Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / February 2008

Bought a MacBook air. After nearly getting my shoulder broke with the MBP
travelling to Manchester I couldn't resist. It's so light.
I am SO an Apple tart!
Got a 32GB touch to keep it company as well :-)

Richard Driscoll's horror movie production factory on a farm in
Cornwall. The idea is to churn out low budget horror movies to DVD at
the rate of one a month. The edit suite is Final Cut Pro on running on a
Mac Pro, as seen on the clip accompanying the article.

Rippy bastards. Again. But even worse than usual.
UK: £200 or £270 inc VAT
Taking the US dollar prices * 1.175 for with-vat equivalents and
rounding up,

Tried to open a file a few minutes ago, did a control click to bring up
the options to select QT. But suddenly seem to have duplicates of all
options.
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Ooh! Not sure whether it's new in 10.5.2, but I only just spotted -
document-modal sheets in Leopard blur the image behind them!
Very subtle, but just noticeable.

Did anyone else notice that the new(ish) BBC iPlayer does not work in
Safari 2?  It never finishes loading and freezes Safari, which must be
force-quit.
I had to update to Safari 3 to use it.

Has anyone used any of the following to help support Macintosh machines in
medium to large deployments:
1) Jamf Software's Casper Suite
2) Faronics' Deep Freeze

I bought one for approx £60 from PCWorld. It's amazing: I can't
believe I've never used one before. I now regret paying £50 for the
Apple Bluetooth mouse. (I am using it on Windows at the moment. On the
box it says it is Mac compatible)

I have a requirement to remotely shut down my Mac Mini (when the machine that's
monitoring the UPS decides there's not enough battery left).
Is there any reason why I (or rather, the script) shouldn't ssh to it and issue
the appropriate "shutdown" command? Or is there a more Mac-ish ...

Updated the Intel iMac withought problems, then went to do the G4 Powerbook.
Downloaded fine (180MB), then did the 'You must restart' bit, where it
actually installs the update.
Trouble is, it's been stuck on 'Writing package receipt' for over an hour

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I find that Spaces makes MAME unplayable as it switches when you have CTRL
and an arrow held at the same time, which happens rather a lot in MAME.
In the System Preferences for Spaces, Enable Spaces is not ticked, and the
hotkey section is all greyed out. CTRL-Arrows still switch ...

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I have three accounts on this machine, because I wanted to do things "by
the book".
I have an administrator account which I shouldn't ever need to log into,
as far as I know.

I have been using the player from http://zattoo.com for a few weeks now.
Tonight, I found that the following four channels are dead:
BBC Three
BBC Four