Re: The Incredibles
I was in Big W the other day and saw a Disney computer game for The Incredibles It has the label Built for Mac OS X 10.2 So I parted with $38.93. Brought it home and tried to install it on one of the Macs running with OS X 10.3.9. Guess what? Its installer doesn't want to run. That's incredible. I did manage to get the program to run by clicking its Icon in MacResources, but it's buggy. Any polite suggestions would be appreciated. Best wishes, Paul. -- Dr Paul R. Weaver http://www.livejournal.com/users/fremantlebiz/2004/ Perhaps you should have bought The Credibles :-)
Interesting discussion on Bit Torrent and TV
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html Considering some of the unusual programming ideas from our tv stations (any West Wing fans here? You know what I am talking about!), you can see why a model like this might be okay, as long as those who create the shows can make some money. Seeya Rod!
Re: Interesting discussion on Bit Torrent and TV
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html Considering some of the unusual programming ideas from our tv stations (any West Wing fans here? You know what I am talking about!), you can see why a model like this might be okay, as long as those who create the shows can make some money. I would have thought they made their money by selling box DVD sets at $100 or so. Oh, and the merchandise... For example, the Star Wars franchise (according to Forbes.com) Toys - US$9 billion Box office - US$5.67 billion Home video/DVD - US$2.8 billion Video games - US$1.5 billion Books - US$700 million 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: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
On 16/05/2005, at 10:27 AM, Mark Secker wrote: 1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor kit for my Apple 20 display Suddenly makes a MAME box using a Mac all that much better :-) Just need a patch to make those X-Arcade sticks work! Seeya Rod!
Re: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
On 16/05/2005, at 10:53 AM, Rod wrote: On 16/05/2005, at 10:27 AM, Mark Secker wrote: 1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor kit for my Apple 20 display Suddenly makes a MAME box using a Mac all that much better :-) Just need a patch to make those X-Arcade sticks work! Heh... Old School dies hard! - Matt
Re: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
On 16/05/2005, at 11:33 AM, Matthew Healey wrote: On 16/05/2005, at 10:53 AM, Rod wrote: On 16/05/2005, at 10:27 AM, Mark Secker wrote: 1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor kit for my Apple 20 display Suddenly makes a MAME box using a Mac all that much better :-) Just need a patch to make those X-Arcade sticks work! Heh... Old School dies hard! - Matt A mac mini with a decent display is still cheaper than buying a genuine Galaga arcade machine! :-) (Still my all time favourite game) Seeya Rod!
Skunkworks VESA arms
goggling on VESA monitor arms I found a Perth company Skunkworks that makes some nice looking VESA mounting arms (particularly the pole mount systems) http://www.skunkworks.com.au/ seems to be reasonably competitive price wise for the quality and wondering if anybody else has experience with their products? -- ~ 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: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
on 16/05/05 10:27, Mark Secker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor kit for my Apple 20 display This sounds great but how can you tell if a video card supports this? For example - a new G5 iMac - I seem to recall there is a hack to get the iMac to supports 2 displays rather than just video mirroring - if so, under Tiger, would you then be able to connect say one of the NEC monitors advertised in Aust Macworld which offer portrait/landscape viewing. Having enjoyed using the Radius Pivot Displays (with 68030 IIci running OS6 then OS7 around 12 years ago) I've really missed the pivoting monitors! - I really thought the flat panel G4 iMac design would have been ideally suited to a pivot somewhere in the chrome arm support :( Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
On 16/05/2005, at 11:33 AM, Matthew Healey wrote: On 16/05/2005, at 10:53 AM, Rod wrote: On 16/05/2005, at 10:27 AM, Mark Secker wrote: 1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor kit for my Apple 20 display Suddenly makes a MAME box using a Mac all that much better :-) Just need a patch to make those X-Arcade sticks work! Heh... Old School dies hard! - Matt A mac mini with a decent display is still cheaper than buying a genuine Galaga arcade machine! :-) (Still my all time favourite game) Pac Man turned 25 last week - so I guess that makes me old school as I remember feeding most of my pocket money in to the machines when it came out Galaga is the best :) and it has to be stand up - none of those table jobs. A friend of mine used to buy and convert broken stand up cabinets to take modern gaming consoles and PC based MAME systems - was usually far cheaper than finding parts to fix the original electronics. -- ~ 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)
rotated resolutions Re: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
