Re: 6100 Battery
On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 07:10 PM, Phillip McGree wrote: Pretty much all desktop Macs made over the last few years use: 1/2 AA, 3.6 volt battery That's the description to give to the battery shop. A good place to go is Batteries Plus in Hutton St, Osbourne Park. Just next to the freeway. The battery will cost you around $12-13, and it's always worth keeping a spare one if you've got more than one Mac. I think you'll find that the 6100 uses the boxy Reovac-type battery, rather than the half-AA type. I have never found a reliable supplier of these other than an AppleCentre. All other substitutes have failed miserably. -- Peter Hinchliffe 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
application switcher OSX
Hi All wondering if anybody knows a way to change the 'command-tab' key command for switching between applications? This is also the command for changing tools in quarkXpress, illustrator etc, major conflict! Checked Help, wamug archives, apple support to no avail cheers Greg
Heart Attack
Subject: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK - ALONE (I was prompted to send this because my father was taken to hospital Thursday morning with this very problem, altho he wasn't alone.) I cant confirm the accuracy of this advice but its better than none at all, and whilst were on the subject - would you remember what to do ifsomeone near you is having a heart attack? Regards from Ken HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE Let's say it's 6:15 P.M. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can you do? You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself. Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack,this article seemed to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 2 seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response) BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE PHONEPOWER Ken Jackson 126 Joel Tce Mount Lawley, Western Australia 6050 Australia (089) 271-1874 0409 770 747 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add this card to your address book T 08 9271 1874 T 08 9271 0389 F 08 9271 0870 M 0409 770 747 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged or subject to copyright. It is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). If you are not an addressee, please do not read, copy, distribute or otherwise act upon this e-mail. If you have received the e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the e-mail. The unauthorised use of this e-mail may result in liability for breach of confidentiality, privilege or copyright. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Wanted: SCSI Drive (40pin) for Performa 580CD
Hi, I'm trying to resuscitate a Performa580CD for my nephew. The machine will only boot if I unplug the hard drive (otherwise it gives a system error #97 - meaning it can't initialise the SCSI controller). I have an old 1GB SCSI drive so thought I was all set - but it has a 50pin connector on the back, and all my 'junk' LC's are IDE... Does anyone have an old SCSI drive, 40pin, (around 800MB) for sale or swap? Regards, Paul Tetley -- Weave I.T. Pty Ltd www.weave.com.au Software Development, Web Sites, Technical Support
Broadband options
Hiya all, For those that are still wondering about ADSL options, Broadband Choice have updated and developed their web site further: http://www.broadbandchoice.com.au Regards, Phil (if that bores you too much then check out the comedy and joke site that I wrote over the weekend - http://www.broadbandchoice.com.au ) . -- -- Sent from the Apple PowerBook G4 of: Phillip McGree Web: http://www.phil.net.au Perth, Western Australiahttp://chat.iinet.net.au Mobile Phone: 0418 922 500 Macs for sale - new and secondhand http://mac.iinet.net.au
Re: Frequent disconnects/adsl won't work/mtu
Iinet has been the pits lately. ADSL connection appears to have occurred, but nothing uploads or down loads. Iinet say that a temporary cure is to reduce the packet size (maximum transmittable units) and Apple has a Knowledge Base article and script the length of which deters me from trying it as it involves going into Terminal. From my experience temporary may be long term, as I've been having the problem for over 5 weeks. I either quit attempting to use adsl and use dial up instead, or keep connecting and disconnecting until I get a connection that works. The fact that if I persevere I get a connection that works makes me wonder if iinet has too high a user to modem ratio for adsl subscribers (or whatever the device is at iinet's end to handle adsl connections). Michael (OS 10.2.5, Entourage 10.1.1, Explorer 5.2.2)
DiskWarrior 3
Stock is still a week or more away but we're happy to extend an introductory offer of $150 including delivery to WAMUG members only. If you'd like to go on the list just reply by email - thanks. Keith Palmer Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231 Phone: 08 9791 5556 Fax: 08 9791 5900 the online data storage technology store - http://www.zytech.com.au/
Final Cut Pro users
Hi I am having what appear to be a few problems with FCP 3. Having moved up from iMovie I am finding the going tough. I have the user manuals and some tutorial disc/ books but just don't seem to be able to master it. I was wondering if there is any one in the group that uses FCP regularly, who would let me sit with them for a couple of hours to let me see the application being used, to enable me to get some idea of how it actually is supposed to work properly? Thanks. Matt Falvey Noranda
