date:20050504

Umm,...am I missing something?
(OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o)

In iCal when I go to the preferences and tell it that I only want to view
between the hours of 8am and 10pm it still shows me midnight to midnight.
Well OK, yes I know I work til late in the morning, but I don't normally
need to book in to see clients then! So I don't need those times.
I've deleted the preferences and reset it, quit it, restarted, asked it
nicely,...I even tried bribing it. Nope, still doesn't make any difference.

So am I missing something, or are others have the same issues?
I did a quick google search and checked out Macfixit, but nothing turned up
re the view issue.

Thanks!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Brett Carboni

On 3/5/05 11:03 PM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this:

> You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting
> tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin
> iLectures system has finished processing it:

Well done everyone. I finally get to see what a Wamug meeting looks like.

Brett Carboni
Tsunami
"Streaming video of sushi making coming soon"

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Rod



On 04/05/2005, at 3:05 AM, Brett Carboni wrote:


On 3/5/05 11:03 PM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this:


You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG  
meeting
tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the  
Curtin

iLectures system has finished processing it:



Well done everyone. I finally get to see what a Wamug meeting looks  
like.


Brett Carboni
Tsunami
"Streaming video of sushi making coming soon"



Thanks Matt, Marty and Susan for getting the streaming up and  
running!  I felt so at home when I heard Peter go "Are there any  
people at the meeting here for the first time" :-)


Looking forward to watching the meeting when I get home tonight.

Seeya

Rod!

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Susan Hastings

Hi all, something that I missed whilst changing the DV tape was when someone
asked Matt if there were any problems/bugs with Tiger. Matt said that he had
not experienced any difficulties at all so far, or words to that effect.
That might be something others have wanted to know about. Cheers, Susan.


On 3/5/05 11:03 PM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting
> tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin
> iLectures system has finished processing it:
> 
> http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692
> 
> No doubt Matt will put a link to it on the WAMUG website.  :-)
> 
> Let me know if anyone has any problems viewing it.
> 
> Thanks to Susan Hastings for the great camera-work at short notice.
> 
> Part II of the evening will be up later tomorrow when I get a chance to
> digitise the second video tape.
> 
> -Mart
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Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown



On 03/05/2005, at 11:03 PM, Martin Hill wrote:

You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG  
meeting
tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the  
Curtin

iLectures system has finished processing it:

http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692

No doubt Matt will put a link to it on the WAMUG website.  :-)

Let me know if anyone has any problems viewing it.

Thanks to Susan Hastings for the great camera-work at short notice.

Part II of the evening will be up later tomorrow when I get a  
chance to

digitise the second video tape.

-Mart


Wonderful Guys.

Huge thanks to Susan, Marty & Matt for doing this, it is very much  
appreciated.

Perhaps we might even get more Financial Members?

Back to playing with my Widgets and finding things with Spotlight  
that I didn't know I had.

Tiger OSX10.4 has completely blown Windows out of the water!
'Eat your heart out Bill Gates'

Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, "Where do you want to go today?" Tell them,  
"Apple!"

Backups and Sparse Disk Image's


Good Morning All,

Last night there was a little discussion about backup's and Superduper  
( it supports tiger )


Here is the link for the instructions on how to configure and use a "  
Sparse Disk Image ".

with Superduper





and here is the link to the full list of FAQ's.





I have found that  Superduper   regularly totally reproduces a Hard  
Drive,
so that it is ready to boot complete with all previously existing  
preferences.



Have fun

Bob

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Edward Arrowsmith

When i go to the site and click on QT, select the bandwidth, all I get 
is a negotiating message for a long time. Is there something obvious I 
am not doing please?





On 03/05/2005, at 11:03 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG 
meeting

tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin
iLectures system has finished processing it:

http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692

No doubt Matt will put a link to it on the WAMUG website.  :-)

Let me know if anyone has any problems viewing it.

Thanks to Susan Hastings for the great camera-work at short notice.

Part II of the evening will be up later tomorrow when I get a chance to
digitise the second video tape.

-Mart

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting



On 04/05/2005, at 9:57 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

When i go to the site and click on QT, select the bandwidth, all I get 
is a negotiating message for a long time. Is there something obvious I 
am not doing please?


Did you select the speed of your access ?eg... 56k video

Bob

Works for me on QT using 256k mpeg4 on adsl 264 circuit







On 03/05/2005, at 11:03 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG 
meeting
tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the 
Curtin

iLectures system has finished processing it:

http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692

No doubt Matt will put a link to it on the WAMUG website.  :-)

Let me know if anyone has any problems viewing it.

Thanks to Susan Hastings for the great camera-work at short notice.

Part II of the evening will be up later tomorrow when I get a chance 
to

digitise the second video tape.

-Mart



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Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Martin Hill

If anyone else is having this problem, please let me know - I assume it is
playing fine for everyone else?

Edward, did you try one of the low bandwidth versions of the video (ie video
56k or even video 28k)?  If have tried those, there may be a firewall
between you and the streaming server that is causing this problem.  One
option you can try is to:
- click on the pop-up menu at the bottom right corner of the Quicktime movie
- choose "Plug-in Settings"
- click on the "Advanced" tab
- choose "Transport Setup"
- and try one of the custom or manual settings instead of Automatic
  (eg. HTTP or UDP port 7070)

Let me know how you go.

