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

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can give me some advice about running
Classic.
I've bought an old 17" iMac G4 through eBay and purchased the OS X Tiger
retail pack from Apple. I've wiped the hard drive and installed the new OS

One hears that the next two local network speed increases are due
to bring in new cable standards.  If the current one is Cat-5, is
it time to be thinking of installing Cat-7 in a new-build house?
If so, is it yet available at rational prices?

I am trying to upgrade the ram in a macbook pro. I go to crucial and
go through the options and they offer me
   *  MacBook Pro MacBook Pro 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo (15.4-inch)
   *

So apparently Office 2008 is now delayed to, well, 2008 <http://
www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2007/08/02/ap/hitech/d8qooc1o0.txt> and
Betalogue has an interesting take on the whole affair <http://
www.betalogue ...

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What's the equivalent of About This Macintosh on the PC? Not Device
Manager, I'm looking for something I can give to a person with no
experience in this and it will tell them whether they have AGP or PCIe
slots (the actual display adapter they're using is on-board, so it's no

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Anyone got experience of running SpamCop filtering to minimise spam
(currently running about 15:1 for me). While SpamSieve keeps most of it
at bay I would rather not see any at all if it is only a couple of quid
a month.

According to MacOSXhints, you can boot from a USB2 drive. I mention it
here because it's news to me.
Does anyone know if you boot from USB1.1 drives? Not that you'd really
want to, but it's probably faster than booting from a CD. I can't test

New iMacs seem pretty much a given, but...
...what do we think the likelyhood is of 10.5 being released? I know the
recent dev seeds were still less than stable, but I can't help thinking that
it would be typical Apple to announce a delay, then release before the

We're living in temporary accomodation during a house move. I have a
TiBook/OS10.2.8 and a HP laserjet 1022 here, and they work superbly
together. My brother in law (who owns the flat) is here for a week or
two, and has an AlBook/OS10.4. I'd like to be able to connect it to the

I guess this isn't news, but a client asked me to look into upgrading
their Dreamweaver MX to the latest.
If you download and upgrade in the States, $199
If you do the same in the UK, $330

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- I didn't unintall videla (the picture of the onion ) properly - just
deleted the app
Now when I download a DMG, it won't open - ERROR SAYS 'BROKEN PIPE'
WTF>>!!>>!>!>??!