Re: website hosting and domains
I also use hostingshop and it costs me about $110 a year for hosting. I can't remember what package I have but it suits my small business. But the important part is their service. I recently had a problem getting email (probably caused by me *#$@@!) and they were very helpful and patient in sorting it out via email. Hope this helps Peter Bull -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:34:20 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: website hosting and domains Rosemary, Where I work provides web hosting, but we aren't as cheap as some of the other suggestions: $200/year 50MB space and i think it's unlimited email addresses... Netregistry is a pretty good place to reg domains, another which can be cheap for .com addresses is enetica: http://www.enetica.com.au/ There are no bandwidth limits on our hosting either... Based in Fremantle. http://conceptual.net.au/ Cheers Paul Rosemary Horton wrote: Anybody know anyone who does website hosting? Needs to be for our small business. Probably not a lot of traffic to start with. Probably need 50 meg; with some e-mail addresses. Needs to be relatively cheap, if possible. No need for website design or anything . I can do that. If there's anyone local I'd like to support them. So far I've seen $80 50 meg with smartyhost $100 a year for 50 meg with hostingbay.com.au I've seen domain registering for com.au for $60 australiacheapdomains..but they're connected with primus with whom I had bad experiences as isp. discount domain $65; netregistry $66 anyone know them? Everyone else seems to be $79 Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
Good dealer - bad dealer
I will be assisting a friend to purchase a new Mac in the near future and would like to get a handle on the dealers in and around Perth. Could members list who they would recommend and, perhaps privately, who they would definitely not recommend. This friend had a good experience with one dealer but, as he lives south of Armadale and the dealer is at the opposite end of Perth (easy to guess who), he would prefer someone a bit closer if they give similar service. Thanks, Mike Fuller
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
On 05/08/2004, at 8:12 AM, Mike Fuller wrote: I will be assisting a friend to purchase a new Mac in the near future and would like to get a handle on the dealers in and around Perth. Could members list who they would recommend and, perhaps privately, who they would definitely not recommend. This friend had a good experience with one dealer but, as he lives south of Armadale and the dealer is at the opposite end of Perth (easy to guess who), he would prefer someone a bit closer if they give similar service. Thanks, Mike Fuller Hi Mike, You can't beat Daniel Kerr 'MacWizardry' for service and support of any Computer he sells you. He will also give you the best price he can. I have been using Daniel for everything Mac for a number of years now and have no hesitation in recommending him to people. Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Re: Microsoft Excel speed test (bad news for us)
Morning all, I thought I would share the results of a stopwatch trial I performed on various versions of excel for PC and mac - the results are not pretty. Test machines A - 1 Clone 2.4 GHz P4 (no HT), 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, WinXP - Office 2000 B - 1 eMac 1 GHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, 10.3.4 - Office X C - 1 Powerbook G4 15 1.25GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, 10.3.4 - Office X D - 1 Powermac G5 1.6GHz, 1.25 GB RAM, 80GB HD, 10.3.4 - Office X, Office 2004, OpenOffice 1.1.2 (X windows) Test - 2 spreadsheets with 22,000 lines and 10 columns of data. - vlookup product code in spreadsheet one to determine tax rate from spreadsheet 2. Results (in minutes:seconds) A - 1:50 B - 14:25 C - 8:01 D - 6:25, 11:20, 2:10 (results in order - Office X, Office 2004, OO 1.1.2) As you can see, it's not good. Anyone suggest how I can make my G5 look good again? Our company relies on Vlookups due to varying sources of data every day. Kind regards Ron Holmes This won't help, but if you've got so much data, then switch to a database app, which is designed to handle large amounts of data. Also, isn't there some preference to switch off automatic recalculations. If you're just doing lookups, you could take this option. Yes. See Preferences/ Calculations. Rob -- --- Dr Rob Phillips, Senior Lecturer,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 4.38 Teaching and Learning Centre, Library North Wing Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, 6150, Perth, Australia Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Executive Member, Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) Chair, 2004 ASCILITE Conference, http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/ ---
Re: Microsoft Excel speed test (bad news for us)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:59:57AM +0800, Rob Phillips wrote: A - 1 Clone 2.4 GHz P4 (no HT), 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, WinXP - Office 2000 [...] D - 1 Powermac G5 1.6GHz, 1.25 GB RAM, 80GB HD, 10.3.4 - Office X, Office 2004, OpenOffice 1.1.2 (X windows) [...] Results (in minutes:seconds) A - 1:50 [...] D - 6:25, 11:20, 2:10 (results in order - Office X, Office 2004, OO 1.1.2) Note the difference in D between MS Office and OO (OpenOffice?). This suggests that the issue lies with Microsoft's programming decisions rather than any inherent platform issue. Obviously, this impacts on *practical* usage, but it would probably be fair call it a superficial issue for which the blame lies with Microsoft. By the way, I normally rate OpenOffice as slow, so it'd imagine that 2:10 can be improved upon. And, pro-rata with CPU speed, it's turned out better than Office 2000 on the P4 anyway -- not that such comparisons are to be heeded.
