Re: Printers & scanners

[Katinka Mills]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:01, John Currie wrote:
Hi all comments in OP
> G'day all
> A friend is seeking my advice on purchasing a printer and scanner
> He has looked at the following Budget for two items around $800
> he has iMac with 8.6
>
>
> HP Desksjet 948C Printer
> HP Scanjet 5400C

Most new HP Ink Jets have a new contact system which "damages" the cartridge 
(the claim the new system gives better print head holder to print head 
contact. But this limits the amount of time the cartridge can be taken out 
and put back in (not good if you swap between colour and large black and 
photo etc)

I have a 5400C and only have one grip (could be my firmware revision) when 
running on USB (both in winblows 2k and FreeBSD) the first scan is great, 
does not take long once the lamp warms up, but subsiquent scans it sits for 
around 2 -4 minutes before proceding to scan. I prefer the older scanners, 
but the ones after the 5400C may have fixed this issue.

I loved HP a long time ago, I am just retiring a HP 4L (due to a bad memory 
module and old age (it is ~ 10 years old and has done over well over 900,000 
pages which is good going by todays laser printers standards))

Unfortunately I have no direct experiance with Epson, I do know that for a 
while they beat Canon and HP hands down on photo images (no one else cam 
close) but things have probably changed.

Regards,

Kat.



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POP Accounts

[Matthew Healey]

Hi all,

IF wamug was able to negotiate some sort of deal for WAMUG members to get
POP accounts with a decent domain name...

Would you all be interested and willing to pay a small amount for it? Say...
AUS$10 per year for a couple of 10 meg mail boxes?

Regards

Matthew Healey

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Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

[Shay Telfer]

Yes, and although I'm still using my Mac, I've officially stopped
encouraging colleagues to support and buy Mac until I'm given reason
to believe that Apple are any different when it comes to 'screwing'
the end-user.


To paraphrase this week's MWJ article, Apple's in a financial crunch 
at the moment, because costs are up, hardware sales are down, and 
things are generally in the doldrums in the PC hardware industry. 
They can improve this quarter's profits by getting some income from 
iTools users, and at the same time reduce the cost of running iTunes 
by encouraging the leeching users (warez dudez, people with multiple 
accounts, etc) to go elsewhere or pay up.


And of course selling iPods to Windows users :)

Have fun,
Shay
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Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

[Phillip Arena]

Yes, and although I'm still using my Mac, I've officially stopped 
encouraging colleagues to support and buy Mac until I'm given reason 
to believe that Apple are any different when it comes to 'screwing' 
the end-user.


Phil

At 10:29 PM +0800 31/7/02, Antony N. Lord wrote:


And yes, I had them all sign the anti-.mac petition.

Re: Free POP Mail Accounts?

[Shay Telfer]

Seeing the number of my associates who I convinced to take up mac.com
(iTools) e-mail accounts getting ready to lynch me / Apple can anyone
recommend another free POP e-mail account?

I'm sorry, I'm not using hotmail (put bluntly - it blows) and I'm not
having them switch from their mail clients (mainly Eudora) to Outlurk.


There is a list of other options at



I'm not sure how many of them are free though.

Have fun,
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Printers & scanners

[John Currie]

G'day all
A friend is seeking my advice on purchasing a printer and scanner
He has looked at the following Budget for two items around $800
he has iMac with 8.6


HP Desksjet 948C Printer
HP Scanjet 5400C

Epsom Printer Photo 810
Epson Scanners 1600 Perfection

Anybody care to advance an opinion on relative merits
I understand the Epson Printer has some potential problem because of
circuitry built into the print head rather than the cartridge . Is this a
real problem?

TIA
John

Free POP Mail Accounts?

[Antony N. Lord]

Seeing the number of my associates who I convinced to take up mac.com 
(iTools) e-mail accounts getting ready to lynch me / Apple can anyone 
recommend another free POP e-mail account?


I'm sorry, I'm not using hotmail (put bluntly - it blows) and I'm not 
having them switch from their mail clients (mainly Eudora) to Outlurk.


And yes, I had them all sign the anti-.mac petition.

