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

Is it possible to set the fan speeds of a Mac G5 dual 1.8 to run at
maximum speed, all the time?
Fan noise is not in the slightest bit of an issue for me, but
overheating absolutely is.

I use my iPod for audiobooks. Every time I pause a book, if the ipod
turns off, when it restarts, it seems to rewind to a point earlier in
the track than where I left off. Depending on the length of the track
it can be anywhere from a few seconds to ten minutes!

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

Details at:
<http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssb.html>
I'm going to tell him to take it back.
Ian

Okay, it's along way away but it's time to dust down the charabanc and
test the brakes for the outing to the Olympia MacExpo funfair.
Usually we meet up on the Friday, in this case October 27th. Is this
still the favourite day?

Righto, now I've got my disk box up and running, I want to create some
raid.
What I want is redundancy and the ability to swap more of the 9 gig
drives for 36's, as it's for storage rather than disk-intensive

So, I found a scsi card on ebay, and a Sun 711 12-disk box. I got given
a free G4/400 (sans hdd, oh dear :-) and now I've assembled them all.
The SCSI Card is seen in Apple System Profiler's PCI Cards section, but
not in the Parallel SCSI section. Does anyone know if/where I can get ...

I talked my father through sending a fax last night on 10.3, he's always
amazed when things are simple. I said, okay, you have your document, do
File/Print and he said... Oh there's a fax button. Button pressed, number
entered, fax sent.

My company has recently enabled Outlook Web Access on our corporate Exchange
server and, of course, one of the side effects of this is I can now
auto-sync my OSX Address Book from home.  As expected this 'Just Worked' :-)
I'm now looking at how to sync iCal to the Exchange server.  ...

I've got a couple of MP3 files that I want to stream from my web site.
Only problem is that I don't really know where to start.
Any advice or suggestions?
Thanks,

Anyone ever tried out an app called EastTask? The demo is rather
limited (but the full version only costs a tenner) and it looks like a
good To Do list manager. Just interested in your views.
Ta

I'm a bit concerned about my Parallels machine. Just ran it for the
first time in two or three weeks, and it's saying that there are no
available updates for Windows.
I -know- that there are, because of this DRM update patch somewhere

last week i bought a brand new 1.83 Intel + SuperDrive Mac Mini..  at
the moment im good on memory, but i know in the future i'll have to
throw more RAM in it..
my only question, do these Macs take standard DDR2-667 (those standard

arrggjhh!
I missed a programme last night I meant to watch. It was
"Fundamentalism" (about the problem of extremist religionists.
Any suggetsions for a UK - friendly bittorrent site that has UK telly

Sunday Times recommends laptops. They give a reasonable review to the 13"
Macbook, but have negative things to say about battery life and the shiny
screen.
For their best buy they pick a Samsung.