Re: JunkMail

[Susan Hastings]

Switching over to the 10.2 version of mail, with Junkmail on automatic 
seems to have done the trick in terms of not having to wade through all 
the junk.



On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 12:26 AM, John Currie wrote:


Since Tuesday last week I have had over 80 junk emails.

Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

[Susan Hastings]

If beautiful women are attracted to an object, perhaps they could be 
reprogrammed to be attracted to something cheaper than a Ferrari!!



On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 12:36 AM, Phillip McGree wrote:



1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up 
beautiful women


- Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured out 
years ago!



Rgds,
Phil



No Ferrari
No beautiful women
No chance at all



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Re: JunkMail

[Susan Hastings]

I'm relieved in a way that we are all copping this junkmail spree, I 
thought I must have done something wrong!


It's not just this list, I'm getting doubles because of getting them 
through my student email account as well.



On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 12:26 AM, John Currie wrote:


Since Tuesday last week I have had over 80 junk emails.

34 people are convinced I need a lower mortgage
11 ubiquitous porn merchants, most of whom are trying to convince me 
that
now I don't need a credit card any longer to share in the delights 
they are

offering
8 believe they can enlarge my penis by 27% (sic) with a herbal pill (it
would have to be a heavy pill with a string attached)
6 are worried about my baldness
7 think I am overweight
2 claim to have been very impressed with my website (I havent got 
one) but

believe they could help me to improve it
1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up beautiful 
women


And last but not least (I shouldn't be telling you this because it was
personal and confidential) Chief Eseimoku from Nigeria has chosen 
little
old me, so long as I can convince him of my transparency and 
negotiate an
appropriate commission to be his agent in the matter of a deposit of 
49.5

million US dollars which he will put in my account .
I was tempted by this, because with appropriate commission of say 10
million AUS I wouldn't have to worry about my baldness, fatness and 
short
penis. I don't think I would have any trouble attracting beautiful 
women

and best of all, I could get Onno to do my websites.
The problem is how could I explain it to my bank manager .

After more than 100 years of free compulsory education it is as SBS 
says

a truly amazing world we live in







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Computer complexities

[Paul Weaver]

Some of the insides of Apple computers, like so many other brands come from
a variety of OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). There is an
interesting US Customs/Treasury account of how this acquisition of OEM bits
from around the globe works for another US brand of computer. Read it at
http://cryptome.org/uscs092002.txt

Regards, Paul.

Word and Save as....

[Dr Bill Parker]

> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:37:54 +0800
> From: Bob Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: WORD... DO a SAVE AS...!
> 
> Good Morning,
> 
> It seems it is time to highlight again the need to do a "SAVE AS "
> different name when using older or corrected WORD documents.
> 
> This theme appeared on WAMUG some time ago but it is obvious
> it is still a current topic.
> 
> FOR your own enlightenment , on an older word document,
> check the file size and then do a "SAVE AS " on a different name
> and see the size of the new document.
> 
> It is part of Word process to keep all the alterations mistakes etc in the
> file,
> but will drop them off when you do that " SAVE AS ".
> 
> By the way, if space is an issue, SAVE AS an older version of WORD
> and then check the file size.
> It is very educational.
> 
> Have fun
> 
> Bob


I agree in principle Bob, but this did not work for me. I have been
working recently on documents that hadn't been touched since last December.
One or two played up badly then, Tried the "save as" trick and used the
same name (I think). Then last week, the nightmare started again with the
same series of docs. As I said, the only way forward was to save as TEXT
ONLY and re-do all the formatting as before. This might not be quite what
you are talking about because when it happens I get horrible screen effects
( ghosts, spaces where windows were etc, and extreme slowness) .

Now if I look in the document list window and find anything that has a K
size not commensurate with what I expect, well, I know what to expect!


Bill

Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

[Phillip McGree]

>1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up beautiful women

- Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured out years ago!


