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

Anyone played with last.fm?
Is it worth bothering with? Is the software stable, and are the
recommendations useful?
    -zoara-

My contract has run out and I'll be leaving at the end of the year - so I'm
starting to sell everything off
see http://www.markuswinter.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ForSale/index.html
for details

Does iMovie play nicely with external drives?
I want to edit a fair bit of video and don't have enough space on my
internal drive for more than an hour or so of DV - but I do have large
external USB2.0 drive with *loads* of space, formatted as HFS.

This week's BBC News 24's Click technology show made mention on Windows
vs OS X security, sparked by a rather overly evangelistic "Macophile's"
letter.
Their conclusion: The usual one.  Mac OS X is probably no more secure

Is now available...
Mike

Here's a very useful site that contains detailed information on how to
use the killfile facilities of most Mac newsclients.
http://urlcutter.com/killfileFAQ
Newreaders include:

My lovely new 24" iMac deserves a lovely new external backup drive to
make clones. I have already got a FireWire LaCie d2, but it sounds like
a cement mixer, or a 747 taking off, so I just plug it in when I make a
backup, rather than leaving it on all the time to make automatic

A naive question, I'm sure, but ...
...how do you set up a new Mac with wireless kbd and mouse? Do you just
turn them on, and the Mac recognises them immediately when it boots the
very first time?

Dustin Diamond's agent have copyrighted a sex video with him in!
Calm down gays, it'll the in the shops soon.
You can see his naked body and have an orgasm
(you fags make me SICK)

From: snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe)
Reply-To: snipe@notforspam.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe)
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:34:48 +0100
Message-ID: <1hmlql2.m2k4ccfggqb0N%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>

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the trolls... SQUAWK! Don't feed the trolls... SQUAWK!
Don't feed the trolls... SQUAWK! Don't feed the trolls... SQUAWK! Don't

I've just bought a Netgear Wireless ADSL router DG834G.
Although connections to the internet work fine and I can connect to the
iMac as a file server, nothing appears to be working over Bonjour. In
particular, I am unable to print remotely or to connect to remote

I have a power pc g5 at home and a macbook pro for work. I have set them
both to sync with .mac and all is fine... well except for mail. I have
my dot mac account and 1 pop3 account on my home pc. When I set up the
macbook today it added my dotmac and really old pop3 I deleted ...

This game is called "stitch up the rumour sites".
The macalope has pointed out the new "Secret Notes" section of Think
Secret:
http://www.macalope.com/?p=34

   A friend has a Mac and sends me messages in RTF but instead of
receiving coloured fonts etc., I get stuff like the following:
Haven't made</color><color><param>0000,0000,807F</param> anything
</color><color><param>0000,0000,FFFE</param>larger. Just different