-Mart

> From: Edward Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:57:09 +0800
> To: WAMUG Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting
> 
> When i go to the site and click on QT, select the bandwidth, all I get
> is a negotiating message for a long time. Is there something obvious I
> am not doing please?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/05/2005, at 11:03 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
>> You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG
>> meeting
>> tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin
>> iLectures system has finished processing it:
>> 
>> http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692
>> 
>> No doubt Matt will put a link to it on the WAMUG website.  :-)
>> 
>> Let me know if anyone has any problems viewing it.
>> 
>> Thanks to Susan Hastings for the great camera-work at short notice.
>> 
>> Part II of the evening will be up later tomorrow when I get a chance to
>> digitise the second video tape.
>> 
>> -Mart
> 
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snappy Tiger but some bugs and omissions Re:


Techspot's reaction to Tiger ...

http://www.techspot.com/



pretty much agree - on both my  G4 400Mhz (512MB RAM) and a G4 1Ghz 
(1GB RAM) machine they both seem to launch programs and display 
folders with large volume of items extremely quicker and more stably 
than 10.3


an example I've noted is that some folders on one of the machines 
have in excess of 2000 items in them (!) and under 10.3 they would 
often take 30 seconds or more to display correctly and would 
frequently hang Finder. Under 10.4 it responds quickly and reliably 
even folders with 3500+ items a number that would  make 10.3 Finder 
hang  more times than not.


One bug I've noticed is that if you are trying to  move items in to a 
folder with duplicate names  already in the target folder  often you 
will get a generic error code style message rather than the "an item 
with this name already exists in this location" warning.
This Message most often comes up if you rename a item that you have 
already received the standard duplicate file warning and the new name 
is also a duplicate of another item in the target folder.


a disappointing thing and something I've sent user suggestions in to 
Apple as far back with the original 10.1 release is that under the 
the duplicate file name options there is still only the 
replace/omit/cancel option rather than additional choices such as 
automatically rename the original or moved files by adding a numeric 
or date modified based prefix or suffix.

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Can't dialup to net

2005-05-04 Thread talez

I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection
dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with "bad
authentication".

We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side,
they gave us a test account, tested with another ISP (still using
Telstra's MegaPOP VISP stuff), changed V34, removed echo packets...

ISP can't see any connection attempts at all.

Any ideas?

Mal

Re: Can't dialup to net

2005-05-04 Thread Onno Benschop


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection
dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with "bad
authentication".

We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side,
they gave us a test account, tested with another ISP (still using
Telstra's MegaPOP VISP stuff), changed V34, removed echo packets...

ISP can't see any connection attempts at all.

Any ideas?
 


You're dialling the correct phone number?

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Re: Can't dialup to net



On 04/05/2005, at 11:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection
dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with "bad
authentication".

We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side,
they gave us a test account, tested with another ISP (still using
Telstra's MegaPOP VISP stuff), changed V34, removed echo packets...

ISP can't see any connection attempts at all.

Any ideas?

Mal



That is a real wild card from outside the field Mal !

OK ! We need some information .

Is it a Macintosh ?  What year and model ?

What Operating system ?

What Modem ? Internal or external ?

What protocol and what software is being used for the dialling and 
setup ?


What phone number is he/she dialling .


Bob

you want respect on the road... you got it ....

maybe the Ulysses club should have escorted their members in to 
Camberra with this... it might have avoided their run in with the 
Rebels MC



http://www.ulyssesclub.org/members/classifieds.asp

for more details.

http://www.ulyssesclub.org/images/classifieds/6605/X1114876605.jpg


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Re: you want respect on the road... you got it ....


of course that should have been tagged as  OT ... sorry
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Re: you want respect on the road... you got it ....

2005-05-04 Thread Matthew Healey


On 04/05/2005, at 2:15 PM, Mark Secker wrote:

maybe the Ulysses club should have escorted their members in to  
Camberra with this... it might have avoided their run in with the  
Rebels MC


Mark... you really should check your emails before you send them. The  
stuff you keep sending to the list just keeps getting weirder and  
weirder.


- Matt

Re: you want respect on the road... you got it ....

yeh as I said forgot to put "off topic" in header  in the subject 
and, well, I am some what weird (or so I've been told) - I can live 
with that.
The link was actually sent to me by a Ulysses guy I do occasional mac 
support for and there are at least half a dozen (that I know of) 
WAMUGers who are also motorcyclists so they would have got the 
Ulysses reference {and that said the incident alluded to  made 
headlines in all the main TV news broadcasts})


the story behind the other posts (at least those are mac related) is 
that my mail filters the mac tech list in to the same mail folder as 
my wamug neither default the "reply to" back to the list mail and as 
99 times out of a 100 I'm replying back to a wamug post so 
occasionally habit causes me to manually direct a reply back to the 
wrong list


meh...  only seems to get up Onno's nose ;)

As such  I can also live with that ;)  ;)


On 04/05/2005, at 2:15 PM, Mark Secker wrote:

 maybe the Ulysses club should have escorted their members in to 
Camberra with this... it might have avoided their run in with the 
Rebels MC


Mark... you really should check your emails before you send them. 
The stuff you keep sending to the list just keeps getting weirder 
and weirder.