(* sigh *)

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Re: [PRODIG] Windows 2000 on a mac Network

[Jon Davison]

on 31/7/02 10:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
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> Fast and easy transfer PCMacLan 2000
> ==
> 
> 
>> Nick Tresidder wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all
>>> 
>>> Can anyone point me in the direction of some resources to enable to see my
>>> clients PC laptop (Windows 2000) on my mac network? I would like to be able
>>> to drop jpgs on his machine directly rather than burning a CD every time!
>>> TIA
>>> Nick Tresidder
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>>> GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for
>>> SALE
>> 
>> 
>> failing anything more elegant you can put 'better telnet' (or one of its
>> improved versions) on the mac and start it up
>> 
>> once running it can serve as a ftp server... and then you can ftp the
>> mac from the laptop with one of many freebee pc ftp programs (or with
>> command line in a dos window if you insist)
>> 
>> not sure if win 2000 has an ftp server that can be initiated - if so
>> then one can use any of many ftp programs on the mac to connnect to the
>> pc, t'other way round
>> 
>> all cost nothing and when works it is drag and drop simple and fast
>> 
>> 
>> philip
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>> SALE
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DAVE is brilliant at networking between Macs ands PC's. Very simple and
effective. Dave 3.1 by Thursby Software Systems. I hope this helps.

Cheers for now
Jon

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FW: GIO

[Jonathan & Elizabeth]

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From: Larry Pohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:11:59 +0800
To: wamug 
Subject: Re: GIO

On 31/7/02 at 7:02 PM, Peter Bull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

IE 5.2 (OSX 10.1.5) works and I get a secure page.

Navigater 0.4.0 http://chimera.mozdev.org/ (OSX 10.1.5 ) works but not a
secure page.

Jonathan Glauert



> Just went to pay my car insurance with GIO and this is what I
found...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To access Payment Online your browser will need to be JAVA enabled.
We're
> sorry, but GIO's Payment Online cannot currently be accessed by
MacIntosh OS
> users.
> 
> I have sent them a nasty email. Hope they get with it.
> 
> Peter Bull
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Did you try to access it ? It seems to work with Mozilla 1.1b on OS X -
though I didn't make a payment for obvious reasons.

Larry

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Re: GIO

[Larry Pohl]

On 31/7/02 at 7:02 PM, Peter Bull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Just went to pay my car insurance with GIO and this is what I
found...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To access Payment Online your browser will need to be JAVA enabled.
We're
> sorry, but GIO's Payment Online cannot currently be accessed by
MacIntosh OS
> users.
> 
> I have sent them a nasty email. Hope they get with it.
> 
> Peter Bull
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Did you try to access it ? It seems to work with Mozilla 1.1b on OS X -
though I didn't make a payment for obvious reasons.

Larry

GIO

[Peter Bull]

Just went to pay my car insurance with GIO and this is what I found...




To access Payment Online your browser will need to be JAVA enabled. We're
sorry, but GIO's Payment Online cannot currently be accessed by MacIntosh OS
users.

I have sent them a nasty email. Hope they get with it.

Peter Bull
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HP 695c printer

[Kevin Lock]

My HP Deskjet 695c is refusing to work, making a groaning noise when 
turned on. I am damned if I can see how to get the cover off it to 
take a look inside, Has anyone opened one before?



TIA

Kevin Lock

Ok....so how do I buy Apple shares?

[Phillip McGree]

Ok, so Apple shares are quite the bargain right now.

It doesn't take genius business acumen to realise that Apple shares are 
underpriced right now, and will bounce back to previous levels between now and 
Christmas.

So I would like to buy some Apple shares as soon as possible, preferably within 
the next few hours.

I'll be calling some local stockbrokers, but if anyone has any experience with 
buying overseas shares, please email or call me on 0418 922 500.





Rgds,
Phil






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Ok....so how do I buy Apple shares?

[Phillip McGree]

Ok, so Apple shares are quite the bargain right now.

It doesn't take genius business acumen to realise that Apple shares are 
underpriced right now, and will bounce back to previous levels between now and 
Christmas.

So I would like to buy some Apple shares as soon as possible, preferably within 
the next few hours.

I'll be calling some local stockbrokers, but if anyone has any experience with 
buying overseas shares, please email or call me on 0418 922 500.





Rgds,
Phil






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MyCapture II USB Video Capture?

[Shaun Procter]

Hi All..

Just wondering if anyone happens to own a MyCapture II and would be 
willing to let me put it through it's paces? I can come to you with 
my laptop and it should not take long to verify how it behaves under 
the circumstances in which we would be using it.


From the specs on the web page it looks like the solution we are 
after but we don't want to rush off and buy a dozen of them without 
making sure it is exactly what we need.


http://www.eskapelabs.com/mycapture2.html


Take it easy...

