Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill

[David Watkins]

Apple's music player apparently is wildly popular on Microsoft's
campus. Thousands of Microsofties own the devices, to the great
irritation of management. By Leander Kahney.





Enjoy
Dave Watkins

Seminar for Designers/Photographers

[Denise Williams]

There aren't many seminars in the design field that are FREE so I thought
I'd let any interested people know about one on Fri 18th Feb.
 
Adobe Acrobat Roadshow
Burswood Convention Centre, Friday 18th February
Think Again About Adobe Acrobat 7.0
FREE Seminar for CREATIVE and BUSINESS Professionals
For more information or to book, http://www.adobe.com.au/events/main.html
Cheers

Denise Williams-Photographer
Ph/fax 08- 9447 3468
Mob 0417 184592 

Re: Trash empty problem?

[wyvern]

hi,

do you have classic? Have you tried restarting in classic and emptying 
trash from there?


Yvonne

On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 05:16  PM, P Trouchet wrote:


Greetings all Own stupidity problem.>
Help please I somehow downloaded my total backup on to my main 
disc. (G4 Imac on OSX 3.1.7).
 & I now can't trash as each Applic Duplication is locked. Tried 
Picture 1 icon method , Change administrator. No joy. My disc is now 
giving full up signals & running out of space cos I cant empty Trash?? 
Any suggestions please. Make allowances for what appears to be 
galloping senility! Thanks & Ciao > b.



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Lend me a 10.3 installer (was X Install Problems)

[Antony N. Lord]

It turns out (after sleeping on it) my problem is that my CD is a 
10.3 UPDATER not installer so I need to go 10.2 -> 10.3


I refuse to waste all that time again.

Anyone who would like to loan me a 10.3 *installer* please contact me off list.

Cheers, Antony.

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Trash empty problem?

[P Trouchet]

Greetings all Own stupidity problem.>
Help please I somehow downloaded my total backup on to my main 
disc. (G4 Imac on OSX 3.1.7).
 & I now can't trash as each Applic Duplication is locked. Tried 
Picture 1 icon method , Change administrator. No joy. My disc is now 
giving full up signals & running out of space cos I cant empty Trash?? 
Any suggestions please. Make allowances for what appears to be 
galloping senility! Thanks & Ciao > b.

Re: Minor Gripe - the flipside

[Malcolm J McCallum]

I totally agree Rod. The service I have had from the Joondalup Store 
and the Mt Hawthorn store will take me back again and again. I would 
only go to Nedlands if the other two stores closed.

Mac
On 02/02/2005, at 4:43 PM, Rod wrote:





On 2/2/05 2:35 PM, "Toby Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:










After making the initial gripe, it seemed fair to present the rest of
the story. Karl, if you're reading this, and have any pull within the
Oz Apple store, buy Paul and Alan a beer, or a shiny gold star (or
something). I was left with the impression that a) my order is in safe
hands, and b) that Apple store employees provide that little bit extra
in terms of service.

I guess I'll wander along to my local Apple store this Saturday and
check out what'll shortly be in the mail. iLife integrated apps rock
imho.




Its funny that all the dealings I have ever had in calling 'Over East' 
to
Apple, whether it has been on behalf of a customer that has had all 
sorts of
problems with their new Mac, or to speak to the people on the 'other 
side of

the counter', I have never had one gripe.  The phone manner is always
excellent and the person on the other end always seems to take an 
interest
in what you say.  I guess if I was working for a company that one year 
was
voted the best company to work for in Australia, I'd be pretty chuffed 
too

:-)

I guess this would be a pointer to the kind of service that will 
happen when

the Apple retail Stores eventually hit our shores.  I read on Macnn
yesterday that a long time reseller in San Francisco has shut its doors
after being open for a squillion years.  They blamed dealings with 
Apple and
the retail shops for their closure.  You would think that people would 
be
jumping up and down about the closure of another Mac store, thanks to 
Apple
(allegedly, of course!).  Nope.  Not one person did in the Comments 
section.
All said the service was rubbish and good riddance to a company that 
did
nothing to grow or look after its customers.  The resellers that are 
left in

Oz should take notice of that article.  If your service is not up to
scratch, people will have no hesitation in buying from Apple rather 
than a
local store.  But if you look after your customers, you will have them 
for a

lifetime, no matter how many Apple Retail Stores open.

