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

Just looking for a bit of free space to keep some documents, less than
1GB.
Anybody got any recommendations?
thanks

I see the Canon printers don't come with a USB cable included, but I
have plenty of USB 1.1 A-B cables. Obviously the A side is compatible,
but is the B end of a USB 1.1 the same as a USB 2.0?

Hi, how are you?
I use Wordpress for one of my sites, and yesterday added a galery made
with Galerie using a modified Wordpress page as a template for Galerie,
and it has all worked fine apart from an oddly large space between two

Hi All, (and especially those who are using Wacom Intous3 'wide'
models on std 4x3 displays)?
I just wanted to make sure that you *can* 'logically' map a wide
tablet to a 4x3 display?

Here's an oddity - keep getting "connection refused" message when trying
to access my Pipex dsl web space.
Intel iMac, OS10.4.
Tried turning firewall off. No joy. Checked that passive mode was

Found on a post from Slashdot:
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Cheers,
Ian

I have a problem with the speed of web browsing.  I have one of the new
Intel iMacs - 2GHz Intel Core Duo and I have an ADSL wireless network
at home, running at about 7-8Mbps.  Max OS 10.4.8 installed, with all
the latest software updates, etc.  1Gb Ram.  250Gb hard drive.

I have been using the server-side spam filtering available from
http://www.spamache.com for a while and it has been very successful but
this seems to have died in the last few weeks. Does anyone else use
this service and know if there problem? So far all my attempts to

After playing around with Unison for quite a while now I was surprised at the
lack of keyboard shortcuts to send messages in Hogwasher. A message window
has two buttons to send messages, queue and send - as far as I can tell,
neither of these have a corresponding option in the ...

My macbook (approx 2 months old) has a problem with faint lines on the
screen. I bought it from the Apple Store in Regent Street while I was in
London but don't actually live near an Apple Store. Can anyone advise of the
proceedure of getting it repaired?

Topical customised SE/30.
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My brand new 24" iMac is behaving badly. It has had 2 KPs since I got
it - both under the same circumstances - it tries to sleep, the fans
come on full blast, and it KPs. The log is not that illuminating -
something about "unhandled kernel trap exception". In comparison, my

After getting Aperture, I found I was again using VM at an alarming rate
(like 6 swap files at peak usage), and an amazing Page Out count, even
before running Elements, and with 2.5GB of RAM too.
I've just bunged another 2GB in, and it is now back to using no swap

Trying find out if there is any difference between the
Seagate 250Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache ATA100 ST-3250820A
and the
Seagate 250Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache ATA100 ST-3250824A

I am using iCal 2.0.3 (OS 10.4.7) and I have a SE k750 phone (previously
k700 and t68i)
I have never seemed to be able to get the changeover from/to BST right on
any of these phones - all events generated on my phone jump one hour forward