Re: Data storage.
Hi Wamuggers System Mac OS X 10.2.6 Apple Mail How do I find out where a programme is storing it's data? To be more specific 'Mail ' tells me that There was a failure while writing to the disk. The disk may be full. The mailbox will be restored to its state before compaction. and I cannot find a 'full' disc. Mac OS X may start claiming things are full when you've still got 200Mb free. Mac OS X really doesn't like it when your disk is really full. It starts forgetting preferences and crashing/stalling sporadically. 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/
Re: Thanks Mike at AppleCentre Joondalup for the G5
on 3/9/03 14:06, Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Mike for letting us borrow his PowerMac G5 for last night's WAMUG demo! Much appreciated! Kind Regards Daniel Kerr Cool. I needed to go see him to get the S-Video/Composite dongle for iBooks and I was going to put it off until next week. Now I have a reason to go get it tomorrow.
Kelly and Mark and Spam
-- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:55:34 +0800 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Kelly=20Duffy?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spam Legalities Hi all, This is slightly off topic however I remember a while back where a spammer from a Biomedic Therapies business harvested the groups email addresses. I also remember a few people on the list were researching spam and working towards finding ways to prevent it and all that. I c SNIP ather addresses and what can be done, legal issues that the company could face and things like that. Its something I'd like to do something about. Thanks for bothering with my rant. Kelly Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:24:32 +0800 From: Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spam Legalities Hi all, This is slightly off topic however I remember a while back where a spammer from a Biomedic Therapies OK... if these are the same as we've been receiving then they are probably been sent via a worm similar to so-big. the addresses in the from field are not the people sending them just people you have a degree or two of separation from - so there's no point sending the e-mail back to them because it's not only not them that sending it but it's not even there machine that's infected with the e-mail worm. NEVER -EVER click on the unsubscribe or opt out -you will end up with more spam because this is 99% of the time used to ensure that the hashed or guessed address (yours) is real and there for it's like the computer says hey we have a live one and this address will be flagged for more spam. They had on one of the ABC national shows an interview with some spam research people who set up a mail server with some dummy accounts that were never used (never sent mail never received mail) and with in days these mailboxes were been flood with spam, when they contacted the spammer (a known spammer who sends about 80 _million_ spam emails a day) he swore scouts honor that each and every single one of the account's users had signed up or opted in to receive these messages. When the researchers used the dummy accounts to select the opt out option they simply ended up with a massive increase in spam rather than a decrease. I use Spamfire (Matterform Media), and it collects up all the usual rubbish for me to see (if I want to) and I then have three options, delete without reference, find the web bugs and send them a sanitised response every few seconds for as long as I have IE running or just bounce. In this respect Mark is not quite correct, the two degree sep messages don't get bounced but about 60 -70% actually do. But in the end I suspect all I am getting is a good feeling. Indeed, there is a menu item Revenge. Now my own question is that with the huge volume of Re Your Details etc traffic, is there not something common to all those messages that ISPs could detect and kill before they get through? Does a .PIF file have any useful purpose? Bill -- Dr Bill Parker RENEW - Scientific and Technical writing editing in energy and resources. Box 322 Mt Lawley WA 6929 08 9371 6373 0403 583 676 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.iinet.net.au/~renew
Re: Spam Legalities
At 5:03 +0800 4/9/2003, Kelly wrote: I recieved about 14 emails from different people for the same company in about 4 days. Its the only spam I get and its very annoying, If you are reading with Mail or Eudora use filtering. Eudora 6 beta (to which I upgraded in the hopes of solving my ongoing problems using Eudora offline) has a pretty good Junk filter. However, I recommend inspecting the Junk folder if you get a lot of newsletters that may be classified as spam. AFAIK you can't do anything to the spammers. Many people in the US in particular are trying to do legal things about them as is our government here. The best they may be able to achieve is make it illegal to impersonate but then they have to catch them! (You'd think catching someone selling goods would be relatively easy.) I'm not a lawyer but have been frustrated enough to read about the issue. If you get 14 messages over 4 days then you are getting about one eightieth of the junk I get. (yes, I get at least 280 spam and viral messages a day). Be thankful you don't have emails on web pages nor are you in many people's address books who appear to have been Sobig'd. -- Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM http://www.oofile.com.au/ OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix Windows PP2MFC - PowerPlant-MFC portability
AntiVirus recommendations?