on 16/05/05 10:27, Mark Secker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor kit for my Apple 20 display This sounds great but how can you tell if a video card supports this? For example - a new G5 iMac - I seem to recall there is a hack to get the iMac to supports 2 displays rather than just video mirroring - if so, under Tiger, would you then be able to connect say one of the NEC monitors advertised in Aust Macworld which offer portrait/landscape viewing. Having enjoyed using the Radius Pivot Displays (with 68030 IIci running OS6 then OS7 around 12 years ago) I've really missed the pivoting monitors! - I really thought the flat panel G4 iMac design would have been ideally suited to a pivot somewhere in the chrome arm support :( If you are running 10.4 and have an external monitor plugged in (no official support for internal monitor rotation) then in the Monitors system preferences there will be a pull down item saying something like rotate with 90 180, 270 deg options. (sorry haven't upgraded my work computer so can't see the exact details here but it definitely works on the external monitor on my 1Ghz G4 TiBook. My guess is anything with DVI connectors should support this though available resolutions probably depend on the model of card - on mine there is nothing to support the full 1152x 870 or 1280x1024 (or should that now be 870x1152 and 1024x1280?) resolutions on my Apple 20 Multiscan CRT when rotated though they are supported in normal landscape orientation- hanging to get my hands on my 20 Apple LCD (which should be some time this week) to see supported resolutions but I'm sure others on the list have this model monitor and can test the available resolutions in rotated mode. Aparently some one (or so some rumor sites say) has worked out how to do this with a PowerBook's internal display and was/is working on how to have the motion sensor in the Al-PowerBooks sense the orientation and change it automatically. -- ~ 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)
W00t!!! Re: rotated resolutions Re: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
supported in normal landscape orientation- hanging to get my hands on my 20 Apple LCD (which should be some time this week) to see supported resolutions but I'm sure others on the list have this model monitor and can test the available resolutions in rotated mode. 20 display literally just arrived YEH HAR! I will take it home and test this evening and post results back My mac will be 7eh 3v1l l337! -- ~ 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)
winmail.dat attachments
Hi For the last month each time three people send me emails with word attachments the attachments arrive as winmail.dat files that I can not open or access. This is usually when the sender sends to a group and is usually resolved (they arrive as word documents) when the sender resends directly to me. I am using a G4 1.67GHz PB, MacOS 10.3.8 Mac office 2004 and Mail 1.3.9. Any thoughts to overcome this would be appreciated. Regards Dave
MFC printer
Hi I have been thinking of getting a Brother MFC-620CN for my home use due to its small foot print and ethernet connectivity. Have any on the list had good or bad experiences with this or suggestions of a better alternative? Thanks Dave
Re: winmail.dat attachments
Hi For the last month each time three people send me emails with word attachments the attachments arrive as winmail.dat files that I can not open or access. This is usually when the sender sends to a group and is usually resolved (they arrive as word documents) when the sender resends directly to me. I am using a G4 1.67GHz PB, MacOS 10.3.8 Mac office 2004 and Mail 1.3.9. Any thoughts to overcome this would be appreciated. Regards Dave You can open winmail.dat attachments with TNEF's Enough: http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/download.html 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: winmail.dat attachments
On 16/05/2005, at 4:22 PM, David Paul wrote: Hi For the last month each time three people send me emails with word attachments the attachments arrive as winmail.dat files that I can not open or access. This is usually when the sender sends to a group and is usually resolved (they arrive as word documents) when the sender resends directly to me. I am using a G4 1.67GHz PB, MacOS 10.3.8 Mac office 2004 and Mail 1.3.9. Any thoughts to overcome this would be appreciated. Regards Dave Hi Dave, TNEF's Enough will open a winmail. dat file. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/tnefsenough.html TNEF’s Enough allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft TNEF stream files. The files are usually received by SMTP based e- mail programs from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook users. The SMTP based e-mail program will usually receive either a MIME attachment named “winmail.dat” or a MIME attachment with the type “application/ms-tnef.” The file is a rich text (or MAPI) message that is sent from Outlook to Exchange. When Exchange sends the message to an outside server it writes the MAPI message as a MIME attachment. The unfortunate side effect of this plan is if the Outlook user has someone in their address book as a person who can receive “Rich Text” then the user will receive the TNEF file whether the user uses Outlook or not. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Re: W00t!!! Re: rotated resolutions Re: a couple of helpful tiger features I've found
well I have a apple 20 inch (1280 x 1024) and a 15inch VGA ( 800 x 600) connected to my MDD G4 I could rotate the 20 inch okay and the 15 in VGA rotated okay to, provide I changed it to (600 x 800) and I could have both of them rotated at the same time. hm I suppose a portrait screen will have some use? chow -- Gary Dorn Architect Perth, Australia
Re: winmail.dat attachments
You can open winmail.dat attachments with TNEF's Enough: http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/download.html So simple!! Thanks to those who let me know how to do this
owwww 20 Apple Cinema Display - desktop BLING BLING
I've ditched the 9 year old Apple Multiscan 20 - err more heaved it - in the direction of my flatmate (who only having an even older 15 was grateful) and now find my self with a real purrdy desktop ... that's the real physical desktop type desktop http://bits-mark.biz.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/images/landscape.jpg http://bits-mark.biz.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/images/portrait.jpg and Rod - yes Mac Mame looks real nice :) Gary - Purpose? - purpose? need purpose? - the discovering IS the purpose ;) more seriously because one of the people I support needs large monitor real estate because of his eyesight and hates scrolling around an A4 document when it's blown up on a landscape monitor... he's been keeping his 12 year old Apple monochrome Portrait display over 4 different macs but it is not supported on his new DVI-I based mac. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO Hunter S Thompson(?)
