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

Anyone got an Xserve they can login to?
What fan speeds have you got? I've got an incredibly noisy one, all fans
bar PCI are on 12,000rpm. I can't get the bloody thing to shut up.
Nothing showing up in top that's eating cycles...

This is interesting:
http://tsatb.com/?p=122
I'm going to give this a try when I get home.
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MacOS 10.3.9, and I sometimes find that an application's icon will be
replaced with some random icon.
Rebooting clears the problem - but is there a more elegant fix?
Cheers,

I don't get why Imacs are so good value compared to the rest of Apples Line.
For the price of the standard config Mac Pro + 23" ACD you are £200 short of
being able to buy 2 x brand new 24" Imacs, or 2 x 20" Imacs and 1x 1.8Ghz
Mac Mini.

My job requires that I relocate every 3 years or so. That is of the
same order of magnitude of the lifespan of a computer, so every few
moves, it means I have a computer that is past its prime to decide what
to do with.

So, I'm severly attracted to the new 24 inch iMacs - screen size and
small footprint do it for me. Trouble is I have a fairly high spec
Quicksilver and don't like the idea of getting something that might be
less powerful. How can I compare these Apples and Oranges?

The children's favourite DVDs are starting to skip and stutter a bit,
purely due to sticky fingers etc.
I can copy them across to blank media via MacTheRipper and something
like DVD2OneX (or Popcorn, I suppose), but that's just postponing the

I've got an idisk icon on my desktop which won't disappear.  I've tried
moving it to trash and restarting but it won't go.
Am I missing something?
TiBk  OS 10.4.7

I'd like some ideas of how I can transfer settings and content (safari,
mail, address book, iTunes, appleworks,), and software, from a Mac mini
to an Intel Mac mini.
From anyone who has done this your general or specific approach would

Is there a simple way (this side of Perl?) to add an anchor for the
first instance of each letter on a web page?
The items are in the form:
<h3>Apple</h3>

iPhoto 6 imported all the little movie snippets we took on holiday from
our camera (Fuji F30) and lets me play them (via Quicktime Player). All
fine and dandy. It Just Works.
However, I shot one clip in portrait mode so it appears rotated. If I

First time in years that I haven't found a single message in ucsm in the
morning. Other groups seem okay. Hmmm.

The Samsung mp3 player that I had (and rather liked as it was of the same
form factor as a memory stick thing) would get recognised in system
profiler, but not mount if plugged in 'live'. If you rebooted, it would show
up, but after ejecting the drive it wouldn't see it if you ...

My 20GB iPod started playing up recently. After syncing with iTunes it
appeared to have no music on it at all, even though I'd had around 11GB
on it prior to the sync.
Resetting didn't help, nor did the software updater which I had to apply

I have a series of ~600 time-lapse images in jpeg format that I would
like to convert to a quicktime movie. Could anyone suggest an
inexpensive utility to do this on 10.4?
tia, Arthur