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

Before I waste a lot of time downloading ISOs and trying this out
myself, has anyone managed to successfully install and run an x86-64
Linux on their Intel Mac, either using Parallels or Boot Camp ?
Paul

Well I took the plunge and against all reason, people looking on and
warning me not to, replaced my faulty fan macbook fan. It's now in and
is a damn site more quiet then the one I took out and is quiet when
compared to the remaining original fan which is a little worrying. It

My daughter shut her ibook down this morning before catching the train
home. On arrival it wouldn't start; dead, nothing at all, no sign of life.
The battery appears fully charged and I've tried it with the charger but
still nothing. I've got it disconnected with the battery out ...

Unleash the power of the Mac...
<http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2007/03/four_skypes_in_one_box.html>

Via del.icio.us...
<http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant>

I'm just having a look through the Character Palette for some - is there
a rule about which fonts will include these?
They are classified as "DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT <digit>", which
is a nice mouthful.

G5 iMac OS10.4 when running Classic apps there is no sound. I cannot
open the sound control panel, I get told that control panel is not
supported under classic. I cannot boot this machine into OS9. So any
ideas how I can get sound?

<http://www.theonion.com/content/node/59345?&utm_source=digg_1>

Can someone remind me of the name of that opensource monospaced font that was
mentioned recently?
I seem to have purged it from my brain cache.
Jim

I have a machine with OS 10.3 and OS9.2.2 installed. is there any way I can
run OS 8.1 apps on this machine?
Thanks

I can't seem to find anything at microsoft.com that would indicate
whether Office has been updated for Intel yet ?
Paul

Does it come with a free Macbook ?
http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/99502271/
Phil

At <http://vurt.org/home/philosophy/issues-in-ethics/censorship.php>
I've put online an exercise I did with some of my philosophy students.
I'm getting rather more results from it than I had counted on, and it's
going to be quite a bore to get the numerical data out.

Is there a log by which one can view download history? If so, where, or
how does one set it up? Ta.....

Dell are offering their 3007WFP-HC at a very tempting price of €1,432.34. The
Apple 30" costs €2,299.00.
One thing puzzles me about LCD monitors. 2560 x 1600 is stated to be the
optimum resolution. That would be too small for my eyes. If viewed at a