Re: Wanted to buy USB Cd Writer

[Keith Palmer]

These are in stock $333

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 08:52 PM, Greg wrote:


Looking for a External CDWRITER to suit a iBook G3
Im in Perth


Keith Palmer
Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd
PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231
Phone: 0419927101 Fax: 0897915900
the online data storage & technology store -
http://www.zytech.com.au/

email addresses - bulk import

[bill parker]

I want to take an email address list (presently in Filemaker Pro 5) into
either Outlook express or (preferably) Eudora. The list can be saved a
number of ways. Outlook Express won't touch it as a plain text file as a
bulk import.

Eudora does not appear have the means to import bulk addresses. Any
suggestions? 

Bill
Dr Bill Parker

RENEW
ABN 39 465 428 916
Technical writing and editing in energy and resources.
Getting your technical message to a wide audience.

Box 322 Mt Lawley WA 6929
08 9371 6373 0403 583 676
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[Andrew Nielsen]

At 22:19 +0800 21/11/02, Reg Whitely wrote:

So Andrew, what plans does she have for you?


I believe cryogenic facilities are improving all the time ;-)

My wife actually trained and works as a professional records manager 
and archivist. Hence her interest in the use of the word "archival".

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Consultants in Unix, Mac OS, Windows & networking technologies

Text to speech in office OSX

[ssagan1]

It seems that there is no way to have my text spoken in Microsoft Office OSX. 
Is it me or is there a way to have it work?

Sincerely; Stan

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Re: big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[Shay Telfer]

Your solution then is to use a FireCube enclosure with a Maxtor drive
. Shay Telfer is currently using a Maxtor 160 in one of these cases
 only problem Maxtor have just recently deleted all their BIG
drives in favour of a new range they are releasing in about 15-30 days
 bottom line is there is no pricing OR availability.


There is a firmware patch that allows the enclosure to address the 
full 160Gb. Of course the drive is formatted at 138Gb and I don't 
have a spare 138Gb at the moment to copy everything off to while I 
reformat the drive, so I can't give a 100% guarantee that it works as 
expected for the full 160Gb :)


Have fun,
Shay
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FOR SALE : HP officejet 635 and Epson SP 700

[Phillip Arena]

Hello all,
I have a HP Officejet 635 Colour (print, copy, scan, fax) which we've 
been using on one of our PCs. It has been superseded by a new fax 
machine and is surplus to our needs. To be honest, it has only been 
used as a Fax machine and copier. It needs new cartridges and is in 
perfect condition.


Does anyone no of a PC user who may need it?

The nearest offer to $200 can have it.

I've also an Epson Stylus Photo 700 which we no longer need. I use 
the same model at home and it's still as good as ever. I just don't 
need two! The Epson will run off both Mac (as I do at home) and PC 
just as easily. It needs a black cartridge and I can throw in a new 
colour cartridge for free.


How's $150 for the Epson?

Or...someone can take both for $300.

Regards

Phil

PS. I've just managed to put our old server cabinet together and will 
post up a photo in this weekend. I apologise for the delay.


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Re: big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[john m]

Martin,

Have a look t this 250GB FireWire HD: 
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/20.lacie.php


john.m

Re: big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[Reg Whitely]

So Andrew, what plans does she have for you?

Reg

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:31 pm, Andrew Nielsen wrote:


My wife will tell you that "archival storage" really means storing
things for the long term, hundreds or many hundreds of years.

"Archival" is a word which is grossly misused in computer parlance.

Re: Digital voice recorder

[Jon Davison]

Hi everyone

I am off around Australia soon, doing interviews and shooting images for a
new book. I am wondering if there is such an animal as a digital voice
recorder that records to disk, and/or outputs as text.
I wish to use it with a Mac G4 and Tibook G4.I don't want to do loads of
interviews on tape then transcribe to Word.

I may be barking up the wrong tree here, but if anyone knows of a system
that can do this, I would love to hear from them.

Thanks 
Jon

Beneath Southern Skies
A celebration of 100 years of Australian Aviation
€ 272 page coffee-table book case-bound
€ Interviews throughout
€ Images by aviation photographer Jon Davison
€ Archival section
€ For release August 2003
€ URL 
€ Published by Lothian Books
€ 
€ Produced by ESP 

is OSX unix? was: Re: [w] Virus Warning

[Mark Secker]

Thanks, to all who posted my firmly held beliefs are confirmed and 
another anti mac zealot slayed ;)


Having not been involved with UNIX support for more than 10 years I 
was not willing to go head to head with a Unix zealot without double 
checking the facts first.

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sight of the shore."

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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving 
safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across 
the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, 
shouting GERONIMO"

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Re: big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[Andrew Nielsen]

My wife will tell you that "archival storage" really means storing 
things for the long term, hundreds or many hundreds of years.


