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

I've authorised my wife's Mac so that it can access and play songs from my
shared iTunes library. Is there a way that she can put tunes from my shared
library on to her iPod? Do we have to authorise that iPod as well?

If I hold down the left mouse button over a MacSOUP window,
CPU usage soars to 100%. It stays there until the button is
released. I don't notice this with any other app. Any ideas
what would cause this? Is it because it's not a Cocoa app?

I just installed OSX - with an erase and install. I slapped in the second
install disk, went to a meeting, then came back to a kernel panic.
I can't see a common thread here; it's not the hardware (since in the
last few weeks I've had problems with three completely different

I see to recall that some people didn't update from 10.4.7 to 10.4.8,
because on the latter Airport connectivity was unreliable.  Is that
true? (a search on groups.google didn't help me)
If so, is the problem fixed on 10.4.9?  Is there any (other) reason not

I have never got on with rules in mail.  I test something, it seems to
work, then I get excited and write lots of rules.  They don't work, I
get fed up, and stop using them.  A few months later I try again and the
cycle repeats itself.

Accessor methods for instance variables are A Good Thing. If nothing else they
handle memory management for you (if written correctly)
So, if I understand it correctly, if I have an instance variable along the lines
of:

1: If I wish to killfile " Uncle Harry < UH@lovepeacehappiness.net > "
which parts do I put in the From entry.
The whole lot or just the < ....> part?
2: Is using the 'From' header the best way of doing this anyway?

Is there any way of stopping Front Row from previewing a video?
Some of my videos start playing the film, others don't and I can't see
any obvious differences between the two kinds. I want the films -not-
to play automatically, just want a static picture. I tried adding

I've moved my iTunes library for the Mac Mini to an external drive.
iTunes is set to run on launch, and it's now often complaining that it
can't find its library. Presumably this is because the firewire drive
hasn't finished mounting yet.

This photo shows what most men of African descent are involved in
Modern Day Britain.
Is this acceptable?
http://tinyurl.com/39tcjx

My daughter is currently using one of my business machines and I want it
back, and have her use the Mac Mini.
She's never used a Mac before, but she's fairly bright so I don't think
she'll have too many problems.

I spotted a job advert on-line over the weekend for Mac support, so I
E-mailed my CV and covering letter to the agency concerned.
However the agency doesn't think I'm suitable for the role and won't
put me forward, as I've 'not worked in that particular sector before',

I find myself using private browsing mode more times than not now, and
I'm pretty close to just leaving it on full time. However it's not
without its quirks I've noticed, and particularly with the back button.
I'm finding that when I hit the back button in private browsing mode,

That IS the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper...

I have an excellent graph display tool called xplot that runs under X11,
and an ongoing supply of its files that end in the .xpl extension. I
want to be able to double-click the files and have them open up in xplot
automatically. Simple eh? Well... no!