Re: Wanted: SCSI Drive (40pin) for Performa 580CD
on 22/4/03 11:10 AM, Paul Tetley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to resuscitate a Performa580CD for my nephew. The machine will only boot if I unplug the hard drive (otherwise it gives a system error #97 - meaning it can't initialise the SCSI controller). I have an old 1GB SCSI drive so thought I was all set - but it has a 50pin connector on the back, and all my 'junk' LC's are IDE... Does anyone have an old SCSI drive, 40pin, (around 800MB) for sale or swap? Regards, Paul Tetley -- Weave I.T. Pty Ltd www.weave.com.au Software Development, Web Sites, Technical Support -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 580 uses a IDE hard drive not SCSI -- If you can smile when things go wrong You obviously have someone in mind to blame
Re: 6100 Battery
on 22/4/03 8:15 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 07:10 PM, Phillip McGree wrote: Pretty much all desktop Macs made over the last few years use: 1/2 AA, 3.6 volt battery That's the description to give to the battery shop. A good place to go is Batteries Plus in Hutton St, Osbourne Park. Just next to the freeway. The battery will cost you around $12-13, and it's always worth keeping a spare one if you've got more than one Mac. I think you'll find that the 6100 uses the boxy Reovac-type battery, rather than the half-AA type. I have never found a reliable supplier of these other than an AppleCentre. All other substitutes have failed miserably. 6100 uses a TADIRAN 3.6 volt about 1/4 the size of a aa -- If you can smile when things go wrong You obviously have someone in mind to blame
Re: Heart Attack
Subject: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK - ALONE (I was prompted to send this because my father was taken to hospital Thursday morning with this very problem, altho he wasn't alone.) I'm sorry that happened to your father, and I hope he's getting better. I can't confirm the accuracy of this advice but it's better than none at all, and whilst we're on the subject - would you remember what to do if someone near you is having a heart attack? [cough CPR while DRIVING chain email] This is utterly, entirely, completely the wrong thing to do if you think you're having a heart attack, and a great way to take a bunch of other motorists with you when you go. It is dangerous advice and it is not endorsed by the Red Cross or American Heart Association, or any Heart Foundation that I know of. Cough CPR is of extremely limited usefulness and is only ever appropriate in a monitored ED or ICU setting with a physician present. See my FAQ entry at: http://www.tafkac.org/faq2k/medicine_2042.html Lara
RE: Heart Attack
-Original Message- From: Ken Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:23 AM To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Heart Attack Subject: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK - ALONE (I was prompted to send this because my father was taken to hospital Thursday morning with this very problem, altho he wasn't alone.) I cant confirm the accuracy of this advice but its better than none at all, and whilst were on the subject - would you remember what to do if someone near you is having a heart attack? Regards from Ken Sigh another Chain Email. This wouldn't change the course of a myocardial infarction, I don't believe, but a vigorous cough or thump on your own chest (I know of a doctor who did the latter, successfully) could reverse a fatal arrhythmia (ventricular fibrillation) associated with the heart attack. If you suffered an electric shock, and were not knocked unconscious, yes this will work. But most people when in this situation, will panic and not think to cough (besides the smell of burning flesh / skin makes you want to hold your breath) We were taught this trick when we used to work on high voltage high power equipment, but the number of techs who successfully used it were low, due to being knocked unconscious (usually associated with the sudden stop from flight by a brick wall ;o) Regards, Kat. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 10/01/2003
On the longevity of SOHO switches
Greetings all, I just wondered if anyone with some longish term experience with SOHO networks could comment on the pros and cons of cheap SOHO switches. About 4 years I set up my home network using a brand name 4-port switch, and an 8-port budget switch. The budget switch lasted about 15 months, and its replacement (another budget model) has just died. The 4-port is still going fine. Am I just unlucky, or are these budget priced switches really only designed to last until they are just out of warranty? Cheers -- Robert Loss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: On the longevity of SOHO switches
-Original Message- From: Robert Loss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2003 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: On the longevity of SOHO switches Greetings all, I just wondered if anyone with some longish term experience with SOHO networks could comment on the pros and cons of cheap SOHO switches. About 4 years I set up my home network using a brand name 4-port switch, and an 8-port budget switch. The budget switch lasted about 15 months, and its replacement (another budget model) has just died. The 4-port is still going fine. Am I just unlucky, or are these budget priced switches really only designed to last until they are just out of warranty? Cheers Depends on the brand. For cheap non critical stuff (like student networks at schools) I use D-Link Switches as they are cheap and do a great job. For Core equipment (like the admin network and one PC in the class room for the teacher to do their reports and roll on) I use either 3 com or Cisco. I prefer 3 com for easy of programming (and the fact I can whip my connection when I am done and not need to save the data to a special part of ram which I forget occasionally on Cisco and the next power outage they need to be reprogrammed. Here at home I have 2 Kingmax switches, one seems to have lost a port in a recent lightening strike but other than that they perform well, they are only 9 months old, but time will tell (and I am still to loose a port on any 3 com or Cisco at the local school (must be my great cabling ;o)) Regards, Kat. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 10/01/2003