- Matt

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Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Doug Wilson

> You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting
> tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin
> iLectures system has finished processing it:
> 
> http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692
> 
> No doubt Matt will put a link to it on the WAMUG website.  :-)

This has been most wonderful. Since something (usually work) always seems to
come up at the last minute to keep me from coming it's nice to be able to
see the meeting at least. You may well gain another financial member thanks
to this.

Daniel, the Weather Widget icon state you identified as Asteroids was
freezing Rain. Considering the weather conditions though it wouldn't
surprise me if freezing rain was something that had never actually occurred
in Perth.

Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Skehan

The copy of Tiger I have received consists of a single DVD I do  
however, have to install it onto a couple of eMacs which are part of  
a X Server network, unfortunately they don't have DVD drives in them,  
can anyone advise me how to deal with this other than ask Apple for  
it on CDs'

Re: Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Rod


Hi Adrian,

Are the eMacs moveable?  If so, you can put them into FireWire target  
mode, connect them up to a machine that does have DVD.  Boot DVD  
machine off the Tiger DVD, then install Tiger to the FireWire eMac's  
hard drive instead of your own.  You will need a 6pin to 6 pin  
FireWire cable for it to work.


Seeya

Rod!


On 04/05/2005, at 3:42 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote:

The copy of Tiger I have received consists of a single DVD I do  
however, have to install it onto a couple of eMacs which are part  
of a X Server network, unfortunately they don't have DVD drives in  
them, can anyone advise me how to deal with this other than ask  
Apple for it on CDs'



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Re: Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Rob Findlay


You could use Net Restore
http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html
with the netboot feature of your OSX Server software.
Not trivial but it's possible.
Alternatively you can clean install the software on an eMac  with a  
DVD drive then use Carbon Copy Cloner (same URL as above) to copy the  
fresh install to the eMacs in target disk mode over firewire.

There is always a way!
Rob

On 04/05/2005, at 3:42 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote:

The copy of Tiger I have received consists of a single DVD I do  
however, have to install it onto a couple of eMacs which are part  
of a X Server network, unfortunately they don't have DVD drives in  
them, can anyone advise me how to deal with this other than ask  
Apple for it on CDs'



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Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Matthew Healey


On 04/05/2005, at 2:52 PM, Doug Wilson wrote:

You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG  
meeting
tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the  
Curtin

iLectures system has finished processing it:

http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692

No doubt Matt will put a link to it on the WAMUG website.  :-)



This has been most wonderful. Since something (usually work) always  
seems to
come up at the last minute to keep me from coming it's nice to be  
able to
see the meeting at least. You may well gain another financial  
member thanks

to this.

Daniel, the Weather Widget icon state you identified as Asteroids was
freezing Rain. Considering the weather conditions though it wouldn't
surprise me if freezing rain was something that had never actually  
occurred

in Perth.


Last time I checked, we usually call it hail, or hail stones.

In any event, I'm Matthew, not Daniel.

:-)

- Matt

Re: Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Skehan


Thanks all for the help.

Adrian


On 04/05/2005, at 3:52 PM, Rod wrote:


Hi Adrian,

Are the eMacs moveable?  If so, you can put them into FireWire  
target mode, connect them up to a machine that does have DVD.  Boot  
DVD machine off the Tiger DVD, then install Tiger to the FireWire  
eMac's hard drive instead of your own.  You will need a 6pin to 6  
pin FireWire cable for it to work.


Seeya

Rod!


On 04/05/2005, at 3:42 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote:


The copy of Tiger I have received consists of a single DVD I do  
however, have to install it onto a couple of eMacs which are part  
of a X Server network, unfortunately they don't have DVD drives in  
them, can anyone advise me how to deal with this other than ask  
Apple for it on CDs'



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Re: Query on iCal under Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown



On 04/05/2005, at 1:48 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:


Umm,...am I missing something?
(OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o)

In iCal when I go to the preferences and tell it that I only want  
to view
between the hours of 8am and 10pm it still shows me midnight to  
midnight.
Well OK, yes I know I work til late in the morning, but I don't  
normally

need to book in to see clients then! So I don't need those times.
I've deleted the preferences and reset it, quit it, restarted,  
asked it
nicely,...I even tried bribing it. Nope, still doesn't make any  
difference.


So am I missing something, or are others have the same issues?
I did a quick google search and checked out Macfixit, but nothing  
turned up

re the view issue.


Hi Daniel,

In iCal Preferences > General
Day Starts at 8:00 AM
Day Ends at10:00 PM

Show :14 hours at a time

The area before 8:00 AM & the area after 10.00 PM is greyed out,but  
is still there in case you need it :-)


Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, "Where do you want to go today?" Tell them,  
"Apple!"

