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Just checking to make sure I didn't break something... - Matt
Please disregard - test only
Sorry about this test message, but I seem to be having some problem receiving mail from the list. Philippe C.
9 Mac browsers reviewed
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/software/mac/browser/mac-browsers-1.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper, race the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2003 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
TCP Port 113
Hi All, I bit of a query for the more advanced users on the list. I have just turned on the Firewall service under OSX Server to block all non-essential ports. While watching the logs I noticed a heap of hits from a seemingly random source port to port 113 on the server. IANA defines 113 as auth113/tcp/udp Authentication Service Does anyone know if something will die if I block this port? - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Testing
Re: One nail to go...
Not really bad news in my opinion! These days you can pick up good second hand PC for a few hundred dollars and you will get far better performance than using emulation on a Mac. Networking a PC to a Mac is is easy to do with Mac OS X, you can even share your Mac internet connection with the PC without too much trouble and access those sites which I hear Mac people are having problems with. Also has an additional benefit, you can use the PC as a backup destination for for your Mac. In this changing world of computers I do believe you will see the end of Windows emulation before too long but it is not really a concern anymore for Mac users. Dave Watkins At 8:21 AM +0800 28/8/03, Peter Hinchliffe said: Bad news from MacCentral this morning. http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/27/realpc/ A few months ago, FWB announced a MacOS X version of RealPC would be forthcoming. This now appears to have been vaporware. Check out the above link for the full story. Even worse, Micro$oft have announced that the current version of VPC will not run on the G5 at all. The code in the G4 upon which certain routines rely is not there in the G5, so those areas of VPC need to be re-written. I'm waiting for the day when they announce that it's no longer in their interests to do so... Anyone tried Bochs? -- Peter Hinchliffe
Sleep and doze
I notice that my G4/400 has two distinct sleep modes. When I put it to Sleep from the Apple menu everything goes off and the disks spin down as it should. If I let time take its course the screen darkens and the disk spins down but the mouse tablet bezel remain illuminated indicating that USB is still active. Is this documented or expected? Severin Crisp -- __ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) Fax (08) 9842 9650 (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.albanyis.com.au/~sev/ __
Printing from VPC5
Annually I do my tax with e-Tax and VPC3 with no hassles. This year I have upgraded to VPC5 and everything went smoothly until I tried to print my return for my records. No way could I get it to print, either to the MacInkjet Printer or direct to my Epson SP720 printer whose Windows driver I downloaded from Epson and installed into Windows98. In either case everything went smoothly and the printer finished up with a file in the queue which initiated the printer then stopped jobs and a Communications error for no apparent reason. I tried all the obvious settings, unpluggings, cable jigglings and reboots with no success. The cure was increasing the assigned PC memory from 145MB to 350MB, when all returned to normal and it happily prints. As I rarely print from VPC this situation had not arisen before. VPC5 users take note and save yourselves the hours I wasted! Severin Crisp -- __ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) Fax (08) 9842 9650 (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.albanyis.com.au/~sev/ __
.Mac Mail and POP accounts trouble
I have a .Mac acct and would like to use .Mac web mail with my POP account. This is possible but it seems to go away and import everything in my POP account everytime I want to check for updated messages, rather than just the messages since last check. It sets all imported messages to Unread, every time, and to make things worse, when I actually go back to OSX Mail at home, all the messages are sitting in my Inbox twice (once for POP and once for the .Mac import) Does anyone know of a way for .Mac web mail to act like other web based POP checking accounts? Apart from that I really like the .Mac web mail because it displays messages sent from the web in a Sent folder back on my home machine. Cheers, Matt -- Matt Tavani e | [EMAIL PROTECTED] p | +61 402 031 727 l | Perth, Western Australia
Re: TCP Port 113
Hi All, I bit of a query for the more advanced users on the list. I have just turned on the Firewall service under OSX Server to block all non-essential ports. While watching the logs I noticed a heap of hits from a seemingly random source port to port 113 on the server. IANA defines 113 as auth113/tcp/udp Authentication Service Does anyone know if something will die if I block this port? A brief googling reveals Auth is used by IRC, (some) sendmail and shell servers, to (try) check identity of users logging in. It does appear however that it may be an issue if it's used by servers receiving mail from the machine to (loosely) 'verify' everything's kosher... http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/1999-q4/1840.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper, race the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2003 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
WestNet
