Mac Systems

Urgent:: Need a copy of Safari 4
Safari 5 is incompatible with a goverment web site. I cannot make an important submission which is now late. It worked prior to the recent upgrades on the Mac. Safari is now at 5.0 Can anyone point me to where I could find a copy of Safary 4.something that I coudl download and run this once ? (intel mac). ... 23 Jun 2010 11:43

slow copy to SMB share fro leopard
I again am having issues with an SMB share accessed via an VPN. Whenever I want to copy, it takes a long time for the copy to even start. Somwtimes I have to wait minutes for the copy progress meter to show up, and then it stays in mode 'preparing to copy' for more minutes. The actual copy then is not really fast b... 22 Jun 2010 02:51

3DS Max coming to Mac OS X?
I've heard rumors that 3DS Max rendering software which is Windows Based will be ported natively to Mac OS X soon possibly next year. Is there any truth to the rumors? ... 21 Jun 2010 23:36

Logic Puzzle (Was: QT display all the quality of HD 1080p - or not?)
In article <210620101416101327%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>, Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: Like many have said, real police work is dull hard work, looking for subtle relationships between the available facts. You wanna check out how good a crime-solving outfit is? Give them the following ... 21 Jun 2010 19:10

G5 iMac dim display
Roughly 90% of the time when I power up my G5 iMac the display is dimmed. The display preferences shows the brightness slider all the way to the left, as dim as possible. I slide the slider to 80% brightness and continue using the machine until I power it down. Can anyone tell me why the preference setting isn... 24 Jun 2010 16:21

Need verification for possible bug in SSL & parental controls
Hello folks! I guess I have discovered a strange bug in Mac OS X 10.5.8 which causes all SSL connections to fail if (a) parental controls (in system Preferences) are active (b) web content filter in there is switched off (!) and (c) if there is an additional entry for the loopback device in /etc/hosts, e.g. to b... 21 Jun 2010 05:52

Spotlight Question
I have a large number of old files on my Mac that were created with an old version of Microsoft Word. There are no extensions in the file names, but their Type is WDBN and their Creator is MSWD. I'd like to use Spotlight to search all my folders for files of that type, however I can't figure out how to do it. I... 22 Jun 2010 02:51

Bug on the Mac or on web server?
John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: On this page - [another attempt to bring John's opinions on religion into technical groups] Play this file- [another attempt, but pretty damn funny if you ask me] And God spoke unto His flock, "Thou shalt clear thy browser cache." Which is actually what you n... 29 Jun 2010 16:17

Ghost in the Mac
On 6/20/10 5:45 AM, in article jwolf6589-1BDED3.06450620062010(a)nntp.charter.net, "John" <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: Last night my roommates computer randomly would play music. It would do it on and off. After he come home he said he did not have any remote access setup, and he has no clue as t... 23 Jun 2010 09:30

10.6.4 broke Cisco Client
Hi, I have to use the Cisco Client (I mean the one from Cisco not the built in one). The VPNClient.app won't start after the upgrade. Anybody else has similar problems? Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elwood(a)agouros.de Altersheimerstr. 1, 81545 Muenchen, Ge... 23 Jun 2010 11:43