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

I'm not really sure whether Wombats are any good.
The picture on Wikipedia looks like a horrid little Pig.
Quite Obscene.
Just not English.

Can someone tell me whether Wombats live only in Australia,
or also on other continents?
Apart from zoos, of course.
93

Just spotted this on BBC site - it is a bit of a concern
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6187302.stm
I wonder how long it will take apple to fix this.
David

I have never had an iPod, but my daughter has an iRiver and is thinking
of getting an iPod.
I have never taken much notice, but i *think* I heard that there is a
problem about the iPod playing music which is not from iTunes, or

Maybe. See:
<http://playlistmag.com/news/2006/11/27/beatles/index.php>
There are few Beatles' tracks I want but haven't got round to getting
on CD. Strawberry Fields, for example.

I have a G4 MDD dual 1GHz machine.  One of the USB ports (the one I use
for keyboard&mouse) stopped working.  No idea why - it was okay last
night and not functioning this morning.  The keyboard&mouse work okay
in the second USB port but I need two ports, the other one for my Canon

Anyone got advice on up to date Cocoa text books? Up-to-date meaning
it at least covers bindings.
Got O'Reilly's "Learning Cocoa with Objective-C" which is alright, but
a bit out of date. The Hillegass book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"

I'm seeing odd net behaviour over last few days, any link from an open
page takes two tries to work, the first gets me the "Server not
found.... Try Again" message.
The initial connection can take several  browser tries (FF or Safari).

I'm trying, over the 'phone, to help someone set up their BB connection
with a SpeedTouch USB modem, on a G$ iMac 10.4.3.
From here, it seems they've followed the instructions from Virgin
correctly, but no connection.

I've just received amongst others a RSS message entitled "Rugby: NZ
thrash Wales". I'm using Vienna as my RSS reader.
I've just read the the full feed and there's no mention of the words
"thrash" anywhere in the article.

Every so often my side bar is automatically populated with blue folders
(deleted items and one called sent items) I delete them each time but
why on earth do they automatically appear every so often ?
David

Synopsis: Trash.
Details:
<http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/147048,CST-FIN-
Andy23.article>

Hi, I bought a Macbook black two weeks ago and have to reinstall OSX
came with Macbook. Two discs runs ok to reinstall. I downloaded OSX
10.4.7 update. But, after the reinstallation, superdrive didn´t work
anymore. I put CD or DVD and superdrive try to run 3 times (about 1

I've got a Mac Mini which has a USB hard drive connected to it and the
Mini is connected to a Netgear wireless router by ethernet.  I've also
got a Macbook which is networked with the Mini wirelessly.
I can access the Mini from the Macbook for sharing files etc but I can

Dabbling into the black art of creating a web site, after several
frustrating hours managed stage I to get something up...
If we connect using Safari we see the picture, connect using Firefox no
picture, its the same for for Firefox on No 1 sons PC...