Re: Query on iCal under Tiger

On 4/05/2005 4:36 PM, "Ronda Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On 04/05/2005, at 1:48 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
> 
>> Umm,...am I missing something?
>> (OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o)
>> 
>> In iCal when I go to the preferences and tell it that I only want
>> to view
>> between the hours of 8am and 10pm it still shows me midnight to
>> midnight.
>> Well OK, yes I know I work til late in the morning, but I don't
>> normally
>> need to book in to see clients then! So I don't need those times.
>> I've deleted the preferences and reset it, quit it, restarted,
>> asked it
>> nicely,...I even tried bribing it. Nope, still doesn't make any
>> difference.
>> 
>> So am I missing something, or are others have the same issues?
>> I did a quick google search and checked out Macfixit, but nothing
>> turned up
>> re the view issue.
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> In iCal Preferences > General
> Day Starts at 8:00 AM
> Day Ends at10:00 PM
> 
> Show :14 hours at a time
> 
> The area before 8:00 AM & the area after 10.00 PM is greyed out,but
> is still there in case you need it :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> When Microsoft asks you, "Where do you want to go today?" Tell them,
> "Apple!"
> 


Thanks Ronni (and all that answered).
That is what I had it set to. I was just hoping it was like it used to be
where I would only see  between 8am and 11pm, so therefore didn't need to
scroll etc when I opened it.
For me I think those other hours are kinda pointless,..ok fair enough I'm
anyway, but as yet I'm not booking clients at 2am so don't need that time.
You used to be able to "turn it off". Oh well, maybe that feature will come
back in an update. :o)

Thanks again!
Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Set Top Box updates

2005-05-04 Thread Keith Feltham

Our family are considering purchasing a Set Top Box in an attempt to 
improve the fringe-signal ghosting and snow that currently 
constitutes our TV picture.


Most models advertise that they can be firmware updated for increased 
functionality, and they all say the same thing: "Just download the 
.exe file, connect the RS232 to your computer's COM 1 port ..." 
[Sigh]


The joys of 2% market share. So how is everyone else dealing with this?

Thanks.

Re: Query on iCal under Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown



On 04/05/2005, at 4:42 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:


On 4/05/2005 4:36 PM, "Ronda Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




On 04/05/2005, at 1:48 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:



Umm,...am I missing something?
(OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o)

In iCal when I go to the preferences and tell it that I only want
to view
between the hours of 8am and 10pm it still shows me midnight to
midnight.
Well OK, yes I know I work til late in the morning, but I don't
normally
need to book in to see clients then! So I don't need those times.
I've deleted the preferences and reset it, quit it, restarted,
asked it
nicely,...I even tried bribing it. Nope, still doesn't make any
difference.

So am I missing something, or are others have the same issues?
I did a quick google search and checked out Macfixit, but nothing
turned up
re the view issue.



Hi Daniel,

In iCal Preferences > General
Day Starts at 8:00 AM
Day Ends at10:00 PM

Show :14 hours at a time

The area before 8:00 AM & the area after 10.00 PM is greyed out,but
is still there in case you need it :-)




Thanks Ronni (and all that answered).
That is what I had it set to. I was just hoping it was like it used  
to be
where I would only see  between 8am and 11pm, so therefore didn't  
need to

scroll etc when I opened it.
For me I think those other hours are kinda pointless,..ok fair  
enough I'm
anyway, but as yet I'm not booking clients at 2am so don't need  
that time.
You used to be able to "turn it off". Oh well, maybe that feature  
will come

back in an update. :o)


Yeah, I see what you mean Daniel.
Because I have mine set from 8AM to 5PM .. (I don't work as long a  
day as you ;-), that's all I see.

I don't need to scroll.

Cheers,
Ronni

Tiger non-delivery

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Fuller

I still haven't received my Tiger from the up-to-date program. I left a 
message with the up-to-date Australian agents but it's USA who calls 
back (and I was out at the time).


Has anyone else on this program still not got their Tiger?

Mike

RE: Tiger non-delivery

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Schmidt

No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new date of 4th 
May for delivery though.

Mike :-)

-Original Message-
From:   Mike Fuller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Wed 5/4/2005 4:51 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Cc: 
Subject:Tiger non-delivery

I still haven't received my Tiger from the up-to-date program. I left a 
message with the up-to-date Australian agents but it's USA who calls 
back (and I was out at the time).

Has anyone else on this program still not got their Tiger?

Mike

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Re: Can't dialup to net

2005-05-04 Thread Kelly Duffy

Something you can try, when I was on OS9 I had the same thing happen,
though it might not be caused by the same thing. Under TCP/IP, in the
control panel, it had defaulted/changed itself to connect via
ethernet, not PPP.

Good luck. 

On 5/4/05, Robert Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On 04/05/2005, at 11:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection
> > dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with "bad
> > authentication".
> >
> > We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side,
> > they gave us a test account, tested with another ISP (still using
> > Telstra's MegaPOP VISP stuff), changed V34, removed echo packets...
> >
> > ISP can't see any connection attempts at all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Mal
> 
> That is a real wild card from outside the field Mal !
> 
> OK ! We need some information .
> 
> Is it a Macintosh ?  What year and model ?
> 
> What Operating system ?
> 
> What Modem ? Internal or external ?
> 
> What protocol and what software is being used for the dialling and
> setup ?
> 
> What phone number is he/she dialling .
> 
> Bob
> 
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Re: Set Top Box updates

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Doyle


Check out the TEAC Digital Player.

http://player.teac.com.au/index.html

I have updated the software on my unit twice using the internal modem.