10.3.9, recent updates and prgrams not working.
Hi All, I have been having problems that seem to all internet related since installing the most recent security and software updates for Panther, putting me up to 10.9. Safari quites with anything Java related. ICQ will not run. Mozilla runs but refuses to donload some things, and LimeWire wont run anymore either. Any suggestions? I tried looking for the AcidSearch pluggin, as was suggested, but I don't have it. Any ideas would be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Kelly
Re: 10.3.9, recent updates and prgrams not working.
Hi All, I have been having problems that seem to all internet related since installing the most recent security and software updates for Panther, putting me up to 10.9. Safari quites with anything Java related. ICQ will not run. Mozilla runs but refuses to donload some things, and LimeWire wont run anymore either. Any suggestions? I tried looking for the AcidSearch pluggin, as was suggested, but I don't have it. Any ideas would be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Kelly Run Software Update and make sure you've got all the Java updates installed. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: owwww 20 Apple Cinema Display - desktop BLING BLING
I'm a little curious as to why people would buy an Apple LCD when other LCD screens seem cheaper. I'm sure there'd be reasons and perhaps it may be helpful for other users to know them. Ruben A. Franke
iMac dual monitor hack
Thanks to Neil for alerting me to the fact that G5 iMacs (and G4 ones too and some iBooks) can support dual monitors rather than just video mirroring. It appears to be one of the items that Apple turn off in some machines, I guess so that the more expensive ones appear more attractive to buyers. Now I just need a cheap LCD monitor to try it out with my G5 iMac. For those interested here is a link for the discussion and hack to enable it: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html Cheers, Mike
language warning Re: owwww 20 Apple Cinema Display - desktop BLING BLING
well the quotes for decent quality monitors that I got were not all that different from Apples pricing - only around $140 difference and they were all 19 and most were not wide screen and some of them cam in above Apple's price of $999 ex GST sure you can get an LCD for $300 but, and please, please, please excuse the language here as there is nothing else I can use to describe the quality of the image that they display that would encompassed the disgust that I feel seeing good money wasted one them... they are shit compleat and total shit - even worse than the cheapest nastiest CRT - staff here are rebelling against them - at first they were all keen as mustard to get them now all they want to do is get rid of them and get something that they can read without looking like they are squinting through a fogged up window trying to read some fudged up text. I'm a little curious as to why people would buy an Apple LCD when other LCD screens seem cheaper. I'm sure there'd be reasons and perhaps it may be helpful for other users to know them. Ruben A. Franke -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO Hunter S Thompson(?)
Re: language warning Re: owwww 20 Apple Cinema Display - desktop BLING BLING
On 16/05/2005, at 8:53 PM, Mark Secker wrote: well the quotes for decent quality monitors that I got were not all that different from Apples pricing - only around $140 difference and they were all 19 and most were not wide screen and some of them cam in above Apple's price of $999 ex GST sure you can get an LCD for $300 but, and please, please, please excuse the language here as there is nothing else I can use to describe the quality of the image that they display that would encompassed the disgust that I feel seeing good money wasted one them... they are shit compleat and total shit - even worse than the cheapest nastiest CRT - staff here are rebelling against them - at first they were all keen as mustard to get them now all they want to do is get rid of them and get something that they can read without looking like they are squinting through a fogged up window trying to read some fudged up text. I'm a little curious as to why people would buy an Apple LCD when other LCD screens seem cheaper. I'm sure there'd be reasons and perhaps it may be helpful for other users to know them. Ruben A. Franke Any LCD that uses VGA as its output is crap. Unfortunately that encompasses all those cheap displays. For good LCD use, you have to start with DVI output, to stay digital all the way. I use a Samsung 172x at home, which was about $900-odd retail. Super sharp display, and not far off in price from the Apple displays. And only 17. You pay for good quality. The 20 from Apple is great value imho. Seeya Rod!