I have been in the past extremely cautious abouot PC programs and avoided viruses but now have a PC directly connected to the net which is more vulnerable. As I have a mixed environment I'd like to have a (probably) PC-based anti-viral package that will be doing effective checking on shared OS/X volumes. Any recommendations? CSIRO use McCaffee internally (which finds lots of viruses in my email attachments, of course). In particular, I want to buy under a mini enterprise license if possible so I can pass on a copy to my parents. (Although 2 copies may be cheaper). A major factor is the ease of updates and size of update patches for their dialup (no I can't get them back to a Mac, after my Mum's beloved Classic was blown up by a power surge, my brother migrated them to PC and they stuck). -- Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM http://www.oofile.com.au/ OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix Windows PP2MFC - PowerPlant-MFC portability
Re: AntiVirus recommendations?
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 07:46, Andy Dent wrote: I have been in the past extremely cautious abouot PC programs and avoided viruses but now have a PC directly connected to the net which is more vulnerable. Ouch... As I have a mixed environment I'd like to have a (probably) PC-based anti-viral package that will be doing effective checking on shared OS/X volumes. Any recommendations? Lately I've been recommending AVG from http://www.grisoft.com/. It's free and the non-expiring update service as well as the updates are free. There is also a paid-for enterprise version and you can pay for support if you need it, but I haven't. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18 - E128:45'05 (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Problems Solved, Mostly
Thanks all for the response, for some reason its taken a while to get my messages through from this address, maybe it thinks it is a spam address, unfortunately there's not much I can about it, I'm stuck using this one until I find an ISP I'm happy with. The email problem with The end of file was reached message has been solved. It turns out Richard was indeed correct, someone had sent me two 82mb files that were playing havoc with my poor Mac when it tried to download them. Montiors: It seems the general agreement is that while I can't get dual montiors going I can get a VGA adaptor and plug in a second montior that will at least let me check colours. I will look into Martin's suggestion of the Screen Spanning Doctor and see if my Mac is suitable for it. I need to be particularly careful with a work machine. Spam, well, there is no solution, not yet anyway, but I guess until people actually get in there and really do something about it there isn't anything that can be done, and even then there is a limmited number of possible solutions. I don't mind the number of spam messages I get so much, it is a small number compared to most, what I do mind is that they are all from different people advertising the same company, and a somewhat dodgy company at that. That's the joy of technology I suppose, when everyone starts embracing it the everybody includes nice people as well as spammers, hackers and other people who spend their lives trying to annoy people. Thanks for all the feedback, this list always has been a big help to me in the past. My last question, I tried to fill in an online application form for membership yesterday, I can't attend meetings, I can't get babysitting on Tuesday nights, so I need to do the application online but it wouldn't let me submit the form, I just kept getting an error: Not Found The requested URL /join/join_form_thanks.html was not found on this server. Is there any way around this and if not can I get a membership appplication mailed out to me? Thanks again, Kelly Duffy Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
Re: AntiVirus recommendations?
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 07:46 AM, Andy Dent wrote: Any recommendations? CSIRO use McCaffee internally (which finds lots of viruses in my email attachments, of course). I can recommend the MacAfee product. A network I look after has just been through a nightmarish period since the release of MBlast and Sobig and their cronies. We were running NAV, which clearly was not doing the job. We gave MacAfee VirusScan a try and it suddenly started discovering viruses that NAV had no idea were there. I personally find it more satisfying than NAV as well, since its interface is much less in your face. It just gets on with the job. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
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Re: AntiVirus recommendations?
