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

Hey guys, yes I am a newbie to the newer versions of Mac OSX.  Please
be nice to me even if I ask an easy question.  Everytime I start up
the computer, Solitaire XL and the main dictionary start up at random
for no reason at all.  I looked in the Preferences part of the

If you are offered a powerbook G4 for sale with one of the following
wireless MAC addresses, the chances are it was stolen from a colleague of
mine:
00:14:51:D9:5D:E2

Disaster. Pint of water into venerable Apple Extended Keyboard II. It's
drying out in the server room at the moment, and I'm stuck with this
hideous USB keyboard (Keys too wide, no feel). If the EKII is dead, does
anyone know a place I can get some more?

I would really love one of these and I know this has been mentioned on
here before, but I cant seem to find someone who sells them in the UK
despite Googling around. I know there is always the option to import
one, but I dont want to do that unless I have to. I am also concerned

We have a small business using macs in the office.  6 people, OS X
server 10.3.9.  Naturally we need to file all our incoming and outgoing
correspondence.  Each year there are roughly 200 new customers for whom
we have to work out where to put documents.  For letters, ...

<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/31/apple_to_host_mac_event_next_
tuesday.html>
Allegedly this is specifically a Mac related announcement - no iPhone or
iPod product announcements.

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I've got 5 to give away!
Deb.

Hi, my first posting after many month reading this useful group.
I have a few Macs: a G3 iMac[1], a G3 iBook, a G4 iMac and a G4
PowerBook.  I am about to purchase one or two new models, probably an
iBook and a Mini, which are bound to have Intel chips - never before

Darn.  iTunes is frozen solid and will not quit, force quit, kill -9,
and some other kills I found on the web.  (Kill 9  found in the missing
manual, then googled).
Trouble is, I'm in the middle of software update with the security

Just a heads up.
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/02/fusion_vmware_out/>
Simon.

If I plug headphones, earphones or an cable to play sound through my
hi-fi I only get a left channel. Curiously, only the left speaker on
the ibook works.
This was all fine a couple of weeks ago, it's just happened the other

Well, apparently. It's just a bug-fix release though.
Jim

For Safari 3 beta, and there's also Security Update 007.
Separately (via iTunes) there's an update for something called an
iPhone - has anyone heard of that?
Cheers,

I hope you don't mind me posting this but I spoke to another user of
this group who directed me towards your forum.
I am producing a music video next week which requires a couple of dead
iMac G4 or G5 monitors and a 15" powerbook as props. The macs do not