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

Am I in the right group for iPod questions?
I just got the new shuffle, but the shuffle plays some songs three or
four times and hasnt played about 30% of songs at all. Is this just the
machine reacting badly to my choice of music, or is there a setting

I have a G3 Lombard Powerbook running MacOS 9.1. It's been fine for
three years. Recently begun to give problems....
Sometimes on start up I get a screen that says
"MacOS : Boot Failure! [followed by a Hex number]

Moving over to a new machine my Open With menu contains multiple
entries e.g. three Microsoft Word entries etc.
Is there any way to force this list to refresh? I've checked that there
are no multiple copies of the programs, for instance in the trash.

need to get something (v large files) off the Win XP laptop. That one
and the iBook are both connected to a router through DHCP. Win XP's
current IP address is 192.168.1.65. Is there any way I can access it?
Ta

Bizarre behaviour from my Linksys router. I have a couple of machines on
my local network, one is my main computer and the other is my web server.
The router is set to forward ports 80 and 443 to the machine with the
web server on it. It has worked fine for a year or so but ...

Dear All ­
I deleted the Classic System Folder from a client's machine. Now when it
starts up it complains about not being able to find a Classic folder - so I
guess that the system is still expecting to "Start Classic at System

First impressions of Avid Express Pro 4.8.1 - OMFG, was this really
released last year?
From the OS9 style warning dialogues, to its interface which makes
Audacity look slick, to the performance on a MDD 1.4 dual G4 which is

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where you can search for any thing you want

Is it possible to download a 10.4.6 Tiger update from Apple? I can only
find the current 10.4.8 update.
I'm presuming it's possible to run an older OSX on a MDD G4, either on
one of its internal drives or on a FW external - correct?

I'm getting a lot of grief off a chap who is not recieving email
attachments from me. I'm using Mail, under latest Tiger/ppc.
He's using Outlook, and says that my attachments always get replaced
with an ATTnnnnn.htm attachment that doesn't do anything of any use.

I am considering upgrading the RAM in my G4 PowerMac/733 from the 256MB
modules to 512MB ones.
Yeah.. I know I should go Crucial ! but..
Looking on eBay there are lots of 168 pin, PC133 sticks on there, some

My pics of the ucsm and dinner are here:
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tml>
Any wrong names, compromising photos, E&OE, etc.

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I expect someone has posted this already. Never mind.  I liked it,
anyway.

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It seems as if the floppy drive in my PC has decided to pop its
clogs, because suddenly (well, maybe not-so-suddenly, as I have
not tried this operation in some months) it won't accept format
instructions from OS/2: it's "not there" or "not available", or