I'm going to need some help here??? Can't see a Mac (OS X) version of either of the previously recommended virus products. Even following the links from Virex (which has yet to attract a recommendation??) on VersionTracker take you to McAfee's page but there is no mention of a Mac product. ? On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 08:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 07:46 AM, Andy Dent wrote: Any recommendations? CSIRO use McCaffee internally (which finds lots of viruses in my email attachments, of course). I can recommend the MacAfee product. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer 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/
STM Large Alley Bag For Sale
Hi WAMUGers, I have my near new, hardly used STM Large Alley 15.5 Screens (Carbon colour) Computer Bag for sale. It doesn't look like it's ever been used. It's price new is $84.70 I believe so $50 if anyone is interested in giving it a good home. http://www.standardtm.com.au/shoulder_bags_alley.cfm Cheers, Ronni Car'n The Pies
Re: AntiVirus recommendations?
Not sure whether these help Bob http://download.com.com/3150-2228-0.html?tag=dir http://us.mcafee.com/ On 4/9/03 9:11 AM, Keith Palmer, Zytech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to need some help here??? Can't see a Mac (OS X) version of either of the previously recommended virus products. Even following the links from Virex (which has yet to attract a recommendation??) on VersionTracker take you to McAfee's page but there is no mention of a Mac product. ? On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 08:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 07:46 AM, Andy Dent wrote: Any recommendations? CSIRO use McCaffee internally (which finds lots of viruses in my email attachments, of course). I can recommend the MacAfee product. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer 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/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Kelly and Mark and Spam
Does a .PIF file have any useful purpose? .pif = Program Identification File used by windows - kind of like a short cut on steroids. not used by Mac OS - but often maac OS identifies them incorrectly as other types of files. I'm not sure exactly how XP/2000 uses them but in older versions of Win they link an executable to an custom icon and a text string so you could create several.PDF's for a single FTP program so that each one had a different text string that would have the FTP server name and user ID , also a custom icon to help you identify which one's which and a different name So: three different icons on your desktop: FTP library, FTP Accounts FTP Web all point to the same executable but feed it different text string that the command uses as its perimeters. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: STM Large Alley Bag For Sale
Hi WAMUGers, I have my near new, hardly used STM Large Alley 15.5 Screens (Carbon colour) Computer Bag for sale. It doesn't look like it's ever been used. It's price new is $84.70 I believe so $50 if anyone is interested in giving it a good home. http://www.standardtm.com.au/shoulder_bags_alley.cfm I don't know ... any thing that gets as it's reviewers quote You've got the beanie and the scooter- you don't want to wreck the image but you've gotta carry your laptop. (and this is 2000 so - folder scooter not motor scooter) is a worry beanie + scooter + iBook = fashion/fad victim? ;) just joking folks - they're good bags. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
itunes comming to Australia?
Hey all cames across this article on itunes comming to Australia maybe by Christmas. Hmmm! i think it's time to write those letters again to Santa.(ipod):) http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6815 Telstra is working on a licensing deal with at least one record company, says the report. Bart.
Re: STM Large Alley Bag For Sale
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 09:26 AM, RONDA BROWN wrote: Hi WAMUGers, I have my near new, hardly used STM Large Alley 15.5 Screens (Carbon colour) Computer Bag for sale. It doesn't look like it's ever been used. It's price new is $84.70 I believe so $50 if anyone is interested in giving it a good home. http://www.standardtm.com.au/shoulder_bags_alley.cfm This STM Computer Bag has now been sold is on it's way to a good home. Thank you for your interest. Cheers, Ronni Car'n The Pies
Virginia Tech Supercomputer - 1,100 Apple G5 systems
