UK Mac

Trouble updating Firefox?
Just logged on to the missus's G4 iBook (10.5.8) and I am trying to update Firefox 3.5 to 3.6. When I try and drag Firefox to the Apps folder it wont let me do it, giving the error message "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items" I am logged in ... 29 Mar 2010 09:08

Entourage - IMAP
Morning all, Just a quicky, I have a client using Entourage against an Exchange server via IMAP. Its the student version of office that doesnt allow for a proper Exchange connection. She has a TON of sub folders under her inbox, and she adds new ones all the time. What we have found is that if she does it u... 28 Mar 2010 08:59

Local Remote Access
Just got a second Mac in the house. (Not mine :-( - I am on Windows...) Now we want to be able to control one from t'other, and vice versa. I am very familiar with the Windows approach (Remote Desktop), with VNC, LogMeIn and have a nodding acquaintance with several others. But experience of doing similarly on... 1 Apr 2010 06:49

Apple RAM pricing
On 2010-03-27 22:19:58 +0000, Tim Hodgson said: I was just pricing up a MacBook pro at the Apple online store, and noticed that the price of bumping RAM to 4GB is currently less than buying it from Crucial (�81 v. �94). Hell has frozen over and I hear oinking from the clouds. Kingston RAM for the MBP i... 28 Mar 2010 07:53

mac mini server update
I finally got rid of everything that was too pressing and got back to the mac mini. I backed up etc, var, subversion and stuff from user accounts into tgz files and copied it to the pc (it wouldn't write to a 16gb usb stick) and rebooted from the cd. When that was done I ran the 10.5.8 updated (pre-downloaded). Whe... 30 Mar 2010 08:20

Can we please stop winding Rowland up?
Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: I've been abused by experts (you should meet my wife:-) It was Catholic priests for me ;-)( -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chate... 28 Mar 2010 13:26

New iMac and problem number 1
I transferred all my settings and documents over to my new iMac 21" from my old G5 iMac. With no problems except I can't print using my Brother -2030 laser printer. System preferences shows the printer set up as the default printer, and it's status set as "idle". The print queue shows the 3 documents I tried t... 29 Mar 2010 08:02

Mac covers
Now *this* is how to refettle a Cube. http://www.oldtimecomputer.com/oldtimecomputer/desktops.html The iMac casings are quite cute too. Cheers - Jaimie -- "But people have always eaten people! What else is there to eat? If the Juju had meant us not to eat people He wouldn't have made us of meat!" ... 27 Mar 2010 13:09

Firefox 3.6.n - glitches solved?
I've been suffering from a lot of glitches since I got Firefox 3.6. I've tried all sorts of things to clear 'em up - and some actions did, for a while, but the glitches recurred. Then it struck me that clearing the cache might be a good idea. You know what? I've just been to several of the Websites that ga... 27 Mar 2010 09:39

iMacs and display corruption - possible solution
Hi all, This may be of interest to some of you. I have an iMac 24" that I bought nearly three years ago. Since installing Snow Leopard I have had a recurrent problem with the display - bits of window left behind when I drag a window across the screen, horizontal dark lines appearing at random locations, and ... 27 Mar 2010 09:39