I think they are available at Target, Myer and Megamart. Can't recall 
the current price but is probably between $200 and $300.


I have mine connected to my eMac using a USB/ Ethernet adapter to get 
broadband access on the TV.


Recommend you consider asking them to order you a keyboard from TEAC. 
We use ours for email and web access.


The caller ID function is quiet cool too.

Cheers
Paul

On 04/05/2005, at 16:47, Keith Feltham wrote:

Our family are considering purchasing a Set Top Box in an attempt to 
improve the fringe-signal ghosting and snow that currently constitutes 
our TV picture.


Most models advertise that they can be firmware updated for increased 
functionality, and they all say the same thing: "Just download the 
.exe file, connect the RS232 to your computer's COM 1 port ..." [Sigh]


The joys of 2% market share. So how is everyone else dealing with this?

Thanks.

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2005-05-04 Thread Severin Crisp

With Tiger up and running I have a few observations to make.  I found  
this one of the easiest system transitions I can remember, in large  
measure due to my prestudy of the two eBooks "Take Control of  
Upgrading to Tiger" and "Take Control of Customizing Tiger" from  
www.takecontrolbooks.com which give excellent rundowns of what will  
happen and good discussion of the options plus some good warnings -  
highly recommended for anyone still hesitating to take the plunge.
I opted for an "Erase and Install" with a copy back of my  
applications and settings and whatever from a mirror partition of my  
boot drive on an external Firewire drive.  I had problems making the  
bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner which annoyingly hung twice  
about an hour into the copy.  A switch to SuperDuper solved that  
problem.
The whole installation process, including the copy back of all the  
backed up stuff, done within the installer, took only 70 mins and I  
was immediately checking my mail - fantastic!   A couple of items had  
disappeared from the dock and I had to reinstall my Epson scanner  
software and Optical mouse software but otherwise everything just  
worked.
A fringe benefit of the "Erase and Install" was that I seem to have  
recovered 2GB of disk space, the last initialise having been about 3  
years ago.
Tiger, overall seems a little faster and snappier than Panther (this  
all on an aging G4/400) and the new features, many of which I still  
have to explore are great - the searching is just brilliant and on  
the dashboard the weather widget even knows about Albany, WA.  My  
only criticism of Mail is that it is not quite as clever as doing a  
Save as Draft automatically when you go off in the middle of a letter.
Finally, my thanks, as a regional member of WAMUG, to all those who  
made the effort to put the meeting up as a streaming video, after all  
these years it was great to "attend" my first meeting and view it  
with QT7Pro!  Now I have some faces to go with some well known  
names.  My only criticism was that the sound level was a bit low and  
not always easy to follow.

I am a happy Tiger chappie!
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: Tiger non-delivery

2005-05-04 Thread Greg Sharp

On 4/5/05 6:55 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new date of 4th
> May for delivery though.
I don't know what Apple Australia's position is on this, but in the US those
promised Tiger by the 29th who didn't receive it also received an email like
yours & were initially offered no compensation. However a large number who
actually rang up and complained about it were offered as a bonus a choice of
either iLife 5, iWorks or something similarly priced for free to make up for
the inconvenience. I've heard a lot of country Australia including many
parts of WA missed out so it may be worth seeing what Apple's reaction is to
offering similar compensation.


-- 

All the best

Greg Sharp
President/Webmaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG)
http://australian.macusersgroup.org

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Doug Wilson

> Last time I checked, we usually call it hail, or hail stones.
> 
> In any event, I'm Matthew, not Daniel.
> 
> :-)
> 
> - Matt

Woops. Sorry about the mixup about who's who. It may well be hail in the
picture, have to check the developers notes.

Hail and freezing rain are quite different. Hail comes down in solid form.
Freezing Rain is actually liquid up until it hits the ground where it turns
instantly to ice. Nasty stuff to drive in.

re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Nancy McIntyre


Just finished viewing part I over dinner.

Direction:
straight adherence to  the Dogme 95 school.
Screenplay:
no groundbreaking plot departures, but for lovers of the film mac 
genre, it has all the elements - right down to the wisecracking 
investigator.

Cinematography:
a refreshingly direct approach,  with none of the steadicam seasick 
moves that some Dogme 95ers are too fond of.


Thanks for making it available to a mere lurker.
Is there a tip jar for single meeting donations?

Re: Tiger non-delivery

2005-05-04 Thread Rod

On 04/05/2005, at 5:46 PM, Greg Sharp wrote:

On 4/5/05 6:55 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new
date of 4th

May for delivery though.

I don't know what Apple Australia's position is on this, but in the
US those
promised Tiger by the 29th who didn't receive it also received an
email like
yours & were initially offered no compensation. However a large
number who
actually rang up and complained about it were offered as a bonus a
choice of
either iLife 5, iWorks or something similarly priced for free to
make up for
the inconvenience. I've heard a lot of country Australia including
many
parts of WA missed out so it may be worth seeing what Apple's
reaction is to

offering similar compensation.

