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

The chaps at anandtech have put a cloverton chip in and it works!
It appears that OS X is built from the ground up to be a multiprocessor
OS.
But think - do you REALLY need all that extra power?

Nigerian Physicist Invents Virtual Reality Video Game "Played via
thought".
100+ Years more advanced than any video game system on the market.
http://ueberalles.50webs.com/whatisueberalles.html

Lots of hardware troubles with my iMac G5. SoundSticks started crackling
horribly about a month ago (though internal speaker is fine and SoundSticks
fine on any other Mac), DVD drive has decided to stop writing (though it
reads okay) and now crackly white lines appear across the ...

Using "Temperature Monitor" from Marcel Bresink, I have a frequently
updated readout of my Intel Core 2 1.66 GHz processor temperatures.
Now using a program to convert a 2G mpg file to a DVD I'm recording
temperatures as high as 79 deg. C. -- writing this note it is down to 53

I've helped a friend set up some stuff. One odd thing I noticed that in
Mail, when he connects, all the messages he sent using gmail in a web
browser end up in his Inbox.
Is there some gmail setting which will send them to his Sent mail

Dunno if you consumer rights types will know the answer to this...
I got called to take a look at a LaCie big disk that suddenly went tits
up. After a quick diagnosis it appear the PCB in the drive that
distributes power from the PSU to the drives and the bridge board has

<http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/05/apple_mac_pro_fastest_pc/>
Paul

I have a Fujitsu HD (20GB) last used in  a Lombard, which I intended to
put in an external case, but on using, via FW, it just clicks like a
broken record.
Are these thinsg  diy repairable?

Anyone using "speed download" i am on the trial and am certainly going
to buy it unless there are any better alternatives ? I had 3 attempts to
download the cabinet of dr caligari (1.3gigs) this had it down in an hour :)
David

... says the London Metro. You will be able to connect your iPod to your car
stereo using the iTrip which broadcasts the music to a chosen frequency on
your radio.  I found this report puzzling because various stores such as
Currys have been selling the Belkin version for some ...

Error:
iTunes for Windows: -3221 error displays when accessing iTunes Store
Solution:
Some iTunes for Windows users with the McAfee Personal Firewall Plus

I stupidly set my iPod to automatically update forgetting I had some videos
(both music and other) I'd not backed up. I've tried PodSalvage, but that
only seems to recognise music formats. Does anyone know what format they're
in and, more pertinently, of anything that might be ...

Dear All ­
Can a FW-enabled digital video camera be used to provide the input to iChat?
I couldn't get it to work at a client's earlier this week. The video and
sound was received by iMovie, but I couldn't get iChat to acquuire the image

Audacity seems to crap out a lot on the MBP, and once it does - it
doesn't restart!
So... Any other good (or even moderately good) freeware audio editing
apps? I can't fathom out how to use garageband to record something for

I run a leafnode server on my Mini, and when I set it up it ran very slow
after just a few weeks.  I was told this was due to the filesystem, and
following advice in a group (possibly here) I created a 1GB disk image mounted
as /sw/var/spool/news/.