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Thank you cfleck. Nicely said. To quote myself, Elander, Look, the reason I posted this thread is because on this board I came across one poster who did a virus scan with Virex and it reported back that there were four 'possible infections' -- but didn't tell him the location or the nature of...

I have no idea if this is helpful at all, but.... Just out of curiosity, when you say it doesn't work anymore, did you recently install Tiger? Tiger comes with launchd, which is Apple's own replacement for cron. It makes me wonder if cron even works any more. If you are on Tiger, I'd look into...

FCS is pretty good, if you are looking for a video-conferencing solution that doesn't entail the user downloading special software. But there are lots and lots of little headaches on the authoring side -- inconsistent implementation of the event model is my buggaboo, lately. And if you write...

Well, this thread has reassured me a bit that there are a few people out there who have a sensible attitude about security. I posted a link in one of my other postings a while back to a thread on MacOSXHints. The parent poster there is posting the output of ~/.bash_history, which is a listing...

Just out of curiosity, did ANYBODY read the thread on Slashdot? Again, I am not going to take a hard stand on this one way or the other, but I do find the comments of 'AsSeenOnTV' a little more convincing. Perhaps it is just a question of marketing and strategy, but when you read the Apple site...

The only beef I have with TextWrangler's FTP functions is that the program seems unwilling to remember which directory a remote file comes from. If all your perl is in ./cgi-bin, this is not an issue. But when I am working on files from different directories, I am CONSTANTLY hitting save and...

See http://www.cgi101.com/book/connect/mac.html for configuation information. Just for clarity... what sort of scripts are you writing for your remote host? There may be important differences between the build of apache on your host and the apache on your Mac. If you are using your remote...

Veeery interesting discussion on Slashdot a while back (in their discussion of the release of Tiger... two days after the fact). Here's a branch on that thread that has the interesting bit. There are aspects of this argument that fly well above my head, but it sounds like the author, AsSeenOnTV...

I agree with HateEternal. You help other programmers by documenting your code. Looks to me like debugging code that's been left in. My bet is that the team that made it either shipped an early version or, more likely, just didn't have time to //alert("find funnier analogy"); sweep the sawdust...

Lately, I've been getting into a bit of a shoving match with a few of the members here over the issue of security in the Mac. Every few days, someone posts a question, "Should I use Company X's Anti-Virus Miracle Cleanser?" The immediate reply is, "You don't need anti virus protection because OS...

For. Crying. Out. LOUD. riccbhard, you would be well advised to read page 2 of this thread before returning this whole matter to the farce that it was.

If I understand your set up, it looks like your router can connect to the Internet (because the PC connected to it upstairs works). Being a router (and assuming it is propertly configured), it shouldn't matter that two computers are connected. If one connects, both should connect (again...

Well, I note that Mail has a context-sensitive icon that is programmatically controlled (the numbers that appear when there is unread mail) and Adium is animated and context-sensitive. To me, that suggests that it is possible.

There is also the issue of Virex not working on Tiger. Is that still the case?

Yoni, I would strongly recommend that you take everything said above with a big grain of salt. The prevailing opinion on this board is that because Mac is unaffected by viruses, it is unaffected by malware too. I think that is wishful thinking at best, but really it is irresponsible and foolish...

Again, I can't speak from experience, however... In general, the advanced scan option (usually called 'advanced heuristics') is what makes commercial anti-virus software valuable. It is a good idea to keep this on. I have no idea if this stuff actually does what they claim it does, but the idea...

Oh, Yoni. You have no idea the floodgates you've just opened. Edit: Boy. Wasn't that a whole lot of help from me? At the moment, both Symantec and McAfee are working on their Tiger versions. Symantec also has a bit of egg on its face after releasing a virus definition file that gave off...

Sometimes, it happens. We cannot expect all users to avoid dodgy sites or not download warez or succumb to social engineering. It's part of the landscape and while I do not agree with it, I have learned to accept it. If they get into problems as a result, I will still try to help them. Most...

Dang it. I really should check my links before I post. The link I posted above was inside a different posting on MacOSXHints.com on a possible machine compromise. Now, naturally, I can't find the original forum thread in question. But here's another one...

I have no idea how you can assert that given that, according to the account, the problems began with a Java module on an unpatched virtual machine with known and documented vulnerabilities, she ran a virus scan and the problems stopped. Perhaps a tear in the fabric of space caused a build-up of...