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

How can we evade the killifiles?
Is there a way to spoof the IP address of people here (like Zoara)

Is there anything free which will take a DVD and shrink it to 4.7gig
ready for burning? I have Popcorn 1 which came with Toast 7, but given
that I don't use Toast at all anymore it seems a bit of a waste of cash
to upgrade just to get a universal binary version.

I have set one of my own pictures as the background of the desktop.
It appears that I should be able to have pictures changing randomly
but the option is greyed out, anyone know why? Thanks.
Lynn

For group info:

Gwynne

Anyone recommend a good torrent app ? I am using transmission but a
friend tells me I should use an encrypted download app to avoid
throttling ?
david

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/>
scroll down to the section for video and audio news. Click any of the
watch now links and what do you get.
I'm getting 403 forbidden on all of them in Firefox and Safari.

This was *made* for me.
http://doomlaser.com/?p
       -z-

Back in the hazy days of 2005, when I bought a 802.11g wireless ADSL
router/hub thing (linksys) for home, mine was the only wireless
network in the neighborhood. As of this weekend there are now approx
20 networks in the locality (according to istumbler). By the looks of

From Apple's "Multi-media center for computing systems" patent appliaction:
Claim 1:
" A method of providing a multi-media center that includes a plurality of
media-components, said method comprising: configuring a plurality of

I have just applied the 10.4.9 delta update to a 10.4.8-running G3
iMac. The update appeared to install fine, and I was asked to restart.
Which I did.
That was around an hour ago. The grey booting screen is still showing

For some time now i have successfully connected from home to work via
the internet.
I have static IPs at both ends, on the same ISP.  I'm no network expert,
but thankfully it just worked.

Bill and Steve discuss software
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uHn08yLCpE
Bono and the Edge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BcLjtG3eY

Pulled from my Power Mac G5. Zero ebay interest, not really worth
advertising them again so...
Chuck a mail across if you're interested, otherwise they're going in the bin.
Cheers,

I've transferred a VMware image to Parallels using the transporter
tool, then installed the necessary full-drive encryption software on
it. I'm told the way this software works is to boot a cut-down WinME,
load a driver and then boot into XP using the driver to decode it all

Anyone know how I can start over with my dot mac calendar (and local
calendar) after an exchange issue I noticed it was syncing over 10K
items in calendar which is odd. I fancy a fresh start but have no idea
how to go about this ?