Can someone on Westnet please confirm with me privately that they got this message and have not had any bounce messages over the last two days. Thanks. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applescript in a Nutshell
Hi Everyone, Wanted... a copy of Applescript in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. Does anybody have a copy they wish to clear ? Thanks Bob
Re: in case colour co-ordination
to go with your cold neon lit, acrylic sided, Li Lian PC's no doubt: http://www.kingmax.com.tw/product/pro_ColorModule_index.htm seriously. LOL - though I s'pose you need to differentiate homogenous products some howshrug And I thought it was getting ridiculous when a friend installed 4 little fans with coloured lights set in them. Of course, he needed the extra cooling ;) yeh but did he have a Marvil Comics(tm) Wolverine(c.) grill on those fans? http://redeyepc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODStore_Code=RPProduct_Code=FAN-02970-08 if not then how like last millennium dude! I guess the first case mod's I saw were cool and I've seen a few good ones recently were they fabricated up everything that wasn't off the shelf but now you can buy so many off the shelf moded cases its probably true to say next trend will be beige is the new hip. Why do I look at these case mods and think : Boris style barbarian with nubile wench airbrushed on to Sandman panelvan with red acrylic dome windows and velour waterbed in the back - anyone not old enough to know what I mean by that ask your dad - when your mums not in the room. 1st one was cool and original the 75'th million nock off copy was sign of brain addled retro boganhood. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Griffin USB iMic
Hi folk I'm contemplating buying one of these: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/index.html Has anyone any noteworthy experiences with these, can anyone supply one(Daniel,Zytech)? Thanks Paul There is a Dog
Re: Any recommendations on USB KVM?
I am using a MasterView kvm switch that shares usb/monitor with 4 devices, 2 XServes, 1 G4 and 1 G3/350 Server. The G3 has a KeySpan usb card and occasionally will lose control (generally if the kvm is powered or if the G3 is restarted without the correct switch selected). The others work well but do take about 5 seconds to respond. Purchased from Desktop Applications about 18 months ago. On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Richard Jenkins wrote: Hi We'd like to share the peripherals on a newish Compaq with a G4/933 Mac running OS 9 and OS X. We're putting the G4 on our helpdesk so the staff can actually do some Mac support :) The Compaq has an analogue SVGA LCD screen and USB keyboard and mouse. From memory there's some complications switching USB devices - some of the reviews I've read note a 5+ second pause before the USB gear responds. Was it the DrBott KVM that suspended the USB bus and kept it active when you switched?... All comments and personal experiences welcome. cheers ® Regards Jon Hunter Manager IST Spowers mob: 0413 484 208 direct: 08 9288 8511
archive?
Do we have archives yet for posts sent to the new list? When I click on the archives link at the bottom of the wamug posts it diverts back to the Yahoo site... nothing urgent - just noticed -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: Applescript in a Nutshell
Hi Everyone, Wanted... a copy of Applescript in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. Does anybody have a copy they wish to clear ? If you're after some on-line documentation there's this http://fischer-bayern.de/applescript/html/ebook.html You may want to download the english version of the PDF if you don't happen to speak German :) Also of course http://www.apple.com/applescript/resources/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper, race the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2003 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Off the air
Since midmorning yesterday (Thursday) I have received no WAMUG postings and wonder what has happened. Could some kind soul out there please reply to me direct off list and let me know if it is me or WAMUG then I can do something about it. TIA Severin -- __ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) Fax (08) 9842 9650 (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.albanyis.com.au/~sev/ __
Colour postscript printer for sale
Tektronix Phaser 340 printer. Four separate ink cartridges. Apple Talk or SCSI connection. $70. Works well. E-mail or ph 0409 081 583. Scarborough.
Re: Any recommendations on USB KVM?
On Friday, 29 August 2003, at 1:54 PM, Jon Hunter wrote: I am using a MasterView kvm switch that shares usb/monitor with 4 devices, 2 XServes, 1 G4 and 1 G3/350 Server. The G3 has a KeySpan usb card and occasionally will lose control (generally if the kvm is powered or if the G3 is restarted without the correct switch selected). The others work well but do take about 5 seconds to respond. Purchased from Desktop Applications about 18 months ago. On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Richard Jenkins wrote: Hi We'd like to share the peripherals on a newish Compaq with a G4/933 Mac running OS 9 and OS X. We're putting the G4 on our helpdesk so the staff can actually do some Mac support :) The Compaq has an analogue SVGA LCD screen and USB keyboard and mouse. From memory there's some complications switching USB devices - some of the reviews I've read note a 5+ second pause before the USB gear responds. Was it the DrBott KVM that suspended the USB bus and kept it active when you switched?... All comments and personal experiences welcome. I have a DrBott 4 Port USB/VGA switch for sale if you want it. It's about 6 months old. All the cables are there. $300. We replaced it with an 8 port version. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: archive?