:-)

You will be very lucky if you do get some sort of compensation out window for airbourne pork>. It is no different from anyone who
bought a Mac thinking they could order photos and books through
iPhoto (through Apple), those who waited 3+ months for the original
17" Powerbook (even though they were supposed to ship within a month
of announcement), those who bought Macs to buy music through iTMS,
thinking worldwide actually meant more than 10 countries :-)

Come on. Spare a thought for the other 90% of the computing world
who have waited for Longhorn to finally be on the
shelf ;-)And I have never had an up-to-date program *ever* be on
time. You guys are lucky it is only a week after Tiger was
released. In the past the word week has been plural. :-)

Its not if 10.3.9 was going to self destruct on the 29th!

*By the way - this is all in good humour. When the G4 400s first
came out, I bought one through a reseller staff program and had to
wait 3 months before I got one. Apple had to satisfy regular
customers first. So I know how you guys feel!*

Seeya

Rod!

iPod for back up

2005-05-04 Thread Edward Arrowsmith

When using SuperDuper to back prior to installing Tiger, is it possible 
to back up to a 20Gb iPod as an external hard drive?

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Reid

Very impressed with the iLecture.  Great use of WA technology I seem
to remember.

Matt, I noted the zoom in/out to the desktop technique that you used. 
What is that effect? I use Mouseposé to draw students attention to
details on the desktop, but the technique you used seemed much more
effective.
http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/  

Best regards,
Paul

- 
   ICT Coordinator
   Paraburdoo Primary School
-

Tiger features - an alternative review

2005-05-04 Thread gary dorn

I reckon a review needs to written about Tiger on how the things we 
use in our daily workflow,   have been improved , added or reduced in 
capabilty and performance,



I'll start

ImageCapture-

I mainly use it for scanning-( Espon  perfection 610,  which has 
worked  well in OS X)


 image capture now has more Scan setup options- such as scanning as 
low as 72 dpi,

has new file  options ie give scan a file name,
 and side bar now slides to either left or right side of the main window
and the scanner can now be shared, (just like a printer i hope)
scanning selection preview window now has 4 more points, along centre 
of rectangle.


anyone else?

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 4/05/2005 7:44 PM, "Paul Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Very impressed with the iLecture.  Great use of WA technology I seem
> to remember.
> 
> Matt, I noted the zoom in/out to the desktop technique that you used.
> What is that effect? I use Mouseposé to draw students attention to
> details on the desktop, but the technique you used seemed much more
> effective.
> http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/
> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
> 

Hi Paul

The feature that Matt used is part of the OS. If you go into System
Preferences and then to universal Access, you will see Zoom. Turn this on
and then you can use the key controls for it.
Apple Option = (Zoom in)
Apple Option - (Zoom Out)

Hope that helps!
Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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MacWizardry

Phone: 0414 795 960
Email: 
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OT : For all our mum's out there ...??

2005-05-04 Thread Peder Kristensen

Hi All,

This little snippet came across by desk, so being Mothers' Day this Sunday I
thought this be something we may all have experienced.

Cheers,
Peder
-


1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.

"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished
cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.

"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.

"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next
week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.

"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.

"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the
store  with me."

6. My  mother taught me FORESIGHT.

"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an  accident."

7. My  mother taught me IRONY.

"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.

"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.

"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.

"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.

"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.

"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.

"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother  aught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.

"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My  mother taught me about ENVY.

"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have
wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.

"Just wait until we get home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.

"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.

"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.

"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.

"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN  ADULT.

"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.

"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.

"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.

"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. And my favourite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.

"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

Re: iPod for back up



On 04/05/2005, at 7:11 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

When using SuperDuper to back prior to installing Tiger, is it 
possible to back up to a 20Gb iPod as an external hard drive?




Edward
that should be possible by employing the Sparse Disk Image technique
which I posted links for earlier today.


Cheers

Bob

Re: iPod for back up

2005-05-04 Thread Edward Arrowsmith


Thats what I was hoping to hear Bob, thanks so much.


On 04/05/2005, at 8:07 PM, Robert Howells wrote:

On 04/05/2005, at 7:11 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

When using SuperDuper to backup prior to installing Tiger, is it 
possible to back up to a 20Gb iPod as an external hard drive?


Edward
that should be possible by employing the Sparse Disk Image technique
which I posted links for earlier today.
Cheers
Bob

[Meeting] Meeting Notes for May

Hi All!

