Re: Reading CD from PC burn

[Greg Sharp]

What you could do is try sending a Ragtime file from the PC to Mac as an
email attachment and see if you have the same problem. This should at least
isolate whether it's a Ragtime problem or related to the burn process.

Greg Sharp


On 13/11/04 1:05 AM, "Mervyn & Giuliana Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am using Ragtime 5.6.4 on my iMac 10.2 at home.  I can burn files
> to a CD using Toast and Hybrid format and these can be read with
> Ragtime 5.6 on a PC at the office whether in portrait or landscape
> layout.
> 
> However, when a Ragtime document in landscape is burned to a CD by
> the PC running XP I can only see the left hand half of the landscape
> page on my iMac at home.  The PC software for burning on the PC is
> the standard software built in as part of the XP operating system.
> 
> One of my son's who also drives a PC running XP can see the total
> file.  He saved the document in ISO format using NERO and the same
> problem occurred on the iMac.
> 
> I have only tried this for Ragtime so I do not know whether other
> applications using landscape produce the same result.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this problem?  If so, is there a solution?
> 
> Merv

Reading CD from PC burn

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

I am using Ragtime 5.6.4 on my iMac 10.2 at home.  I can burn files 
to a CD using Toast and Hybrid format and these can be read with 
Ragtime 5.6 on a PC at the office whether in portrait or landscape 
layout.


However, when a Ragtime document in landscape is burned to a CD by 
the PC running XP I can only see the left hand half of the landscape 
page on my iMac at home.  The PC software for burning on the PC is 
the standard software built in as part of the XP operating system.


One of my son's who also drives a PC running XP can see the total 
file.  He saved the document in ISO format using NERO and the same 
problem occurred on the iMac.


I have only tried this for Ragtime so I do not know whether other 
applications using landscape produce the same result.


Has anyone else encountered this problem?  If so, is there a solution?

Merv
--
"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must 
also believe in order to see."

Re: Help ! I cannot open my mac :-(

[Malcolm]

Your a genius and a legend in your own lunch time it is now spewing 
lots of unix at me :-)

Mac

On Friday, November 12, 2004, at 04:45 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:


Hi everyone,
I acquired a eTrex GPS hand held and I have MacGPS. Wanting to get 
the two aquainted I bought a Keyspan USB serial adaptor and uploaded 
the software that came with it to my White iBook/500. They did not 
seem to be talking to one another and then the mouse froze :-( I 
rebooted and got a mac OS/X /? flashing icon.  I zapped the pram 
booted the baby and  after much swearing and cursing I am now in the 
state that I get a blank white screen , I cannot get the original 
software disk to come up, putting in Mac OS X.2 install disk will not 
load, I hear the disc spin up and then slow down.  I have tried to 
start with shift held down and with T held down without any luck. I 
remember watching Matt start up in Unix  but do not know how he did 
it and wonder if I did manage to do that whether I could navigate my 
way through to the 'nasty software which I suppose is causing the 
trouble. The ever helpful Dan is working his butt off and cannot get 
here until at least tomorrow. Can anyone make any suggestions immoral 
or otherwise ;-)

Mac


Try starting up with command v held down. This will display what's 
happening, which might display an error message. You might also try 
rebooting with the shift key held down for longer.


Good luck,
Shay
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Weird CD Combo Drive Behaviour

[Greg Pennefather]

Hi All

Just yesterday I ran into a weird problem with my CD combo drive on my TiPB
550 (512MB RAM) running OS X 10.3.6.  I inserted a blank CD and it simply
wasn't recognised.  Disk utility couldn't see it and I couldn't eject it
without restarting with the mouse button held down.  So I tried reading CDs
- no luck, same result.  When I hit the burn button in iTunes it said there
was no device or software for burning!!  I reset the PRAM and repaired file
permissions and now it will recognise that a CD has been inserted but it
can't read it saying that there are no volumes the Mac OS can read - I can
then eject.  However, I can now burn CDs!!!  But the verification process
fails.  Inserting into a PC the files show up with the file size correct etc
and it seems the files (at least some) can be read etc.

I was able to burn and read CDs up until a week or so ago and the only thing
that has changed since is that I've updated to 10.3.6 from 10.3.5 using
software update.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can try to get reading again
or has my optical drive failed (at least in its reading function)?

Many TIA for your help.

Cheers

Greg

Re: Help ! I cannot open my mac :-(

[Shay Telfer]

Hi everyone,
I acquired a eTrex GPS hand held and I have MacGPS. Wanting to get 
the two aquainted I bought a Keyspan USB serial adaptor and uploaded 
the software that came with it to my White iBook/500. They did not 
seem to be talking to one another and then the mouse froze :-( I 
rebooted and got a mac OS/X /? flashing icon.  I zapped the pram 
booted the baby and  after much swearing and cursing I am now in the 
state that I get a blank white screen , I cannot get the original 
software disk to come up, putting in Mac OS X.2 install disk will 
not load, I hear the disc spin up and then slow down.  I have tried 
to start with shift held down and with T held down without any luck. 
I remember watching Matt start up in Unix  but do not know how he 
did it and wonder if I did manage to do that whether I could 
navigate my way through to the 'nasty software which I suppose is 
causing the trouble. The ever helpful Dan is working his butt off 
and cannot get here until at least tomorrow. Can anyone make any 
suggestions immoral or otherwise ;-)

Mac


Try starting up with command v held down. This will display what's 
happening, which might display an error message. You might also try 
rebooting with the shift key held down for longer.


