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

Haven't seen it mentioned, it is here:
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbooksmcfirmwareupdate11.html>
It is supposed to cure some of the cases of sudden shutdown (attention,
Jon B?). Well, it says here:

According to this:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/26/greepeace_ejected_from_mac_expo
/>

After playing a demo of Monkey Island my dock has turned a sort of
bluish/ grey colour.
Monkey Island started in Classic mode and the weird dock colour only
appeared after i quit the game.

I know it's a low-level-unix-type-networky question, but I'm trying to
configure some static routing in OS X 10.4.8, so I reckon it's on-topic! :-)
OK, my set up is a VPN host-to-LAN connection to the office.
There is a gateway router in the office that connects directly via a ...

Just got back from a week of internet-less vacation. Can't be bothered
to read 810 new messages. Has anything much happened this past week
(apart from the MBP beign upgraded to run 37% hotter, which I already
knew about) ? Was there anything other than iPod accessories at the ...

This is probably a dumb question but it's monday morning and I'm
suffering.
I'm going to need to setup some port forwarding type stuff on my router
to a parallels virtual XP client on my mac.  Parallels appears to pick

But the UK store is still down.
-- Richard

I wonder if you can help me out there.
I have a windows XP build that is running on a windows machine, and i
want to run this given image on a mac running parallels
Do you know of any conversion utility that is out there, that could do

thanks to rogue amoeba software for making airfoil available for windows, so
that I can use it to listen to radio programmes in my kitchen using my pc
laptop, rather than rushing upstairs to get things going on my mac. Now
cooking dinner can be enhanced by both music via itunes ...

I've just been ordering the Canon iP5200 from Amazon.co.uk, chucked in a
set of spare printer cartridges, some photo paper and a 3 metre USB
cable. The USB cable is listed for the surprisingly cheap £0.01
The printer comes from Amazon, some of the other bits from various

My router manual has become my bedtime reading. Heavy going.
It says "it is advisable to clone the MAC address from a computer on your LAN
even if your ISP does not presently require MAC address authentication." I
don't get this. Why is it 'advisable'?

I'm looking at the refurb store - and am confused by a couple of
acronyms.
AE - I expect this stands for Airport Express
AP - not sure what this is - but it never appears when AE is present.

I'm trying to archive all my old Zip disks by burning the whole lot onto
DVD.
I insert the Zip, copy it onto my hard drive, then try to eject it, but
all I get is that "The disk Zip029 is in use and could not be ejected.

I recently posted that I'd had problems using Mac-produced Powerpoint
presentations on a Windows network - graphics wouldn't display, saying
Quicktime and a Targz (or something) decompressor required. The graphics
were originally generated using Grab. The NG consensus appeared to ...

Looked on usenet today and there were lots of question marks for the age
column.
I forgot that if you don't quit macsoup (ever), it doesn't cope with the
time change very well, even though the mac copes ok.