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

I'm trying to make (first time) an encrypted disk Image in 10.4.9 , I've
followed instruction from Mac Help and  Apple:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107333>  to the letter,
but all I get is a disk image which opens without a password. A little

Or, for that mater, one of the new Dell 30-inchers?
ATI Radeon 9600 XT:
 Chipset Model:    ATY,RV360
 Type:    Display

If I were going to sell my iMac, how much should i get for it (Min/Max)?
The Apple iMac G3/400 DV Special Edition (Slot Loading), based on the Kihei
architecture, features a 400 MHz PowerPC 750 (G3) processor, 512k backside
level 2 cache, 512MB of RAM, a 13.0 GB Ultra ATA hard ...

Engineers from Google have presented a study on hard disk life -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6376021.stm
Cheers,

Yesterday I took our 16yr old Daughter to her official interview re
her application to the local college pre taking her BTEC 3D Design
course.
The guy handling this little group (of 3) said there had been some

This is interesting reading. Compares the "fluidity" of various
operating sytems user interfaces. The guy who ran the test's put Vista
behind XP.
http://feeds.macworld.com/~r/macworld/all/~3/96520216/index.php

nice eclipse.... lovely clear sky on Thanet.
Peacefull Sunday to all,
Regards,
Rob E.

As outlined here in UCSM I've tried several apps to help me implement
the GTD methodology. The best if had up until late last week was to use
Entourage.
Most of the stuff I need to use GTD for is for my job. In the job I

Does anyone have access to the Mac Pro service manual? I want to take
mine apart to fix a slight buzzing from the fan assemblies, that
started when I rerouted the bluetooth antenna cable. I couldn't see an
easy way to remove the fan assembly. So looking for disassembly  

Is it OK to drag and drop applications into subfolders after they're
installed?
Also, some apps (Photoimpression that came with a camera for example)
seem to have quite messy installers, leaving .dll files sprayed around

I am looking for a photo manipulation package, with which I can remove
or add things from photos, used to use Corel Draw on the PC. I have no
need for the complication of the full Photoshop package (Cant afford it
either). any suggestions would be appreciated.

I have 3 user accounts on my Mac - admin, me, and a 'guest' account. I
also have FTP enabled.
Is it possible to disable FTP access (inwards from the internet) to some
users, but not to others? I'd like to be able to connect to my 'guest'

I have a PC connected via a network cable to a surfboard SB3100 modem which
is connected to the Virgin media cable network(telewest) via coax.
I want to get continue to use the pc probably via a network cable connection
and also allow my G3 iMac DV SE 400Mhz to share the broadband ...

My iMac 400mhz G3 DV SE graphite keeps saying the date is 24th March 2001 on
boot up.
I believe this machine has not been used for a very long time. Are these
batteries rechargable and could it correct itselft (by recharging) if left

This really pisses me off, it doesn't happen every time, just some
times. I pick up my MacBook Pro, lift the screen, it wakes up but with a
wrong screen resolution. Just now it managed to think it is 800x600 -
it's usually not as far out with it's guesses as that, but it's never