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

Although I've got OpenSUSE running well under VMware Fusion it looks
like I may need to boot Linux natively for some of my work. Rather than
get into the fun and games of partitioning my MBP internal drive I'm
thinking I'll just install OpenSUSE on an external FireWire drive. I'm ...

Programme on Discovery Science now, channel 535, repeated at 8pm
tonight. All about MP3 Players in general, but the iPod in particular.
Phil

Because it seems Macs & rats go together I'll ask here first .. ;-)
I believe my step-daughter is about to get a rat for her daughter from
our daughters , b/f's Mum (who breeds them) and tonight our daughter
did some wood turning (school design project mock-up) and ended up

Having some idle time, I've been discovering the joys of RSS. Are there
recommended Mac rumour sites that I might add?

Cos they roll around in poo all day!
Dirty f.cking faggots.

How can I change the place where a user dirctory (documents, movies,
music, etc) is situated, I want to put it in another partition.
Thank you
Sérgio Duarte

Is there a difference between a USB 1 and a USB 2 cable at all? I'm
scrapping some old gear at the moment and this uncludes a USB 1.1 hub -
the hub's now past its sell-by date but if there's no difference in
cabling I'll keep the A/B cable.

The FAQ page on Giganews <http://www.giganews.com/faq.html#q7.1> says that
Hogwasher can do SSL for news. I can't see how to make that happen and
there's nothing I can find in the help or at asar.com about it either.
You'd think that if it was mentioned in the GN FAQ, that it ...

I have just purchased the "Monster iTV link" for my macbook so I can watch
videos on my TV.
What I am wondering is this....
Will this work as a convertor for playing old VHS tapes into the ibook and

Afternoon all, hope your enjoying the weather. Just a quick (and I bet
patently obvious) question with Safari: how do you change the screen size? I
seem to have either full screen or it just minimizes to an icon on the
bottom toolbar thingy. Am curious as I need that middle-type ...

Just noticed this on one of the dimms in new Mac Pro system profiler:
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1:
 Size:    2 GB
 Type:    DDR2 FB-DIMM

I am probably about to need one of these - any recommendations, or
nooooooo's?
Thanks.
(It would be for two external HDs and a DVD writer.)

Is available. And VMware Fusion will be the release name. See:
<http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2007/04/and_the_name_is.html>
Ian

After 60 mins, your downloads are capped at 10kb/s
What I do is give my brother a stopwatch and tell him to quit the
programme after 59 mins and then relaunch.
In exchange for doing this for me, I don't beat him up.