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

there is a persistent rumor that a lot of rich brits want to buy out kabul's
prime real estate on the cheap.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6321139.stm

I was going to upgrade from a 1,5 GHz 15" PBoko to a 15" MBokoPro this
Easter. Now I'm swithering, is this worth waiting for?
<http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2426>
Bob W

This is worth a look, sounds like its far more secure than OSX, well it
must be, Bill said so !

Phil

For all the Beeb's insistance on a robust DRM mechanism, the ease with
which broadcast programmes can be recorded, edited and re-coded with
EyeTV somewhat undermines them.
Stuart

If your mac runs with Intel's Core 2 Duo processor then you have a
wireless 802.11n chip setting built into mac hardware. According to
Apple this 802.11n technology can give five times the performance and
twice the reach of wireless 802.11g.

This looks interesting, for anyone who likes minimal keyboard and/or
mouse use, or anyone who has a disability which prevents them from
normal use of a computer. Have a look at the Quicktime demo, very clever.

I changed my networking settings so that I could "squat" on my
neighbour's wifi while my adsl line was down. Now my line is up again,
and I've relinked to my wifi network. Now my MacBook OS X 10.4.8 can't
surf properly! My Mac is extremely selective about what sites I can

Store is down

A dead gay

Earlier this afternoon I saw a page from the BBC news site
quoting Bill Gates as saying that Windows Vista is "dramatically
more secure than any other operating system".
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6313981.stm>

A New Zealand man has gone on trial on remote Norfolk Island, charged with
the first murder there in 150 years.
Glenn McNeill, a former chef, pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering
29-year-old Australian restaurant manager Janelle Patton.

Just discovered the password assistant when changing the password for an
account. Nice. How long's that been there then?
       -z-

I've been fancying a shiny new iMac for a while now and looking on
Apple's site, I'm a bit confused re the memory situation.
The standard configuration is 1Gb comprising of 2 512Mb modules -
correct?

I know that Bella's probably the only other user of Olympus' dss player,
but if there is anyone out there who is using it, are you running it on
an intel Mac? If so, how does it run?
I find it crashes really, really reguarly.  It quit 33 times this

How do you go about syncing data between multiple macs? ie, if you have a
desktop and laptop how do you manage email in mail.app, bookmarks, files
etc?
Do you add the same email accounts on each mac? stuff like that?