Computer Speakers

[Jude]

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice about computer speakers. We 
ended up buying a set of TDK tremors - two speakers and a subwoofer 
with a very nice sound right inside our budget.


Sam

Re: Personal Web Sharing

[David Watkins]

Callum

This can happen if you have edited your "httpd.conf" file and in
doing so you have made a mistake somewhere. The Sharing preferences
assumes a valid configuration file. To check your configuration for
correctness, enter "httpd -t" in a terminal, if there is an error
you will be told the line number where the problem is.

Dave Watkins



At 10:52 AM +0800 10/4/04, Callum Prior said:"

 Hi all,

 I'm having trouble reactivating Web Sharing.

 After selecting it and clicking start a "Web Sharing starting up"
 message appears, Personal Web Sharing greys out, and nothing happens.
 Anyone have any ideas?

 10.3.3 Dual 1Ghz G4, 768 Mb DDR SDRAM, 40Gb free space.

 Cheers!

 Callum

[4Sale] Easter Clean Up and Give Aways

[Daniel Kerr]

Hi All

I've had a bit of a clean up so got some things to sell and give away.
If you're interested in anything feel free to drop me an email or give me a
call.

* For Sale *

PowerBook G4 (Aluminium)
12" Screen
867MHz G4 Processor
128MB RAM (can upgrade if you want)
40GB Hard Drive
Combo Drive (CDRW and DVD-ROM)
Built in Bluetooth
Airport Extreme ready  (can add a card if you want also)
Firewire/USB/Modem/Ethernet/all the normal stuff
Original Software and Box and cables.
No dead pixels, excellent condition. Still under warranty.
It will also un dual monitor displays as well as all the cool stuff that a
PowerBook can do.

Asking $2300.
(Will also throw in a brand new laptop bag as well. And maybe a mouse if you
twist my arm.) :o)


iMac DV SE
G3 400Mhz
128MB RAM
20GB Hard Drive
DVD-ROM
USB and Firewire
Keyboard and optical Mouse
Excellent Condition
$500

PowerMac G3 Beige
G3 266MHz
160MB RAM
20GB Hard Drive
CD-ROM
Zip Drive
Keyboard and Mouse, Powercable
(Can add a USB card if required.)
$175

PowerMac 7300
7300/200MHz
104MB RAM
2GB Hard Drive
CD-ROM
Keyboard and Mouse, PowerCable
$75

SCSI 100MB Zip Drive - $30
100MB Zip Disks (used) - $5each
Belkin CDLabel LaunchPad - $5
Playstation One - $35 (OK not Mac related but hey)
Firewire Burner 52x32x52 with Toast Lite - $125 (Brand new)
Adaptec 1480 PCMCIA SCSI Card - Offers
Netgear RT314 Gateway Router - offers
iMation LS120 SuperDisk/Floppy Drive unit - offers
ADB Keyboards - offers
ADB Mice - offers
Logitech 3button & scroll wheel optical mouse - $39each (new)
USB2 6in1 Card Reader - $39each (new)
Original Airport Card - $100
32MB SODIMM - $5each
64MB SODIMM - $15each
128MB PC133 SODIMM - Offers
256MB PC100 SODIMM - Offers
256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM - Offers
128MB PD2100 DDR SODIMM - Offers
64MB PC100 SDRAM - Offers


* TO GIVE AWAY *
SCSI PowerLock Scanner (No powerpack or cables)
4.5GB SCSI Drive
2.5GB IDE Drive
2GB IDE Drive


That's it so far. As mentioned if you want more info or are interested
please feel free to email me.

Thanks for looking. Have a good Easter.

Kind Regards
Daniel Kerr
---
Daniel Kerr
MacWizardry

Phone: 0414 795 960
Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web:   


**For everything Macintosh**

Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[Onno Benschop]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 14:12, James Devenish wrote:
> But...what can Apple do about this?

As you already pointed out, we've been living with this for some time -
in fact since 1984 - did you know that the System File used to "be" a
text-file if you opened it in a text-editor? (You could read all about
the blue meanies.)