Seeya

Rod!



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Re: Minor Gripe - the flipside

[Rod]

On 2/2/05 2:35 PM, "Toby Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> 

> 
> After making the initial gripe, it seemed fair to present the rest of
> the story. Karl, if you're reading this, and have any pull within the
> Oz Apple store, buy Paul and Alan a beer, or a shiny gold star (or
> something). I was left with the impression that a) my order is in safe
> hands, and b) that Apple store employees provide that little bit extra
> in terms of service.
> 
> I guess I'll wander along to my local Apple store this Saturday and
> check out what'll shortly be in the mail. iLife integrated apps rock
> imho.
> 
> 

Its funny that all the dealings I have ever had in calling 'Over East' to
Apple, whether it has been on behalf of a customer that has had all sorts of
problems with their new Mac, or to speak to the people on the 'other side of
the counter', I have never had one gripe.  The phone manner is always
excellent and the person on the other end always seems to take an interest
in what you say.  I guess if I was working for a company that one year was
voted the best company to work for in Australia, I'd be pretty chuffed too
:-)

I guess this would be a pointer to the kind of service that will happen when
the Apple retail Stores eventually hit our shores.  I read on Macnn
yesterday that a long time reseller in San Francisco has shut its doors
after being open for a squillion years.  They blamed dealings with Apple and
the retail shops for their closure.  You would think that people would be
jumping up and down about the closure of another Mac store, thanks to Apple
(allegedly, of course!).  Nope.  Not one person did in the Comments section.
All said the service was rubbish and good riddance to a company that did
nothing to grow or look after its customers.  The resellers that are left in
Oz should take notice of that article.  If your service is not up to
scratch, people will have no hesitation in buying from Apple rather than a
local store.  But if you look after your customers, you will have them for a
lifetime, no matter how many Apple Retail Stores open.

Seeya

Rod!

Re: Domain name registration question

[Lara]

Toby Oldham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Nah, doesn't seem to. Melbourne IT seems to be a large, established 
> company ... but I don't understand how/why they can charge as they do.
> Weird.

After the panix.com disaster, I'm astonished anyone does business with
MelbourneIT at all.

Lara

re: Minor Gripe - the flipside

[Toby Oldham]

I waited 2 days after faxing my iLife upgrade application to Apple, 
then called them up. 'Got a guy named Paul, who put me through to 
another guy called Alan.


Cool thing number 1 - Alan knew my name, and why I was calling. 
Normally when I get transferred to someone else in a large 
organisation, I have to repeat the whole story.


Cool thing number 2 - Although Alan couldn't find the application 
initially, he chose to seek out and find the fax, taking no more than 
2-3 minutes. At no time did he blankly tell me to just 'wait and see'.


After making the initial gripe, it seemed fair to present the rest of 
the story. Karl, if you're reading this, and have any pull within the 
Oz Apple store, buy Paul and Alan a beer, or a shiny gold star (or 
something). I was left with the impression that a) my order is in safe 
hands, and b) that Apple store employees provide that little bit extra 
in terms of service.


I guess I'll wander along to my local Apple store this Saturday and 
check out what'll shortly be in the mail. iLife integrated apps rock 
imho.




Cheers,
Tobes.

Re: .chm file suffix?

[Michael Woods]

On 02/02/2005, at 1:34 PM, Stewart Woods wrote:

Hi all,

have recently received a file which is .chm format.
apparently this is "compiled html document"  ?

Can anyone give me any help as to how to open this or is is 
windowificated


thanks in advance

Stewart


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chm viewer

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22153&vid=135468

cheers
mike

Re: Domain name registration question

[Wez]

Chuck in my 2c

I had a very cheap domain registrar in Australia (was $15 or there 
abouts for a couple years i think)


They ended up going under and screwing me over rather well. After a 
lot of trouble i ended up getting the domain again off the provider 
they sold all their domains too and i've had way better service with 
them. (boy that was painful though to start)


I think cheapest prices are down to sub $10US if you look on the web 
(not .au of course as they are way dearer)


So couple things to note.

Do you need a .au? if that's what you are after
Can you afford to lose that domain name if it all goes really wrong?