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
Mike Fuller wrote: I will be assisting a friend to purchase a new Mac in the near future and would like to get a handle on the dealers in and around Perth. Could members list who they would recommend and, perhaps privately, who they would definitely not recommend. This friend had a good experience with one dealer but, as he lives south of Armadale and the dealer is at the opposite end of Perth (easy to guess who), he would prefer someone a bit closer if they give similar service. Thanks, Mike Fuller Daniel Kerr helped me when there was no reason for him to do so, apart from generating goodwill. Which *works* by the way! He gets my tick for service and attitude. Cheers Paul
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
He gets my tick for service and attitude. Hmm... Perhaps the WAMUG committee should look at something like organising a people's choice dealer of the year award? Might be a good way to encourage the dealers to interact with WAMUG. 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/
auto respond in mail
hi I use Mail on OSX and wonder if you can set up out of office reply any one know? regards Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
My vote also goes to Daniel Kerr from MacWizardry http://www.macwizardry.com.au. He is very knowledgeable, always very fast with his responses via email or phone, can get just about any product in, is one of the cheapest suppliers of third party gear around and comes to every WAMUG meeting and is always giving away free prizes to everyone at every meeting(!) - not to mention his email summaries of meetings every month. How could you be better than that?! My wife and I have bought heaps of gear from him over the last year or more - I just hope he doesn't burn himself out! - Thanks Dan The other Mac resellers in town need to learn a few lessons from Daniel (and Rod Lavington as well - Hi Rod!). As someone who used to work as Mac support for 5 different Apple Resellers before Curtin, I could never understand why the sales staff at the companies I worked for were never interested in coming along to WAMUG meetings or using the WAMUG list - The large captive audience of Mac users (keen to buy gear for goodness sake!) that WAMUG and the list encompasses is surely fertile ground for sales by those resellers ready to tune in and contribute to the list and come to meetings with the freebies and good quality service that will always get them noticed. -Mart -- Martin Hill, Digital Media Specialist Information Management Services, Curtin University of Technology mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://is.curtin.edu.au/ims.cfm Mb: 0417-967-969 wk: (08)9266-3101 Fax: (08)9266-3826 From: Mike Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 08:12:03 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Good dealer - bad dealer I will be assisting a friend to purchase a new Mac in the near future and would like to get a handle on the dealers in and around Perth. Could members list who they would recommend and, perhaps privately, who they would definitely not recommend. This friend had a good experience with one dealer but, as he lives south of Armadale and the dealer is at the opposite end of Perth (easy to guess who), he would prefer someone a bit closer if they give similar service. Thanks, Mike Fuller -- 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: auto respond in mail
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:43:42PM +0800, Kathryn Purvey wrote: I use Mail on OSX and wonder if you can set up out of office reply Hi. If you are setting an out-of-office reply because you are going on holiday, I presume that you won't be checking your e-mail during that time. If you don't check your e-mail, then Mac OS X Mail will never get the chance to send its autoresponses. In order to send auto-responses in your absence, there needs to be some co-operation provided by your mail service provider (e.g. your Internet Service Provider). That is, the auto responses need to be done automatically by your mail server (not by your desktop). The details of how to achieve this with your provider, and whether they support configuration of this feature via Mac OS X Mail, is something that you probably have to ask them about.
Re: auto respond in mail
hi I use Mail on OSX and wonder if you can set up out of office reply any one know? If you're not running your own mail server (which you probably aren't :) check with your ISP if they can install a vacation message. Make sure it's sensible so that they can make sure it doesn't respond to every individual post to the WAMUG and other mailing lists you are subscribed to. 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/
Access for Mac
Searched the archive on the issue of the program Access being available on the Mac. Some time back I think someone else raised this question and I thought the answer was NO, but I couldn't find the item in the archive. Could someone please advise? Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see.