It reminds me of the introduction of network printing. All of a sudden
you could print to a printer that wasn't attached to your computer.
People were up in arms because all of a sudden the Sales department
printer could be abused by the Marketing department - since the Sales
department would have their budget and the Marketing department could
use Sales department consumables and you couldn't track it!

So people spent a whole lot of energy and resources building printer
accounting software, tracking jobs in small offices, installing print
servers with counters, adding page counters, key cards - you name it, to
stop the potential of the Marketing department spending any of the Sales
department budget.

Only one problem.

The Marketing department had to actually collect the print job, thus
making it really obvious that they'd used the Sales printer.

Moral of this story: "Don't fix things that aren't broken."

In short, if the reports we have are correct that this "Virus" is just
an Application with a data-fork that contains MP3 data then Apple
doesn't need to do anything at all.

Agreed, a cool idea would be to require that each base-type
(document/folder/application) has an OS tag of some sort on the icon.

I always found it really irritating to have to support those users who
thought it was cool to put a custom icon on *everything* and then expect
that I would be able to figure out how to support them and not drive
myself mad attempting to open a folder when it was an application or a
document.

Onno Benschop 

Connected via Optus B3 at S38°01'05" - E145°25'10" (Upper Beaconsfield, VIC)
-- 
()/)/)()..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

Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[James Devenish]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:12:54PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> something that could have been done readily since System 7 (custom
> icons).

(Sorry for continuing this thread.) I made an error -- this is nothing
to do with custom icons, it's to do with application icons. So, this
would have been present in System 6, too (and prior?).

Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 12:12, James Devenish wrote:
> Therefore, I guess that we've lived with this threat for more
> than a decade. It would seem that the "test of time" has shown this
> threat to be negligible. 

Until, of course, an anti-virus vendor jumps up and down and screams
"Look! A possible way to trick users! *hint* *hint* Isn't it scary!"

Craig Ringer

Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[James Devenish]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:15:32AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 11:13, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Yeah, that looks like it. My reading suggests a Mac application that
> > happens to have MP3 data in the [data] fork, 

Oh yeah...LOL. How incredibly lame -- is this any different to any Mac
app?? It basically sounds like a classical Trojan Horse -- is that why
it can be launched in the Classic environment ;-). This sounds like
something that could have been done readily since System 7 (custom
icons). Therefore, I guess that we've lived with this threat for more
than a decade. It would seem that the "test of time" has shown this
threat to be negligible. Should someone still fall for it, the MP3 ruse
might mean it takes a while for the person to realise the deception. But
Mac OS's track record suggests that people don't get into that situation
in the first place. (However, I haven't tried out the proof-of-concept,
and perhaps there is slightly more deception in Mac OS Xthat could have
been achieved with System 7.)

But...what can Apple do about this? Is there anything that it /should/
do? Could ban applications from having icons -- not a chance! Could ban
apps from having "deceptive" filenames -- define "deceptive"! Could add
a little 'badge' to the icons of all apps in the Finder (possible --
just as with aliases, I imagine).

% /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo virus.mp3
file: "virus.mp3"
type: "APPL"
creator: "vMP3"
attributes: avbstclInmed
created: 03/20/2004 00:45:12
modified: 03/21/2004 01:49:04

Resource Forks [was: Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)]

[James Devenish]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:39:33AM +0800, Robert Howells wrote:
> Hm !For OS Pre OSX resource forks are normal but
> I thought that with OSX,resource forks no longer existed !

If resource forks no longer existed, all your Classic apps and System
Folders would have stopped working, and your old SimpleText files would
have lost all their formatting. Rather, Mac OS X no longer makes use of
resource forks for new applications -- but resource forks continue to
be supported as a legacy feature.

Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[Robert Howells]

On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 11:15  AM, Craig Ringer wrote:


On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 11:13, Craig Ringer wrote:


Yeah, that looks like it. My reading suggests a Mac application that
happens to have MP3 data in the resource fork,


Uggh. I meant data fork. The /code/, icon, etc is in the resource fork,
if I guess correctly



Hm !For OS Pre OSX resource forks are normal but
I thought that with OSX,resource forks no longer existed !

Am I wrong ?

