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The company I work for use MS Outlook for internal email (no surprise
there) and staff can access their mail accounts from outside the
business via the web
www.mail.xxxxnetwork.co.uk

Apple Says It Has Cure for the Shutdown Blues
By Scott Ferguson
October 27, 2006
Apple Computer is offering a firmware update that the company claims will help

Googled the group but cant find a clear answer to this one.
I am thinking about replacing the old G4 tower with a core duo Mini.  I
have M$ Office X running fine on the G4 (Tiger) and just wondered
whether it will run at all on an Intel Mini.  If so are there any

That's it, really: got a 600MHz G3 iBook with MacOS X 10.3.9 installed
on it.
It won't start up.  It'll go `bong', and the battery shows life, but
there's not a flicker from the `power' light, and nothing on the screen.

Versiontracker has just told me this is available:
What's New in This Version:
Stability and security fixes in the Xcode IDE, cctools, debugger, and compiler
CHUD has been updated to version 4.4.3. CHUD also releases independent

I was about to order a replacement HD for a friend's rev 1 B+W, when I
came across all the stuff (at xlr8yourmac.com, mostly) about data
corruption problems.
I thought at first the problem was restricted to slave drives, but if

Dear All ­
eBuyer were selling copies of Adobe Photoshop Elements v4 for Macintosh a
week or so ago for about £20. I bought a couple of copies and have returned
them as there are no registration numbers, and eBuyer doesn't provide them.

Four animated screen savers, for your delectation.
Bob W

I'm trying to run this so that I have Parallels running full-screen on
one desktop and everything else on the other.
I have two desktops - Main and Parallels.
My problem is this: if I go to the Parallels desktop and launch

My free internet has gone.
I'm a bit gutted
Remember the fudge packers will never win
After all, they are batty

So, my eMac that I have loaned to my mates PC shop / iCafe last week
is being duly turned on every morning and turned off at night, so far,
unused (he did mention he had been asked if they had a Mac in the past
but not since having one. Isn't that always the way).

I mean the soft RAID build into 10.3, not a proprietary solution.
So the point of RAID0 is that you have redundancy.  If one drive
dies,the other has all the data on.
But how does it work in practice?

So, in an effort to make the Mini more useable I bought a Canon
ip5200r (as recommended by at least one user on this very group) and
have just finished setting it up (hopefully selling the ip4000 to a
relative to offset the cost a bit). And it seems to be everything the

Continuing my OS X Server investigation, and having found RAID 5
software to be non-existant for Mac OS, Is there a means of
automatically mirroring one set of disks to another?
Eg, I have twelve equal-sized disks and want two sets of six, one set to

I learn with disgust that the pipex ROT has set in at nildram.
I think we're off to zen. Anybody got any
other recommendations please. Need a fast one.
Regards,