"Archival" is a word which is grossly misused in computer parlance.
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Andrew Nielsen 
Starfish Technologies Pty Ltd 
ACN 076 426 714 / ABN 49 426 849 601 Tel: 0500 555 677
Consultants in Unix, Mac OS, Windows & networking technologies

Wanted to buy USB Cd Writer

[Greg]

Looking for a External CDWRITER to suit a iBook G3
Im in Perth

Thanks

Re: big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[Keith Palmer]

Hi Martin

There are a few things to consider first. Most importantly that if you 
put a 180GB drive in your FireWire enclosure you will have a 138GB 
drive !!


This is because of the ATA-100 limit to this capacity although our 
FireCube enclosure can be flashed to accept higher capacity (SLOW) 
Maxtor drives.


We are awaiting a new board that will also accept larger IBM drives - 
we are one of the VERY few outlets with stock of IBM's new 180GB drive.


I can guarantee you won't get past 138GB on any 5.25" solution.

Your solution then is to use a FireCube enclosure with a Maxtor drive 
. Shay Telfer is currently using a Maxtor 160 in one of these cases 
 only problem Maxtor have just recently deleted all their BIG 
drives in favour of a new range they are releasing in about 15-30 days 
 bottom line is there is no pricing OR availability.


So as of today there is no off-the-shelf external solution effectively 
beyond 120GB drives. This will change next month with Maxtor's new 
range.


Hope this helps  well it doesn't really does it?

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Martin Hill wrote:


Anyone have a recommendation for large capacity Hard disk chambers
that would be good for archival storage. The requirements would be:
low-cost per megabyte
Slow! It needn't be fast access or transfer rates (not being used
for online fast access, but rather off-line storage of material).
3.5" or 5.25" IDE ATA mechanism that can be slotted into a Firewire
(1394) enclosure when needed.



We've seen 120GB ATA hard disk chambers for as low as $369 which is a
great price per megabyte ratio for a HD, but would love even larger
capacities per drive. We've seen 200Gb chambers but these have 8MB
caches and are obviously geared for speed and thus have a
commensurately higher price ($899). We don't need a fast drive -
5400 rpm (or less!) with no cache would be fine - it'd still be
faster than tape and we'd work off faster AV drives when actually
capturing DV footage or editing it. We also don't care if it is a
3.5" or 5.25" mechanism. Using a 5.25" Firewire enclosure with it
would be fine.
Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Keith Palmer
Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd
PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231
Phone: 0419927101 Fax: 0897915900
the online data storage & technology store -
http://www.zytech.com.au/

Re: big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[Shay Telfer]

We've seen 120GB ATA hard disk chambers for as low as $369 which is a
great price per megabyte ratio for a HD, but would love even larger
capacities per drive. We've seen 200Gb chambers but these have 8MB
caches and are obviously geared for speed and thus have a
commensurately higher price ($899). We don't need a fast drive -
5400 rpm (or less!) with no cache would be fine - it'd still be
faster than tape and we'd work off faster AV drives when actually
capturing DV footage or editing it. We also don't care if it is a
3.5" or 5.25" mechanism. Using a 5.25" Firewire enclosure with it
would be fine.


They're not particularly cheap, but these folks have a 5400RPM 350Gb enclosure:



As a guide you can get a 250Gb Maxtor enclosure in Aus for $899 GST Inc.

Might be cheaper to get a discount by buying 80Gb drives in quantity 
and RAIDing or caddying them.



DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD+RW, etc or similar are too small capacity-wise
(4.8GB up to maybe 18GB for double-sided, double-layer when it
becomes available) price per megabyte is reasonable ($10 per 4.8GB
DVD-R for example).


DVD-R's can be got for much less than $10 each I believe.

In the US at least, on :

DVD-R media 100pk for $65 shipped 10:21 am
SupermediaStore.com offers its house-brand 4.7GB DVD-R media 
100-pack for $65 with free shipping. At 65 cents per disc, it's the 
least expensive DVD-R media we've seen in this quantity. Need more? 
A 200-pack costs $125, or around 63 cents per disc, and a 500-pack 
costs $282.50, or around 57 cents per disc.




Downloading DV footage out to Mini-DV tape ($9 per 60minute (13GB)
tape) is ok for raw DV footage but not for general computer data and
is the penalty of slow real-time downloading and uploading of
footage. 13GB is not enough either.


Wow, where can you get Mini-DV tapes for $9?

There are also projects afoot to allow you to record computer data to 
DV tape using your camcorder :)


Have fun,
Shay
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big, slower 3.5" or 5.25" bare HDs for archival storage?