Bob

Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 11:13, Craig Ringer wrote:

> Yeah, that looks like it. My reading suggests a Mac application that
> happens to have MP3 data in the resource fork, 

Uggh. I meant data fork. The /code/, icon, etc is in the resource fork,
if I guess correctly.

Craig Ringer

Re: Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 06:53, Onno Benschop wrote:
> As I suspected and wrote, this isn't a Trojan Horse at all:
> 
> 

All they seem to be saying is that because the sample exploit isn't
malicious, it's not a trojan. They do say something interesting though:

"The program can't be spread by e-mail or through a file-sharing network 
unless it is compressed using software like Aladdin's Stuffit. Failing 
to compress the MP3 file before sending it renders the software inoperative."

To me, this suggests that perhaps they're storing the code, icon, or
some other important part of the attack in the resource fork, or they
need the type/creator codes to be set a particular way.

Yeah, that looks like it. My reading suggests a Mac application that
happens to have MP3 data in the resource fork, a custom icon, and a
filename extension. It sounds like the app also plays its self when run.
Does this sound likely?

If so, it is an issue, but a pretty minor one.

Craig Ringer

Re: Personal Web Sharing

[James Devenish]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:52:51AM +0800, Callum Prior wrote:
> After selecting it and clicking start a "Web Sharing starting up" 
> message appears, Personal Web Sharing greys out, and nothing happens.  
> Anyone have any ideas?

Although I've never used X's personal web sharing, I would hasten to
guess that the details of the failure will be recorded in a "log file".
As per usual, you may prefer to get a nerd to interpret your log files
for you. To have a look at this yourself, fire up the 'Console'
application (in the 'Utilities' folder within the 'Applications' folder)
and scrounge around in some of the log files listed there. It will help
if you have 'freshly' failed to start web sharing, as this makes it easy
to find recent messages at the end of the log files. I suppose you might
have tried this already.

With regards to your unexpected quitting, what became of those memtest
results? Have you pursued any avenues to do with replacing RAM or
operating it as a uniprocessor system? I don't know what type of RAM
your machine has, but if it's error-correcting then I would hope that
there'd also be traces of failure in your kernel's logs. Also, have you
tried simply creating a 'new user' and logging in as that new user? That
would basically give you 'fresh' preferences, permissions, startup
items, etc.

Personal Web Sharing

[Callum Prior]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble reactivating Web Sharing.

While trying to fix my constant (and sadly, still current) unexpected 
quitting problem we reinstalled Panther and ran through the updates 
again.  I've been going through getting my system back the way I like 
it, but seem unable to turn on Personal Web Sharing again (System 
Preferences > Sharing > Services - Personal Web Sharing).


After selecting it and clicking start a "Web Sharing starting up" 
message appears, Personal Web Sharing greys out, and nothing happens.  
Anyone have any ideas?


10.3.3 Dual 1Ghz G4, 768 Mb DDR SDRAM, 40Gb free space.

Cheers!

Callum

Re: Onno and the Trojan Horse

[John Taylor]

IBM 1620? You're lucky! I used to live in a shoe-box in't middle of the 
road and work it all out on a slide rule!


Best wishes,

John

On 9 Apr 2004, at 6:37 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:


On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 12:45, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
 It may be a little too early to panic over this. Apparently, it's  
doubtful if the virus exists as anything more than a "proof of 
concept"  that such a thing is possible.


Uhm, from what I've read so-far, this is not a virus or a trojan horse
at all. It's a concept of social engineering. The idea is that you can
make an attachment look like one thing and be another.

A virus spreads without your intervention - AFAIK this doesn't.

A trojan horse pretends to be one thing while doing another - AFAIK 
this

isn't.


(PS. I've you've got something to rebuke the above, I'm all ears


And I thought it was nose... :-)


- I
don't profess to know everything about everything, but I'll confess I
know a lot about a great many things to do with computing


I see you're still working on your modesty!


