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I have followed your suggestion and reconfigured my router (a Linksys WRT54GL) to only use the G-level protocol. It used to be set to automatically use either B or G. It's now been running for around 24 hours without AirPort dropping the connection. I want to wait several more days to be...

Well, I found a partial answer to my question. If I export the settings and the character encoding is something other than UTF-8, the encoding shows up in the [whatever].terminal file in a key called CharacterEncoding with a numeric value (for example, ISO-8859-1 is value 5). I didn't see this...

In the Terminal program, if I go to Preferences->Settings, there's section called International and a drop-down menu for setting the Character encoding. When I set that encoding, where does this setting get stored? I don't see it anywhere when I issue this command: defaults read...

Thank you very much. I will try that. .

Well, I haven't been able to find any way to use AppleScript to tell Spaces to switch the space that is shown in the desktop. There is no dictionary for Spaces nor for Expose. I looked through Finder's dictionary, and I couldn't find a way to do it there, either. Can anyone think of any...

Thanks. I'm still learning MacOS X, and I didn't know about osascript. Now, I'll do some investigation to see if there's a way to use AppleScript commands to tell Spaces or maybe Finder that I want to switch the view to another Spaces window. .

I just found a way to do this. I don't know if it's the recommended approach, as it's rather heavy-handed, but it works: /bin/rm -f /Users/hippo/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist... where /Users/hippo is my HOME directory. I just set this up to run at boot time and also once a day...

Thanks for your reply. I could use AppleScript, but I already have a rather involved shell script that I've been using, and I was hoping that I could just slip a command-line invocation into the appropriate place which would cause the desktop to switch to a different Spaces window. If...

In Terminal, if I go to Preferences->Settings->Advanced, there's a pane that has literally hundreds of instances of setting configurations, numbered sequentially. Apparently, every time I start up Terminal by selecting a [something].terminal file, another one of these setting instances gets...

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately, I'm not looking for a way to do this with a keystroke. I have a shell script that does a number of things, and when it gets to a certain point in its processing sequence, I'd like the desktop to switch to a certain Spaces window. I'm guessing that...

In Leopard, is there a command that I can invoke from within a shell script which will cause the desktop to switch its view to a specified Spaces window? Thanks in advance. .

Thanks for your reply and your suggestions. :) The Mac indeed sees a number of other WiFi networks in the vicinity. As for trouble-shooting, I have done almost everything I could think of and that I found described on the net. Read on ... Yes, I have already done that ... actually, I've...

Update: well, it turns out that this fix didn't work. My MacBook Pro lost its WiFi connection yesterday in the same way that this has occurred previously. It took me several reconnect attempts before Leopard's Airport software could successfully re-establish the connection. At the same time, my...

Well, apparently, this is a known problem under most releases of Leopard, except the original 10.5 (I forgot to mention that mine is 10.5.5). After much searching on the net, it looks like the fix that works the best for the most people is to downgrade back to 10.5. That's not an option for me...

I'm running Leopard on my MacBook Pro. For around a year, I've been accessing the internet wirelessly via AirPort. This is a WPA2 connection. In general, this works fine, but lately I've been noticing that once or twice a day, the wireless connection goes down, and I have to manually tell it to...

Bump. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can avoid the horrible, ugly hack that I described above, and to get the Screen Saver to recognize the altered idle time after I make the change via defaults write? Thanks. .

Thanks. Yes, I'll do something like that. It means that I'll be the only person who can use the machine with the wireless connection, and everyone else will have to take it into the office where we have the ethernet connection. Well, that's the price I have to pay, I guess. .

In response to your question: there are open networks in the vicinity of my home, and they at least sometimes appear. Also, some of the kids' friends, or at least classmates, share their families' network passwords with each other, and some of these kids live in our building (a large apt...

I'm trying to keep the children who live here from connecting to any wireless networks except our own. I have configured our router to send all http(s) requests through a special proxy that does massive filtering of web sites. If the kids can see the other networks in the AirPort menu, they...

Thanks. Yes, I know how WiFi works and how it is (somewhat) analogous to an FM radio. I know how to use WiFi to connect to any network that is in range if it's open or if I know the authentication tokens. None of this is new or surprising to me. What I want to do is to not see those other...