Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / February 2007

We were clearing out the loft at work, and found an Apple IIc in the
corner. It has a crack in the corner. It also has a monitor, disk
drive and the original boxes. Also a box for an Imagewriter, but I
can't see the Imagewriter. Is this worth anything or rare? I have

I read with interest the following thread entitled "Ping external
addresses but can't brose":
Message-ID: <1170197703.131496.155190@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>
In that case, the eventual solution was to decrease the MTU setting.

I think I've tried to fis this before but can't recall if I got to the
answer.
I'm sending a Word doc from the Mac (Word 2004) to someone with Word on
a PC (I think they have a recent version) but a graphic (their logo in

I'm trying to print to my Epson Photo R800, but all I can get to print
are test pages.
Epson Print Utility sees the printer, and will clean the heads &
report on the ink levels etc, so the connection to the printer seems

Every time I open a new Terminal window it starts running Lynx
(lynx.command, from my Applications folder).
Annoying; how do I stop it?
Daniele

A friend, at present using my old beige G3/266, is minded to get a Mac
Mini; it would fit nicely on her desk, where space is tight, and perform
hugely better. She just does word processing, email and some web
browsing. She needs to be able to handle uncomplicated Word files, for

I really should know this, but don't.  For all those podcasts that
iTunes don't stock, what's the best app for collecting them?
Juice?  I couldn't work out if NetNewsWire does or not.  Or am I being
dumb - can you collect them in iTunes?

I did some videos on Windows, and compressed them to MPEG2 using
Mainconcept's encoder. Unfortunately, they don't play on the Mac at
all.
If I try to recompress the originals on the Mac using FfmpegX, it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6288119.stm
check out the comments!

I think you are all heterophobic for not being friendly
Just because my dream is to eradicate all dirty f.cking faggots (or
cure them of their illness atleast) I am called names like 'troll'
Well - STICKS AND STONES WILL BREAK MY BONES BUT GAYS WILL NEVER HURT

It's tiny
So I went there today
Granted, it I knew it wouldn't be quite as big as the Regent Street
store, I was disappointed with the tiny shoe box store they have in

I cannot figure out exactly what's going on with these folder. I have 3 POP3
accounts, each of them is removing messages from the server as soon as they
are downloaded.
Under Sent & Draft Messages I can see there's 3 sub folders. This makes

Tony
Nottingham
England
4 February 2007

due to the recent launch of Vista this newsgroup is being inundated with
posts slagging Bill Gates, Vista, and Microsoft. We hope you will be
patient while we recify the situation. Appleista envy should subside
with time.