And i think what you are paying for is the quality of service. A good 
server where you can change domain details readily is critical. 
Automated systems work fine for me.


WEZ!

probably go with recommendations i think as a best starting point

.chm file suffix?

[Stewart Woods]

Hi all,

have recently received a file which is .chm format.
apparently this is "compiled html document"  ?

Can anyone give me any help as to how to open this or is is 
windowificated


thanks in advance

Stewart

Re: Domain name registration question

[Toby Oldham]

Excellent - thanks for all the feedback guys. :)

Tobes.



On 02/02/2005, at 1:24 PM, Phillip McGree wrote:


There's no difference.  Nothing.  Zip.  Nada.

It's just a matter of profit markups, I think that for each .au domain  
name, the registrar pays $45-50 to the Australian Domain Authority (ie  
AuDA).


Personally, I recommend Bottle Domains... call them on 1300 88 74 74  
or check out http://www.bottledomains.com.au ... tell them what price  
you saw the domain name at, and they'll match it.  Why Bottle? Because  
they have a toll free phone number, regular staff (ie it's always the  
same people, and they are sensible), and their web site is by far the  
best when it comes to updating domain name details.  And the bloke  
that owns the company also runs it hands on.  Oh yeah, the owner  
(Nick) is also a Mac bloke, he's got a PowerBook G4 and he's recently  
been buying heaps of Xserves for web hosting.


I've dealt with a bunch of different registrars over the last couple  
of years, and I've found Bottle to be the easiest to deal with so far.


MelbourneIT are a bit like Telstra...  their services aren't anything  
spectacular, but their name recognition lets them get away with  
charging higher prices than others, and many people still go to them  
by default.



Regards,
Phil


Why would I register a domain name with Melbourne IT for $140.00 for  
2 years when Conexim Australia would do it for $79.00? Or Netregistry  
for $55.00?


I can't discern any differences ... would someone enlighten me?

Cheers,
Tobes.



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Re: Domain name registration question

[Phillip McGree]

There's no difference.  Nothing.  Zip.  Nada.

It's just a matter of profit markups, I think that for each .au 
domain name, the registrar pays $45-50 to the Australian Domain 
Authority (ie AuDA).


Personally, I recommend Bottle Domains... call them on 1300 88 74 74 
or check out http://www.bottledomains.com.au ... tell them what price 
you saw the domain name at, and they'll match it.  Why Bottle? 
Because they have a toll free phone number, regular staff (ie it's 
always the same people, and they are sensible), and their web site is 
by far the best when it comes to updating domain name details.  And 
the bloke that owns the company also runs it hands on.  Oh yeah, the 
owner (Nick) is also a Mac bloke, he's got a PowerBook G4 and he's 
recently been buying heaps of Xserves for web hosting.


I've dealt with a bunch of different registrars over the last couple 
of years, and I've found Bottle to be the easiest to deal with so far.


MelbourneIT are a bit like Telstra...  their services aren't anything 
spectacular, but their name recognition lets them get away with 
charging higher prices than others, and many people still go to them 
by default.



Regards,
Phil


Why would I register a domain name with Melbourne IT for $140.00 for 
2 years when Conexim Australia would do it for $79.00? Or 
Netregistry for $55.00?


I can't discern any differences ... would someone enlighten me?

Cheers,
Tobes.



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Re: Domain name registration question

[Greg Sharp]

I was with Melbourne IT when I registered my first domain years ago. Now I
have registered many and am much smarter. I use NetRegistry they provide a
far superior product financially with no loss in quality. Melbourne IT are
just way too dear.


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On 2/2/05 3:32 PM, "Toby Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Why would I register a domain name with Melbourne IT for $140.00 for 2
> years when Conexim Australia would do it for $79.00? Or Netregistry for
> $55.00?
> 
> I can't discern any differences ... would someone enlighten me?

Re: Domain name registration question

[James Devenish]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:05:47PM +0800, Toby Oldham wrote:
> Nah, doesn't seem to. Melbourne IT seems to be a large, established 
> company ... but I don't understand how/why they can charge as they do. 
> Weird.

A lot of our clubs who have their own domain names have used very
cheap registrars and have no end of trouble with them. They can't
use the domains to their potential. In contrast, I've not had any
hassles using MelbourneIT, so I imagine that one component of the
price is "customer service". I don't have any opinion on the matter
myself, as all I do these days is renew domains that already work.

