[WAMUG Meeting] Notes from May Meeting
Hi All Here are some brief notes from tonight's meeting: QA 1) A brief discussion on Apple in the media. 2) Yahoo mail. Can log in from the school network, but from home on a modem it crashes out? To clear out Cache in Explorer, have a look under preferences in the program. Have a look in Preferences/Explorer/delete cache and file cache.waf 3) Toast won't install on Panther? Need to update to Toast 5.2.3 update. This should fix the issue. Palm Sync issues. Need to update to 4.2.1 4) Any way to make one machine sync to a phone to another machine so they are the same? Try syncing one calendar and see if this makes a difference. Reset to factory defaults and see how it goes. 5) To backup 1000 pages to file? Is there a machine that will do this? A lot of the multifunction machines will allow you to do this, and will even work on a network. Can access it to a machine, hit scan and it will transfer it to one specific machine. Brother and Epson have machines that do this. Canon also have one as well. HP also have some on the market as well. Best for drivers would be Epson and Brother. ***Matt and Peter do an in house demo on Xgrid.*** What is a grid of computers? A grid is a bunch of computers all working together on a single problem. (Big computing tasks that can be shared amoung low cost computers.) It means they all work faster then 1 computer trying to do it all by itself. Everyone with laptops installed the software on their computer (which was linked from Matt's machine.). The demo was ready to go after installing the software on everyone's computer. Matt then ran the Mandelbrot demo, which ran about 600MHz on one machine. With about 7 computers linked together (via Airport) the demo increased from MHz to GHz processing. (even up to 6GHz). Although it didn't look the computer was doing anything it was working away and transferring the information back to the main machine, which was Matt's laptop. This is where you would use the downtime of each computer and get them to work together. (A bit similar to Seti at Home, or folding. So we could see the workload was distributed around all the computers and getting much faster results out of many machines working together then one machine. Very useful for bio-tech companies. (released a program called Blast for matching DNA code. Very processor intensive.) The G4 and G5 are very good at it, due to AltiVec. Very big program. Allows to do jobs that could have taken days previously, whereas now can get it done in hours. To delete, go to Library/Xgrid/Scripts. Double click on Xgrid uninstall.command. *** Matt demo's Unison *** For looking at newsgroups, which is a like a lot of emails all together in categories. (Hogwasher, Neswatcher, Mt-Newswatcher.) Now there is Unison (From panic) http://www.panic.com or Versiontracker http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22293 It uses an interface like the Finder. The first thing you have to do isw configure a server. This is normally news.ispname Eg news.m.iinet.net.au, news.westnet.com.au etc You can't access your own newsgroup server from other ISP's. (This can normally be in the realm of 50,000 newsgroups.) You can then look in Discussions and look into a category that interests you. For example Macintosh. Then you can look at further categories inside this. For example Applications. So inside Politics there was alt.politics.democrats and there were 14 messages. This is very similar to the WAMUG mailing list, except it's in one spot on a webserver. You can also create favourites that you go to your self. (NOTE: You also have to be very aware that the live content you see can also be a bit risky, so be aware that some of the content you may come across may not be suitable for all ages!!!) You can also post to the list. Also when you use your email address to post be aware that you can get a lot more spam. You are better to disguise your real address and use something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eg for wamug@wamug.org.au you would use [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then in your email tell people to remove the *NoSpam* from your address. This stops your email being taken by spam bots. (Just a little side note for you - Ed) It sells for about $30AUD. Matt notes it as the best one for the Mac. *** Daniel does the demo with eyeTV400 *** You may remember the demo for eyeTV USB some time last year. Well El Gato have significantly changed the range now. They added a lot of Firewire devices. EyeTV basically allows you to watch, record and edit television on your Mac. You can also time-shift what you're watching. This means if you're watching a show then you can pause it and when you come back to watch it again you start from where you left off, meaning you don't miss anything, even if you've been away for an hour! (Hard drive space permitting.). All models now come with a remote control! The range now consists of: EyeTV USB - Analogue system for G3 or better. All normal features. RRP $429. WAMUG SPECIAL - $349 EyeTV 200 -
Print head cleaning
The other day I sought advice on cleaning the printer head on an older Canon machine. The response was to various web sites and discussions. I didn't see my first reply - wading though the digest sometimes and short msgs can be missed. Here it is again. I solved the problem with a solution of isopropyl alcohol ( used in windscreen washer products) and an ultrasound bath (optician style). A few minutes of that and some fiddling with head cleaning once re-assembled and a document with bars of red, yellow, blue and black and - back in business. Probably little point in soaking for days - soapy water - detergents etc. Enzyme based detergents might be OK. Also might be a bit messy with printers that have the electrodes ON the cartridge. Bill
Re: Number Plate Font
Hi Little OT. Does anyone on the list happen to know what Font is used on Vehicle Number Plates in WA. And the important bit - is it available for the Mac? If you have a photo of a numberplate you can try using the automagic font finder at myfont: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ Alternatively there are lots of links at http://www.fontlab.com/html/fontfinder.html Of course you should use these tools for good, rather than evil :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Congrats Shay and Fe WAS (Re: powerbook or ibook?)
On 4/5/04 11:59 AM, Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Carboni wrote: BTW, everyone, Shay had a boy!! ** Congratulations to Shay and Fe on a healthy 7lb 3oz baby boy. WTG Shay and Fe, I bet his is cute, when will we see some happy snaps :o) Regards, Kat. HA, 7lb 3oz...Im glad you had a small one, my wife gave birth to our first boy three weeks ago and he was 9Lb 10oz, he looks like he's three already Adam.
Re: Laser Printer
Somebody was recently asking about laser printers. Viking http://www.vikingop.com.au/ is currently selling the Brother HL 1430 laser printer for $299. I have one of these printers and can recommend them. In the Harris Technology catalogue there is a Samsung ML-1710 for $289. The reviews look good, but does anyone have experience with one? Concerned about the graphics produced with 8Mb ram and the reviews don't give enough details. Then again, it's for my Mom :-) Also the drivers are (apparently) up to date with 10.3 which seems amazing nowadays. Brett Carboni Tsunami
Re: [WAMUG Meeting] Notes from May Meeting
On 04/05/2004, at 11:08 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All Here are some brief notes from tonight's meeting: Thanks heaps to Daniel for giving members who are unable to attend the Monthly meeting this information. I for one appreciate it immensely. (NOTE: You also have to be very aware that the live content you see can also be a bit risky, so be aware that some of the content you may come across may not be suitable for all ages!!!) hey hey Daniel ... you mean 'older ladies like me' Cheers, Ronni
Windows humour.
I'm still working away transitioning my office to a primarily Windows Operating Environment. I just noticed the acronym works out to be 'WOE'. *sigh* ;-) T.
Re: Windows humour.
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 14:08, Oldham, Toby wrote: I just noticed the acronym works out to be 'WOE'. A Windows CE migration of mobile devices is even worse, given the typical abbrevation WinCE. Craig Ringer
WAMUG Membership Application???
On January 21 I posted a WAMUG membership form and cheque. I have not heard anything. Am I a member? Will I receive acknowledgement? Rod Blitvich -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/k12/aee/bios/homepage.html http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
Apple Twisted pair Transceiver
I require the above to connect LaserWriter 16/600 to my Power Book ethernet port. Can anyone assist? Part No of existing piece is MO437 TIA Tony Wilson Tel 9448 1517
One for the DTP / Adobe experts...
OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to bring all my graphic design work up a notch. Almost all the printing companies I work with required PDF format files for output. Most of my layout work (posters and business cards) I do in InDesign an use the Press PDF export preset. I have one fairly major problem : * Some PDFs display correctly but don't print as they look Example I have been supplied with a logo in EPS format. Its white lettering on what appears to be a transparent background (when viewed in Illustrator). I don't seem to be able to get it to appear / behave as white lettering on a transparent background when I place it in InDesign. To work around I open and rasterize it in Photoshop and save it as a single layer (transparent background) in PDF format. It places in InDesign and displays properly. However when I print I get a variety of effects - mostly cutouts (box shape around the lettering) or burn throughs. I suspect something to do with transparency settings? I've trawled the help files (how I miss a big set of dead tree manuals) and googled but can't seem to work it out. Any design professionals out there with any ideas? I'd be happy to forward an example culprit PDF. Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = ==
Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:55:20PM +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to bring all my graphic design work up a notch. Does that include Distiller and a decent version of Acrobat (not Standard or other such muck)? Most of my layout work (posters and business cards) I do in InDesign an use the Press PDF export preset. I like Export, too. BUT I have to reluctantly admit that it doesn't always seem to work. On the other hand, I also have a problem where Distiller produces no output. It goes through the motions but simply doesn't write its output. I have been supplied with a logo in EPS format. [It's] white lettering on what appears to be a transparent background (when viewed in Illustrator). Sure: filled white letters with nothing behind them? I don't seem to be able to get it to appear / behave as white lettering on a transparent background when I place it in InDesign. What does it look like on screen? Note: InDesign has different options for display quality, so if you are using the worst (quickest) display, it might give you a misleading appearance on screen. (Nevertheless, I realise that doesn't explain why it wouldn't behave correctly when printed.) To work around I open and rasterize it in Photoshop and save it as a single layer (transparent background) in PDF format. Yikes. I'd be happy to forward an example culprit PDF. Someone else might help you tonight, but feel free to forward a copy to my address directly and I'll have a look at it tomorrow.
Re: powerbook or ibook?
On 03/05/2004, at 9:34 PM, Richard Kay wrote: On 03/05/2004, at 6:23 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote: I'm seriously considering getting a laptop. The main reason is for presentations vi digital projectors at conferences often connecting to the net and for working on websites. What should I consider ibook or powerbook? It might be worth having a quick look at 'The Road Warrior Compleat Buyer’s And User’s Guide To Low-End Macintosh Laptops 2004 Edition' at this URL: http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/04/05/04/index.html In the article the author makes reference to US dollars and observes: '... With the introduction of the base, 1 GHz G4 iBook now selling new for $1,099, and outperforming all Mac portables save for the Aluminum G4 PowerBooks, you can buy a brand new, very powerful ‘Book, for not that much above our arbitrary $1,000 mark. This is one of the biggest changes since the original Compleat Guides were published in 1999, at which time the cheapest new PowerBook you could buy was the 233 MHz WallStreet LE for $2,195. In my estimation, the entry lever [sic] 12” iBooks are the greatest deals that Apple has ever offered a portable, and I put my money where my mouth is 16 months ago, buying one of the previous 700 MHz G3 entry-level iBooks at New Years 2003, and I haven’t been sorry. Now in 2004, for jut [sic] over our one $grand threshold, you get a machine that has the same processor and the exact same 12” 1024 x 768 screen as the last-generation G4 12” PowerBook, almost of the same connectivity, and still looks great as well'. I've just ordered an iBook 12.1/1.GHZ/768RAM/60GB/Combo Drive/AirportExtreme/Bluetooth model for myself as a replacement for my 2 year old G3 iBook. For those who are interested, the comparative xBench results for my 14 700MHz iBook G3 with 640MB RAM and a 12.1 1GHz iBook G4 with 512MB RAM (both running under Panther) are as follows: G3 iBook: 46.65 G4 iBook: 109.65 --- Richard Kay Fremantle Western Australia
Re: powerbook or ibook?
As a curiosity about the iBooks, how scratch resistant have people found them to be. I look at that pearly white finish and can see it getting ruined in no time. Need to get in touch? [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about its friends -Make something idiot proof and someone will build a better idiot
