Re: Dial up problems

[Robert Howells]

On 30/11/2005, at 2:05 PM, Chris Griffiths wrote:


Hi Guys,

My wife needs to connect to her server to get email etc. via a dial up
account. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't
it gives the message "A modem error occurred please verify your
settings and try again". I rang the techo guy at the server and asked
what I should do and he said to change the modem setting from (v.92) to
(v.90). So I did that. I connected a few times and then gave me the
same error message. It connected a few times on v.92 as well.

The DNS settings just come on automatically which I have been told is
correct.

Any ideas?


Hi Chris thanks for the compliment ,  but really I am not Psychic .

Need lot's more information :

What Macintosh
What OS
What Modem
What TCP/ IP settings  .. Screen dump would be good if sent direct
What Modem Initialisation string
What ISP



Any other settings that I should change and try? The techo
guy said that Macs are hard to adjust


Sounds like you got the usual dummy .  The educated Techies know what 
Macs are like .

That's the usual response when it's all too hard.

I had a Windows ISP at one stage who had multiple servers and big 
problems with dial up.
It was a particular server problem and had something to do with 
software timing between

the servers . It's years ago now .  They kept saying it was my end.

Funny thing, everything worked fine when I moved to another ISP


Bob




(which really pissed me off)
because I know that you can do anything on a mac. So I'm assuming he
just doesn't know about macs.

Thanks in advance!

Regards Chris Griffiths

Re: dvd regions

[James Devenish]

Hi,

On 30/11/2005, at 1:12 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:

Rob Davies wrote:

Return DVD and inform store of such an issue
While they might be breaching an agreement with their suppliers, I  
really don't see how they'd be doing anything legally wrong.


Rosemary, I am also not sure that the shop has done anything  
"illegal". I am also unsure if your DVD has a technical fault.  
However, you should have a legal right to negotiate a "remedy" with  
the retailer (or, if that is unsuccessful, to have a complaint heard)  
as part of standard consumer protections: see www.docep.wa.gov.au>. Three typical conditions that trigger these  
rights & obligations are: "faults" in products that were not  
reasonably obvious at the time of purchase; "mis-representation" of  
products by shop staff or ads; "unsuitability" of products for the  
purpose for which they were sold and bought.

Re: dvd regions .... MTR download address

[Mike Fuller]

On 30/11/2005, at 1:59 PM, Lloyd White wrote:



I see Roxio Popcorn advertised for copying DVDs. How is it that  
they can

advertise a product that copies DVDs, compresses and burns them when
MactheRipper is illegal? Or does Popcorn not copy commercial DVDs.

Lloyd



Yes, Popcorn doesn't copy commercial DVDs that have Macrovision  
encryption.


There is another program that will rip a DVD, removing the CSS  
encryption and Macrovision protection, compress it and burn a copy -  
Fast DVD Copy. Cost is around $100 USD. The link is:

http://www.fastdvdcopy.com/

Use at your own ethical risk.

Cheers,

Mike

Re: iPhoto reinstall

[Steve Woods]

On 30/11/2005, at 3:16 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

A friend has Tiger installed on a 350 MHz iMac. iPhoto is not  
installed for some reason. She has updated to 10.4.3. How can I  
reinstall iPhoto for her after a couple of OS updates please?




Has version 2 available as a download, later versions were part of  
the iLife suite (and not free updates).


Best option would be to install it from the iLife '05 CD (if you have  
it available) and update that version (5.0) to the latest (5.0.4)


It won't run all that well on a 350MHz machine though...

HTH

Steve

iPhoto reinstall

[Edward Arrowsmith]

Good afternoon WAMUGGERS

A friend has Tiger installed on a 350 MHz iMac. iPhoto is not  
installed for some reason. She has updated to 10.4.3. How can I  
reinstall iPhoto for her after a couple of OS updates please?


Thanks and Best wishes
edward 

Re: Dial up problems

[Kelly Duffy]

Hi Chris,

I get it pretty much every second time I try. I redial and it works
again straight after. No idea what causes it though, so if you do find
out please let me know.

I'm running OS10.3 on a G4 tower, by the way, I can't recall having
the problem with OS9, but that's not to say I didn't.