[Martin Hill]

Anyone have a recommendation for large capacity Hard disk chambers 
that would be good for archival storage. The requirements would be:
low-cost per megabyte
Slow! It needn't be fast access or transfer rates (not being used 
for online fast access, but rather off-line storage of material).
3.5" or 5.25" IDE ATA mechanism that can be slotted into a Firewire 
(1394) enclosure when needed.

We need to store lots of DV footage, DVD projects as well as general data etc

We've seen 120GB ATA hard disk chambers for as low as $369 which is a 
great price per megabyte ratio for a HD, but would love even larger 
capacities per drive. We've seen 200Gb chambers but these have 8MB 
caches and are obviously geared for speed and thus have a 
commensurately higher price ($899). We don't need a fast drive - 
5400 rpm (or less!) with no cache would be fine - it'd still be 
faster than tape and we'd work off faster AV drives when actually 
capturing DV footage or editing it. We also don't care if it is a 
3.5" or 5.25" mechanism. Using a 5.25" Firewire enclosure with it 
would be fine.

DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD+RW, etc or similar are too small capacity-wise 
(4.8GB up to maybe 18GB for double-sided, double-layer when it 
becomes available) price per megabyte is reasonable ($10 per 4.8GB 
DVD-R for example).

Downloading DV footage out to Mini-DV tape ($9 per 60minute (13GB) 
tape) is ok for raw DV footage but not for general computer data and 
is the penalty of slow real-time downloading and uploading of 
footage. 13GB is not enough either.

We have higher capacity tape drives like 50GB AIT-3, but these cost 
about $230 for each tape and have horribly slow seek times compared 
to a HD.

Thanks for any suggestions.

ciao

-Mart
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[for sale] powerbook 3400 update

[Luke Brown]

Hi,

Lots of you have got back to me re the powerbook im selling, im looking 
for about $450


its a 3400 with 200Mhz, 64M and 2GB

Its got a cd drive, and onboard ethernet.

No reasonable offer refused.

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Computer Support Officer
Center for Water Research, UWA
9380 3183, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FOR SALE]: G4/450DP + 15" LCD

[Ian Hooper]

Hi all,

Due to upgrade I am looking to sell my G4/450DP, specced as follows:

- G4 dual 450Mhz processors
- 1 gig RAM
- 80 gig Seagate Barracuda IV 7200rpm hard drive
- Internal Sony 40x24x10 CDRW drive
- Apple 15" LCD display (no dead or dodgy pixels)

With all original CDs, books and boxes. In my own speed tests against a
700Mhz G4 iMac, this machine came out almost 50% faster on average! Asking
$2750 complete or $2100 sans monitor, please email me if interested.

Ian Hooper
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Re: Fwd: Re: [w] Virus Warning

[Shay Telfer]

Any one care to comment here
Am I under a false belief that that a modification of FreeBSD Unix is
the kernal of OSX and that it is in fact a real Unix system at its
heart and soul?



Bah - OSX is not UNIX, it uses a Mach microkernal (which is a nasty piece
of work) not a unix kernal. Having a BSD compatability layer does not make

>it unix. Have they even done the POSIX compatability stuff yet?


I'm not quite sure what their definition of a unix kernal is. Do they 
consider Linux to be Unix? POSIX only came into being in 1986:






Of course, if by Unix you mean 'most popular Unix' then that'd be Mac 
OS, as Apple has now shipped more copies of a Unix based operating 
system (albeit Mac OS X flavoured) than anyone else.



>They would have been better off buying out Be and using properly modern

stuff but Jobs had to be involved.



At the time the Be operating system was immature and still under 
development, even if it did embody modern OS concepts. NeXT had a 
good (for then) application development environment, and had been 
around for a while, if selling only into selected markets (like the 
NSA). And if they hadn't brought Jobs back into the fold it's 
unlikely we would have seen the iMac, the iPod, or any of the other 
hardware that's revolutionised industrial design, consumer computing, 
and Apple's financials... If better off means 'going broke' then I 
guess they would have been better off with Be and no Jobs.


You'll note also that ex-Be employees are currently responsible for 
designing the next Mac OS file system.



>BTW isn't Outlook the most common email client on the Mac ;)


I'm not sure what assumption that's based on. It's not even installed 
by default. Most people I know use Eudora, and these days Mail.app is 
shipped on every Mac.


Have fun,
Shay
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Re: [w] Virus Warning

[hinchlif]

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 08:01 AM, Mark Secker wrote:

> Any one care to comment here
> Am I under a false belief that that a modification of FreeBSD Unix is
> the kernal of OSX and that it is in fact a real Unix system at its
> heart and soul?