Rgds,
Phil



No Ferrari
No beautiful women
No chance at all



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Re: JunkMail

[J Philippe Chaperon]

on 23/09/2002 4:26 PM, John Currie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Since Tuesday last week I have had over 80 junk emails.
> 

> And last but not least (I shouldn't be telling you this because it was
> personal and confidential) Chief Eseimoku from Nigeria has chosen little
> old me, so long as I can convince him of my transparency and negotiate an
> appropriate commission to be his agent in the matter of a deposit of 49.5
> million US dollars which he will put in my account .


Hi John,

Isn't our PM in Nigeria at the moment? He could bring the 49.5m easily in
his diplomatic bag and hey presto! your problems, hair, size etc solved
.

Well written and got me in tears!

Regards,

Philippe Chaperon

JunkMail

[John Currie]

Since Tuesday last week I have had over 80 junk emails.

34 people are convinced I need a lower mortgage
11 ubiquitous porn merchants, most of whom are trying to convince me that
now I don't need a credit card any longer to share in the delights they are
offering
8 believe they can enlarge my penis by 27% (sic) with a herbal pill (it
would have to be a heavy pill with a string attached)
6 are worried about my baldness
7 think I am overweight
2 claim to have been very impressed with my website (I havent got one) but
believe they could help me to improve it
1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up beautiful women

And last but not least (I shouldn't be telling you this because it was
personal and confidential) Chief Eseimoku from Nigeria has chosen little
old me, so long as I can convince him of my transparency and negotiate an
appropriate commission to be his agent in the matter of a deposit of 49.5
million US dollars which he will put in my account .
I was tempted by this, because with appropriate commission of say 10
million AUS I wouldn't have to worry about my baldness, fatness and short
penis. I don't think I would have any trouble attracting beautiful women
and best of all, I could get Onno to do my websites.
The problem is how could I explain it to my bank manager .

After more than 100 years of free compulsory education it is as SBS says
a truly amazing world we live in

Re: Eddy Wajon's problem

[Brad Helden]

Bill Parker stated:

> 1) Update OS to 9.2.2

That bit I would not bother with. I still find 9.2.1 OK

The reason I suggested 9.2.2 is that it is recognized as being stable 
and addresses some problems found on 9.2.1

> 3) As a Netscape fan would suggest moving over to that browser and
> also allocating a decent amount of RAM to it.
Dont use it, but agree with the principle below of allocating much higher
RAM to IE 5.0 which I use all the time.

The move to Netscape was that IE still has some security problems yet 
to be fully addressed and that Netscape 7 has many new features that 
make it easy to set-up and use

The bottom line Eddy is that it will be your own personal decision on 
software choice.the most important thing is regards RAM 
allocation which many people often forget to attend to even though 
they have a fair amount of memory installed.

Brad

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FS: External SCSI Zip 250mb

[Mike Fuller]

I have an external 250 Mb SCSI Zip drive available (does 100 Mb discs also).
It comes with SCSI cable, power cable and universal power supply (neat
little unit that will take any AC input from 110V to 250V - why can't all
adapters be this good!) It still has its original box and hasn't done much
work at all.

I'll also include a 250 Mb disc and 4 x 100 Mb discs (1 new and 3 almost
new).

I want at least $200 and thought I'd offer it to the WAMUG list before
probably selling it on ebay.

If you're interested you can ring me on 9390 9350 or just email.

Regards,

Mike Fuller

slightly OT, MIDI "patching" program for mac.

[Mark Secker]

Given that Mac people are generally the creative type (OK that's a 
big suck to mac MIDI users) hopefully someone on list maybe able to 
assist me.


As an Bass player currently learning keyboards my MIDI knowledge is 
pretty minimal.