Kind regards,
Kelly

On 11/30/05, Chris Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> My wife needs to connect to her server to get email etc. via a dial up
> account. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't
> it gives the message "A modem error occurred please verify your
> settings and try again". I rang the techo guy at the server and asked
> what I should do and he said to change the modem setting from (v.92) to
> (v.90). So I did that. I connected a few times and then gave me the
> same error message. It connected a few times on v.92 as well.
>
> The DNS settings just come on automatically which I have been told is
> correct.
>
> Any ideas? Any other settings that I should change and try? The techo
> guy said that Macs are hard to adjust (which really pissed me off)
> because I know that you can do anything on a mac. So I'm assuming he
> just doesn't know about macs.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards Chris Griffiths
>
>
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Re: Dial up problems

[Chris Griffiths]

Hi Guys,

My wife needs to connect to her server to get email etc. via a dial up 
account. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't 
it gives the message "A modem error occurred please verify your 
settings and try again". I rang the techo guy at the server and asked 
what I should do and he said to change the modem setting from (v.92) to 
(v.90). So I did that. I connected a few times and then gave me the 
same error message. It connected a few times on v.92 as well.


The DNS settings just come on automatically which I have been told is 
correct.


Any ideas? Any other settings that I should change and try? The techo 
guy said that Macs are hard to adjust (which really pissed me off) 
because I know that you can do anything on a mac. So I'm assuming he 
just doesn't know about macs.


Thanks in advance!

Regards Chris Griffiths

Re: dvd regions .... MTR download address

[Lloyd White]

>> 
>> Rip the DVD through MacTheRipper and change the region code of ripped
>> DVD and burn back to a DVD or play from stored area on machine. Sorry
>> do not have URL for program as it has shifted site or closed down,


I see Roxio Popcorn advertised for copying DVDs. How is it that they can
advertise a product that copies DVDs, compresses and burns them when
MactheRipper is illegal? Or does Popcorn not copy commercial DVDs.

Lloyd 

Re: dvd regions .... MTR download address

[Robert Howells]

On 30/11/2005, at 11:32 AM, Rob Davies wrote:



On 29/11/2005, at 7:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 29/11/2005, at 6:32 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote:

Just played a dvd on my mac, warning me about the fact that I'm  
changing region codes. As I bought the dvd legally in a local store  
what gives? And what do I do if I run out of changes of region code?


Don not change code in machine find somewhere else to view... or be  
aware of  how many times you have done change, as it is 5 before it  
will lock on final code.. Can be rectified by Apple service centre 5  
times legally???


Return DVD and inform store of such an issue, although these days it  
does not make much difference as most DVD players are not so  
restricted. But they may have a region 4 copy of your disc, and yes  
technically the shop is breaching some sort of copyright or something  
similar.


Rip the DVD through MacTheRipper and change the region code of ripped  
DVD and burn back to a DVD or play from stored area on machine. Sorry  
do not have URL for program as it has shifted site or closed down,



Try here for version 266









 try MacUpdate or VersionTracker.

VLC or Mplayer could be option although I have read where these do not  
warn of changing Region within DVD. But  I have used the VLC option on  
many occasions well past 5 and DVD has not locked up yet.




Hi Rosemary,

I would not try this myself ..  Too risky in my opinion.



"You should know basis about your MacIntosh and region locking. The  
limitation is double : firsty is hardware. This is the first to run  
when you’re inserting a DVD in your optical drive, and the patches we  
provide you are made to bypass this one. But theres’s a second  
limitation which is purely software, through your Opertaing system :  
MacOS X. A small app allows you to change region without limitation.  
This app is made by xvi and is called Region X. To test the changes,  
RegionDisplay (PAL, NTSC) is an ISO image, once mounted on your  
desktop, it will open with Apple DVD Player. It will display which  
region is selected in MacOS X. "


Be aware this will definitely void any warranty you have on machine  
with Apple, and for later machines it has a 2 in 3 chance of  
succeeding. Heed Rhonda's warning...


Cheers!
`Rob...
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Re: dvd regions

[Craig Ringer]

Rob Davies wrote:

Return DVD and inform store of such an issue, although these days it  
does not make much difference as most DVD players are not so  
restricted. But they may have a region 4 copy of your disc, and yes  
technically the shop is breaching some sort of copyright or something  
similar.


While they might be breaching an agreement with their suppliers, I 
really don't see how they'd be doing anything legally wrong. Not that 
I'm a lawyer or anything. DVD regioning is a technical measure to create 
artificial market segmentation. It's a business tool, and I'd be amazed 
if there's anything illegal about selling "out of region" DVDs.


The scheme is enforced by contracts and licenses with DVD player makers 
("To get a CSS decoding key, you must also suppport regioning to our 
specifications") and vendors ("if you want us to sell you our stock, you 
can't sell any out-of-region DVDs from any other supplier"). In some 
countries it's backed up by piggy-backing on legislation that protects 
"technical anti-copying measures" by relying on the fact that CSS is 
both a copy protection technology AND a market segmentation device.