Notes from Tuesday's meeting. Apologies for poor grammar and spelling
mistakes. I type faster then my brain can keep up. :o)

Matt opened the meeting with the Tiger demo.
He ran through some of the new features of Tiger. One of them was
"Dashboard". It uses things called "Widgets", which are little tiny programs
(self contained web pages). They can be clocks, weather trackers, stocks,
dictionary, conversions, etc. When they aren't on screen they don't use any
CPU time until they are "activated". To change any of the settings of most
widgets, you click the little "I" and it will spin around to the settings.
You can add a lot more Widgets, and when you run out, there is a button for
"More Widgets", which will take you off to Apple's website and give you a
list of lots of other widgets you can download and install.
If you Apple-option click on the weather icons you can see lots of other
icons that are used to demo the weather.
When you install a widget, it will download, then you double click it (to
un-zip it) and it will install itself. (The first time you run a widget,
like any other application, will ask if you want to do this. It does this to
make sure it's not going to do anything malicious.
Matt then showed off iChat. If you have a G5 processor then you can run a
video conference with more than one person. To host it you need a Dual 1Ghz
G4 or any G5 then you can host a 4 person conference.
Safari now works with more websites. It has also has private browsing so
when you don't want to save settings, history or traces of where you've
been.
Spotlight lets you find files anywhere on your system, without knowing where
they are. Good for files that you can't remember where they are. It also
looks inside files and brings up the listing. (Using the metadata). So if
you had a document called 12345_pic_276.pdf but somewhere in that file it
had written for MacWorld and you did a search for 'macworld', then it would
list that document and you can open it from the search. You can add
"plugins" which will add to spotlight for indexing of other documents,
programs etc. Obviously more will follow later as people design them.
Mail has been updated. It also uses spotlight indexing as well. You can now
do searching across the database. Matt shows it searching through about
30-40,000 emails and it was very quick. The search can also be saved as a
"smart folder", which will include all the results from that.
 iCal was also upgraded. Birthdays from the Address Book are also show in
iCal, in their own Calender. You can choose to print calendars with a lot of
customisation as well. It will also generate a full resolution pdf on the
fly as well. Very cool.
It also has a new feature called VoiceOver, which will speak anything you
click or highlight.


I then demo'ed the Roku M1000 Soundbridge. This is a little unit that runs
off a wired or wireless network and picks up your iTunes library. You plug
it into the mains, run a cable to your stereo and then you can access any of
the running iTunes library. It comes with a little remote control and you
can access all the songs, view the track names and details and you don't
even need to be near the computer. You can also access it via Bonjour (the
old Rendezvous) in Safari. From here you can see the iTunes song playing,
skip, pause, fast forward etc from the browser.
The good thing with these units is that you can have them in different rooms
of the house and they can all access the same iTunes library.
(Imagine having one machine just running all the iTunes and then sharing to
3 or 4 different units in the kids rooms) :o) Very cool!! :o)
They do two units, the M1000 and the M2000.
Pricing is $499 for the M1000 ($479 WAMUG Special) and $999 for the M2000
($909 WAMUG Special)
For more information have a look at:-
 or drop me an email as well.

Peter Botman then showed off Zinio Reader. This is a little application that
lets you purchase online magazines, download them and read them offline.
It's a good subscription service for some of those magazines that are harder
to get hold of, or you want to save a bit of money on the purchase price
(and maybe save a tree or two). With the Zinio application which is a free
download you then choose which magazines you want. (You can also start with
some free preview ones to see what you think of it as well.) Once you've
purchased your magazine the program is set up to check each month and tell
you when the next issue is out, all ready for you to download and read later
on. It will flip pages, just like reading a real magazine (same effect), you
can click on chapters to go there straight away. If it's got a web link in
an article you can click it and will take you straight away to that site for
you to have a look at more info, download a demo, or other things like that.
You can "highlight" parts that you want to save for later on to "skim over".
And we wouldn't be surprised if too far down the track a "plug in"

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Reid

A-ha. Cheers Daniel.  Zoom is a very handy tool.

BTW - I haven't been able to access your part 2 segment of the May
meeting iLecture.

Best regards,
Paul

- 
   ICT Coordinator
   Paraburdoo Primary School
-

On 4/05/2005 7:44 PM, "Paul Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Very impressed with the iLecture. Great use of WA technology I seem
> to remember.
> 
> Matt, I noted the zoom in/out to the desktop technique that you used.
> What is that effect? I use Mouseposé to draw students attention to
> details on the desktop, but the technique you used seemed much more
> effective.
> http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/
> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
> 

Hi Paul

The feature that Matt used is part of the OS. If you go into System
Preferences and then to universal Access, you will see Zoom. Turn this on
and then you can use the key controls for it.
Apple Option = (Zoom in)
Apple Option - (Zoom Out)

Hope that helps!
Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
---
Daniel Kerr
MacWizardry

Phone: 0414 795 960
Email: 
Web: 

**For everything Macintosh**

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 4/05/2005 8:42 PM, "Paul Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A-ha. Cheers Daniel.  Zoom is a very handy tool.
> 
> BTW - I haven't been able to access your part 2 segment of the May
> meeting iLecture.
> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
> 
> -
>ICT Coordinator
>Paraburdoo Primary School
> -
> 

Hi Paul

Martin was going to be digitising the second part today, so it may not be up
until later on. No doubt it will appear there. :o)

Hope that helps.

Kind Regards
Daniel
---
Daniel Kerr
MacWizardry

Phone: 0414 795 960
Email: 
Web:   

**For everything Macintosh**

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Martin Hill

> From: Paul Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> BTW - I haven't been able to access your part 2 segment of the May
> meeting iLecture.

My fault - I've been experimenting with adding iPod and mobile phone video
options to the formats available for the WAMUG iLecture but I broke it
instead.  *sigh*

The other formats should be available soon.  Stay tuned.