Re: Heart Attack
Ken posted: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE Let's say it's 6:15 P.M. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can you do? You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself. Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 2 seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response) BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE In reply: Sorry about the off topic nature, but I would rather people were not fooled by these types of emails. Firstly Heart Attack is the common name for Myocardial Infarction, this is where a blood clot in the coronary blood vessels cuts the oxygen supply to part of the heart muscle, causing the death/damage of that part of the muscle. The usual symptoms are chest pain, shortness of breath and moist/clammy skin. The heart does not usually stop unless there is massive damage to the heart muscle. The best treatment is give oxygen, loosen tight clothing, take 300mg of aspirin (1tab) and prompt transport to hospital. CPR is usually performed in the event of Sudden Cardiac Arrest this is most commonly caused by the heart going into Ventricular Tachycardia or Ventricular Fibrillation or one of several other cardiac arrhythmias. If the person is pulseless and unresponsive then CPR and Defibrillation (an electric shock) are the main treatments. If the person has one of these fatal arrhythmias but is still conscious, then drug treatments and/or cardioversion (elective defibrillation) can be used to reset the hearts pacemaker. In neither of these circumstances is Cough CPR going to be any use. Just remember if you have ten seconds warning call an ambulance on 000, or 112 from most mobile phones!! Now that I have said that we don't need any more OT comments about it! Regards Daniel -- Daniel Forsdyke, RN (B.Sc.) Registered Nurse Emergency Department Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Re: On the longevity of SOHO switches
Greetings all, I just wondered if anyone with some longish term experience with SOHO networks could comment on the pros and cons of cheap SOHO switches. About 4 years I set up my home network using a brand name 4-port switch, and an 8-port budget switch. The budget switch lasted about 15 months, and its replacement (another budget model) has just died. The 4-port is still going fine. Am I just unlucky, or are these budget priced switches really only designed to last until they are just out of warranty? Cheers Without mentioning which brand name you're talking about, it's hard to say. And do you mean hub, or switch? My 8 port NetGear (now Bay, I believe) 10MBit hub has served me quite happily for the past 4 or so years. It's got a nice metal box, rather than a plastic one, so it even feels sturdy. 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/
[4Sale] Beige G3, BW G3 and Various Items.
Hi All I have the following for sale:- Beige G3 Desktop 300MHz (the good ones) 128MB RAM (Can increase to more if so desired) - SEE BELOW 6GB Hard Drive Internal Zip Drive CD-ROM Drive - SEE BELOW Keyboard and Mouse Samsung 15 Digital Monitor Asking price $750 and I will throw in the following:- An additional 32MB of RAM taking it to a total of 160MB of RAM **NEW** Installed PCI USB Card with 2 USB Ports worth $65 ***NEW*** Internal Sony 24x10x32 CDRW Burner worth $150 Blue and White G3 Tower 350MHz (the good ones) 256MB RAM (Can increase to more if so desired) - SEE BELOW 12GB Hard Drive Internal 100MB Zip Drive CD-ROM Drive - (Can upgrade to a New Sony CDRW Burner if desired) USB, Firewire, ADB, Keyboard and Mouse Samsung 15 Digital Monitor Asking price $800 and I will throw in the following:- An additional 64MB of RAM taking it to a total of 320MB of RAM SaroTech USB/Firewire External Case Uses the Oxford 911 Chipset. Has 2 Firewire and 1 USB connection. Comes with cables, software and original box. You pay up to $229 for a new one! *** $120 *** More stuff,... Logitech USB Optical Mouse (White) 3 button w/Scroll Wheel. ** $40 ** (NEW) IDE 100MB Internal Zip Drive - *** $40 *** 100MHz Processor Card from a 7200 - ** FREE!!! ** 180MHz Processor Card - *** Offers *** 80MB of RAM for 7300 (Made up of 4x8MBs and 2x16MBs) - ** Offers ** Email or call if you are interested or want more info!! Thanks!! Kind Regards Daniel Kerr -- --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Re: Frequent disconnects
James and WAMUGgians in general
Just so you know ... Most, if not all, ISPs, including iiNet, no longer use
discrete modems for dial up. They use network access servers (NAS) that
connect to ISDN primary rate services (30 channels) and use digital modem
cards that are basically digital signal processors acting as modems. Chime
(iiNet's port provider) uses Cisco 5300 and 5400 NAS as far as I am aware.
