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Hmm, I have the opposite problem - I have no TV or VCR, only a computer with a DVD drive. Unfortunately, lots of good, old (and even relatively recent) movies are only available on VHS at my local video store. I generally don't much care about watching the latest new releases - I've already...

It might be worth trying the Windows drivers for Mac hardware that come with boot camp - download bootcamp, burn the drivers CD, and then just install those drivers in XP.

If I'm not mistaken, the Terabyte model of the Buffalo gizmo refers to a total of 1TB disk space, over four disks. So, if you set up RAID level 5 (which you should, to avoid losing data to disk failures), you only get about 750GB of usable storage.

Your screenshot won't show the problem - the OS is sending the right signals to the video card (and that's what a screenshot grabs). What's happening is, either the video card, or more likely the monitor itself, has a loose connection, fried component, or short circuit, and is messing things up...

If you're using Tiger, spotlight might have indexed the contents of the file. In which case, you're golden. Otherwise, you could try the unix way... In terminal: find / -name *.xls -print0 | xargs -0 grep hnd-lvk Note that that's -print(zero) and -(zero) not -print(capital o) and -(capital...

sorry for the double post - camino doesn't like "wyciwig://" urls

I'll have a centifirkin of oil please, and I'll be paying in Mauritanian Ouguiya.

No please - let us start on Pints. Specifically, the fact that there are 20 ounces in a real pint, not 16 as some weirdo nations maintain ;) "A pint is a pound the world around," indeed! Humbug! "A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter." Less catchy perhaps, but it has the...

I don't know if you could really do the snapshots etc. of VMWare - the OS is running directly on the hardware, with just a hypervisor underneath it, rather than a whole virtual machine with another OS under that. Still, very cool - I'm actually thinking about getting a copy of Windows. Weird...

Only if you tell it to be a DHCP server as well. Otherwise all you've told it to do is route between its interfaces. bootpd is the dhcp server included with OS X, apparently (from a brief skim of the man page) it gets its config from netinfo.

carbon copy cloner provides a GUI to the ditto tool, which is included with the OS. ditto will generally not give up in the face of disk errors, but continue copying while reporting errors. ditto /Volumes/BadDisk /Volumes/NewDisk will copy over everything it can.

Note that this depends on how sophisticated a user you're trying to protect against. The protection measures fryke describes are not meant to prevent a serious attacker from gaining improper access.

Disabling "open safe files after download" saves you from one particular attack scenario - the single-step drive-by download and execution in Safari. The Finder, Mail, perhaps a few other programs, will still present the file as a jpeg (or some sort of generally benign file type), so an email...

From the Apple store description: Mac OS X Server is available in 10-client and Unlimited-client editions to meet the needs of your organization. Client restrictions apply only to simultaneous file sharing services for Mac and PC clients.

It is correct that with 10.4 the scripts run automatically if the computer was asleep at the time the script was scheduled for. However, if it was turned off entirely at the time, it will still need to be run manually, or with third party software. So, things behave according to the...

Have a look over the full description of the security update. Look at the CVE numbers - notice how many of them are from 2005? Throw the CVE ID into google, and you can find out more. Just for example, the PHP vulnerabilities are from October to November 2005. That's a 3-4 month window of...

I'm running 10.4.5 on an Intel iMac.

The tasks _should_ run on their own without any extra software, but launchd is broken. If you want the tasks to be automatically run you'd want to - install anacron - make sure anacron gets run (I believe the usual way is to have cron run it every 10 minutes or so) - add the maintenance scripts...

Fair enough, I suppose. Anyway, my initial guess that it's Windows file sharing appears correct - I turned on windows file sharing, checked the open ports - TCP 445 and 139, and UDP 137 were listening. Then I turned off Windows file sharing, and noted that all three ports were closed.

Yes, you can't just close the port - something is listening on it, the way to close the port is to prevent whatever program from listening on that port.