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

I was just getting the shopping in Waitrose, and came away with a loaf,
a pint of milk and a black MacBook. Sadly the first one had a battery
that wasn't recognised, so I got the replacement the following day.
Even more sadly it is still sitting in its box at the grandmother's

Just switched on the G3 Lombard (400 mHz, 10.3.9.) after a month away
and the battery is completely flat.  On the charger it is charging very
very slowly - after 2+ hours it is at 33% and saying 4 hours to go to
full charge.

Hey, it works without Front Row - one can just fast forward iTunes
tracks - even if it is not the front most application.
Great.
kt.

Is it possible to create a smart playlist that selects (say) 5GB of music
at random, but keeps albums grouped together? If I do this I always end up
with a bunch of songs 'orphaned' from their album, ie just one or two
tracks off the album but not the whole thing.

I seem to be receiving lots of complaints that email sent to me is not
getting through.
As it doesn't appear in Mail in the Trash or Junk folders I assume that
the Demon Spam Filter is picking it up.

I've had my ibook for around two and a half years, and recently the
screen has started flickering, it seems as though the back light is
switching on and off, or going from minimal brightness to the highest
brightness, sometimes it happens a few times in a  second, other times

Sometimes Illustrator CS prints will come to a halt, or rather the paper
will continue to feed etc but little or nothing is put on the paper.  In
the most recent case it was two thin lines.
Converting the CS document to a PDF is a work-around: it always prints.

Zoara take note :-)
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OS X server 10.3.7
I can't get network home directories to work.
I think I've done everything that the manual says.  But the newtwork
directory doesn't get mounted (or created) and I always get a local one

Where's the conventional place to install command-line applications so
that they can be used by all users, won't get destroyed by software
updates or OS upgrades, and can write to their own data files?
I've downloaded and compiled an application that consists of several

Just installed Neo Office (OS 10.3.2). Generally quite impressed,
however, it does seem to be very slow a re-writing the window and does
do it repeatedly. Actually doing anything functional within the
application isn't a problem but it seems very easy to trigger a window

2Ghz, 512MB 1 week old MacBook vs 1Ghz 640MB nearly 4 year old iBook
Load times:
Google Earth 12 seconds
Gimp.app (& X11) 29 seconds

My trusty old G4 Digital Audio has finally bit the dust - USB failed a
while ago; a USB 2 PC card kept me going for a couple of months (but the
drivers stopped the machine sleeping), but it's now totally dead.
This couldn't really happen at a worse time - I was holding off for a

I'd like to get certain info from the IMDB for a given film, and append
it to a file. I've already looked at IMDBHelper which doesn't want to
unstuff, and a couple of widgets that do the useless task of getting
safari to open a web page with your search (er, how is that quicker?)

I'm considering buying a MacBook.  I currently have an Apple Studio
Display 17" LCD [1] connected to the ADC port on my Power Mac G5.  Am I
right in thinking that, to connect the display to a MacBook, I would need
both