Interesting to note that some of the reasons Virginia Tech has chosen G5's is that a dual 2GHz G5 can process 14 gigaflops compared to a 2GHz Pentium 4 which can only muster 1.4 gigaflops. See this diagram comparing the G5 to the fastest computers in the world: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/newsadmin/photo/1062563741.jpg they aim to become one of the 5 fastest supercomputers in the world. Pretty good endorsement of Apple's new G5 systems. -Mart - http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=1748 Virginia Tech is teaming with Apple, Cisco, Liebert and Mellanox Technologies to develop a supercomputer of national prominence by Bryan Nieder News Assistant A $5.2 million supercomputer project including 1,100 computers is tentatively scheduled to begin shipments of its components to Virginia Tech this weekend. The supercomputer cluster will be composed of Macintosh G5 computers, weighing 35 pounds each, said Jason Lockhart, director of the College of Engineering's High Performance Computing and Technology Innovation. Moving 19.25 tons of machinery will require 15 to 20 volunteers beginning Sunday to help unload and set up the project. Volunteers will work in shifts and the process is expected to take about six days total. Initially, the Corporate Research Center will house the computer cluster with plans for it to move to a building dedicated to the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Tech's Computing Center. Tech teamed with Apple Computer, Cisco, Liebert and Mellanox Technologies in developing the project. Liebert, a division of Emerson Network Power, contributed the cooling system because the machinery would otherwise overheat under normal air-conditioned circumstances. Mellanox provided the primary communication fabrics, drivers, cards and switches for the project, while Cisco's secondary communication fabrics to interconnect the computers were employed. Virginia Tech's idea was to develop a supercomputer of national prominence based upon a homegrown cluster, said Hassan Aref, dean of the college of engineering and former chief scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He said G5 computers were chosen because of their high-speed memory and 64-bit processors. Although the computers are expected to arrive this weekend, it is unknown when the supercomputer will be fully operational. Right now it is a sea of logistics, but I believe they hope they'll have a better idea at the end of this month, said Lynn Nystrom, director of news and external relations for the department of engineering. Nystrom said the amount of memory is still being determined and will not fully be known until it is completely functional. The supercomputer will help with Terascale computing, which involves problems too large to be solved by an individual computer. Nystrom said interdisciplinary research within the colleges of engineering and science and the veterinary school will greatly benefit from the supercomputer with projects such as nanoscale electronics and biomedical studies benefiting. Virginia Tech will have one of the top-ranked supercomputing facilities in the world, supporting significant big science research, said Glenda Scales, assistant dean of computing and distance learning, in a press release. For the supercomputer to break the top five supercomputers in the world, it would have to possess 10 teraflops of performance. Nystrom said the hope from Tech researchers is the supercomputer will bring more grant money for research like a supercomputer in Japan is doing, which recently received over $100 million dollars. It is anticipated that Tech will realize at least a five to one return on this investment in terms of annual research grant and contract activity, Scales said. -- - Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia Consultant http://is.curtin.edu.au/eot/ Educational Online Technologies, Information Services, Curtin University Mobile: 0417-967-969wk: (08)9266-3101 Fax: (08)9266-3826
Re: itunes comming to Australia?
the trouble is what they sound like they are saying and what they are meaning is probably two different things: what it comes across as sounding like is An Australian version of iTunes shop what it probably means is some thing, kind'a similar, maybe, to iTunes but don't bet on it probably be really good if you want to down load emmnem (sp?), Chissel and Tina Turner but not much use if your after Eskimo Joe, Smog or Beck. Hey all cames across this article on itunes comming to Australia maybe by Christmas. Hmmm! i think it's time to write those letters again to Santa.(ipod):) http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6815 Telstra is working on a licensing deal with at least one record company, says the report. Bart. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
help! one for the Photoshop gurus
