Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-16 Thread Geke
I don't know much about all this stuff, but from your previous posts, I'd think your friend doesn't need to have Web Sharing on for the things he does. The System Preferences panel Sharing has many check boxes for different network features, so he can deactivate Personal Web Sharing (and Apache)

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-16 Thread larry moore shirley allan
On 15/05/10 02:34 AM, Brian Christmas wrote: G'day listers Friend of mine got this email from his strictly PC IT manager, blaming him for an attack on his network via my mates Power Mac (which is on the network). I can't really help him, but knowing you guys, someone will know what's going

OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day listers Friend of mine got this email from his strictly PC IT manager, blaming him for an attack on his network via my mates Power Mac (which is on the network). I can't really help him, but knowing you guys, someone will know what's going on. This IT guy is very, very anti Mac.

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Sri Gupta
What version of OS X is he running? Apache is active if he has Web Sharing enabled in 10.5, I think it's called Personal Web Sharing in 10.4. -sri On May 15, 1:34 am, Brian Christmas b...@tpg.com.au wrote: G'day listers Friend of mine got this email from his strictly PC IT manager, blaming

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Dennis Myhand
Does anyone else see anything missing from the list of Affected Products? Like anything from Redmond, Washington, USA? Hmmm...? This list looks like a whole lotta bullshite! I work with M$, Linux and Mac OS-X on a daily basis. I am a certified Cisco Networking Instructor. This is pure

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 14, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Brian Christmas wrote: G'day listers Friend of mine got this email from his strictly PC IT manager, blaming him for an attack on his network via my mates Power Mac (which is on the network). I can't really help him, but knowing you guys, someone will know

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Brian Christmas
On May 14, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Brian Christmas wrote: G'day listers Friend of mine got this email from his strictly PC IT manager, blaming him for an attack on his network via my mates Power Mac (which is on the network). I can't really help him, but knowing you guys, someone will

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Brian Christmas
Sorry, I forgot to add, in response to questions, that the OS is 10.6.3, and he has to keep his Mac on the network, no choice (he's running a script of mine t hat automatically processes incoming email artwork, and prints it, and also saves three redundant compressed copies to a PC server).

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Dennis Myhand
If that is the case what is his complaint. I seriously doubt that it is a php script which is handling this process. It is most likely some version of a bash script. Like I said before, you will never convince this guy he is wrong about Macs. Peace, Dennis in Victoria Brian Christmas

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 15, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Brian Christmas wrote: Sorry, I forgot to add, in response to questions, that the OS is 10.6.3, and he has to keep his Mac on the network, no choice (he's running a script of mine t hat automatically processes incoming email artwork, and prints it, and also

Re: OT. A Problem with IT

2010-05-15 Thread Brian Christmas
On 16/05/2010, at 2:45 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 15, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Brian Christmas wrote: Sorry, I forgot to add, in response to questions, that the OS is 10.6.3, and he has to keep his Mac on the network, no choice (he's running a script of mine t hat automatically processes