 - hint: I've
been doing this for a few years :-)

(Second hint: My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20)


and my first computer was an IBM 1620(?) in 1973.  It was the first 
computer at UWA, and took up about a lounge room.  UWA decommissioned 
it for a new machine and turned it over to students to play with.  I 
used to sneak into the Physics building to play with it on weekends. 
Andrew Marriott who teaches in Comp Sci at Curtin was another, with a 
guy called Mike Palm.  All input and output from the computer was thru 
punched cards, even loading the operating system.  I would guess the 
operating system took up 800 cards -> 800 lines of code.  How things 
have changed...


Anyway, Sev Crisp from Albany, who was teaching me Physics at the 
time, probably used this machine before I got to it.  I used to do 
fun(?) things like solving integrals numerically using the 
Newton-Rhapson method.  It took 20 minutes for something a $200 
calculator would now do in a flash.


Back to my wheelchair...

Rob

PS. I first used email and chat in 1982.






--
---
Dr Rob Phillips, Senior Lecturer,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Room 4.38 Teaching and Learning Centre, Library North Wing
Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, 6150, Perth, AUS
Phone: +61 8 9360 6054  Mobile: 0416 065 054
Chair, 2004 ASCILITE Conference, 
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/

---

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro



Regards,

John Taylor

Default folder appearance selection

[Tim Law]

Hi,

Whilst we are on default settings, is there a way to get the 'Global' folder
settings to actually be the Global setting and flow through to all the
subfolders. 

I'm using 10.3.3 and need to set every folder to the Global setting, now
called 'All Windows" in the Finder/View menu/View Options window. I would
have thought once I had made my settings on one folder, that setting would
have been the default setting for all folders. It doesn't even do it for a
new folder window.

Thanks
Tim


on 10/4/04 10:18 AM, John Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> There's a quicker way. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the ikon.
> Select "Open with" and choose the application you want to open the
> document with from the list.
> 
> Note that if you use the "Get Info" window, you can set the preferences
> to open up all documents of the same type with your favourite
> application. For PDF files, I prefer to use "Preview", the OS10
> application for opening these documents.
> 

Re: default app selection

[John Taylor]

There's a quicker way. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the ikon. 
Select "Open with" and choose the application you want to open the 
document with from the list.


Note that if you use the "Get Info" window, you can set the preferences 
to open up all documents of the same type with your favourite 
application. For PDF files, I prefer to use "Preview", the OS10 
application for opening these documents.


John Taylor.


On 9 Apr 2004, at 3:51 PM, Greg Manzie wrote:


Click on the file then >Get Info>Open With

Happy Easter, Regards

Greg Manzie

Macintosh G4 400 MHz (PCI graphics), 640 Meg RAM, OS10.3.3,
10 Gig & 20 Gig internal HD's, SCSI card, Netgear RP 614 Router,
Alcatel Speed Touch ADSL Modem through built in Ethernet.
On 09/04/2004, at 3:04 PM, Chris Burton wrote:


HI everyone

Could someone please advise me how to select the default application 
that is used by the OS when new documents, pictures, sound files, etc 
etc are copied or downloaded to the hard drive?


For example, I have a Powerbook 15" G4 1000 running 10.3.3. I have 
downloaded some reference papers that are pdf's. The icon of these 
papers in the folder on the HD does not show the red Acrobat reader 
icon indicating they are pdf's?


I have reader version 5 on the drive but have to open it then open 
the pdf paper, rather than clicking directly on the pdf.


thanks for any help. It has got to be a simple one, but I just cant 
remember how to tell OSX how to do it


Chris


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro




Regards

Greg Manzie
Director

Glyde Gallery Conservation
Conservators, Consultants and Picture Framers
for Museums, Art Galleries and Collectors

5 Glyde Street
MOSMAN PARK
Western Australia 6012

Telephone (08) 9383 3929
Mobile 0438 833 144
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ABN 89 154 124 265


Regards

Greg Manzie
Director

Glyde Gallery Conservation
Conservators, Consultants and Picture Framers
for Museums, Art Galleries and Collectors

5 Glyde Street
MOSMAN PARK
Western Australia 6012

Telephone (08) 9383 3929
Mobile 0438 833 144
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ABN 89 154 124 265


Regards

Greg Manzie
Director

Glyde Gallery Conservation
Conservators, Consultants and Picture Framers
for Museums, Art Galleries and Collectors

