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

And for another instalment of my occasional "Let's swipe this story off
Digg" series, here's an article about the actor doing the current Mac
series of ads. Apparently, there's twenty more of 'em to come...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-ca-long23jul23,0,1268414 ...

The new Centrify tool might be of interest to anyone who uses Active
Directory and would like to use Group Policy to help manage the MacOS X
machines. See:
<http://www.centrify.com/directcontrol/mac_os_x.asp>

Perverse, I know, but when a colleague today
opined that the new Mac Pro was a bit dear, I
immediately countered 'cheaper than a Dell'.
Then had to prove it.

El Reg thinks so:
http://tinyurl.com/mqabu

We have an external firewire hard drive from LaCie which we use solely
for backups. I originally partitioned the drive into two equal
partitions, one for my wife's backups and one for mine.
In the meantime, she still has 25 GB available while I only have 9. Are

A couple of days ago, I ordered a Mcody M20 mp3 player - looks nice from
the pictures and works with the mac.
I got it today, and found that nobody mentioned in any of the reviews that
it has one of those stupid microscopic usb cables, rather than the

I'm trying but failing to get these clips to run in Safari or Firefox
but no joy - can anyone else run them?
http://www.streetiq.com/buzz/052606.shtml#9
Thx

http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/firstlooks/macprobench/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
The Quad G5 still holds its own pretty damn well...

Dear All ­
I was visiting a client yesterday to install his colour laser printer - these
80-year olds never stop - when I noticed that the Macintosh HD icon on his
desktop is actually an alias.

  Is anyone using a USB Wireless Adapter on Tiger 10.47 which has
WPA-PSK encryption enabled and is working properly? The one I am using
is fine with WEP but nothing else although it apparently is supposed
to.

I won a Meistersinger watch in a competition - see
http://www.meistersinger.co.uk/scrypto1z.htm
Now there's no way I'm going to wear such an expensive watch - anyone wants
to buy it off me or trade something of a decent value?

Searching for an ADSL modem/router to replace my sister's faulty unit,
I decided on a 3COM ADSL modem/router and then hunted around to see
what other people's experience of it was.
I came across this uk.comp.sys.mac thread:

It's only day 2 of WWDC and I know where my holiday money in 2007 will
be spent. WWDC '07 :-)
Ian

It was caused by gays!
Gay terrorists attempted to cause gay destruction on an unpresidented
scale.
Gays attempted to put explosives up their bums and detonate it in mid

I have no use for four processors.  I barely have any use for two.
I'd rather have one (or two) 3GHZ processors than four 2.66GHz ones.
But instead I have to pay an extra 500 pounds to get two dual 3GHz
processors.