Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / March 2006

10th anniversary - 1987 - Apple IIgs Woz Edition
20th anniversary - 1997 - Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
30th anniversary - 2007 -
Any thoughts?

In the interests of speed, I'm thinking of running INN on my home Mac.  
Has anyone experience of this - is it difficult (obviously you won't have
run it on my Mac, but YKWIM)?
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Apropos the discussion elsewhere, what will break if I enable 'Stealth
mode' and 'just say no to UDP' in Tiger's firewall?
Bear in mind I'm on a mixed Mac/crap notwork with an external IP.

I have a Mac computer that runs on a G3 processor. It has no internet
connection, so nothing online could have caused the problem. I've had
it for about 5/6 months now.
Because I can't access the log-on screen, I can't troubleshoot for

Following on from replacing my HD (see earlier posts).
Originally my PB was pre-installed with Panther and came with iLife
(Garage Band, iPhoto etc, etc...). And, when Tiger was released I bought
it,  and performed an upgrade installation. But, now I have installed

I dawned on me this week, It'll be over a year before I purchase my next
mac. My G4 is starting to feel really sluggish too and a year seems a long
way away.
The problem is Adobe, who have announced that their products(which now inc

I have two accounts set up which I regularly need to switch between.
Account 1 is set up with UK formats and Account 2 with German formats
(Date and number formats are different.) Most of my work is done in the
UK format but for our German bookkeeping software I switch to Account 2.

Okay, so I've only read the first chapter of the programming book, so I'm a
while off yet... but:
Google Maps requires registration for a key. This key will only work for a
given directory on a given domain, eg you can register a key for

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT OPEN THIS LINK IN SAFARI
...if you don't want it to crash. The page opens fine in Firefox/Camino.
It contains an image of a car which makes BAD THINGS HAPPEN. The image
is in some way corrupt.

Is it possible to totally shut off the lcd when a monitor is plugged in
externally? I don't mean just turn the brightness down, as the display
is still mirrored, but just dark (you can see the picture).
I remember that on older windoze laptops, that often caused a bit of a

Anyone else's Gmail widgets stopped working?
I use Gmail Checker and Gmail Inbox and neither will work now.  But
curiously, if I click on the Gmail Checker widget, as I would if there
was a message waiting that I wanted to read, it's still able to take me

I know I've posted a similar moan before, but that was ages ago.  Now
using 1.3.2 on Panther.
For a change, I used Safari when booking my holiday last weekend, and
since it was so well behaved I thought I would try and reinstate it as

In icon view it's fine (when they are big icons) but in list view it
doesn't seem to work (for moving a file to a different drive)
I need to use list view at times, it's easier to find a file when you
can sort them by size/date

For the next few days/weeks (depending on the forward chain of our
house move) I'm going to be staying at my sister-in-law's house.
She has BT Openworld broadband, and I believe this is delivered to her
Wintel box through one of those free Shuttle or Shuttle-like USB

Pricing up a Mini for my parents. Apple want £70 to go from 512MB to 1GB (I
assume that's just adding another 512MB module?) Thinking that I could always
add another 512/1GB later, I had a butcher's at Crucial. They want £90 for
512MB.