-Mart

Reall Cool Widget

For those laptop owners,...
Grab yourself this little widget, and before you head off somewhere you can
set it to the Suburb, Western Australia, Australia and it will tell you
where the WiFi hotspots are for that area!
(There are 14 of them in Perth central apparently) :o)


Very cool!! :o)

Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
---
Daniel Kerr
MacWizardry

Phone: 0414 795 960
Email: 
Web:   


**For everything Macintosh**

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Reid

Hehe - double the fun on a mobile.  Must say Mart, et al., I really
appreciate being able to virtually attend the meeting from here in the
Pilbara*.

Best,
Paul

*NOW with 'broadband' 1.5mb/256k.


On 5/4/05, Martin Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Paul Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > BTW - I haven't been able to access your part 2 segment of the May
> > meeting iLecture.
> 
> My fault - I've been experimenting with adding iPod and mobile phone video
> options to the formats available for the WAMUG iLecture but I broke it
> instead.  *sigh*
> 
> The other formats should be available soon.  Stay tuned.
> 
> -Mart
> 
>

Re: Tiger non-delivery

2005-05-04 Thread Shay Telfer

No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new 
date of 4th May for delivery though.


Mike :-)


My Apple Maintenance Program copies arrived on Tuesday.

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

eMac Upgradable?

2005-05-04 Thread Rosie Cable


Hi all

I have an eMac 1GHz Superdrive (purchased new February 2004).

Are there any components of the hardware that are upgradable?

The only upgrade I have made, is to in to increase the memory to 768 
RAM, but nothing else.


 Any information much appreciated

Regards
Rosie :-)

Re: Set Top Box updates

2005-05-04 Thread Martin Hill

Well, rather than a straight digital receiver set top box, we went for a DVR
(Digital Video Recorder - which is basically a hard disk equipped digital
set-top box) that allows you to record TV shows, pause live TV, etc in
addition to having a digital TV tuner.

We've actually had two digital set-top boxes from different manufacturers
with internal 40GB and 80GB hard disks respectively and have been through
the chore of connecting a PC via serial cable to update firmware but it's
over-rated.  The fixes never fixed the problems with the second box (a
Strong Technologies 5290), the feature upgrades were very minor and limited
and we gave up in the end.  (scratch $800 for the 5290 - at least we got our
money back on the first unit) and the hard disks weren't upgradeable
(they're never big enough), and you always want more options as new tech
comes out, but black boxes like these are too closed and proprietary.  :-(
(though that TEAC box running Linux would I imagine be better than some)

Instead I'd recommend buying an EyeTV 410
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetv410
If you don't have a Mac available to dedicate to it, get a Mac Mini (or an
iMac G5 which we went for and preferably a large capacity firewire drive).
We've got an external 250GB hard drive connected to our iMac which can fit
about 80hrs of digital TV shows and movies.  (We bought both the EyeTV and
Firewire drive from Daniel Kerr who demoed the EyeTV at WAMUG last year -
great price and service as usual)

You could then connect the Mac to your TV and stereo or with a 20" iMac G5
use the Mac as your TV and get crystal clear digital TV reception and
schedule as many TV recordings as you wish.  It's great - you actually end
up watching less TV - you can skip thru all the ads and what you do watch is
just the shows and movies you want to watch - no sitting vegging in front of
trash TV anymore.

Here are some of the advantages of the EyeTV option over a set-top box:
- keep adding as much hard disk space as you wish by just adding firewire
drives or swapping in bigger HDs (they keep getting cheaper all the time).
- Upgrading software is painless and new features are often major
improvements
- Useful 3rd party applications that work with the EyeTV (eg EyeTV Dashboard
widgets, streaming server to stream TV to other computers in the house etc)
- Use the Mac as your lounge room media centre for music, photos, TV,
internet radio, audio CD and DVD player and burner (and games machine) all
in the one unit.
- You can have a smaller live TV window open at the same time as one or more
recorded programs.
- Web browse on screen alongside your video windows - great for the news.
- Burn movies to CD or DVD or compress down to small sizes to email or keep
on disk.
- Control EyeTV over the internet to program it while you're out.
- Pause the live TV or DVD movies automatically with Salling Clicker and/or
Phone Valet when a phone call comes in to your mobile or landline
respectviely.

Disadvantages:
- No dual tuner EyeTV solution available yet (so you can't record 2 TV
channels simultaneously)
- No direct one-click scheduling integration with Australian TV-listing
websites yet, though it is promised with the AusTV widget for Tiger.
- No matter how big your hard disk you WILL keep running out of disk space.
:-)

Hope this helps

ciao

-Mart

> From: Keith Feltham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:47:25 +0800
> To: WAMUG Mailing List 
> Subject: Set Top Box updates
> 
> Our family are considering purchasing a Set Top Box in an attempt to
> improve the fringe-signal ghosting and snow that currently
> constitutes our TV picture.
> 
> Most models advertise that they can be firmware updated for increased
> functionality, and they all say the same thing: "Just download the
> .exe file, connect the RS232 to your computer's COM 1 port ..."
> [Sigh]
> 
> The joys of 2% market share. So how is everyone else dealing with this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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