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

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-08-31/#5869
iMac, MBP, mini.  Possibly not the MB - arses.

Yesterday I was archiving some pictures to DVD from the iBook so I
unplugged the external drives (IcyBooks) from the iMac G3's Firewire
port into the iBook.
All went well.

What's good, what's to be avoided? 600dpi is fine. To be used under
Photoshop Elements under 10.4 on G4 Mac Minis.
Thanks,
Stuart

Can Tiger do RAID-5 in software? Looking at the help for DiskUtility it
appears not, but still.
Said help also states:
"To create a RAID set, you must use two or more SCSI or IDE hard disks. When

Interesting. Closer relationship between Apple and Google? Lets
airbrush his time at Novell...
Ian

I don't know how long these have been out but I see there's another
batch of "I'm a Mac... I'm a PC..." ads:
<http://www.apple.com/getamac/>. I like the spyware one, but I'm easily
amused.

I want to buy a Macbook in September - it's sounding like it'd be a
good idea to hold off until the 16th or so in case a Merom upgrade
appears.
I'm a Mac newbie, so could anyone comment on:

See
<http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=92770>

with parallels running XP on a new macbook, is all hardware available
pretty much transparently to the windows install?  what i'm after is a
hint that stuff like DVDshrink will still work - a mate tried it on his
macbook/parallels system and it didn't but haven't debugged why yet.

Is it possible to have an Applescript droplet that accepts (and
processes) a URL dragged from an address bar?
I have something funny going on here in that a droplet I have knocked up
for testing [1] will accept URLs dragged from Safari, but not from

Can anyone suggest a way that I can print onto a piece of paper that's
5cm x 9cm?
It's too small to feed through the Laser printer (Xerox 4400), and
although the Canon IP5200 will feed it through (in portrait layout), it

I have iMac 2GHZ Core Duo with 2GB DDR2
233GB Hard Disk (176GB Free)
external hdd 76,6GB (28GB Free) for backups
Mac OS X 10.4.7

Anyone here ever used electrobytes.co.uk - especially recently? I've ordered
an mp3 player from them and still not received it over a week later (despite
saying they do same day despatch).
Emails to them have elicited no response and their online help seems to be

I keep on dithering about how to set up a web shop for work
I think the long term solution is OSCommerce due to its flexibility, but
I don't think it's an option for the short term as I don't speak SQL.
So I think I need more of a noddy one to start with and I'll have to

Embarrassing isn't it. I've been playing with Macs since the SE was a
big deal and I've never changed a hard disk. My Smartdisk firewire drive
has died and I have a couple of questions:
First question: how do I get the connectors out from the controller bit?