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

I've just nearly panicked myself - typing commands into a terminal
window was giving me some very odd results, essentially nothing but the
word 'Mistake'. None of the usual commands were woking at all - top, ps,
ls, cd...all just saying 'Mistake'.

Following the First Direct thing, I have installed Firefox, which seems
snappy enough, but not without weirdness.
For example, when I click links that launch new windows, those new
windows have no re-size thing at the bottom right corner. There are

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Some utter loon has written a Mac Plus emulator for the Nintendo DS
pocket console thing. Very, very neat.
http://lazyone.drunkencoders.com/wordpress/index.php
    Cheers - Jaimie

http://groups.google.com/group/adultsheepfinder2/topics?_done=%2Fgroup%2
Fadultsheepfinder2%2Ftopics

Can someone please explain why some URLs start with www and some don't?
And what difference does it make?
Thanks.
Stuart

I bought a student copy of Maple 11 for Intel Macintosh today (using my
Open University student status).
Been playing with it for a while whilst listening to the cricket on TMS
(Go Ireland!!). Maple is a very nice application and platform indeed.

Check this one out:
I had it up and running in 2 mins and it works a treat.
http://www.digmo.co.uk/software/apple-streaming-to-xbox-360/
add eyetv recordings etc and it would be even better.

ok,
I am needing some advice. I have a Windows smartphone with a full
keyboard but I want a simple solution that syncs with isync out of the
box.... but which one ?

Spending a month's worth of off-topic points with this one I think, but
here we go...
The M&S advert for wine, the one with the languorous music in the
background with brass (synth brass perhaps?) lead...I've heard that

Simple question...
On my website, I need to display a number on several pages, which
changes periodically.  Now, rather than go through every page every time
this number changes, is there some bit of Javascript or something that

If I post a message to a newsgroup (I'm using Hogwasher) it appears at the
top of the list. When more people post messages, mine gets pushed down the
list until someone replies to it, at which point it pops to the top of the
list again. In other words, the posting which appears ...

10.3.9 Server
I just deleted a mail mesage that I shouldn't have done.  Happily I can
get it back from the backup.  The problem is that what I have is a file
in the finder.  It is in whatever format Cyrus uses.  I really need to

I booted my MB (white c2d, 2gig) this morning, and after half a second
of whirlything I got the multilingual kernel panic screen. Fresh
attempts to boot did the same.
I may have run it out of battery yesterday, while it was in sleep - I

I'm running the latest OS X on a PowerBook.
1) Mail no longer moves all the junk mail to the specified folder.
2) Thunderbird is not responding to the keyboard shortcuts for mark
threads etc. read.