My accumulated MIDI gear is: (including long term borrows of a 
keyboard playing friend who is now a bass player - he has my bass 
gear semi permanently and I have his keyboard gear semi permanently):


Kawai Digital Piano

Yamaha CS1X

Roland JV1010

ART X15 (?) Bigfoot MIDI foot controller board(? don't know exact 
model - was purple but owner has spray painted it matt black hiding 
all labels)


MIDIMan MIDISPORT MIDI box + abundant MIDI cables

+ G3 PowerBook


What I'd like to do is to interface them via my mac and use the ART 
foot controller to control patch (program) changes sounds simple 
eh? well it is and can do all this via the MIDISPORT but what I 
REALLY want to do is to be able to have a bank of MIDI commands that 
the ART controls so that instead of all devices receiving the same 
program changes from the ART (ie all devices receive program change 
120 when 120 is selected on the ART) that instead the ART transmits 
data to a program on the mac that then transmits to the other 
devices individual program change information based on a table that I 
can set (so say program change 120 transmitted on the ART triggers 
the JV1010 to change to program 4 and the CS1X to change to program 
84).


is this possible with any existing MIDI program for Mac? If so is 
there a freeware/shareware/cheap program that will do this?

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Re: Slow start-up

[Shay Telfer]

I'm using an iBook with a PowerPCG3 processor. It has 384mb of memory.
The problem is at start-up where it is literally taking 4-5 minutes to
load. During that time it has the smiling face logo. I deleted some old
files and emptied deleted boxes etc. No effect.
I am running OSX,Office and nothing else really. I have been using
Timeslice for a while but I don't think that is related.
Suggestions?
Adrian


Mac OS X performs a disk check at startup, which may take some time 
if your machine wasn't shutdown properly beforehand, or if it's 
having disk problems. Run Disk First Aid and DiskWarrior (if you've 
got it) to check.


Also, if your machine is set to get its address via DHCP it may wait 
for some time before the network to respond if the machine isn't 
plugged into a network with a DHCP server active. Also make sure that 
the machine is set to startup from the correct disk in the Startup 
Disk preference panel.


(Also, as you're using Mac OS X and still getting the smiley face, 
you're obviously not running Mac OS X 10.2, under which startup time 
was improved somewhat)


Have fun,
Shay
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Slow start-up

[Adrian Colley]

I'm using an iBook with a PowerPCG3 processor. It has 384mb of memory.
The problem is at start-up where it is literally taking 4-5 minutes to
load. During that time it has the smiling face logo. I deleted some old
files and emptied deleted boxes etc. No effect.
I am running OSX,Office and nothing else really. I have been using
Timeslice for a while but I don't think that is related.
Suggestions?
Adrian

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Re: Music

[Brett Carboni]

On 22/9/02 10:32 AM, "Adrian Skehan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there an alternative site to KazaA (no Mac support) from which one
> can download old music from, my interest is in the 1920's to 1940's.

Try iSwipe, latest version iSwipe 1.2b9 PPC. Available from


(They have an OSX version too methinks).

Or if you run OSX, "Acquisition" is good.

Brett Carboni
Tsunami

Re: Credit Card inputting on the internet ...

[god]

Hi All,

I think this is just the sign of a lazy programmer. I wrote an online 
payment program for my employer about a year ago, and I *insisted* that we 
break all questionable fields into their smallest parts, so that mistakes 
cannot be made:



So far we had one email complaint from one customer who was trying to add 
spaces, but soon thereafter figured it out. If memory serves me correctly -
he had the problem, wrote the email, then figured it out about 5 mins 
later.

I hate to blow my own trumpet, but this was born from the fact that I got 
so annoyed at those sites with teeny weeny boxes that expect a 16 digit CC 
number in them, and you can't view the first part of the digits that 
you've put in.

Have a good day.

Richard

> On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 09:14 PM, Bob wrote:
> 
> > I think this is the standard way of inputting credit card details
> > online worldwide.

Re: WORD... DO a SAVE AS...!

[Dr Jim Cummins]

At 9:40 AM +0800 23/9/02, Shay Telfer wrote:

>Good Morning,


It seems it is time to highlight again the need to do a "SAVE AS "
different name when using older or corrected WORD documents.


I believe turning off 'Fast Save' will also have a similar effect.

Have fun,
Shay

The same goes for Excel and PowerPoint, BTW. Nasty memory creep business.
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Re: WORD... DO a SAVE AS...!

[Shay Telfer]

Good Morning,

It seems it is time to highlight again the need to do a "SAVE AS "
different name when using older or corrected WORD documents.


