If you are on a U-M IP address, checkout the entire title-by-title list. If you are not on campus, you can get a U-M IP address by using either the ITCom VPN or CAEN VPN solutions.

According to the CAEN information page, "there is a limit of seven concurrent users (shared among all three U-M campuses)." To release your user slot, they ask us to logout when we are finished.

Apple follows Dell in recalling the laptop computer batteries, which were manufactured using battery cells made by Sony Energy Devices of Japan. “These lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers,� said the CPSC in a statement. Dell has recalled more than 4 million Sony-made battery packs.

It is important that Macintosh Powerbook and iBook users follow the instructions provided at Apple's page on this issue and determine if there batteries are affected. Users are instructed to remove affected batteries from their computers and use them with AC adapters until replacements are sent.

From Matt Rosenberg via the MacEnterprise Mailing List.

Amoreena Myerscough wrote "Colloquy, X-Chat Aqua, Conversation are all good for OS X. One caveat about X-Chat is that the version I tried last year did not recognize /onotice msging, which MIRC and I believe the other two clients do. That may have changed in more recent versions. Conversation is very simple and almost like your typical IM program. X-Chat and Colloquy are more MIRCish in nature."

Kevin Worth said "I've been using Colloquy on recommendation from the Plone.org people. It has worked very well for me."

Andrew Mortensen said "Colloquy is good."

Cameron Hanover said "I spent $15 on ircle years ago, and have gotten my money's worth. xchat aqua is a decent free one, I've heard. I don't think much of Colloquy."

Kris Steinhoff said "I don't use IRC often, but I've used ChatZilla (a Firefox extension) which was OK."

I personally have started to use Conversation and have been very impressed with its ease of use and iChat like interface.

Checkout their webpage for more information.

Boot Camp is all well and good, but no one really likes dual booting. Virtualization is the way to go, allowing a host operating system to run several different client systems simultaneously. To that end, Parallels has released a beta of its virtualization software for Intel Macs. The Parallels software allows Mac OS X to run various versions of Windows, Linux and BSD at near-native speeds in virtual machines, all without rebooting.

Using the "Keyboard & Mouse" System Preference Pane, it is possible to override keyboard shortcuts per application. To get this working, first free CMD-H by mapping “Master Schedule…� to something else. Then, map “Hide meetingmaker Client� to CMD-H. A quick restart of MeetingMaker, and you'll be all set.

Their recommendation is that "Google Desktop should only be deployed to individual users on an 'as-needed' basis in
accordance with the following deployment guidelines:

a. Disable Google Integration
b. Disable Network Drive Indexing
c. Disable Indexing of secure web pages
d. Disable Indexing of Instant Messages"

A similar issue was reported with Casper, Composers parent product, on May 9, 2005.