Re: Internet connection in Aus

[Shay Telfer]

My son who lives in Asia will be visiting me in a few months while
doing some work here in Oz. He will be bringing his PowerBook which he
purchased overseas to do his work on and will need internet connection
at times while he is here and staying with me. I only have dialup thru
a modem but that will do for him he said for his short stay. We know
the voltage is not a problem and we will have to get a converter 3 pin
plug, again no problem. But I do not have any idea about the phone
connection cable. Can we just plug in a phone connection cable used
here, like for my external modem [on my BWG3], between his PB and our
home telephone outlet?


Yes.


I have not examined a PB up close let alone used
one. [Altho if I get to use this one I may buy one!] Are the phone
connection ports on the PB international universal?


Yes, although the letter of the law says that the equipment needs to 
be Austel certified. I doubt the telecommunications police will be 
kicking your door down during the night though, they seem to let 
everyone else with an overseas laptop off :)


Have fun,
Shay
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Perth, Western Australia Technomancer It must be bunnies!
Opinions for hire [POQ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord

Internet connection in Aus

[Peter Sealy]

My son who lives in Asia will be visiting me in a few months while 
doing some work here in Oz. He will be bringing his PowerBook which he 
purchased overseas to do his work on and will need internet connection 
at times while he is here and staying with me. I only have dialup thru 
a modem but that will do for him he said for his short stay. We know 
the voltage is not a problem and we will have to get a converter 3 pin 
plug, again no problem. But I do not have any idea about the phone 
connection cable. Can we just plug in a phone connection cable used 
here, like for my external modem [on my BWG3], between his PB and our 
home telephone outlet? I have not examined a PB up close let alone used 
one. [Altho if I get to use this one I may buy one!] Are the phone 
connection ports on the PB international universal?
Also any advice on setting modem scripts for the PB's internal modem? 
Or do you even have to do that? Just plug and play as it were? My ISP 
is Hotkey and my phone company is Telstra.

I would be grateful for any advice.

.

Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA

Re: 'Unable to turn AppleTalk on' error message

[Shay Telfer]

Applecare KnowledgeBase Document No.106613 seems to come close to
identifying the problem "Mac OS X can only print to an AppleTalk printer
when there is one and only one network interface (or "port") using
AppleTalk."

I am guessing [because I have no technical or Network knowledge] that
Internet Connect is somehow involved as the Internet Connect pane has been
showing up during my attempts to find a solution.


How is your machine set to connect to the internet, via modem? Is 
AppleTalk turned on for the Ethernet interface in the Network 
Preference Pane, or the modem connection? It needs to be turned on on 
the ethernet interface, so select that from the pop-up menu in the 
Network Preference Pane first (or if it's not there, enable your 
ethernet interface by choosing 'Network Port Configurations')


Good luck,
Shay
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'Unable to turn AppleTalk on' error message

[Jack FOX - WAMUG]

Dear Wamuggers,

Apparent problem: AppleTalk paying up ‹ unable to connect to printer.

Hardware: TiBook 667
System: 10.2.2
Printer: Apple LaserWriter Select 360
Bridge: Assanté Micro Assanté Print [Ethernet to Serial]

This is the second time I have used this printer. The first time [a couple
of weeks ago] the system recognised the printer and the printer printed its
own warm up test page and my test Word.doc document flawlessly [which I
thought was very cool]. Today, the printer still prints its own warm up test
page without problems.

However, I keep getting the error message with the following additional info
in the error box: 'No AppleTalk printers are available because AppleTalk is
not active. To make AppleTalk active, open Network Preferences and click the
AppleTalk tab. Then select the Make AppleTalk Active checkbox.'

The trouble is, when I open Network Preferences the Make AppleTalk Active
checkbox is already checked. Unchecking and rechecking then clicking 'Apply
Now' [and other combinations] does not solve the problem.

Network pane:
Location: Automatic
Show: Built-in Ethernet
Computer Name: TiBook
AppleTalk Zone: [this field is blank]
Configure: Automatically

My other related problem is that, with AppleTalk off and unable to be
activated, no printer shows in the Printer List of the Print Center.

Applecare KnowledgeBase Document No.106613 seems to come close to
identifying the problem "Mac OS X can only print to an AppleTalk printer
when there is one and only one network interface (or "port") using
AppleTalk."

I am guessing [because I have no technical or Network knowledge] that
Internet Connect is somehow involved as the Internet Connect pane has been
showing up during my attempts to find a solution.

I'm confident the printer, cabling and bridge are functioning as normal with
green for go printer light and green flashing 'LI" on the bridge. The Apple
LaserWriter Select 360 is qualified for 10.2 [article 107002].

I can't find any similar references searching 'AppleTalk' in the WAMUG
archives with respect to OS X going back 18 months.

Therefore, all suggestions warmly welcomed and received with thanks in
advance.

Jack FOX

Annual subscription

[Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin]

Greetings All

I think my annual subscription must be due -where do I send my cheque?

Cheers

Wendy

Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin
Coastal Road, Pomponette
Mauritius Island
Tel/ans/fax (230) 6257399
Mobile (230) 2560182

Wanted 7300 RAM

[Raymond Dale]

Hi all
Does anybody have any spare ram chips for a 7300?
Cheers
Ray Dale
--
"Wisdom for Life" 10,000 mind-expanding thought-provoking quotations 
on life, purpose and destiny.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/rdale/

Re: Diskburner in OSX10.2.