just came across something weird with Photoshop (PS 7 on OS X)... Normally I have my PowerBook at home and plugged in to a 21 monitor that sits to the left (remember to the left - sounds trivial but is important) of my PB - as this monitor is somewhat old and a bit faded I use this for my menus etc and have the picture I'm working on displayed in the PowerBooks screen. I went to a users office to do some quick photoshoping for something they need to get to a publisher and came across a very curious problem. I started the Powerbook without the second monitor (obviously) and launched Photoshop and while the toolbars and pallets where now located on the built in, now only, screen when ever I tried to pull up the layer blend window or the layer effect window it was off on to the now non existent monitor. I tried detect monitors but the powerbook knew there was only the internal so it was obviously a photoshop issue. tried Photoshop's view menu options and changing the resolution but no mater what the lost windows would not come back. In the end plugged in my powerbook in to the users monitor - fortunately they had a Apple LCD so correct monitor plug and the external monitor appeared and arrange by the system to the right of the built in screen... but still no layer pallet until I rearranged the external monitor in the control panel so it was logically to the left bingo... dragged it back to the internal monitor then unplugged the external so he could use his mac again. just got me thinking - what if next time there isn't a spare monitor or I don't have my apple to vga adaptor? Just how would I get this pallet back then? -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: help! one for the Photoshop gurus
Mark, On the PC, I use the menu option Window -- Workspace -- Reset Palette Locations - this 'should' reposition palette windows to within your system identified monitor screen size ? Regards, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 - Original Message - From: Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 12:52 Subject: help! one for the Photoshop gurus just came across something weird with Photoshop (PS 7 on OS X)... Normally I have my PowerBook at home and plugged in to a 21 monitor that sits to the left (remember to the left - sounds trivial but is important) of my PB - as this monitor is somewhat old and a bit faded I use this for my menus etc and have the picture I'm working on displayed in the PowerBooks screen. I went to a users office to do some quick photoshoping for something they need to get to a publisher and came across a very curious problem. I started the Powerbook without the second monitor (obviously) and launched Photoshop and while the toolbars and pallets where now located on the built in, now only, screen when ever I tried to pull up the layer blend window or the layer effect window it was off on to the now non existent monitor. I tried detect monitors but the powerbook knew there was only the internal so it was obviously a photoshop issue. tried Photoshop's view menu options and changing the resolution but no mater what the lost windows would not come back. In the end plugged in my powerbook in to the users monitor - fortunately they had a Apple LCD so correct monitor plug and the external monitor appeared and arrange by the system to the right of the built in screen... but still no layer pallet until I rearranged the external monitor in the control panel so it was logically to the left bingo... dragged it back to the internal monitor then unplugged the external so he could use his mac again. just got me thinking - what if next time there isn't a spare monitor or I don't have my apple to vga adaptor? Just how would I get this pallet back then? -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: help! one for the Photoshop gurus
Mark, On the PC, I use the menu option Window -- Workspace -- Reset Palette Locations - this 'should' reposition palette windows to within your system identified monitor screen size ? errr, hummm ...damn...than... works... my bad excuse me while I just step out and perform seppuku my Photoshop not L33t. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Zippidy Doo Dah
Anybody know where I can rent or borrow* a USB ZIP 100 drive for a day? I had a ZIP drive in my old G4 but the new one hasn't. Consequently I want to burn all the info from my ZIP disks on to CD. BTW afterwards I will have quite a few ZIP disks for sale . *If someone can lend me a drive I will reciprocate with ZIP disk or two. Cheers, Brad -- Brad Helden Japanese Culture Consultant Graphic Designer Typesetter Japanese Typesetting Translation Perth, Western Australia * The contents of this email transmission are confidential and may be protected by professional privilege. It is only intended for the named recipient/s of this email.
