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

Every ten or so DVD's I burn in a backup set to turns up a ³This disc is
write protected² error, even though it isn't.
Anyone know to overcome this other than just write to a new disc. I've
checked the info panel through finder and this seems to not offer help.

I've booked my ticket.
<http://www.send-data.net/firstscotrail/save50_prebooking.asp?mn=6B1D8DC
7F6E8#> will get you a 50% discount at the checkout, and there are no
issues that I can see with non-MS browsers (it worked fine in Safari).

My copy of Aperture 1.5 arrived today. Nice pack, and a good printed
manual too. Very nice organisational features, although it does all seem
very daunting at first. It's certainly not the nice cosy app that iPhoto
is. However, the flexibity and control you have is amazing.

Right. New (refurb) 17" MBP. It's begun making a very soft 'bonking' sound
(any sexual references will be treated with the contempt they deserve -
Sarah's not got much of a sense of humour at the moment.) from the area
around the middle of the side of the left speaker nearest the ...

http://www.parody-pages.com/gayaway/
I think this link is right up your alley!

Dear All ­
I need to add wireless access to an exisiting router - do we have a preferred
product at present? Quality of wireless coverage more important than
cheapness.

Do you trust him?
I love the way he rides his bike. it's amazing - think of how many
trees he's saving.
Wow, what a guy.

I want to buy a macbook pro in the next week, here's my general
questions at the moment.
any opinions appreciate
1. Should I buy from ebay (brand new but cheaper than apple store) or

My G4 PowerMac (10.3.7) is gaining time. It's configured to use NTP via
time.euro.apple.com, and the syslogs report that ntpd starts with no errors.
ps reports ntpd running as expected, yet it still gains time.
Stoping and restarting ntpd by unchecking and checking the box in system

Anyone know if it is possible to tweak the keyboard volume control so that it
is more sensitive? I would like it to control volume in the range 0-10%
rather than 0-100%.

Got a MacBook? Installed 10.4.8 recently? Noticed that the screen is
looking incredibly blue? Well fear not - the solution is at hand.
Install this ColorSync profile:
http://eruvia.org/MacBook_Original_LCD.icc by copying to

Having just introduced my girlfriend to the concept of the Finder (yep,
that's a couple of years using a Mac and she's never moved or copied
files by herself) I've discovered that the default size for Finder
windows is too large for an 800x600 screen.

Jut been sent a long email, and I decided to give the speech a try and
have it read out to me. I barely touch speech on computers - any
computers, not just Macs - so it's come as a pleasant surprise to find
out it's really rather good. Only thing I'd like is the ability to

Apart from Freeway Pro, is there a native WYSIWYG web design software
for Intel Mac?
TIA
SC

Is this information outdated?:
http://www.zone6400.com/files/dotmac.html
9/2/2001 Accessing iDisk from a PC or any WebDAV browser: Apple
promised that it would allow users to connect to their iDisks without