The kernel of MacOS X is Darwin, based on FreeBSD, and completely open 
source. It's not a "BSD compatibility layer". It's Unix. It may have 
been modified to support layers such as Quartz, Classic, OpenGL, etc, 
but Unix it is.

We can refer your correspondent to Apple's site where it says:

"Darwin is a complete BSD UNIX implementation, derived from the 
original 4.4BSD-Lite2 Open Source distribution. Darwin uses a 
monolithic kernel based on FreeBSD 4.4 and the OSF/mk Mach 3, combining 
BSD’s POSIX support with the fine-grained multithreading and real-time 
performance of Mach."

People are free to believe what they want, I guess.

>
>>
>> Bah - OSX is not UNIX, it uses a Mach microkernal (which is a nasty 
>> piece
>> of work) not a unix kernal. Having a BSD compatability layer does not 
>> make
>> it unix. Have they even done the POSIX compatability stuff yet?
>> They would have been better off buying out Be and using properly 
>> modern
>> stuff but Jobs had to be involved.
>>
>> BTW isn't Outlook the most common email client on the Mac ;)
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> 9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL)
> ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia.
> CRICOS Provider No. 00126G

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Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, 
Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.



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Fwd: Re: [w] Virus Warning

[Mark Secker]

Any one care to comment here
Am I under a false belief that that a modification of FreeBSD Unix is 
the kernal of OSX and that it is in fact a real Unix system at its 
heart and soul?




Bah - OSX is not UNIX, it uses a Mach microkernal (which is a nasty piece
of work) not a unix kernal. Having a BSD compatability layer does not make
it unix. Have they even done the POSIX compatability stuff yet?
They would have been better off buying out Be and using properly modern
stuff but Jobs had to be involved.

BTW isn't Outlook the most common email client on the Mac ;)

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Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL)
ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia.
CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
~
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose 
sight of the shore."

Andre Gide

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving 
safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across 
the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, 
shouting GERONIMO"

reputably by "Bill McKenna" but possibly the inexhaustibly quotable "anon"

Re: mapping to a network drive [Scanned]

[Shay Telfer]

Question No 1:

How do I connect to a shared directory located on a Windows 2000 Server
using OSX? I have successfully connected to the network but am stumped
by this problem. At this point I can only 'talk' to the network and 'go'
to selected server addresses to retrieve files... When using
applications such as Word X I cannot seem to locate any network links to
connect to our share.


Once you've mounted the Windows server (via 'Go->Connect to Server' 
in the Finder) they appear at the root of your local directory 
hierarchy, where your hard drive itself appears. You can then 
navigate down the hierarchy just like your local hard drive.



Question No 2:

Is there a way of creating a shortcut to a file without first going to
the file (ie typing in the exact path to the file)? I'm wishing to
create offline shortcuts and don't have access to them yet.


Pretty much, no. Unless you wanted to reverse engineer the alias file 
format and construct them by hand. You could always create a URL 
document with the appropriate file path, something like 



One of the ideas of Mac OS is to attempt to reduce the number of 
times you need to type in paths to files :)


Thanks,
Shay
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Re: Titanium Powerbook G4

[Matthew Healey]

On 20/11/2002 11:00 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> A colleague of mine is looking to urgently purchase in WA a PowerBook; 1GHz
> PowerPC G4; top of the range.
> 
> HAS ANYONE HAVE RECENT EXPERIENCE IN SUCH A PURCHASE?
> 
> If so, could they kindly forward details of the same, including location
> details of store and price paid (along with any options that were added in)
> my colleague would be most grateful.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Miles Humphreys

A few possibilities. Not sure if anyone will have stock yet though...

AppleCentre Mt Hawthorn - 9444 9988
AppleCentre Joondalup - 9301 5333
Desktop Application - 9322 6789

Regards

Matthew Healey

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Fax: +61 (08) 9381 8300

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Western Australia

mapping to a network drive [Scanned]

[Gaff, Warwick]

Hi all.



I am new to Macintosh OSX and only know the basics which have derived
from my older Mac OS 9.1 experience. I have run into some problems with
setting up a networked iBook to our Win2k Server. 



Question No 1:

How do I connect to a shared directory located on a Windows 2000 Server
using OSX? I have successfully connected to the network but am stumped
by this problem. At this point I can only 'talk' to the network and 'go'
to selected server addresses to retrieve files... When using
applications such as Word X I cannot seem to locate any network links to
connect to our share.



Question No 2:

Is there a way of creating a shortcut to a file without first going to
the file (ie typing in the exact path to the file)? I'm wishing to
create offline shortcuts and don't have access to them yet.



Regards



Warwick Gaff
IT Technician



Trinity College

Trinity Avenue, East Perth



ph: +61 (08) 93253655 ext: 161

fx: +61 (08) 92214352

mb: +61 0415 638 104

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