I know there is a joint Computer solving thread but the few Apple questions on there do sometimes get missed, so thought that I would set up a dedicated one for the Mac.

...Bye the way I am quite Computer illiterate apart from what I have picked up...so no point In asking me much -):

Ian,

I wonder If you could make this thread available on the Investors side as well please?

Stan,

No problem - the trhead is now available on both traders and investors rooms.

Ian

Hey Stan. Don't you get answers to your problems? Eminem had that too:

"Dear Slim, I wrote but you still ain't callin
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not-a got him
There probably was a problem at the post office or something
Sometimes I scribble addresses too sloppy when I jot him
but anyways; f**k it, what's been up? Man how's your daughter?"

You probably need to be an Eminem fan to get it. :-)

Good luck with your thread.

Thanks Ian and Bolshi,

As a coincidence on R4. this morning In the Mid Week programme the fella who Invented the Apple computer said that before he invented the Mac.....computers did not even have a keyboard!

Stan:

*old geek warning*

That was Steve Wozniak, who built the original Apple, but not the Mac. There is an Apple Mk 1 still on display in Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale, California. I've got a picture of it somewhere which I'll try to find. He worked at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto at the time, and offered his computer to HP. They weren't interested. It was pretty Heath Robinson, but the Apple II was something of a masterpiece for its time.

*/old geek warning*

PS: I saw Woz a few years back pushing a shopping cart around Fry's Palo Alto -- he was buying a load of Mac software.

Interesting that MM,

I liked the way that he championed the little consumer.

Any one know the following;

can I share a BT Broadband conection on a desktop with xp on it with an Apple Mac (about 3 months old). so that i can at least conect to the internet.

If so do I have a choice of network cable or can it be done wireless.

last bit............How?
please help even if its to say no you can't do it

Thank you in advance. Graeme.

G.A, yes use a router and switch if you dont already have one it will cost about 40.

Does anyone know where I can get one of these in this country please? been on their website but they just give wholesalers over here. I want a new one and not something from ebay. The company's called Western Digital. Thanks.

WD Caviar GP
WD5000AACS
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SATA Hard Drives
500 GB, SATA 3 Gb/s

Reduced power consumption
Environmentally responsible
Lower cost of ownership

WD Caviar GP drives support quieter, cooler-running desktop PCs and external storage devices that conserve critical power resources.

Stan,

take your pick;

google search

Thanks R,

Can anyone recommend any of those retailers in that Google search please? or think any are not worth dealing with.?

Stan - I'm not sure I've ever dealt with them but Scan and More Computers are supposed to have reasonable reputations. I don't think I've heard of any of the rest in the search results. In the Google Ads on the right, I don't know if any of the WD HD's at Amazon are the exact model you're looking for, but I have dealt with Dabs and Microdirect and they have been OK.

Thanks K, will have a look after lunch.

Stan, if you manage to find a good supplier do let us know how the drive is, I may be in the market for one myself soon.

regards

Neil

OK will do, just wasted 15 minutes having a useless few words with someone online at Dabs. I will continue to look.

anyone having problems with moneyam site since installing Leopard, I have 2 macs and they both are now unable to view pages from the monitor links, i.e. graphs, trades, etc. emailed support whom say they are yet to test the leopard OS with the site !!

barretec,

I use Leopard with the site and everything's working for me (streaming, bb etc)

What are you seeing when you access those pages? What browser are you using etc?

J.

Hi Jonathan, thanks for you reply, When I click on the Graph, Trade, news or evn the company ticker I get this.

Safari cant open the page http://www.moneyam.com/stockwatch//action/nav/trades?epic=APG because it cant find the server www.moneyam.com

or

Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.
1

I am running Safari

barretec,

all the things which you are having trouble opening work as a pop up - I am wondering whether a pop up blocker on your system is causing this problem. You may want to make sure pop up blockers are turned off and try again to see if that helps,

Ian

barretec,

I get exactly the same problem with Safari.

I'll investigate and see what I can find.

J.

barretec,

I've found the cause of this problem and am writing an error report for MoneyAM so they can reproduce and then fix it.

J.