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Hi All, Currently running OSX 10.5 and was wondering if anyone knows how to find your gateway address in Terminal? IFCONFIG only appears to show the IP address. I know you can find it via System Preferences > Network but would like to know if it is possible to find it via terminal.

I know that in Windows you can sync your network files with your local pc when going offline but is there a way to do this with a Mac...?

Hi guys, How can I look at what ports are open on my macbook. I know in Windows there is an application call Active Ports which views all port activity. Is there anything similar....?

Hi All, Does anybody know of any effective free spam filtering software for OSX Leopard...? Am running Entourage 2008 as my email client.

I use Thunderbird for my email and Firefox for my browsing. For both Thunderbird and Firefox I have them asking me where to save files that I download. I have also changed in Safari, even though I do not use this, to save downloaded files in a temp directory I created. However, whenever I open...

I am running a Windows XP Pro virtual machine through parallels on my macbook pro. What I would like to do is automount a share on the windows machine to my mac at startup. I've done a little googling and found that I should create an auto.smb file and then within auto_master add the mount. My...

I am running a virtual windows machine through parallels on my macbook pro. What I would like to do is automount a share on the windows machine to my mac at startup. I've done a little googling and found that I should create an auto.smb file and then within auto_master add the mount. My...

Whenever I open a file through Firefox (from the internet) it seems to automatically save the file in my Downloads directory. How do you stop firefox from saving these files. I only want to open them, not save them. Have tried changing the preferences in Safari and Thunderbird to ask me where...

Just installed Windows XP SP2 on my Macbook Pro (Leopard) and both are working beautifully. The only problem is that in order for me to boot to OSX I need to hold down the Option key and select it. Tried going into System Preferences > Startup Disk but alas not startup disk for OSX or Windows...

For some reason I am unable to see the default Documents folder under /Users/<username>. I can see the alias in my side bar and by "Getting Info" on the alias I can see that it points to /Users/<username>. Any ideas on how I can unhide this folder. If i look in Terminal i see the following...

At present my power settings are set to never put my computer into sleep and only put the screen to sleep after 15 mins. However, when i leave my computer running overnight and go to "wake it up" in the morning it does not respond. Have tried closing the lid and opening to see if there was...

hoping someone out there in cyberspace can help me...just upgraded to OSX Leopard (silly me) and find that accessing files from a samba share in finder are really slow...around 24kb/s. If i scp files using terminal this seems much better at around 9mb/s....is this another flaw in Leopard....?