I believe turning off 'Fast Save' will also have a similar effect.

Have fun,
Shay
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Re: WORD... DO a SAVE AS...!

[Bob Howells]

Good Morning,

It seems it is time to highlight again the need to do a "SAVE AS "
different name when using older or corrected WORD documents.

This theme appeared on WAMUG some time ago but it is obvious
it is still a current topic.

FOR your own enlightenment , on an older word document,
check the file size and then do a "SAVE AS " on a different name
and see the size of the new document.

It is part of Word process to keep all the alterations mistakes etc in the
file,
but will drop them off when you do that " SAVE AS ".

By the way, if space is an issue, SAVE AS an older version of WORD
and then check the file size.
It is very educational.

Have fun

Bob

Dr Bill Parker wrote:

> This was suggested:
>
> > 1) Update OS to 9.2.2
>
> That bit I would not bother with. I still find 9.2.1 OK
>
> > 2) Allocate as much RAM memory as possible to Word and (especially)
> > Outlook Express
>
> I have Word 2001 for Mac and set at 25,000K with no further problems.
> Occasionally I get the odd file that appears to have a size not commensurate
> with its content. I save it as a text file and start over. Don't know why
> that works, but it does although its a pain if there is significant
> formatting in the original. I have checked on or two these files ( the
> symptom is a complete slow down of everything) with BBEdit and its bizarre
> what they contain - fragments of long dead word docs from way back.
> > 3) As a Netscape fan would suggest moving over to that browser and
> > also allocating a decent amount of RAM to it.
> Dont use it, but agree with the principle below of allocating much higher
> RAM to IE 5.0 which I use all the time.
> >
> > With regards to RAM allocation my Mac has 1GB RAM with 75,766K
> > assigned to IE (when I use it)
>
> Bill
>
> Dr Bill Parker
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Re: (unknown)

[Shay Telfer]

I think this is the standard way of inputting credit card details 
online worldwide.


Umm... No, sorry, it isn't, and any credit card processing system or 
web site that can't handle it isn't worth using!


Have fun,
Shay
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Re: Hallelujah, a HP driver at last!

[Shay Telfer]

Finally after catching Garner
after a Jaguar presentation I got the REAL story - OSX networking is TCP/IP
based and although it can connect to appletalk networks, they CANNOT connect
to OSX. OS 7.5, however can only connect via appletalk.


Apple has been deprecating AppleTalk since Mac OS 8.5, when it 
introduced AFP. That was at least 6 years ago!



So apparently the
only way to maintain a working network with bi-directional connection for
each computer is if I boot my iMac in OSX (although keeping Classic running
seems to kludge it). Now I'm a long time Mac user, but not a networking
expert - because I never needed to be! I used to consider the
self-configuring plug & play ease of appletalk networking to be a HUGE plus
for Macs. With OSX however, it took many hours of playing with the various
options before I could even find out that the system would NOT actually do
what I required.


Alternatively you could upgrade the machine running System 7.5, 
(which was released more than 7 years ago), or use FTP, or share 
files from the System 7.5 machine and mount the volume on the iMac.



Sleep:

The iMac will not sleep reliably. If I put it to sleep it immediately
re-awakens. If left it will put itself to sleep but keeps re-awakening
itself. Very occasionally it seems to work OK and stay asleep but despite
trying every combination of hardware (ie disconnecting the network and
various USB printer, scanner, zip drive) I cannot see any pattern. Also
sometimes it would re-awaken the powerbook over the network (I'm assuming
this since I never see a problem with the powerbook when the iMac is powered
down).


Do you have it set to 'Wake on LAN' in the Energy Saver preferences?

Thanks,
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WTB: monitor

[Keith Palmer]

Mike Tunnecliffe phone 08-9430 4377 is chasing an old Mac monitor to 
buy - please call him if you have one gathering dust.


He also has a LaCie SCSI CD-ROM burner for sale - give him a shout for 
the details.


Keith Palmer
Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd
PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231
Phone: 0419927101 Fax: 0897915900
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