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TV Slot load drives
On Sun, 9 May 2010 17:31:05 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: Sabby has a telly that has a slot load DVD built in. The dvd has stopped working well. On taking it apart I think it has had it, but the TV is fine, so in an ideal world I could swap the 'foryou dl-05' dvd player for another. In a ... 11 May 2010 02:28

[Way OT]TV Slot load drives
Sabby has a telly that has a slot load DVD built in. The dvd has stopped working well. On taking it apart I think it has had it, but the TV is fine, so in an ideal world I could swap the 'foryou dl-05' dvd player for another. Anyone know where you could get such things, preferably for a price cheaper than repl... 9 May 2010 13:14

News flash!
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/08/apple_develops_flash_alternative/> -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com) ... 9 May 2010 08:54

PackageMaker postinstall script problem under Snow leopard
On 2010-05-08 23:33:30 +0100, Tim Streater said: I'm having a problem with the post-install script I'm using with PackageMaker. I want it to write a file onto the user's desktop when the installer runs. Because in addition the script may modify the Apache config file, it needs admin authorisation, which m... 9 May 2010 03:34

MacBook Disk Problems
I started having problems with Parallels coming up telling me it had 'Input/Output Errors' trying to access one of XP images. I tried rebooting in to single user mode and ran 'fsck -y' & 'fsck -fy' and was told the drive was fine. The S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive is also report to be fine. When I try to c... 10 May 2010 15:27

Apple Mail message ID (I think?)
I'm regularly seeing "sent" messages that, when I go back to see what I sent (having poor sure term memory), seem to have the content from a message a couple of years old and to a completely different recipient. Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? Mail v4.2 (1078), OS 10.6.3 on a 2.66 iMac. Thanks for any... 8 May 2010 14:31

iPhone game recommendation - 'Angry Birds'
Free 'Lite' version available, full version costs a whopping 59p. Great fun. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http:... 14 May 2010 04:06

Oh! How irritating!
I though I had made a cool discovery in my piles of old junk. I found a boxed set of "Microsoft Office 4.2 for the Macintosh", with manuals a pile of 3.5 inch floppies. Guess what? All floppies are there except disk 1!!!! Arrrgh! What a shame, I though for sure someone would like to have that! Oh! Well! Bac... 16 May 2010 09:11

How to capture this video?
This one: <http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODE2Nzg5MTY=.html> FlashGot in Firefox only sees one 13mb file - that's far too small. In Safari via Activity Window (after the video playing to completion) there are quite a few 12 or 13 mb files, but double-clicking any one gives a 404 error, & downloading one...we... 10 May 2010 06:36

iPad pricing
<http://www.apple.com/uk/pr/library/2010/05/07ipad.html> Pretty much as I thought: Wifi: �429, �499 & �599 3G: �529, �599 & �699 So still on for the 64Gb wifi one, I am not paying �100 for a 3g connection! -- Woody ... 12 May 2010 09:09