The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

Forrest called in with a problem with his e-mail. Using Entourage, he’s getting an error when checking mail: “Error 3176 cannot retrieve mail. The server cannot be found be sure the mail server info is entered correctly in the account manager and that dns settings int he network control panel are correct.”

From the Tools pull-down menu, select Accounts. Select the account in question, click Edit. Make certain that the POP (post office protocol) server is correct. For Forrest, who has a Yahoo account, we believe it should be:

pop.mail.yahoo.com

We had a caller ask for a recommendation on a good network security book. My favorite basic overview, which happens to contain plenty of depth, too, is Network Security for Dummies, by the wonderful Chey Cobb (she’s incorrectly referred to as “he” in the official Amazon review): Click here to see reviews

Tom also called in asking about his iBook g3, infortunately getting 3 beeps, indicating bad RAM. Here’s a run down of the meaning of the “beeps” when it comes to more recent Apple computers (macs):

Article on research suggesting iTunes is as popular as peer-to-peer networking:

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1643

Larry called wondering about his new iMac G5 (congrats!), how to transfer files from his G3 iMac. If the G3 has firewire, he can use the automatic migration assistant in Tiger. There’s a good article on it here:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/17/tiger.html

If it doesn’t have firewire, he can use an ethernet cable to physically connect the computers, use Apple filesharing to logically connect the computers, and manually drag and drop the information he wants to move.

He can also use an external firewire hard drive, or USB device, or burn a CD! smile

Before we get to the newsletter, which this month *attempts* to stay relevant while covering Shark attack and identity theft, let me share our news that OnDeckTech is currently the featured consultant on Apple’s Consultants website: http://consultants.apple.com , you can skip directly to our Spotlight here: http://consultants.apple.com/profiles/ondecktech .
Shark-bite and Identity theft..? Back up for a moment!

I bet you have heard about the recent shark attacks, and about the theft of 200,000 records from Atlanta-based Card Solutions Systems Inc..