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

I'm trying to get to the home of IPSecuritas (GUI front-end for IPSec
stuff), but http://www.lobotomo.com/ seems to be down? Even DNS doesn't know
about it???
Anyone know where I can get the latest copy from? (I actually have 2.1 - is

I'm using Parallels on a MacBook with 2GB of RAM. I have 2 x Debian Etch
and 1 x XP Pro virtual machines. I use host-only networking, with the
VMs using DHCP and OSX configured to share the Airport connection to
the Parallels virtual ethernet interface.

Well, reference spotting anyway. In some of the latest TEDtalks.
Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child project mentions Steve Jobs
and mac laptops.
So does Larry Brilliant in his talk on smallpox eradication.

Would a cheap G4 tower from ebay have the processing grunt to act as a
suitable machine to serve music from?
I've got an inkling to stick one in the loft attached to a RAID array,
and have that doing all the serving and backup.

I'll start
(When replying please try to quote a few above)
- GAY

Checking through my TradeDoubler stats, it looks like someone spent
£niceamount at the AppleStore yesterday after linking through from my site.
Whilst it might have been the person I evangelized certain bits of kit
to late afternoon, it may also have been one of you lot.

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A friend of a friend (who I have never met) bought themselves an iPod, but
as they lacked any kind of computing skills whatsoever I was roped in to
explain how to get it up and running. It was for a Windows box, and despite
not having one to hand I was able to write out a fairly ...

<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060731-7391.html>
ms attemting to get the oem makers to do more than tack some tacky
plastic on the cases...
roger

I am probably going to get abuse for this, but I believe it's my duty
to help others
Q. I have used Windows all my life. I am used to all da free stuff -
warez... sharing serial numbers, getting cracked software. I don't want

Does anyone know if Tuesday's 'Stump The Experts' session will be webcast?
TIA

Good day,
I wonder if some of you would like to help with / comment on a new
project that I am starting...?
For a while now, if you wanted to put a pretty face on DarwinPorts, you

Grr. You know I thought I'd rescued everything from my MacBook Pro just
before it died? Well, I was wrong. I'd copied the files certainly, but
failed to notice hat one of those files was dead.
And, just out of interest, guess which one would take the most manual

An acquaintance of mine bought the final edition iBook G4 at the
beginning of May and 3 months later has asked me to set it up for her. I
found it still in the unopened box in which it was delivered! No, I
don't understand either. 90 days free support already expired, but,

i am a newbiee on apple computers.
i got here an ibook and i guess the hdd and the cdrom drive has a
failure. (the computer don't start, there is only a symbol in the
middle of the screen and the harddisk don't seems to work correctly) if