection, but there’s more to an overall intrusion

Somehow, I managed to open up a sidebar folder in such a way that all
its contents (some hundreds of files) got dumped in the sidebar as well.
I don't seem to be able to get rid of these except by a tedious process
of dragging each of them individually off the bar -- i.e., no ...

What other alternatives are available than Arial Unicode in case where
application should
run both in Mac and Windows and it's reports should support bolded
text?

How to enable root -
...on a MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel core 2 duo
Help sends a user to "Directory" in utilities folder,
dead end there, instructions do not work.