Shaun
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Re: MODEM Internet disconnections -Scripts ATTACHED

[Neil Houghton]

Just to update on progress so far. Many thanks to all who responded and
particularly to Bob for the scripts. Murphy was working well and as I told
Bob:
> When I last posted on this I had just been disconnected more than ten times in
> a few hours and all that week had been getting frequent disconnections.
> 
> After you sent me the scripts I dropped some in the scripts folder ready to
> try them the next time I had problems. So, would you believe it, since then
> everything has been behaving amazingly well (even though I haven't yet tried
> any of them!) in a week I've had only two or three disconnections!! (It
> reminds me of when I had to faultfind the electronics on unmanned submarines -
> the intermittent faults were always a problem - rarely appeared when you had
> the meter out!)
Anyway this didn't last too long and so the next time I hit problems, I
started trying scripts. I first tied the 'Apple Internal 56K RB' since it
sounded to address several potential causes - unfortunately I had two
disconnections in fairly quick order. I next tried 'Apple Int56K (V34 Only)'
and sofar this seems to have solved the problem - I just have to put up with
a max speed of 33600 - frustrating but not half as frustrating as the
disconnects!!
The above paragraph applies to my Ti G4 400Hz Powerbook.

I am still slowly getting up to speed with OSX on my new 800Hz G4 iMac. To
see if the problem was solved just by the change to v34, I selected the
original 'Apple Internal 56K Modem (v34)' script. The connection seemed
better but I still had problems. I discovered the 'Connection Log' window in
Internet Connect and found that there seemed to be two separate scenarios-

€ 'Terminating on signal 15.'

€ 'No response to 3 echo-requests
Serial link appears to be disconnected.
Connection terminated.'

Each of these scenarios seemed to be happening on a fairly frequent basis,
so I then tried the 'Apple Int56K (V34 Only)' from the scripts Bob sent.
Having placed this in the HD/Library/Modem scripts folder, I selected it in
the network modem preferences, however attempting to connect failed with

€ 'Terminating on signal 15.
Connect Script failed
Serial link disconnected.'

I then tried re-booting into OS9.2 and again found that the original 'Apple
Internal 56K Modem (v34)' script would connect (I didn't stay on long enough
to see how long the connection lasted) but when I tried the 'Apple Int56K
(V34 Only)' from the scripts Bob sent (placed in the
OS9system/extensions/modem scripts folder), again the modem would not
connect.

So the situation seems to be:
1) the original 'Apple Internal 56K Modem scripts (both v.90 & v.34) seem to
have difficulty maintaining a connection both on my powerbook and my iMac.
2) the 'Apple Int56K (V34 Only)' script which Bob sent seems to give a
reliable (if slow) connection with my powerbook.
3) unfortunately, this script does not seem to be compatible with the modem
in my iMac (either under OSX or OS 9.2)

I would really appreciate if some modem guru (Bob?) could advise
a) if the 'connection log' messages give any insight into what is the actual
cause of the disconnection problems
b) any method of getting the fix to work on my iMac
c) any way to get a reliable connection at higher speeds than 33600 or is
this too big an ask (sometimes I have had good long connections at 48000 so
the lines would seem to be good for it - is it a congestion problem?)

TIA

Neil



on 09/07/02 17:48, Bob Howells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
> NEIL,
> 
> Attached you will find a copy of Ross's scripts for troublesome modems.
> 
> I don't know whether this will help. Forgotten what OS and Mac you are having
> trouble with.
> I have some other info also somewhere about disabling the
> Low Carry disconnect function.
> 
> I might need to explain that bit to you. Effectively what it means is
> that your
> modem
> can sense if the Data Carrier signal goes low level, and then initiates a
> disconnect.
> Sometimes we can turn that function off by altering the modem script.
> 
> Also there is another function that can effect the modem.
> 
> When you start up, your compter speaks to the modem to set it up ready to
> connect and dial on the line.
> After the connection is made, the computer only requires the modem to
> onforward
> the info
> but the computer still needs to be able to initiate a disconnection
> The disconnection command is a group of 3 plus signs in a row.
> If i send that here it could initiate you to disconnect. There is a special
> guard circuit in the
> modem that is supposed to stop it recognising
> signals similar to the disconnect pluses.
> which might occur in your text messages
> 
> The suspicion is that your modem is not guarding as good as it should.
> 
> Welll that's the theory anyway,
> Meanwhile check this lot out and see how you make out.
> 
> Have Fun
> 
> Bob Howells
> 
> Neil Houghton wrote:
> 
>> I posted on this subject back in February, recap:
>>> I have a problem that is erratic but seems to b

Re: MP3 music servers

[Greg Hosking]

> I have been bumbling along with Limewire. Gave Acquisition a try and I'm
> convinced. What a great little app.

version tracker turns up unrelated apps when I search for "Acquisition" - is
this the right spelling?

ta

greg