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

First there's:
       warning Feb 28 15:10:50 afpd Warning: No CNID scheme for volume
       /home/daniele. Using default.
which may or may not be sinister, then a bit later - as soon as I try to

Now that I'm running Vista Ultimate [1] under Parallels for my work
stuff (Outlook, Mind Manager, decent access to SharePoint) I'm out of
space on my MacBook Pro internal disk. I though about replacing it with
a 160GB or a 200GB one, but don't want to spend the money. I have an

Are there any service providers in GB that will offer a 4 hour response
or 4 hour fix on Macintosh machines? Doesn't have to include legacy
Mac's just the current range and then going forward.
Ian

i bought a macbook.But i don't know how to use  it for voice chat or
webcam chat.I only used pc before so i don't how to use mac OS.The MSN
for mac and yahoo message are not aviable for webcam chat.Can you tell
me how to make it aviable?

This is a bit of a long shot in this group, but my Mum does have a Mac

Are there any Plusnet users here that might be able to confirm if
they've started to block smtp mail to Gmail? My Mum hasn't been able to

The SD on my G4 iBook has gone awry again. It refuses to allow disks to
even get in the slot. This has happened before on this machine, the
drive was replaced under warranty last time.
It seems too odd that 2 units should display the same , apparently rare,

Any recommendations for Mac-compatible headsets ? All the commonly
available ones look to be PC only as they only have mic-level audio
rather than line level. Alternatively there's USB or Bluetooth I guess,
but then that's going to be expensive.

My iBook's been returned, and so far it's behaving okay.
Anyone care to offer me a wager on how long it will last this time?
    -zoara-

I have just emailed my Dad (on his eMac, 9.2) an mp3 recording of our
daughters latest GCSE solo music test.
Will (should) OS 9.2 be able to be able to just play an .mp3 and if
not what other software would he need please (he basically uses the

Andrew has an Apple Mac Mini GA and has bought some more RAM for it.
Please, how does he get it apart to put the RAM in?  I can't see any screws
to undo ...
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Chaps and chapesses
I'm on 10.3.9
I can control-click on an item in the finder and select "Create Archive
of....", to archive the selected item.  And sometimes it works.  But

I was listening to MacBreak Weekly and heard about this
Is there a video of Gates' tantrum? is it on video?
I heard he also not happy with the 'Get a Mac ads' where the PC guy is
a 'nerd'

In the evenings it appears to me that the Uni Berlin server slows to a
crawl. It's currently downloading articles at the rate of one every 10
to 15 seconds.
Am I the only one experiencing treacle service, or is it representative

What's the juries opinion on whether the newish 2GB 200 pin SODIMM
SDRAM modules will work in a MacBook Pro to take it past  2GB RAM?
Crucial now carry the following:
2GB  CT25664AC667    DDR2 PC2-5300 € CL=5 € UNBUFFERED € NON-ECC €