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

For those of you that just can't resist bit-twiddling to get a Really
Customised OSX, how about creating a new kernel panic screen?
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter5/panic/
    -z-

  A small sample of what I received from a friend who uses a Mac, OSX
or so I believe:
<color><param>FFFF,2E7B,2267</param>Hi
Reg,</color><color><param>8AAC,8669,FFFF</param>

937 meg of real memory in use! Hell's teeth. I'm sure v6 never did
that sort of nonsense... Is it all due to the artwork?
Experimenting with leaving Coverflow unviewed suggests yes. Starting
iTunes afresh tops out at around the 60meg mark. Open Coverflow and

In some ways I feel I exhausted the limits of Mac-OS-X-is-crap ranting
some time around 2002. There remains one aspect of it in particular
which continues to get my goat, and which provides a rich seam for
further rage and frustration, and that is networking.

Having been to the BAA website I can find lots of references to
cosmetics and liquids, and nothing banning cameras, iPod, phones,
laptops etc.
Anyone know what gadgetry is allowed on planes at the mo?

I've been transferring tracks between disks and, in the progress, have
omitted to copy some tracks so I get the 'lost track' icon in iTunes.
I'm trying to get a definitive list of these tracks but I can't find any way
of either sorting the browser window on the exclamation mark ...

I have a Mac G5 1.8GHz dual core with one internal drive.
It's been running a routine for about two days now.
I just went around the back of it to attend to something else, and it
felt as though someone had left a bar heater on.

David Deutsch TEDtalk.
<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=160892
972>
Ian

I have managed to delete a composition of mine, an entire folder of audio
files, and the ProTools session file.
What is the best software to try and dig it out from my hard-drive please.
I think I accidentally deleted it when transferring to my iBook. Guess what,

Another one - add a song to party shuffle when the current trak has
about 10 seconds left, and the added song doesn't get played, but
appears in the recently played section instead.
How about you?

Who said they had spare iBook feet? I just need the grey rubber bit,
might you have one spare?
kt.

My 2 main printed news outlets are  the Guardian and The Sun online.
Recently the Sun has turned there site into an unusable mess by
embedding video content in WMV (I think) into the pages. Quicktime
standalone tends to chug at the best of times with WMV playing, but in a

So I was pottering about in the West Quay shopping centre this evening,
went past Dixons and then something caught my eye. One of the vacant
shops has been nabbed by Apple, nice big Apple logo on an all black
background. I know we talked about this back in May but I think it's now

What do you prefer?

All,
A friend has asked for help. He's just ordered a new iMac, returning to
Macs after a ten-year absence. He knows nothing of OS X - and his
partner knows nothing about Macs at all......