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

I am in a dilemma here. I have money burning a hole in my pocket -
£1500 (plus what I would get for my i-book (G4 14.1" )
The hole in my pocket wants to be filled with a MacBook or MacBook
Pro, but which one?  Or should I hang on a while longer for the

I like to type letters and stuff.. I have dyslexia/dyspraxia.. problems
with messy handwriting...
Are there any fonts... free or otherwise that look like genuine hand
writing?

I've been trying out a 24 hour trial of this, as I am needing to plan
out a big thing, which will be one long linear thing with lots of bits
attached to it.
It seems good for what it does, but for me, is it 40 quid's worth of

Still working up to a MB but wonderd about partitioning - if it was an
XP box, I'd partition the internal drive into 2 parts: one for Windows,
and the other for data, redirecting "My Documents" to the 2nd partition.
 This allows a reinstall of Windows easily without wiping data.

My G4 iLamp died. Hard drive and logic board both toast. Thank God i was
running Apple backup and my wife also had her home directory copied onto
the mac Mini in the music room. We have restored everything to a new
machine in under 3 hours. The Apple back-up stunt was truly ...

When I start a VM under Parallels on a Mac Pro it tells me that Intel
VT-x extensions are supported on the CPU's but disabled (locked by
Firmware).
Bugger. Hopefully this'll be enabled by a software update or in 10.5 so

I've just upgraded to OS 10.3.9
Disk utility includes a feature I haven't come across before -
Journaling - which can be activated or not.
What is it? Should I have activated?

It's an old report ‹ 25 January 2006 ‹ but I've just seen it so maybe
others also had not been aware of it.
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Ancient_flaws_leave_OS_X_vuln
erable_/0,130061744,139234678,00.htm>

Rang up Apple on Friday to find out where my replacement MacBook Pro
is. First phone call took more than twenty-five minutes, and at the end
of it the aftersales support guy still couldn't find any information at
all about having requested a replacement or where it might be. They ...

I download a few gigabytes of work onto disk (opensource software etc.)
from work (with their permission)
Everytime I come home.. I have to remember to create new folder.. then
move the files from the USB2 drive to my mac... then delete the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUl9Mxbh1E&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcrazybrave%2Enet%2F
About 1'20", I think.

Don't know if you all know the Isle of Thanet?
Margate is the Capitol City... anyway....
a brand new Curry's just opened its doors, so I
thought I'd have a peep...

Just got my account up and running
Having got it going, now I want to tweak the keywords - but I can't work
out how to do this.  doubtless it is staring me straight in the face,
but I would be grateuful for a pointer!

Are there any applications or utilities that will perform a search and
replace operation, matching an array of strings to be found and
replaing them. Basically I want to search across a number of files such
that...

I know quite a bit about all flavours of Windows and TCP/IP networking, but
my knowledge of Macs has been limited to connecting them up to Windows or
Solaris servers and sorting out the file sharing.
I've been asked to look at a Mac problem.