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

I have moved over to firefox 2 but I can not seem to find where it
stores it's cache ? on my pc was able to view a swf file and go to my
internet files and move it do documents, but I can not for the life of
me find how firefox on OS X does it ?

I have been advised by my Panasonic retailer that there is and always
have been compatability issues
when using their equipment with MAC's. My problem is simple, I would
like to purchase a MAC but to avoid possibly  being disappointed in not

Following the replies to my earlier posting, I've been trying to get
going with MySQL and run into some very elementary problems - maybe
someone can help ?
I installed the server and started it as follows:

sara has connected up a slingbox see <www.rogermerriman.com> under mac
stuff for screen shot etc. (when it's been uploaded heh)
it allows remote control and viewing of cablebox, tv etc, i'm really
impressed it's not perfect but its really very good. and as bandwight

Okay, so this has been out for a while but I've only just watched it. I'm
wondering whether anyone can understand the interface the first time
through? I (genuinely) had to watch it again before I understood.
http://www.engadget ...

Is everyone on holiday, or just not feel chatty today? It seems weirdly
empty in here.

Odd one here. There's a trial project here at work about building a
bootable Linux image on a USB drive, which then launches VMWare and you
end up with a work-approved environment running on your own hardware.
There's hitch with getting it working on MacBook Pros at the moment ...

Wordpress generates backups of its database and e-mails me a copy of
the db behind my blog each day for backup. I'd like to be able to see
what the db looks like, and maybe perform simple operations like
exporting some fields.

My neighbour has traded his PC for a Snow G3/600 iMac...
It only has 128 MG of Ram so more is needed and there is a brand new
Apple Module available for 20.00 (compared to 57.00 from Crucial) need
to know if its compatable the info is

Apple's publishing a series of developer-oriented articles on Leopard,
starting at
<http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/index.html>
There are some nice screenshots of the new IB and Xray (a

Anybody ever had a problem with their Sky Broadband installation?  I
decided to pay for an engineer installation  but he couldn't manage it
when he came today . This is despite talking with an Apple Mac
specialist in their Technical Dept and spending 2 hours on the phone

Finally up at <http://www.jonbradbury.com/ucsm/> and follow the obvious
link.

Or so it seems on the 1.66GHz / 512M Mini Duo, 10.4.8?
Everything just seems so much more 'snappy' than under OSX in spite of
*having* to run AV / Firewall etc etc?
It this right, expected etc?

Dear All ­
Is Bella posting? Under what name? Have I inadvertently kill-filed her?
I keep finding follow-ups to Bella-posts, but don't see the originals.
TIA

Swiped from Digg. Warning: make sure you're vaguely decent before
trying it out, I don't know what they're doing with the video...
http://www.josephcrawford.com/2006/11/11/scary-isight-trick/
Cheers,