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Thanks Kevin. Will follow-up on the update.
Merv


I have yet to upgrade Toast to work in the OSX environment. My
version is 5.0.1 and works in OS9. My aim was to burn in the
OSX-Classic environment. Are you achieving that with Toast 5.0,
Kevin. If so, would be pleased to know how.

Merv
I was using Toast on an 333 iMac with 8.6 driving an Iomega 
external burner. Had lots of strife which may have been the burner. 
I gave the iMac to my daughter and we bought this eMac which has a 
Phillips burner. The only disadvantage with an inbuilt that I find 
is not being able swap files directly from a CD in the drive to the 
external burner.


I downloaded Toast Titanium 5.1 and it runs on OS10.2 faultlessly.

Kevin


--
"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must 
also believe in order to see." 

Fwd: greatest threat to peace?

[Craig Chappelle]

>-- Forwarded message --
>
>Time Magazine is running an online poll on the biggest threat to world
>peace at http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html . But, for
>some reason, they were foolish enough to include the US in the list of
>dangerous countries. And guess what: the online polling currently has
>the United States leading at 60+% ...
>
>So if anyone's on the net, please go along and cast your vote: make your
>voice heard!
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

display in OSX

[Thomas Samson]

Annoying more than anything else.
Can some one offer a remedy for my display reverting back to default 
rather than staying on custom height width in OSX.2
The jaguar is losing its spots constantly

tom samson










[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: CD fake out

[Shay Telfer]

Hi:

I like to play a game on my laptop which requires the CD to be in the drive
while I play.

What I would like to do is save the contents of the CD to my hard drive so I
don't have to take the CD with me everywhere I go. Another reason for this
is I was told that if your CD ROM and hard drive are working it pulls more
power from your laptop battery than if just the hard drive is working. I am
going on a long trip overseas and I want to play this game as much as
possible on the plane, so I want to make my laptop battery last long while I
play.



Try using Disk Copy (in the Utilities folder in your Applications 
folder) to create a disk image. You can then double-click the disk 
image to mount it and if you're lucky the game will think that you've 
got the CD mounted still.


Have fun,
Shay

Re: CD fake out

[Rob Findlay]

On 12/1/03 10:36 AM, "Nathalie Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I like to play a game on my laptop which requires the CD to be in the drive
> while I play.
> 
> What I would like to do is save the contents of the CD to my hard drive so I
> don't have to take the CD with me everywhere I go. Another reason for this
> is I was told that if your CD ROM and hard drive are working it pulls more
> power from your laptop battery than if just the hard drive is working. I am
> going on a long trip overseas and I want to play this game as much as
> possible on the plane, so I want to make my laptop battery last long while I
> play.
> 
> OK--having said that, I have tried saving the contents of the CD to my
> desktop, giving it the exact name and even the same icon as the CD--but the
> game knows whether there is a CD in the drive or not because it still asks
> for it.
> 
> Is there a workaround to this?
> 
> I am running 10.2 on a T-powerbook.
> 
> Thanks 
> Nathalie
> 

Try making a disk copy image of it. You should find disk copy in your
utilities folder. Drag the CD on top of the application & it should make a
copy which you can mount by double clicking, the same as all the install
images you download from Apple for updates. Incidentally these (Disk Images)
can be encrypted for keeping sensitive data in which is a cool thing. So all
of your private data you keep in an encrypted disk image in your home
directory.
Cheers
Rob

CD fake out

[Nathalie Collins]

Hi:

I like to play a game on my laptop which requires the CD to be in the drive
while I play.

What I would like to do is save the contents of the CD to my hard drive so I
don't have to take the CD with me everywhere I go. Another reason for this
is I was told that if your CD ROM and hard drive are working it pulls more
power from your laptop battery than if just the hard drive is working. I am
going on a long trip overseas and I want to play this game as much as
possible on the plane, so I want to make my laptop battery last long while I
play.

OK--having said that, I have tried saving the contents of the CD to my
desktop, giving it the exact name and even the same icon as the CD--but the
game knows whether there is a CD in the drive or not because it still asks
for it.

Is there a workaround to this?

I am running 10.2 on a T-powerbook.

Thanks 
Nathalie


-- 
Nathalie Collins
Phone/Fax: (08) 9796 0509
Mobile: 043 989 1997
Post Office Box A176
Australind WA 6233

SAFARI PROBLEM

[John Currie]

Copy of email received this morning off my Panorama Q&A lis

Subject: Be Careful!!!

Several MacInTouch readers pointed out an Apple online discussion - Danger!
Danger! Danger! - warning that Option-clicking a link in Safari has the
potential to wipe out the user's home directory in Mac OS X:

I option clicked on a link in Safari to test a download. The download
changed to the name of my home directory as it was downloading. It saved
into my User folder. In the blink of an eye, it removed, destroyed,
evaporated, my entire Home directory, including the desktop which
disappeared along with days of work projects that were on it! Safari itself
disappeared because it was on the desktop. My multi-gig directory was
suddenly only 32 k. Of course, all of my work files, financial records, etc.
are in my Home directory; by some quirk of fate, I had just backed up work
files other than those on the desktop to another drive. Yikes!!!



Maybe we should wait for others to beta test this!!!