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Is the firewall enabled in Mac OS X by default, or not?

by David Chartier (Sep 18th, 2006)

I just bought a new MacBook, as I'm stepping down from owning a Pro and moving to a MacBook/iMac setup (more on that later), and I noticed something a little disconcerting: after going through the generic setup out of the box, Mac OS X's firewall was not enabled by default. I didn't fiddle with any ...

Fix for .Mac sync errors with Mail and random signatures

by David Chartier (Dec 24th, 2005)

I recently set Mail on both of my Macs to chose a random signature. From time to time during a .Mac sync, I'll receive an obnoxious sync error claiming that a 'default' signature on one Mac is conflicting with the other. No matter which signature I choose to resolve the conflict, the sync process ...