RE: Virginia Tech Supercomputer - 1,100 Apple G5 systems
-Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Hill Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 11:48 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Virginia Tech Supercomputer - 1,100 Apple G5 systems Interesting to note that some of the reasons Virginia Tech has chosen G5's is that a dual 2GHz G5 can process 14 gigaflops compared to a 2GHz Pentium 4 which can only muster 1.4 gigaflops. See this diagram comparing the G5 to the fastest computers in the world: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/newsadmin/photo/1062563741.jpg they aim to become one of the 5 fastest supercomputers in the world. Pretty good endorsement of Apple's new G5 systems. -Mart snipped press release We are shooting ourselves in the foot with these press releases. You can not compare a 32 bit processor with a 64 bit processor, also the G5 is specified as DUAL processor not UNI processor. Most PC users are pointing this out and complaining that we are comparing apples with oranges. What I would like to see is a comparison of a G5 cpu against a P4 or if the G5 has only been bench marked in duals against a dual P4 set-up 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: Virginia Tech Supercomputer - 1,100 Apple G5 systems
snipped press release We are shooting ourselves in the foot with these press releases. You can not compare a 32 bit processor with a 64 bit processor, also the G5 is specified as DUAL processor not UNI processor. Most PC users are pointing this out and complaining that we are comparing apples with oranges. Yes, they should be advertising it as either the quietest or the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world :) Have fun, Shay (Imagining 1,100 startup chimes) -- === 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/
Re: Virginia Tech Supercomputer - 1,100 Apple G5 systems
True Katinka - the hard to read graph in the article did pit a single P4 against a dual G5. It's interesting that the graph http://www.collegiatetimes.com/newsadmin/photo/1062563741.jpg was sourced from the International Supercomputer Conference if you look at the credit - so someone thought it had some validity in a pretty high-powered forum!) Other graphs comparing a dual Xeon (the Xeon being the multi-processor capable version of the Pentium 4) against the dual G5 are of course more useful. However, I would argue that you *can* compare the G5's 64bit nature against the P4's 32bit architecture because we are comparing the main desktop CPU of both platforms. It's not Apple's fault that intel's 64-bit competitor - the Itanium (or itanic as many commentators are calling it) is only geared towards servers and not desktops and will only run 32bit software in slow software emulation mode. Or that a 64bit version of Windows is still not released or that wintel software needs to be re-compiled to take advantage of 64bits etc. What I think we are all waiting for is a bake-off between the G5 and the 64bit AMD Opteron or the upcoming desktop version, the Athalon64. That should get some sparks flying. -Mart At 3:20 PM +0800 4/9/03, Katinka Mills wrote: We are shooting ourselves in the foot with these press releases. You can not compare a 32 bit processor with a 64 bit processor, also the G5 is specified as DUAL processor not UNI processor. Most PC users are pointing this out and complaining that we are comparing apples with oranges. What I would like to see is a comparison of a G5 cpu against a P4 or if the G5 has only been bench marked in duals against a dual P4 set-up -- - Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia Consultant http://is.curtin.edu.au/eot/ Educational Online Technologies, Information Services, Curtin University Mobile: 0417-967-969 wk: (08)9266-3101 Fax: (08)9266-3826
Modem Script for Sony Ericsson T610?
Thanks to all who helped with advice about accessing the Internet via GPRS on my Mobile Phone. Works fine in Perth, I shall now investigate providers for the UK. When I connected to my ISP via Bluetooth and dial-up the 'default' modem selected was Ericsson Infrared. It worked. When I was trying to connect to the Internet via Bluetooth and GPRS the 'default' modem selected was Internal Modem. This did not work but changing it to Ericsson Infrared did. I thought there might be a proper modem script for the T610 but a search of the Sony Ericsson web site produced zilch. Does a modem script exist for the T610 and if so where do I find it? Is there likely to be a problem if I continue to use the Ericsson Infrared setting? Diana
Re: AntiVirus recommendations?
Thanks Bob, I've just updated Virex as a result of your post. I simply couldn't find where to do that up until now. You're a legend! Reg On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 09:37 am, Bob Howells wrote: Not sure whether these help Bob http://download.com.com/3150-2228-0.html?tag=dir http://us.mcafee.com/
RE: Virginia Tech Supercomputer - 1,100 Apple G5 systems
-Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shay Telfer Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 3:41 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Virginia Tech Supercomputer - 1,100 Apple G5 systems snipped press release We are shooting ourselves in the foot with these press releases. You can not compare a 32 bit processor with a 64 bit processor, also the G5 is specified as DUAL processor not UNI processor. Most PC users are pointing this out and complaining that we are comparing apples with oranges. Yes, they should be advertising it as either the quietest or the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world :) Have fun, Shay (Imagining 1,100 startup chimes) I would just like 100 of them ;o) and a decent PCB EDA client (mmm Spectra on Mac ;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
Powerbook/ibook wanted to buy
I have a friend who wants to buy a G3 or G4 powerbook/Ibook ASAP. Nothing under a 10 gig harddrive please. He is also after a second hand digital camera. Please reply off the list, if anyone has anything to sell. Thanks all. Over and out. Robert. ~ Robert Griffin Morgan Ph; 812 336 4136 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amitar.com.au/~morgan/tonepoet/-