Re: Access for Mac
Searched the archive on the issue of the program Access being available on the Mac. Some time back I think someone else raised this question and I thought the answer was NO, but I couldn't find the item in the archive. Could someone please advise? Merv No, Microsoft Access is not available for the Mac. Filemaker is cross-platform however (but would need to have the database converted from Access to FileMaker) 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: Wireless at Curtin
Up till now all wireless users have had to use a proprietary Cisco wireless card to connect to the Curtin WLAN because of the security problems with plain vanilla WEP (the default encryption standard in wireless ethernet 802.11). http://is.curtin.edu.au/ics/wireless/connecting.htm Cisco Aironet 350 802.11b/g wireless LAN card with WEP data encryption and VPN for authentication and secure data transfer As a result, not only Mac Airport users were out in the cold but also Intel Centrino users and users of any other brand of wireless card other than Cisco. It is possible to get a Cisco PCMCIA card (available for loan from the Curtin Library) to work in an Apple Powerbook (15 17) but of course that still leaves iBook or 12 Powerbook users out of the running. The good news is the Curtin Wireless project team are planning on opening the WLAN to non-Cisco cards using WPA authentication (which Airport supports) and which is considerably more secure than the earlier WEP standard. I understand the team was hoping to implement WPA this semester - I just talked to one of the team and they indicated they are hoping to have it up sometime this semester (hopefully sooner than later), so stay tuned and I'll post more info as it comes to light. -Mart Martin Hill, Digital Media Specialist Information Management Services, Curtin University of Technology mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://is.curtin.edu.au/eot/ Mb: 0417-967-969 wk: (08)9266-3101 Fax: (08)9266-3826 From: Gordon Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:47:02 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Wireless at Curtin Anyone had a shot at using their Airport/Airport Extreme card with the Curtin Uni wireless network and using the Cisco VPN client with it? Any positive/horror stories? :) Gordo -- Need to get in touch? Email MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about its friends -Make something idiot proof and someone will build a better idiot -- 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
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Good dealer - bad dealer
I would have to agree with Ronni, although I live way out west, Daniel has been able to help with most of my 'problems' and get software delivered all over the place. Wendy On 05 Aug 2004, at 04:26, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Mike, You can't beat Daniel Kerr 'MacWizardry' for service and support of any Computer he sells you. He will also give you the best price he can. Wendy Austin Thomas Oswin Coastal Road Pomponette via Surinam Mauritius Island tel/ans/fax: +2306257399 iChat/MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More bouquets for Daniel
I echo what has been said regarding the advice, help and service offered by Daniel Kerr. Operating remotely down here in the deep south his quick responses and equally quick deliveries are a godsend! A real MacWizard! 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) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au http://members.westnet.com.au/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) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp
Re: Access for Mac
Thank you, Shay. I feared that was the case. Merv At 2:00 PM +0800 5/8/04, Shay Telfer wrote: Searched the archive on the issue of the program Access being available on the Mac. Some time back I think someone else raised this question and I thought the answer was NO, but I couldn't find the item in the archive. Could someone please advise? Merv No, Microsoft Access is not available for the Mac. Filemaker is cross-platform however (but would need to have the database converted from Access to FileMaker) 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/ -- 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 -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see.
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer and Re: More bouquets for Daniel
Thank you all for the nice praises and comments,..I do appreciate it. Your support is why MacWizardry is still around and will continue to be for a long time to come! And I am glad I can offer the service and support that you enjoy,..I enjoy it as well! The reason I love doing what I do! I get to help people and use a Mac all the time and push how great they are! What more could you want!! I'll go sit down now before my head gets too big to fit out the door,...nah that won't happen as I have people who keep me in my place! :o) (You know who you are) :o) hehehe. Thanks again all! Enjoy! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
A very good idea Shay. I would give it my support. Ken. W On 5/8/04 10:35 AM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He gets my tick for service and attitude. Hmm... Perhaps the WAMUG committee should look at something like organising a people's choice dealer of the year award? Might be a good way to encourage the dealers to interact with WAMUG. Have fun, Shay
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
Just Contact Daniel Kerr at MacWizardry
Re: auto respond in mail
Kathy, If you are getting Mail to check for e-mail regularly while you are away (eg every minute/hour/day), you can set up some RULES to filter your e-mail into different mailboxes. Start by using RULES to distribute all your mailing list e-mails (e.g. WAMUG) to their own custom mailbox. Once you've filtered out all the mail from users or groups who would not appreciate the bandwidth consumed by a gratuitous auto out of office reply, then use a final rule to deal with the remaining e-mails by sending them to a custom Auto reply mailbox. After the RULE action moving the message, add a second action (within the same RULE) to SEND REPLY with the reply message text set to something appropriate like Out of office until date Alternatively, you could set up an apple script (based on the example supplied in Mail) to parse the e-mail and set up a more complex reply based on the status and/or group of the sender, which will either send back a one liner, or a more comprehensive reply perhaps giving alternative contact details. You could also choose to automatically forward those e-mails (which are more likely to be the ones you would most like to read while you are away, leaving the fantastic WAMUG and similar lists to read on your return) to a web mail address so you don't miss a thing while you're away! All this is documented in the Help for Mail, and the same principles apply to Entourage (my e-mail client du jour). HTH John -- John Winters Phone +61 8 9367 9277 Fax +61 8 9367 9244 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kathryn Purvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:43:42 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: auto respond in mail hi I use Mail on OSX and wonder if you can set up out of office reply any one know? regards Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
Attn EyeTV users!
