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office x crashes after installing the 10.2 updater. More precisely my word crashes on startup. before it was running, but was quite unstable. so i looked at microsoft.com for updates and found the 10.2 updater. installed that. now my word doesn't run at all. Excel launches. I've not...

Do the current ibook models have a builtin microphone?

hi folks, i have a (noname-) usb-reader for smartmedia cards that used to work fine until i updated to panther. now my system crashes badly (multilanguage message appears that tells you to press the power button) My filesystem already got a serious damge from such a crash. i've bees using...

hello i'm located in a lan that uses a dhcp- server. I need a proxy to access the web (10.20.1.1:3128) My webbrowsers have no problems resolving names. when i use the terminal i cannot use any tcp/ip services that require name-resolving. I always get the message: "unknown host...

hello. i got a first generation ibook here which won't boot, because it was booted it into os9 (which normally shouldn't be a problem but §$%&???) and os9's startup-volumes control-panel doesn't show osx. so now it won't boot into osx any more. currently (after some fruitless tries to set...

hi, i have 40gb firewiredrive which is really wonderfull but... ... it doesn't appear on my desktop anymore. very strange. i know it's mounted because i can play mp3-tracks that are located on the drive with itunes. i can also see it with the terminal.app by changing to the /Volumes/ directory...

hello, i've created a webpage that uses the following form to upload files to a server. this works on all platforms with all current browsers except internet explorer on windows. ie on mac x/9 works fine. ns 4.7-7.x always works. but ie/win creates emtpy files. an ugly workaround is to limit...

hello, i 've got a very strange problem and i havn't got a clue how to solve it: I made a little website to upload files via http a. it also submits some data in text form. nothing special. i implemeted it using perl/cgi. it is hosted on an imac running 10.2.4, very basic stuff. the imac is...

can anyone recommend internet phone software? I've no idea what is out there and what different types of tools there are. my girlfriend is in delhi, india, and she can use internet in internetcafes that have msn messenger installed or icq. is there any way to connect to one of the two? the...

i just bought a brand new 100 GB western Digital internal IDE Drive. As i stuck it in my computer trying to format it with Drive Setup (v9.2.2 I'm not sure if that name is right in english, in german it i "laufwerke konfigurieren", it's the standard drive formating utility that comes with macos...

hello, i really like the speed of the new x11 server, but i can't find a way to set my keymappings to the german keyboard of my tibook. xmodmap doesn't understand the file /System/Library/Keyboards/Deutsch.keymapping because it's a binary and i don't have a modmap that would fit. cheerz

everything itunes plays is very distorted. i have turned sound enhancement and volume equalization off. quicktime plays the same files with out any problems, so this isn't a hardware problem. any ideas?

how can i protect my ftp server against denial of service attax? it runs on osx 10.1.5 thanx

i want to write a script that syncs folders. ie watch folder A and copy its contents to folder B. it's important that nothing is copied from folder A that hasn't been fully received. it should also be possible to copy hirarchies of folders from A to B. what are the best tools to solve...

i just noticed that after updating my system to 10.2/jaguar the websites i was serving on my machine where accessible without password protection. the file /private/etc/httpd.httpd.conf needs to be changed to turn password protection back on: the last line needs to be: all my...

hello. i've been using the ftp-scipt from ftp-thread to set up my ftp server. now i've osx-server-software, but i don't know why and what for i should use it. what does osx server offer that os x cannot. i'm not interested in gui. is there any new funcionality? question 2: how many...

hello, my 6 months old titanium-powerbook has a couple of hardware problems: 1. the front hatch has a crack:picture 2. the display has white spots:picture Apple claims that these problem are due to mishandling. i argue that i have not done anything that could be called mishandling, i...

hello, i would like to automatically detect if my computer is connected to the interrnet via pppoe and connect it if it isn't. this should be accomplished using a shell script that i can run with cron. actually finding out if the connection exists is quite easy: #!/bin/sh ifconfig -a...