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

Ordered this from Amazon a few days ago and received it yesterday.
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Premium-External-Firewire/
dp/B000F6SGB4/ref=pd_sbs_ce_3/202-9927098-7719855>
First things first: Price including VAT and carriage was 85.88 which puts it

Regarding Vista, "I caught up with Bill (Gates)... and asked him, don't
we already have all this on the Mac?"
This is how he spun it:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0_uN42P44>

Yet again Apple's Genuis online reservation system said there were no
available spots today, despite me trying to reserve a spot at 0:05am
(-at- that time, not -for-...).
That's the third week running, so into Brent Cross I went. Got the

I wish they hadn't called it 'Mail'. Anyway...
My friend's switch to an IntelMini/10.4.8 from a beige G3/OS8.1 is now
pretty well complete and she is rilly, rilly happy. I now just have to
work out her backup routine. Text files are easy- I know there they are

What is wrong with these people?
The tagline should be:
Vista
- The operating system for gays

'Bill Gates repeatedly said in TV interviews that Windows Vista was
"the first operating system" to include parental controls.
That was news to the millions of users of Mac OS X "Tiger," who have
been using that OS's parental controls feature since April 2005, and

They were talking about this on the radio, but wound't name her for
'legal reasons'
Who is it?
Who's the whore?

My lad is complaining that the games (nothing too heavy though) he is
playing on my G4/733 Dig Audio in 10.4.8, are running slowly for his liking.
Just wonder whether upgrading the graphics card will help or whether I
would be better replacing the whole caboodle with a mini from ...

For the safety of all humans should all gays be kept in cages?
You'd never need to feed them because they recycle.
They are filthy people. maybe this is the best way to deal with them.

I'm using NVU, an open source html editor. If I right click on foo.html
and try to 'Open with', NVU isn't there. If I go to 'Other', it isn't
even under 'Recommended applications'.
How does this work? Can I change things so that NVU is offered as an

I'm starting to rip my DVD's to have them available on disk on the Mac
mini in my living room. I ripped The Incredibles using HandBrake to a
H.264 MPEG with AAC audio. It seemed to me that there was a small lip
sync issue on Playback. This was ripped on a Mac Pro and playback was ...

I've been mucking about with video compression, and am a bit confused.
If I compress a test file using Compressor, it plays back with lots of
unsightly 'combing' when there's fast sideways movement in the clip.
If I import the file into Final Cut Pro, and export using QuickTime

<http://share.skype.com/sites/mac/2007/01/mac_25_gold_with_sms.html>
" If you haven¹t yet downloaded the newest version of Skype for Mac, take a
deep breath and then download it now. Since Beta we¹ve fixed many bugs and
made it easier to use. You can now send SMS¹ straight from the ...

The one consolation for uk.comp.sys.mac's Scottish contingent today is
that their rugby went down to plans carefully made and tracked on what
looked to be an MacBook Pro 15". The camera kept panning to the England
coaching staff, and there was the laptop prominently displayed ...

"Bill Gates has openly criticized Apple's 'Get a Mac' ads, called the
company a liar, and questioned the security of Apple's Mac OS X
operating system"
"We made it way harder for guys to do exploits,"