Good luck,
Shay
--
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 Perth, Western Australia   Technomancer  Join Team Sungroper in the
 Opinions for hire  [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord 

Help ! I cannot open my mac :-(

[Malcolm]

Hi everyone,
I acquired a eTrex GPS hand held and I have MacGPS. Wanting to get the 
two aquainted I bought a Keyspan USB serial adaptor and uploaded the 
software that came with it to my White iBook/500. They did not seem to 
be talking to one another and then the mouse froze :-( I rebooted and 
got a mac OS/X /? flashing icon.  I zapped the pram booted the baby and 
 after much swearing and cursing I am now in the state that I get a 
blank white screen , I cannot get the original software disk to come 
up, putting in Mac OS X.2 install disk will not load, I hear the disc 
spin up and then slow down.  I have tried to start with shift held down 
and with T held down without any luck. I remember watching Matt start 
up in Unix  but do not know how he did it and wonder if I did manage to 
do that whether I could navigate my way through to the 'nasty software 
which I suppose is causing the trouble. The ever helpful Dan is working 
his butt off and cannot get here until at least tomorrow. Can anyone 
make any suggestions immoral or otherwise ;-)

Mac

Re: Presentation on Mac OS X security, 11am Fri at UWA

[Paul Day]

For those of you who were unable to make it to the presentation this 
morning, but wanted to take a look, I've put the slides and paper on the 
web:

 Paper: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~pd/securing_mac_os_x.pdf
 Slides: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~pd/securing_mac_os_x_present.pdf

Feel free to pass around.

Cheers,
Paul


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Paul Day wrote:

Howdy all,

Excuse the spam...

I'm doing a presentation on securing Mac OS X (and releasing a paper) this 
Friday morning at UWA. Anyone interested is more than welcome to attend and 
feedback/corrections/additions to the paper are more than welcome.


See below for all the details. Any queries, bug me directly.

For those unable to attend, I'll post a URL to a PDF of the paper and slides. 
If there's enough interest, and the feedback on the talk is good ;), I'm more 
than happy to repeat it at an upcoming WAMUG meeting too.


Cheers,
Paul


-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:30:21 +0800 (WST)
From: Paul Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Presentation on Mac OS X security, 11am Fri

Hi all,

Similar to Alex Dawson's network presentation a few weeks back, this week's 
CSSE seminar is also aimed at the tech-contacts community (and any other 
interested individuals).


What:  Securing Mac OS X
When:  11am Fri 12th Nov
Where: rm 1.24 (Seminar room), Computer Science

The talk will go through methods of securing Apple Mac OS 10.3 and drawbacks 
to currently accepted methods of security. It will cover both security from a 
local user and a network perspective. I'll also be releasing a paper with 
lots of easy-to-follow instructions and screen-shots to accompany the talk 
(I'll post a URL to the PDF for anyone interested but unable to attend).


Why am I bothering when there are already similar presentations/papers out 
there? I've tried to fill (what I see as) a gap by:

- Not letting security paranoia result in recommendations with little or
 no security benefit but a large inconvenience to the user.
- Including recommendations and pointing out vulnerabilities that others
 have not considered or mentioned.
- Simplifying and reducing the amount of background and semi-relevant
 information.

See a map at http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/about/campus.map/index.html for 
details on where we are. Any queries, feel free to bug me.


Cheers,
Paul




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Re: Office A4 Default Solved

[Shay Telfer]

For those who know easy  it would be easier if this was in the 
basic page set up OR when you register office as an Australian user 
they know were are not using the  US paper format...


Or they could check the system's default page format as set in 
Apple's Printer Setup Utility's Preferences dialog.


Have fun,
Shay
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looking for iMac G3 G4 round mouse

[Nancy McIntyre]

Howdy,
Google hasn't helped me source the original iMac G3 G4 round usb 
mouse - the reviled hockey puck - part number 922-3806, replaced by 
part number 922-4076 - within Australia.

I will not deal on eBay because of a pending settlement of a PayPal dispute.
Is there an apple/mac market for Australian owners?

thanks for your consideration.

Nancy M

Office A4 Default Solved

[Phil Goodall-Smith]

Thanks to Andrew and Steve for very quick and easy to follow 
instructions...


I was sure that I did it differently in the past which seemed more 
complicated than what has been suggested and worked this time...


The instructions were:

to be able to get the A4 paper default to "stick" by setting it from 
within the Format > Document menu.
(click on Page setup, pick the settings you want, click on OK, then 
click on the "Default..." button to lock it in)


For those who know easy  it would be easier if this was in the  
basic page set up OR when you register office as an Australian user 
they know were are not using the  US paper format...


Thanks again for your prompt attention to my problem,

Phil

Re: Office A4 default paper size...

[Steve Woods]

On Friday, Nov 12, 2004, at 10:06 Australia/Perth, Phil Goodall-Smith 
wrote:


Having recently purchased a new laptop and I am installing Microsoft 
Office on it.


I remember it was a tricky little procedure that you had to do to set 
the default paper size to A4...


Phil, you should be able to get the default to "stick" by setting it 
from within the Format > Document menu.


(click on Page setup, pick the settings you want, click on OK, then 
click on the "Default..." button to lock it in)


Hope this helps.

Steve
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Systems Engineer   0411 258 619
SciBi Computing Pty Ltd www.scibi.com.au

Office A4 default paper size...

[Phil Goodall-Smith]

Having recently purchased a new laptop and I am installing Microsoft 
Office on it.


I remember it was a tricky little procedure that you had to do to set 
the default paper size to A4...


I have looked at Office help and have searched the WAMUG archive and 
can't find out how it is done... Perhaps I'm asking the wrong 
question...


Can someone please enlighten me...

Many thanks,

Phil Goodall-Smith