Re: http://bigpondmusic.com/home.asp

[John Currie]

On 16/01/2004, at 10:06 AM, L Pohl wrote:


A telling quote from Justine Milne, BigPond managing director:

"iPods don't (work with BigPond Music) - that's Apple's device and  it's an
Apple ambush, I guess the question is would you be prepared to bet  against
Microsoft? I wouldn't," Mr Milne said.



Ambush ??? And this jerk is the MD of bigPond. Shudder.



I've even seen one journalist refer to Apple's "Proprietary file 
format". Proprietary?? AAC is part of the MPEG4 standard. With which 
particular non-proprietary standard does WMP comply?


What's wrong with just using MP3? WMP recognises it, and it actually 
works on MP3 players! All of them! And we wouldn't be stuffing 
around  with all this platform rubbish.


Who would have thought that the old platform wars would be 
resurrected  in the online music scene. Music files have 
historically been among the  most platform-agnostic around, and here 
we have all sorts of companies  (it's not just Telstra) doing their 
utmost to make sure their fare will  not work on the iPod.






Being a tin ear i don't understand all this, however,.

Does this mean that HP have bought themselves a Lemon  ipod   not an 
Apple iPod ?


It would not seem to be in Telestra's commercial interest to  act 
this way.  As we still own 51% perhaps it's a matter which should be 
drawn to the  Ministers attention ?


Now I'll go back to listening to Peter Dawson on my  78 gramophone.
John

Re: Video conferencing

[Ryan Schotte]

> What is the simplest/cheapest software for chat/video conferencing.  My  
> son is in Montreal and has all the necessary and we want to  
> receive/send with him.  He has the right camera but we are content just  
> to send voice while we receive pictures and voice.
> iChat requires signing up for .Mac - is there a way round this?  Other  
> free software packages seem to need a similar payment for entry into  
> the system somewhere along the line.
> Severin Crisp


iChat requires the use of a .Mac or AIM account. Try signing up for
an AOL Instant Messenger account, I think they're still free.

Ryan

Mail feature

[Severin Crisp]

I am now using Mail after many years of being a devoted Eudora user and  
am very happy.
One minor glitch is annoying me.  I look after my wife's email, as she  
logs in only rarely.  with Eudora I did not remove her mail from the  
server so it remained there to go into her computer eventually.  Eudora  
marked mail in some way so it only downloaded to me once.  with Mail it  
leaves it on the server and redownloads it every time I check mail.

is there something I am missing here?
Severin Crisp
 


 Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
 Fax  (08) 9842 9650  (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650)
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Video conferencing

[Severin Crisp]

What is the simplest/cheapest software for chat/video conferencing.  My  
son is in Montreal and has all the necessary and we want to  
receive/send with him.  He has the right camera but we are content just  
to send voice while we receive pictures and voice.
iChat requires signing up for .Mac - is there a way round this?  Other  
free software packages seem to need a similar payment for entry into  
the system somewhere along the line.

Severin Crisp
 


 Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
 Fax  (08) 9842 9650  (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650)
email  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Web page http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au

Locked mailbox

[Severin Crisp]

Mail is regularly giving me a message that one of my five mailboxes is  
locked by me and warns against opening it.  It opens fine with no  
disasters but this is really infuriating.  The offending INBOX does in  
fact show a locked padlock, which I can unlock.  Is it a coincidence  
that the name of this account matches my login name to my ISP?  How do  
I fix it, I am going to change the login name anyway for another reason

Severin Crisp
 


 Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
 Fax  (08) 9842 9650  (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650)
email  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Web page http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au



 


 Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
 Fax  (08) 9842 9650  (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650)
email  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Web page http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au

Re: OT a web page with 'live" data

[Mark Scholmann]

Kathy,

if you are writing the program, then you can do a simple trick, which is to
use
.
The image is stretched upwards like a bar chart set a loop to display
many images across the page, based on the data.  Set valignment to bottom,
an place in a table of something ?

The program could spit out the whole HTML web page required to display the
new data.  This way, on the frequency you set for data streaming in, you
could run your program to read the data and build the new web page.  The
web page then has a "refresh" command to update automatically at set
intervals.

As the program builds the chart, you could also set conditions for
"critical" temperatures or what-ever is required.  This could change the
colour image to use, etc.

Another way, would be to convert the streaming data into XML format and
have a web page set up to read and display the results using XSL? or
what-ever displays XML data now-days?  (Haven't worked on XML for a while).


Mark Scholmann





- Original Message -
From: "Kathy Quinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WAMUG Mailing List" 
Sent: Sunday, 18 January 2004 12:35
Subject: OT a web page with 'live" data


> Hi all,
>
> This is for our experienced web designers :o)
>
> I have live data coming in a FreeBSD server through the RS-232 port (I
> will be writing the program to turn the data from the incoming stream
> into a format for a web page) now I need to display this data on a
> webpage with graphs etc.
>
> Think of the FreeBSD server as an OsX server (as they are both similar)
>
> Now how do I design the web page to graph and display these values ?
>
> The data coming in is basically power status and temperature readings of
> the equipment in the roof :o)
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> Regards,
>
> Kat.
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Re: Westpac spam scam

[Mark Scholmann]

Peter,

be careful... and not for fear of bank fraud!... many of the nonsical spams
that go on are mining for legit email addresses.  If your email address
does not bounce back to their system then they can be confident that it got
through  if you confirm the loop by replying, then you have probably
just made it onto their Platinum/Gold list of email addresses for sale.

If it is some sort of evil spam, then the reply address would have been
faked anyway, so no-one will see the response.

The bank web site scams have got to the stage where they were using the
"faked" domain address bug in IE (not sure of other browsers), which
allowed them to link to what looked like the real Westpac domain address,
and then they mocked up the Login page "exactly".  In the code we saw, the
input form fields had been simply changed to take the submitted values to
their own server.

So even if it is annoying to receive them, it's probably best to just set
up your filtering rules and ignore them!

Good luck,

Mark Scholmann





- Original Message -
From: "Peter Sealy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WAMUG Mailing List" 
Sent: Saturday, 17 January 2004 6:50
Subject: Westpac spam scam


> I received of those scam Westpac spam emails asking for my account
> details which I guess many of you also have received. I am not a
> Westpac customer so I don't know how the scammers got to me, but it
> doesn't matter. Just wondered whether anyone thought it might be a good
> thing for the world if I sent back an answer with some dud info so as
> to screw up their system? Would doing this even have any disrupting
> effect?
> .
>
> Peter Sealy
> Thurgoona AUSTRALIA
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OT a web page with 'live" data

[Kathy Quinlan]

Hi all,

This is for our experienced web designers :o)

I have live data coming in a FreeBSD server through the RS-232 port (I
will be writing the program to turn the data from the incoming stream
into a format for a web page) now I need to display this data on a
webpage with graphs etc.

Think of the FreeBSD server as an OsX server (as they are both similar)

Now how do I design the web page to graph and display these values ?

The data coming in is basically power status and temperature readings of
the equipment in the roof :o)

Any help appreciated 

Regards,

Kat.

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Re: is iinet adsl ok?

[Craig Ringer]

http://whirlpool.net.au/survey/results.htm

This should be informative.

Craig Ringer