So the concept of dialling through a bank of discrete modems from different
manufacturers is no longer valid - the modems are pretty well homogeneous,
the only difference being the version of software loaded into the DSP by the
IOS (Cisco parlance for internetworking operation system).
Perhaps it is a bug or incompatibility in the version of IOS being used on
one or several NAS but not differences between say a Banksia and Hayes modem
on the end of a standard telephone line.
I know this doesn't help the problem but may be of interest generally.
Cheers
Greg
on 21/4/03 12:22 AM, James Kunz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have the same
sometimes i have to redial 6 times to get a connection with iinet, it
looks like that iinet is using some incompatible modems everytime you
try to logon you get a diferent modem untill you hit one that is
compatible.i did everything that iinet support suggests about 4
times w/o success.
another thing is iinet logs calls only if you are past the
authentication..so all calls which disconnect on starting ppp are
not registered by iinet (sadly)...
on top of all lately we had lots of lightning during the last few weeks
so it could be that the modem did not take it well (a week ago i fixed a
imac modem module which had some burned parts near to the phone socket)
James
Daniel wrote:
Hi Folks!
I operate imacs at my office and home.
Each is a tray model 333 MHz G3 and has 288 MB of RAM.
Each operates with system 9.2.2
I use a dial up explorer account with iinet from either location.
Lately, I have been suffering frequent disconnects, sometimes after
only 50 seconds connection. Disconnects occur either while
downloading emails or while changing sites on the internet (using
either Netscape or IE)
If the disconnect occurs during the downloading of emails, the
message sometimes is:
TCP/IP Error -3155 The connection closed unexpectedly {37:590}
at other times while downloading emails the message reads:
Error involving Domain Name System -3162
I am working with the techs at iinet and they suggest that I get a
copy of FreePPP or MacPPP so that they can get me to add a string
to make the connection more robust.
Coulsd someone please comment on the efficacy of this.
Regards
Ray Hirst
(4 sale) Router + others
Hi All I have a SMC Router for sale 3 months old it includes built in: 4 port 10/100 switch Modem port V90 modem recommended WAN port for ADSL modem Print Server Firewall $225.00 -- Belkin USB VideoBus for Mac OS9 $95.00 --- Lexmark Z32 printer $35.00 -- Logitech USB Quickcam Pro 25.00 -- Call or email me if you are interested Regards Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home 08 9303 mobile: 0413 307 995 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
New iBooks and Happy Birthday Web Browser
Hi All For those interested the iBooks have been updated. Pricing and specs as follows:- 12.1 Screen - CD-ROM ** New Low $1999 ** 800 MHz 128MB RAM / 30GB Hard Drive ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 with 32MB DDR video memory 12.1 Screen - Combo Drive ** New Low $2599 ** 900 MHz 128MB RAM / 40GB Hard Druve ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 with 32MB DDR video memory 14.1 Screen - Combo Drive ** New Low $2999 ** 900 MHz PowerPC G3 128MB RAM / 40GB Hard Drive ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 with 32MB DDR video memory So basically the MHz has increased 100MHz and the price has dropped $200. Well priced laptops still!! And also on an internet note today (22nd April 1993) is the 10 year anniversary of the web browser. Started with a little pet project called Mosaic apparently. http://www.macminute.com/ Well there you go! So have fun!! Kind Regards Daniel Kerr -- --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Bits to sell
* 64MB RAM suits G4 400mhz AGP - $ whatever you can manage * SHARP AJ 1800 printer , one year old. A very good PC printer but also works with Macs up to OS 9.2.2. Excellent condition and still with original packing and CD $120 * Firewire external CD (DVD?) case (still has Que Fire CD burner in it that doesn't work) $100 or best offer Contact me by phone on 9330-4139 (preferred) or by e-mail Brad -- Brad Helden Graphic Designer Typesetter Japanese Culture Consultant Perth, Western Australia Website: http://www.japan-australia-media.com Hardware: G4 400mhz 1GB RAM, 10GB 30GB HD,AGP graphics; Viewmaster 17 monitor; QUE Fire CDR; 100MB USB Zip drive; Canon Flatbed scanner