On Friday, 29 August 2003, at 9:03 AM, Mark Secker wrote: Do we have archives yet for posts sent to the new list? When I click on the archives link at the bottom of the wamug posts it diverts back to the Yahoo site... nothing urgent - just noticed The archive for the new list are at http://mail.wamug.org.au:8100 - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off the air
On Friday, 29 August 2003, at 10:46 AM, Severin Crisp wrote: Since midmorning yesterday (Thursday) I have received no WAMUG postings and wonder what has happened. Could some kind soul out there please reply to me direct off list and let me know if it is me or WAMUG then I can do something about it. Everything should be OK. I think I broke something yesterday when I upgraded the mail server software. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TCP Port 113
On Friday, 29 August 2003, at 1:33 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi All, I bit of a query for the more advanced users on the list. I have just turned on the Firewall service under OSX Server to block all non-essential ports. While watching the logs I noticed a heap of hits from a seemingly random source port to port 113 on the server. IANA defines 113 as auth113/tcp/udp Authentication Service Does anyone know if something will die if I block this port? A brief googling reveals Auth is used by IRC, (some) sendmail and shell servers, to (try) check identity of users logging in. It does appear however that it may be an issue if it's used by servers receiving mail from the machine to (loosely) 'verify' everything's kosher... http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/1999-q4/1840.html Thats pretty much the gist of what I got. I will leave the port open. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
double posts
Hello, I'm getting double posts...anybody else? Phil -- We have only ONE Earth
Site and iCal updated
Yes, it's amazing. I actually updated out web site and the WAMUG iCal! I need to sit down. I think I over stressed myself. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Login details
Matthew I do not seem to be able to login to the archives. It refuses my name and/or password and when I ask for it to be emailed to me I get the message that it has been removed to a remote server. Could you please send me my login details in full. many thanks - oh the trials of being a webmaster !!! TIA Sevewrin Try just clicking the 'Mailing Lists' link and then clicking the WAMUG link. No login required. Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper, race the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2003 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
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Re: TCP Port 113
On 2003-08-29 15:03, Matthew Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if something will die if I block this port? A brief googling reveals Auth is used by IRC, (some) sendmail and shell servers, to (try) check identity of users logging in. It does appear however that it may be an issue if it's used by servers receiving mail from the machine to (loosely) 'verify' everything's kosher... http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/1999-q4/1840.html Thats pretty much the gist of what I got. I will leave the port open. Well nothing should really die a horrible agonising death if it's closed, unless there's something that can't survive without the ident protocol. That said, your outgoing irc, mail and ftp connections may in some cases be slowed down (because the servers have to wait for their attempted connection to you to timeout) but aside from that, not too much else uses it. Some MUDs have dealt with multiplayers behind NATs through supporting ident, but I doubt that's an issue for you (and in my experience more trouble than it's worth for the game administrators as well). The identd server isn't even running by default on OS X -- not on my 10.2.6 machine anyway, OS X Server may differ ;) -- so those connections would time out for me anyway. If the mail delay becomes a problem, you could always add a rule to allow just your mail server to connect to 113. Probably not worth it for ftp servers et cetera though, unless you connect to one regularly that uses it. My 2 cents (ex GST). Ry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: double posts
Yes , I too am receiving double posts, but only spasmodically. Ken W... On 29/8/03 3:08 PM, Phillip Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm getting double posts...anybody else? Phil
Re: Login details
Me to Severin and Matt. Maybe I don't even know what my name is registered as, let alone the password. Is it the same as it was with Yahoo Groups? Reg On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 03:36 pm, Severin Crisp wrote: Matthew I do not seem to be able to login to the archives. It refuses my name and/or password and when I ask for it to be emailed to me I get the message that it has been removed to a remote server. Could you please send me my login details in full. many thanks - oh the trials of being a webmaster !!! TIA Sevewrin -- __ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) Fax (08) 9842 9650 (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.albanyis.com.au/~sev/ __ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: double posts
Same Here, also spasmodically. On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 17:45 Australia/Perth, Ken Woods wrote: Yes , I too am receiving double posts, but only spasmodically. Ken W... On 29/8/03 3:08 PM, Phillip Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm getting double posts...anybody else? Phil Regards, Paul Born to Fish; forced to work