Re: Domain name registration question

[Toby Oldham]

Nah, doesn't seem to. Melbourne IT seems to be a large, established 
company ... but I don't understand how/why they can charge as they do. 
Weird.


T.

On 02/02/2005, at 12:41 PM, wyvern wrote:


hey Tobes,

does the Melbourne IT include web space and hosting which the others 
might not?


Yvonne

On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 12:32  PM, Toby Oldham wrote:



Why would I register a domain name with Melbourne IT for $140.00 for 
2 years when Conexim Australia would do it for $79.00? Or Netregistry 
for $55.00?


I can't discern any differences ... would someone enlighten me?

Cheers,
Tobes.


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Re: Domain name registration question

[wyvern]

hey Tobes,

does the Melbourne IT include web space and hosting which the others 
might not?


Yvonne

On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 12:32  PM, Toby Oldham wrote:



Why would I register a domain name with Melbourne IT for $140.00 for 2 
years when Conexim Australia would do it for $79.00? Or Netregistry 
for $55.00?


I can't discern any differences ... would someone enlighten me?

Cheers,
Tobes.


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Domain name registration question

[Toby Oldham]

Why would I register a domain name with Melbourne IT for $140.00 for 2 
years when Conexim Australia would do it for $79.00? Or Netregistry for 
$55.00?


I can't discern any differences ... would someone enlighten me?

Cheers,
Tobes.

CommPost: Zytech specials

[Zytech - your online data and technology store]

Hi all!

If you missed our first newsletter of the new year - happy new year to
you all!

This year promises to be very exciting with better products, and
better value for money. If Apple's recent 'flurry' of new products to
the market is anything to go by, will all have lots of products to
contemplate buying for our work or pleasure.

Firstly, a couple of recent notices: If you have a Radeon 8500 card and
have noticed some flickering especially in small text and some
application palettes, then you can contact ATI support to see if they
can help you resolve your problem.

News from America is that in a recent poll of 200 ad executives, the
'Apple' brand ranked number one ahead of Google. No doubt the iPod has
helped in propelling them to that status.

With recent reports of data being lost from iDisk, it may be time to
start taking control of your own backups - see the following report:



And to do just that, we've broken the $300 barrier on our 200GB drives
bringing the price down to $299 while stocks last. Here's the link:



Prices have also been slashed on Elgato products, in some cases by more
than $100 - check out the details of the various units at our link:



And don't forget to pick up a pack (or 2) of 50 CD-R's going out at
$17.50 so hurry in with your order.

Congratulations to Colin from the ACT who promptly replied to our email
to claim his prize in last months monthly prize draw. The next draw
will be taking place shortly, so get your friends and family to sign up
and be part of it.

Till next time.

Kind regards,
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iWork

[gary dorn]

Installed iWork
594 MB
hek - hope it's good
it installed for Pages ;french 45 Mb, english 88Mb ,   german  45Mb, 
Italian 46MB,  Spanish 46MB & Japanese 40 MB versions.


Hope in new version the installer will have language specific 
installs - what a waste of disk space.

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Perth,  Australia

WTB: smallish Gb IDE Seagate Barracuda Hard Disk

[Toby Oldham]

Need it to make a quiet iMac even quieter. :)

I could buy a brand new one for $149.00 ... so I'm willing to pay $40 
for a 2nd hand 40Gb one - It needs to be big or bigger than $20Gb 
though. Contact me off-list if you have an offer.


Cheers,
Tobes.

OT Re: New Apple user !

[Malcolm J McCallum]

Hoping I am allowed one 'off topic' :-). I had a patient aged 17 who 
fallen off a mountain and broken his head. We got out the vinegar and 
brown paper!   He recovered but was VERY wobbly on his legs. He had 
been a schoolboy international at Hockey before his fall. He was very 
miserable and knowing Stirling had fought his way back from a similar 
situation, I rang him in London from Newcastle --287 miles--. I got 
through to his secretary who said she would get him to ring back. I 
waited and waited but no telephone call :-(. 5 hours later i was 
called over the hospital tannoy -- I had a visitor in the front hall of 
the RVI  (Royal Victoria Infirmary-Newcastle.) I went down and met 
--Stirling Moss-- who on receipt of my call had climbed into his car 
and driven all the way to Newcastle to talk with the boy. He spent over 
an hour with the totally astonished boy and then drove back to London. 
I am one of his Fan Club.He ranks with Fangio,Nuvalari (?sp),Clark and 
maybe Ralph should be in that group--Maybe.

Mac
On 01/02/2005, at 11:10 PM, J Philippe Chaperon wrote:


on 1/2/05 4:46 PM, Robert Howells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


How to sell an apple iBook in one easy lesson :-






Hi Robert,

Many thanks for this link. I'm of the 'vintage' who in my youth 
admired Sir
Stirling Moss greatly, he was a hero. And now to find that he is 
enjoying an
iBook at that! Makes me happy I influenced my daughters to buy iBooks 
a few

weeks ago 

Philippe


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HiBIS advice

[Vladimir James]

Thanks to Onno and Susan for the feedback.

Westnet no longer supply a satellite service. I will look into ISDN more
closely, although my first impressions of some months ago were not too
crash hot. Even if I chose the satellite, I would retain my Westnet account.

Fibre optics in Mt Helena? Anyone know more about that?

Vlad

Re: How to view .ht files?

[John Reed]

Thanks dave, craig, kaye

Have downloaded Interarchy and it's very impressive

john


On 1/2/05 5:31 pm, "David Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> John
> 
> I use Interarchy as my FTP client and it has an option to switch to
> viewing .files in the preferences, I can also view the contents and
> edit the files using the BBEdit tools without downloading the file.
> 
> As I have the Fetch program I thought I would see if I was able to
> see any .files, but no I couldn't and I could not find any options
> in the program to do this.
> 
> One thing to remember if you do get access to the .files and you
> want to download them to edit or whatever, you will have to
> temporary rename the file by getting rid of the "." if you are
> using OS X as the .files will otherwise also be invisible on your
> computer.
> 
> Dave Watkins
> 
> 
> 
> At 4:52 PM +0800 1/2/05, John Reed said:"
> 
> Hi wamuggers
> 
> I have a password protected site on a linux server which uses .htaccess and
> .htpasswd files - only problem is when I log into the site with fetch I
> can't see them - any clues how I can make them accessible?
> 
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Re: HiBIS advice

[Susan Hastings]

Yes, James has mentioned it in his email, but Onno's comment makes it
clearer that the satellite is 'in' and the phone line is 'out' and much
slower. Therefore, the dish only needs to receive.

I gather satellite in and out would cost a lot more.


On 2/2/05 3:16 AM, "Onno Benschop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Susan Hastings wrote:
> 
>> Comments from my brother who is on satellite.
>> 
>> its not as good as broadband but better than dialup, you come in via
>> satellite anywhere from 300kps to 1000 and go out via land line(depends were
>> you are) in my case about 32kps average, monthly $50.00 deal all
>> inclusive,$350.00 for the dish (old foxtel dish will do fine) and internal
>> card software etc,could look on ebay and do better price, hope this
>> helps, seems M.T.Helena will soon get  optic cable up close " broadband look
>> out here we come"!
>>  
>> 
> These comments only apply to One-Way Satellite and a FoxTel dish should
> cost around $80 IIRC. The dish size is completely dependent on your
> physical location in Australia, but near Perth, a FoxTel dish should do
> fine for One-Way, but *not* for Two-Way Satellite.

Re: HiBIS advice

[Onno Benschop]

Susan Hastings wrote:


Comments from my brother who is on satellite.

its not as good as broadband but better than dialup, you come in via
satellite anywhere from 300kps to 1000 and go out via land line(depends were
you are) in my case about 32kps average, monthly $50.00 deal all
inclusive,$350.00 for the dish (old foxtel dish will do fine) and internal
card software etc,could look on ebay and do better price, hope this
helps, seems M.T.Helena will soon get  optic cable up close " broadband look
out here we come"! 
 

These comments only apply to One-Way Satellite and a FoxTel dish should 
cost around $80 IIRC. The dish size is completely dependent on your 
physical location in Australia, but near Perth, a FoxTel dish should do 
fine for One-Way, but *not* for Two-Way Satellite.


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