5 Glyde Street
MOSMAN PARK
Western Australia 6012

Telephone (08) 9383 3929
Mobile 0438 833 144
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ABN 89 154 124 265


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro



Regards,

John Taylor

Re: computer speakers

[Rod Blitvich]

http://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore.woa/80505/wo/a5ZGDJ
8xpeO42gyPs3H2LcWENHe/1.3.0.5.10.3.0.13.0


JBL Creature 2.1 Speakers - Silver

 iMac, eMac, iBook, PowerBook, Power Mac and iPod compatible, with easy plug
and play set up and convenient touch controls, Creature takes multimedia
sound to another dimension.

 Touch Volume Control - Just a touch increases or decreases the volume. Just
a touch mutes or un-mutes the system. Creature also remembers your last
volume setting. 
The Creature audio system utilizes a straightforward interconnect
technology, which provides an effortless user interface with minimum desktop
wiring. 
The powerful subwoofer provides clean low bass. The treble and subwoofer
level controls are located on the front of the Creature Subwoofer.

 www.harman-multimedia.com

$259

Cheers
Rod Blitvich



on 9/4/04 7:01 PM, Jude at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I'm looking for some advice...
>  my borrowed stereo has gone back to its rightful owner and as an interim
>  solution I'm looking for some computer speakers for my dual 800 g4
> 
>  I'm only willing to spend around $200
> 
>  what do people recommend?
> thanks Sam
> 


-- 
 (o o)
  *===ooO-(_)-Ooo=*
  | Rod BLITVICH   LT Coordinator Balcatta Senior High School |
  |   Chair STAWA Electronic Communications Committee |
  | Amy and Sam's Dad |
  | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.stawa.asn.au |
  *===*
  |   |
  | I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha|
  |   |
  *===ooO=Ooo=*

Trojan Horse - Not (Update)

[Onno Benschop]

As I suspected and wrote, this isn't a Trojan Horse at all:




Onno Benschop 

Connected via Optus B3 at S38°01'05" - E145°25'10" (Upper Beaconsfield, VIC)
-- 
()/)/)()..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

Re: Trojan Horse

[Dark Servant]

Just check to see if the stock went up by $4.01 recently.  I would do 
it myself but it's getting late and I really can't be bothered right 
now.

Ruben

This story in TidBits  didn't get much of a mention on the list  Was 
it an April  Fools joke

John


 Although 1999 seems an eternity ago, some things never change,
  and today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced
  that it would be standardizing all of its computing functions on
  Macs running Mac OS X. As with the Army's decision back in 1999,
  the reason is security. Even though Microsoft continues to block
  holes in Windows, we've seen an ever-increasing number of worm and
  virus epidemics that have turned millions of Windows-based PCs
  into zombie spam generators and resulted in many billions of
  dollars of damage and cleanup costs.

  Therein lies the difference since 1999. Although DHS remains
  concerned about the security of its internal and external Web
  sites, the real worry today is that the entire department could
  be crippled by a virulent Windows worm or virus. The Army was
  merely embarrassed by their Web site being modified, but a worm-
  based attack on DHS computers could seriously compromise the
  agency's ability to respond to a terrorist attack. DHS has been
  particularly concerned about such attacks, issuing an alert in
  March about a Windows program called Phatbot that brings peer-
  to-peer networking concepts to malicious software.



  Needless to say, the announcement is good news for Apple Computer,
  since it will entail the purchase of hundreds of thousands of
  Macintosh systems. Apple stock rose $4.01 on the announcement
  as Wall Street took account of the future earnings.

  It's important to remain realistic about the effects of DHS
  switching to Mac OS X. In the past, Macs have been largely free of
  worms and viruses at least in part because Macs weren't generally
  used in "interesting" places (interesting, that is, to the sort of
  people who write malicious software). Targets don't get much more
  prominent than DHS, and I fully expect to see more hacking effort
  aimed against Macs in the near future. Apple is not unaware of
  this possibility either, and has already started advertising for
  additional security engineers, as evidenced by the job posting
  below (Apple ID required for login).

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro