Re: Multi-function Printer/Scanners for Mac OS X?
Further to the Multipurpose discussion, my Lexmark ran out of black ink yesterday and the cartridge sellers I rang tell me that Lexmark fill the initial cartridges to only half of their capacity. I refilled the cartridge with ink specifically for Canon i560 printers and it works fine. I figure that if the print head fouls up I am only up for the amount of a new cartridge anyway as the cartridges carry the print head in them. Kevin
10.3.8 is now available ...
Hi All, OS 10.3.8 is now available. It's available vis Software Update. Addresses an issue with Mac OS X 10.3.7 in which iChat, Mail, or other network-based applications could take a long time to open. Addresses an issue in which a computer wouldn't always restart automatically after a power failure, even when the Energy Saver preference option Restart automatically after a power failure was selected. Improves the performance of Blizzard World of Warcraft's Full Screen Glow video feature. Improves DVD Player compatibility when playing a movie (using certain ATI Radeon cards) to an external widescreen TV with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Resolves an issue in which a flicker could be seen when navigating DVD menus in DVD Player on certain PowerBook G4 computers. Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input. Addresses jumping cursor issues that might occur when using your portable computer's trackpad with your thumb, side of thumb, or a flat finger. Resolves an issue on certain Power Mac G5 computers where a fan cycles erratically at unexpected times, such as when [EMAIL PROTECTED] software is running. Speeds up Address Book and Mail LDAP lookups that are performed by a Cisco DistributedDirector DNS server. Addresses an issue that could prevent clients using the Active Directory plugin from binding to their Active Directory server. So far I have had no problems with new version. Cheers, Peder
Re: Palm M500 Replacement Battery
Reg, YOu can find the m500 replacement battery here: http://www.circuitcentral.com.au/shop/customer/product.php? productid=20762cat=598page=1 Around 65 dollars AUD. Don't let anyone tell you that replacing palm batteries isn't possible! It's the number one myth that salespeople here have been telling people so they buy pocketpc instead. Dave On 10/02/2005, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: From: Reg Whitely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Palm M500 Replacement Battery Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:21:19 +0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Hi WAMUGgers Does anyone know where I can get a replacement battery for my M500? Local Geraldton IT shop phoned Palm and they don't sell them but invited me to send Palm to them for $160 replacement or $130 repair. I paid that much for it second hand. A websearch reveals one Aust place selling batteries for $244.95 and one in US for $29.95 US. That's a BIG difference. Any ideas? Regards Reg Carl Jung Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent
Re: Pagination in printing from Acrobat
On 09/02/2005, at 3:59 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: In these days of manual-free I find I often want to print hard copy of PDF Users Guides. Acrobat Standard allows me to double side by printing the odd numbered pages first then the even ones. Many such documents, however, are over generously set out with large print sizes and lots of space which is fine for on screen but very wasteful for printing. In many cases printing successive A4 pages side by side with the paper turned to landscape gives a nice printout. But how do I double side these pages. Essentially I need to make a new document which pairs the portrait pages in Acrobat as single landscape pages prior to printing. Nowhere can I find how to do this fairly obvious procedure. Advice welcomed! Severin Crisp What you are talking about is imposition software. You should check out BookLightning at http://www.metaobject.com. It is shareware, but it's not expensive and it will do what you want. Just drop your PDF file onto the BookLightning icon and a correctly-imposed version is created almost instantly (it's incredibly fast!). BookLightning also allows you to install a couple of PDF Services, Print Book and Make Book, which make the process even easier. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Re: Welcome To The Revolution...Or How Everyone Switched To Apple!
Hi Martin, Thoroughly agree with your following article, but their is some bad press in this mornings Australian about the cost of Apple hardware again. IT Business page 3. Oh, I have already ordered an enema for the poor sole! All the usual arguments will follow so I am going to head for cover. DUCK! On 09 Feb 2005, at 10:57 AM, Martin Hill wrote: It's amazing. I don't know about everyone else, but I am seeing a sea-change all around me. Suddenly, the Mac is cool to the rest of the world - the PC-using suited guy on the plane next to me last week after seeing me watching a DVD on my lovely Aluminium 15 PowerBook tells me unprompted Apple is on a roll and is correcting my statement that hopefully Apple's marketshare will increase with all the positive press - he says there's no doubt - it definitely is. The School of Engineering here at Curtin Uni suddenly has a PowerMac G5 cluster and the WA School of Mines rings me up having heard the rumour and hopes to use it. The number of Macs in our School of Computer Science has gone from 1 to half a dozen or more. The WA-made iLectures system is seeing places like Macquarie Uni install 56 Xserves in one fell swoop. http://ilectures.uwa.edu.au Apple USA sees stratospheric growth in it's shares and revenue - Apple Australia suddenly achieves greater than 100% growth in Mac shipments (not including iPods!). Oracle is buying 50-100 terabytes of Apple Xserve RAID storage for it's corporate headquarters to store all of its email, voice mail and calendar information (the corporate lifeblood!): http://news.com.com/Oracle+uses+Apple+storage+gear/2100-1015_3 -5480045.html As is Cisco: http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/newsflash/art.php/338 Cisco!!! because it is a half to a third the price of the competition! Apple - cheaper?!! And don't get me started on the Mac Mini... The dark years seem to be fading from memory... :-) And I keep coming across more and more articles like this below: -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 -- http://www.applematters.com/comments.php?id=277_0_1_0_C Welcome To The Revolution...Or How I Switched To Apple I doubt you¹ve heard anything on the radio, seen anything on the TV or read anything in the newspapers but there is a revolution occurring here in the UK. Before I go any further let me just skip back in time a couple of years to give you some background. The year is 2003. My name is Alistair Hutchinson, I am working as a nurse in my local ER (known here as A+E) and something strange is beginning to happen. I am receiving calls at all hours of the day and receiving visits whilst working, from others in my profession, often bringing along their ³ailing friend² for me to administer my healing hands, more often than not in a way that seems almost mystical to the people present. Have you guessed what I¹m doing? No? Well, I¹m fixing, repairing, innoculating, and generally disinfecting their PC¹s. How my name has circulated around the hospital I have no idea but all of a sudden it seems I am busier with my hobby than I¹ve ever been. So busy in fact that I stop enjoying it. For every PC built for a friend I enter into a kind of gentlemans agreement to provide free support for the rest of my days, oh and woe betide me if my sons aren¹t going to continue that support when I¹m gone! At around about the same time all this is going on the Windows XP spyware writers seemingly quadruple their efforts because, obviously, I don¹t have enough to do already. So I get out, I buy a Mac (PM single 1.8 G5) and sell my PCs. It¹s not my first Mac, that award goes to a G3 iBook that I bought previously whilst a student and ended up selling after only 6 months due to lack of funds for my studies (for studies read beer) but when I sold it I swore I would one day own a desktop Mac. That day had come. From then on whenever I was approached to recommend a spec for a PC I would simply reply ³Buy a Mac, it¹s simpler to use no more expensive to buy and it won¹t let you down². Now, I have to be honest here, the people I said this too merely went and sought advice elsewhere and ended up buying PCs anyway but that was ok with me. I didn¹t need the hassle of setting up computers for people and spending hours on the phone trying to troubleshoot their problems as I was busy studying for one or another course for work and was also a new father for the third time so I guess you could say I had my hands full. Fast forward to 2004, people are starting to ask questions about my Mac. ³How many viruses have you had?², none ³Are you bothered with spyware?², nope
Pagination in printing from Acrobat
Many thanks to the senders of the probable, if laborious! workarounds for my printing query. The full solution came fro Peter Hinchcliffe pointing to BookLightning from http://www.metaobject.com ThanksPeter! 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
Re: Pending Mainstream Revolution
If Apple becomes more mainstream to whatever level (and we keep crowing about our immunity from viruses), will Apple products become a target and what is the probability that they will have a similar success rate as with the disruption to MS products? Are Macs inherently less vulnerable due to better design or is no-one targeting them because there is no challenge in knocking out 5 - 10% of the market when you can knock out 90% with the same effort? Cheers, Alex Traditionally (in the pre Mac OS X days) Macs enjoyed some protection because they didn't have a commandline. Currently they enjoy some protection because they use a different processor to the Wintel machines, and thus exploits for Wintel don't work on PowerPC (although this is changing) In the future, the security will be reliant mainly on the 40 years of Unix software development which underlies the Mac OS X architecture, combined with the 'fresher' technologies borrowed from the NeXT, Linux and Open Source communities, regular security updates (provided Apple keeps those Security updates coming, everything should be fine :) and a move towards stronger security architectures and better use of encryption. There are three sources of security problems, Open Source code, Apple's code, and third party code. Usually Open Source security problems are usually rapidly patched, and frequently Apple rolls these fixes into the next security update. Typically these problems are also present on all the platforms, although it's not necessarily that the exploit for PowerPC is widely available. Apple's code has 'security through obscurity' (which doesn't help much), and Apple's internal security group are responsible for ensuring holes are fixed as soon as possible in the next Security Update. Apple also has a vested interest in insuring its OS is secure. Third party code, such as Microsoft's products are going to be hanging around for a while, and really, I suspect that's where most malware propogation is going to happen, as individual companies with a single product may have less experience, source code that is not open for inspection, and no real responsibility for overall security. Really, if the percentage of Mac users out there increases, then it's likely that the percentage of Mac crackers out there will increase. The thing is to limit the rate of that increase as much as possible. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Pagination in printing from Acrobat
On 10/02/2005, at 8:42 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 09/02/2005, at 3:59 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: In these days of manual-free I find I often want to print hard copy of PDF Users Guides. Acrobat Standard allows me to double side by printing the odd numbered pages first then the even ones. Many such documents, however, are over generously set out with large print sizes and lots of space which is fine for on screen but very wasteful for printing. In many cases printing successive A4 pages side by side with the paper turned to landscape gives a nice printout. But how do I double side these pages. Essentially I need to make a new document which pairs the portrait pages in Acrobat as single landscape pages prior to printing. Nowhere can I find how to do this fairly obvious procedure. Advice welcomed! Severin Crisp What you are talking about is imposition software. You should check out BookLightning at http://www.metaobject.com. It is shareware, but it's not expensive and it will do what you want. Just drop your PDF file onto the BookLightning icon and a correctly-imposed version is created almost instantly (it's incredibly fast!). BookLightning also allows you to install a couple of PDF Services, Print Book and Make Book, which make the process even easier. Thanks Peter, In the 'Read Me' File : Using PDF Services: Note: Mac OSX Panther at present has problems with PDF Services, which may cause the application invoking the service to crash. This problem has been reported to Apple. In the meantime, we advise that you do not use PDF Services with Panther, but instead create and convert files in separate steps. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Re: Welcome To The Revolution...Or How Everyone Switched To Apple!
Short follow-up This article appeared in this weeks Debian Weekly Newsletter. http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/ On 10 Feb 2005, at 9:23 AM, Rob Davies wrote: Hi Martin, Thoroughly agree with your following article, but their is some bad press in this mornings Australian about the cost of Apple hardware again. IT Business page 3. Oh, I have already ordered an enema for the poor sole! Also I do not think he has been introduced to xgrid? All the usual arguments will follow so I am going to head for cover. DUCK! On 09 Feb 2005, at 10:57 AM, Martin Hill wrote: It's amazing. I don't know about everyone else, but I am seeing a sea-change all around me. Suddenly, the Mac is cool to the rest of the world - the PC-using suited guy on the plane next to me last week after seeing me watching a DVD on my lovely Aluminium 15 PowerBook tells me unprompted Apple is on a roll and is correcting my statement that hopefully Apple's marketshare will increase with all the positive press - he says there's no doubt - it definitely is. The School of Engineering here at Curtin Uni suddenly has a PowerMac G5 cluster and the WA School of Mines rings me up having heard the rumour and hopes to use it. The number of Macs in our School of Computer Science has gone from 1 to half a dozen or more. The WA-made iLectures system is seeing places like Macquarie Uni install 56 Xserves in one fell swoop. http://ilectures.uwa.edu.au Apple USA sees stratospheric growth in it's shares and revenue - Apple Australia suddenly achieves greater than 100% growth in Mac shipments (not including iPods!). Oracle is buying 50-100 terabytes of Apple Xserve RAID storage for it's corporate headquarters to store all of its email, voice mail and calendar information (the corporate lifeblood!): http://news.com.com/Oracle+uses+Apple+storage+gear/2100-1015_3 -5480045.html As is Cisco: http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/newsflash/art.php/338 Cisco!!! because it is a half to a third the price of the competition! Apple - cheaper?!! And don't get me started on the Mac Mini... The dark years seem to be fading from memory... :-) And I keep coming across more and more articles like this below: -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 -- http://www.applematters.com/comments.php?id=277_0_1_0_C Welcome To The Revolution...Or How I Switched To Apple I doubt you¹ve heard anything on the radio, seen anything on the TV or read anything in the newspapers but there is a revolution occurring here in the UK. Before I go any further let me just skip back in time a couple of years to give you some background. The year is 2003. My name is Alistair Hutchinson, I am working as a nurse in my local ER (known here as A+E) and something strange is beginning to happen. I am receiving calls at all hours of the day and receiving visits whilst working, from others in my profession, often bringing along their ³ailing friend² for me to administer my healing hands, more often than not in a way that seems almost mystical to the people present. Have you guessed what I¹m doing? No? Well, I¹m fixing, repairing, innoculating, and generally disinfecting their PC¹s. How my name has circulated around the hospital I have no idea but all of a sudden it seems I am busier with my hobby than I¹ve ever been. So busy in fact that I stop enjoying it. For every PC built for a friend I enter into a kind of gentlemans agreement to provide free support for the rest of my days, oh and woe betide me if my sons aren¹t going to continue that support when I¹m gone! At around about the same time all this is going on the Windows XP spyware writers seemingly quadruple their efforts because, obviously, I don¹t have enough to do already. So I get out, I buy a Mac (PM single 1.8 G5) and sell my PCs. It¹s not my first Mac, that award goes to a G3 iBook that I bought previously whilst a student and ended up selling after only 6 months due to lack of funds for my studies (for studies read beer) but when I sold it I swore I would one day own a desktop Mac. That day had come. From then on whenever I was approached to recommend a spec for a PC I would simply reply ³Buy a Mac, it¹s simpler to use no more expensive to buy and it won¹t let you down². Now, I have to be honest here, the people I said this too merely went and sought advice elsewhere and ended up buying PCs anyway but that was ok with me. I didn¹t need the hassle of setting up computers for people and spending hours on the phone trying to troubleshoot their problems as I was busy studying for one or another course for work and was also a new
Re: Safari vs Firefox
Shay, why would Firefox not be addressing the same DNS info Safari is? It might explain my slow proxy.pac file issue ... Cheers, Tobes. On 09/02/2005, at 10:30 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Used Macs since Lisa days and still own the latter. Currently G4 400, 768 Ram. A truly great machine. Since 10.3.7 Safari takes 1 min 30secs to open CommSec and CommBank - previously 15 to 20 secs. I have done all the recommended speed up routines to no avail. What is your DNS Server set to be in the Network Preference Pane? Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord 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
Re: Safari vs Firefox
At 10:51 AM +0800 10/2/05, Toby Oldham wrote: Shay, why would Firefox not be addressing the same DNS info Safari is? It might explain my slow proxy.pac file issue ... Cheers, Tobes. They may be using the same DNS info, just differently. A hunch tells me it might be due to IPv6 issues, but that's based on no actual information whatsoever :) I do know that setting my DNS info correctly after the 10.3.7 update did resolve some issues for me when using Safari. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Welcome To The Revolution...Or How Everyone Switched To Apple!
What a sole got to do with the price of eggs? Mac On 10/02/2005, at 9:23 AM, Rob Davies wrote: Hi Martin, Thoroughly agree with your following article, but their is some bad press in this mornings Australian about the cost of Apple hardware again. IT Business page 3. Oh, I have already ordered an enema for the poor sole! All the usual arguments will follow so I am going to head for cover. DUCK! On 09 Feb 2005, at 10:57 AM, Martin Hill wrote: It's amazing. I don't know about everyone else, but I am seeing a sea-change all around me. Suddenly, the Mac is cool to the rest of the world - the PC-using suited guy on the plane next to me last week after seeing me watching a DVD on my lovely Aluminium 15 PowerBook tells me unprompted Apple is on a roll and is correcting my statement that hopefully Apple's marketshare will increase with all the positive press - he says there's no doubt - it definitely is. The School of Engineering here at Curtin Uni suddenly has a PowerMac G5 cluster and the WA School of Mines rings me up having heard the rumour and hopes to use it. The number of Macs in our School of Computer Science has gone from 1 to half a dozen or more. The WA-made iLectures system is seeing places like Macquarie Uni install 56 Xserves in one fell swoop. http://ilectures.uwa.edu.au Apple USA sees stratospheric growth in it's shares and revenue - Apple Australia suddenly achieves greater than 100% growth in Mac shipments (not including iPods!). Oracle is buying 50-100 terabytes of Apple Xserve RAID storage for it's corporate headquarters to store all of its email, voice mail and calendar information (the corporate lifeblood!): http://news.com.com/Oracle+uses+Apple+storage+gear/2100-1015_3 -5480045.html As is Cisco: http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/newsflash/art.php/338 Cisco!!! because it is a half to a third the price of the competition! Apple - cheaper?!! And don't get me started on the Mac Mini... The dark years seem to be fading from memory... :-) And I keep coming across more and more articles like this below: -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 -- http://www.applematters.com/comments.php?id=277_0_1_0_C Welcome To The Revolution...Or How I Switched To Apple I doubt you¹ve heard anything on the radio, seen anything on the TV or read anything in the newspapers but there is a revolution occurring here in the UK. Before I go any further let me just skip back in time a couple of years to give you some background. The year is 2003. My name is Alistair Hutchinson, I am working as a nurse in my local ER (known here as A+E) and something strange is beginning to happen. I am receiving calls at all hours of the day and receiving visits whilst working, from others in my profession, often bringing along their ³ailing friend² for me to administer my healing hands, more often than not in a way that seems almost mystical to the people present. Have you guessed what I¹m doing? No? Well, I¹m fixing, repairing, innoculating, and generally disinfecting their PC¹s. How my name has circulated around the hospital I have no idea but all of a sudden it seems I am busier with my hobby than I¹ve ever been. So busy in fact that I stop enjoying it. For every PC built for a friend I enter into a kind of gentlemans agreement to provide free support for the rest of my days, oh and woe betide me if my sons aren¹t going to continue that support when I¹m gone! At around about the same time all this is going on the Windows XP spyware writers seemingly quadruple their efforts because, obviously, I don¹t have enough to do already. So I get out, I buy a Mac (PM single 1.8 G5) and sell my PCs. It¹s not my first Mac, that award goes to a G3 iBook that I bought previously whilst a student and ended up selling after only 6 months due to lack of funds for my studies (for studies read beer) but when I sold it I swore I would one day own a desktop Mac. That day had come. From then on whenever I was approached to recommend a spec for a PC I would simply reply ³Buy a Mac, it¹s simpler to use no more expensive to buy and it won¹t let you down². Now, I have to be honest here, the people I said this too merely went and sought advice elsewhere and ended up buying PCs anyway but that was ok with me. I didn¹t need the hassle of setting up computers for people and spending hours on the phone trying to troubleshoot their problems as I was busy studying for one or another course for work and was also a new father for the third time so I guess you could say I had my hands full. Fast forward to 2004, people are starting to ask
Re: Safari vs Firefox
Hmm - I just pried open a copy of the proxy.pac file and entered the details into my network settings - Safari is now running much faster. I suspect Apple still haven't fixed whatever problem they have with said files (assuming it's not a network problem here, or one of many alternate explanations ;-) Cheers, Tobes. On 10/02/2005, at 10:57 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: At 10:51 AM +0800 10/2/05, Toby Oldham wrote: Shay, why would Firefox not be addressing the same DNS info Safari is? It might explain my slow proxy.pac file issue ... Cheers, Tobes. They may be using the same DNS info, just differently. A hunch tells me it might be due to IPv6 issues, but that's based on no actual information whatsoever :) I do know that setting my DNS info correctly after the 10.3.7 update did resolve some issues for me when using Safari. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord 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
Mac Mini Server
If you're bored and have more money than sense: http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/miniserver/ -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mac Mini Server
If you're bored and have more money than sense: http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/miniserver/ While it's an interesting project from a hardware standpoint (especially the drive connector interfaces) I'm gonna have to agree and say the guy's got more money than brains.
Re: Mac Mini Server
sigh put mini mac in full sized PC case thesesign while this all looks like fun and games these sort of people should just buy these toys do their little ain't I cool' m4D M4c m0D5 patch them back and then pass them on to people who would actually use them I think the Mini's are quite a nice machine for what they are and have recommended them to a number of mac curious Windows users (who have kvm) and to some some others who have old G3 iMacs (so have km) and and a spare monitor floating around. If it wasn't for the upgrade prices for things I'd want/need literally doubling the price (and ultimately making an iMac an better option) I'd consider one my self If you're bored and have more money than sense: http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/miniserver/ While it's an interesting project from a hardware standpoint (especially the drive connector interfaces) I'm gonna have to agree and say the guy's got more money than brains. -- 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 -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Help with email
Hi Is there a way to tell if an email that has been sent to a recipient has actually been opened? They have not been returned by the mailer daemon. Using Outlook Express and OS 8.6 and Entourage OS 10.3.6 Regards Maureen
Re: Help with email
Hi Is there a way to tell if an email that has been sent to a recipient has actually been opened? They have not been returned by the mailer daemon. Using Outlook Express and OS 8.6 and Entourage OS 10.3.6 Regards Maureen No. You can request a receipt, but it's no guarantee that the receiver will send you one. Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
getting a domain/website hosting?
spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
Hi Mark, http://www.ilisys.com.au Local company and this website will answer all. On 10 Feb 2005, at 4:51 PM, Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works) -- 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 Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the manufactured objects. Sartre.
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
IMHO, go with a domain name company that offers a decent web interface for maintenance, and doesn't make all the domain names you want for $1! offers. My experience has been at the other end (Melbourne IT - who seem to really overcharge) - but there's been comments on this list about cheap providers who go under, taking your domain name with them. I'm testing out NetRegistry at the moment - they seem pretty good. Cheers, Tobes. On 10/02/2005, at 4:51 PM, Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works) -- 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: getting a domain/website hosting?
Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art You are talking two completely different things. #1 Domain name registration, this can be done through a registar like iinet etc (most ISP's do it) for au and through one of the USA ones like dyndns (not only do they redirect, they can sell you .com .net. org etc) #2 Web hosting, here you have tonnes of options: You could do it yourself with ADSL / Cable (I host the local primary school, my own website, + 3 other low volume websites, all on a 512K down 128K up link. (not the fastest, but most people do not know the difference)) You can pay someone like Highway1 to host your site (check out their co location and webhosting fees (sometimes it is cheaper to provide your own box, and co locate) HTH Kat. -- --- K.A.Q. Electronics Website: www.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org IM: Yahoo: PinkyDwaggy MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Everything Electronics Phone: 0419 923 731 --- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 7/02/2005
Re: getting a domain/website hosting?
We have recently co-located our servers in QV1 with a seriously fast pipe to the net and are offering domain, web and mail hosting as well as scripted backups. We are a registrar agent too. Check out http://domains.mactherapy.com/ for pricing and details. Excuse the ugly website, it's being re-skinned soon. Hope you don't mind the self promotion but it seems relevant to this thread. Queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers Rob From: Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:28:15 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: getting a domain/website hosting? Mark Secker wrote: spoilt as I have been by having web space at work I am somewhat uneducated about the ways and wherefores of commercial/org domain registration. Whats the sort of cost involved in initial registration, annual renewal, support etc what is the best company to go through to get a Australian (.com.au) and/or US domain (.com) name registered? I will need a reasonable amount of storage (say 500MB+) for putting up pictures (both photo's and graphic) and some MP3s (my own compositions) but not expecting overly large traffic. Also thinking about having a couple of extra domain names that would simply be redirects to my real site or more specifically to a URL other than the root level of the site. So say, hypothetically: www.marxzmusic.com would redirect to www.marksecker.com/music/downloads and www.marxzart.com redirect to www.marksecker.com/art You are talking two completely different things. #1 Domain name registration, this can be done through a registar like iinet etc (most ISP's do it) for au and through one of the USA ones like dyndns (not only do they redirect, they can sell you .com .net. org etc) #2 Web hosting, here you have tonnes of options: You could do it yourself with ADSL / Cable (I host the local primary school, my own website, + 3 other low volume websites, all on a 512K down 128K up link. (not the fastest, but most people do not know the difference)) You can pay someone like Highway1 to host your site (check out their co location and webhosting fees (sometimes it is cheaper to provide your own box, and co locate) HTH Kat. -- --- K.A.Q. Electronics Website: www.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org IM: Yahoo: PinkyDwaggy MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Everything Electronics Phone: 0419 923 731 --- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 7/02/2005 -- 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