Hi All! Stumbled along this script in the whirlpool forums: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~kob/yourtv,%20meyetv.zip Designed for the 400 EyeTV, but the guy reckons it might be modifiable for the other series. It rips data from yourtv.com.au. Might be worth a go! Seeya Rod!
Re: bluetooth powerbook and palm t3
Chris, Before i get into the rather contorted process of describing how to sync a palm t3 to a laptop via bluetooth, are you sure you have to use bluetooth to do it? A simple USb sync cable does the job much faster and saves battery life and you have much less bother. I can get one for you, they cost around $35. Email me off list if interested. Anyway, here goes: 1. Make sure you are using the latest version of Palm Desktop, or at least the version that came with your T3. 2. Open up hotsync manager and select connection settingsfrom the dialog box that shows up. . Uncheck USB and check bluetooth pda sync port with this setting selected click the settings button at the bottom. ensure it is set to sa fast as possible and Serial (NOT modem) . Close up this window. 3. Turn on your palm. Go to the hotsync app. ensure Local is selected. Click the menubar at the top and got to optionsConnection setup. Click the new button at the bottom of the screen. Rename the connection bluetooth or similar. Connect to should be set to PC Via should be set to Bluetooth. device: tap to find, ensure bluetooth is on on both your palm and laptop. set show to Current discovery. select your mac. Click OK. It will ask for a passkey. Enter any number you want, but you need to enter the same on your mac when prompted. Don't worry if this churns and then fails. It will still be selected. ensure whatever you named your mac is still listed under device and press ok. Ensure this connection is selected. you should be back to the big hotsync button, local selected and bluetooth or whatever you called the connection you just setup selected. Hit the big hotsync button on the screen, and off you go. Ok - that works for me and the last 20 I set up, so I hope that works! email me off list if you need more direction. but seriously - as a seller and supporter of palmone pdas, consider the cable - it will save you more headaches! Dave Choy intern SCGH On 05/08/2004, at 5:07 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: From: Chris Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bluetooth powerbook and Palm T3 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:46:07 +0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Hi everyone I really need some help on this if anyone knows how to get the connection between the T3 and powerbook 15 with Bluetooth? My powerbook is running 10.3.4? I have tried almost everything...there must be a way, as I have done it before (4months) ago, but cannot get the hotsyncing to recognise the mac? Im hoping to upload my filemaker mobile files from the powerbook to the handheld and then be able to regularly sync them for my work. If anyone can help, by maybe providing a list of things I need to go through and check so I can get them talking to each other. kind regards and many thanks for any advice here Chris --- Okakura Kakuzo The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Laserwriter 16/600 Part required
Hi, Anyone have a fuser assembly lying around for this old trusty unit ? Not used a lot these days but I would like to keep it going a bit longer without too much expense...! Feel free to contact me off list Regards Mark
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
Hi All I would like to say that I have had great support and service from both Daniel at MacWizardry and Mike, Nick and Rod (when he was there) up at Joondalup Apple centre. I really appreciate it from both businesses. Thankyou guys. Chris Burton
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
On 5/08/2004 10:20 PM, Chris Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I would like to say that I have had great support and service from both Daniel at MacWizardry and Mike, Nick and Rod (when he was there) up at Joondalup Apple centre. I really appreciate it from both businesses. Thankyou guys. Chris Burton Rod's back at Joondalup, but you'll only see him there on Saturday's. And yes all the people at AppleCentre Joondalup are great. :o) Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
Hi, I'm one of the obviously large band of Macwizardry supporters, but I'd like to add a note of caution about the polling to ensure, pardon the pun, apples are compared with apples. One of Daniel's strengths as I have experienced, is his personalised service coming to home or office when needed. It's great. No question. But as far as I know he doesn't have a showroom or staff. Now this isn't a weakness if people know 'kind of' what they want. But what about people who need to 'see' what is on offer from Apple and need to go into a shop, or are new to Apple customers? Whilst it is entirely fair to expect a high level of personalised service and quality advice from a shop, it's a bit tough on them to be compared with someone who doesn't have the shop part of the business to contend with. I might be digging myself a hole here, but all I am trying to point out is that whatever survey is done needs to be fair to the various styles of businesses around. We need the shops, and we need the Daniels. Let the survey reflect that - especially if it's going to be a nationwide exercise. Thanks Tim
