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

I've just installed RC1 of Vista on a 2GHz Macbook with 1Gb RAM via
Bootcamp.
As reported elsewhere, this works exactly as on a MacBook Pro i.e. the
Right Button doesn't work etc but the O/S installs perfectly and I get a

Vista to be bundled???
Mike

All this talk of alternative mail identities reminded me that one of
mine did not have a signature, and I would like it to, so I opened the
Mail preferences and added a signature - by defualt Mail inserted the
identity name and email address, just what I wanted.

I wish to apologise - I have been away for a few days.
How rude of me.
I just want to give an update
- I still hate faggots

APPLE store regent street wants £210 for 1gb stick of RAm for MbPro
have they gone cuckoo bannanas? Crucial selling it for £90

All the new shinies are up now.
       -z-

For the past 4-5 months there's beeen a quiet but noticeable beeping
from within my Dual 2GHz G5. (10.4.7)
I first attributed this to my graphics card (OEM Radeon 9800 Pro) as
when I activated dashboard or moved windows around (thus increasing GPU

Sorry if this has been discussed.
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iTunes 6 (shortly to be obsolete) supports creating source folders
containing other folders/playlists/tracks. My ancient (already
obsolete) iPod flattens all this out.
Do newer iPods support nested playlists etc?

Try going to the iTMS now. All you get is a black window with:
             It's Showtime
         The iTune Store is being
                 updated.

If I've worked it out correctly, "showtime" is 6pm over here, right?
I presume someone will be watching ready to break the news here.
Anywhere promising coverage?
I still think it's iTunes Movies.

I was wondering: how many people here use only a Mac, and not a Windows
PC? Or, how many Mac users also have a Windows PC at home that they
choose to use?
Pretty much the first time I used Windows was in September last year

Heh.
Found on a forum discussing an apparent 'leak' of 50 & 80 GB iPods on an
Apple site. Someone created this to show how easy it is to fake info on an
Apple page:

I need to play a .dss file .I have searched for a codec as well as
plug-ins so that players other than the Olympus player should be able
to play it.I tried making use of JMF(Java Media Framework) but it does
not provide support for .dss file format.If I need to play a .dss file

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