Sneaky, aren't they?

The upshot of this is that, AFAIK, it's quite legal to buy and sell 
out-of-region discs, supplier agreements permitting. You can also play 
them if you can find a player that'll do it, and if the local laws don't 
consider the player a copyright circumvention device (which they most 
likely won't - the player isn't what does the copying). Your challenge 
isn't legal, but rather getting around the rather neat locked in 
agreements the studios and the DVD CCA have with equipment vendors and 
disc retailers. All I can say there is "Thank-you, China!".


--
Craig Ringer

Re: Right Click Mouse Equivilent

[Ronda Brown]

Control 'ctrl' click is right click Rod.

Cheers,
Ronni

On 30/11/2005, at 1:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi
The Dark Side is forcing us to use a Windows program on Terminal  
Server to do

our School Reports.
It requires right clicking the mouse.
Is there a Mac equivilent to "right click"?
Please
ta
Rod Blitvich


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Re: Right Click Mouse Equivilent

[Rod]

On 30/11/2005, at 1:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi
The Dark Side is forcing us to use a Windows program on Terminal 
Server to do

our School Reports.
It requires right clicking the mouse.
Is there a Mac equivilent to "right click"?
Please
ta
Rod Blitvich


"Control"-click is the mac equivalent of a right click.

Seeya

Rod!

Right Click Mouse Equivilent

[rblit]

Hi
The Dark Side is forcing us to use a Windows program on Terminal Server to do
our School Reports.
It requires right clicking the mouse.
Is there a Mac equivilent to "right click"?
Please
ta
Rod Blitvich

Re: dvd regions

[Rod]

On 30/11/2005, at 11:32 AM, Rob Davies wrote:



On 29/11/2005, at 7:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 29/11/2005, at 6:32 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote:

Just played a dvd on my mac, warning me about the fact that I'm 
changing region codes. As I bought the dvd legally in a local store 
what gives? And what do I do if I run out of changes of region code?


Don not change code in machine find somewhere else to view... or be 
aware of  how many times you have done change, as it is 5 before it 
will lock on final code.. Can be rectified by Apple service centre 5 
times legally???


Return DVD and inform store of such an issue, although these days it 
does not make much difference as most DVD players are not so 
restricted. But they may have a region 4 copy of your disc, and yes 
technically the shop is breaching some sort of copyright or something 
similar.


Rip the DVD through MacTheRipper and change the region code of ripped 
DVD and burn back to a DVD or play from stored area on machine. Sorry 
do not have URL for program as it has shifted site or closed down, try 
MacUpdate or VersionTracker.


Mac the Ripper has been shut down due to Macrovision having a dummy 
spit over the legality of the program.  Check out the Mac forums on:




Seeya

Rod!

Re: dvd regions

[Rob Davies]

On 29/11/2005, at 7:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 29/11/2005, at 6:32 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote:

Just played a dvd on my mac, warning me about the fact that I'm  
changing region codes. As I bought the dvd legally in a local  
store what gives? And what do I do if I run out of changes of  
region code?


Don not change code in machine find somewhere else to view... or be  
aware of  how many times you have done change, as it is 5 before it  
will lock on final code.. Can be rectified by Apple service centre 5  
times legally???


Return DVD and inform store of such an issue, although these days it  
does not make much difference as most DVD players are not so  
restricted. But they may have a region 4 copy of your disc, and yes  
technically the shop is breaching some sort of copyright or something  
similar.


Rip the DVD through MacTheRipper and change the region code of ripped  
DVD and burn back to a DVD or play from stored area on machine. Sorry  
do not have URL for program as it has shifted site or closed down,  
try MacUpdate or VersionTracker.


VLC or Mplayer could be option although I have read where these do  
not warn of changing Region within DVD. But  I have used the VLC  
option on many occasions well past 5 and DVD has not locked up yet.




Hi Rosemary,

I would not try this myself ..  Too risky in my opinion.



"You should know basis about your MacIntosh and region locking. The  
limitation is double : firsty is hardware. This is the first to run  
when you’re inserting a DVD in your optical drive, and the patches  
we provide you are made to bypass this one. But theres’s a second  
limitation which is purely software, through your Opertaing  
system : MacOS X. A small app allows you to change region without  
limitation. This app is made by xvi and is called Region X. To test  
the changes, RegionDisplay (PAL, NTSC) is an ISO image, once  
mounted on your desktop, it will open with Apple DVD Player. It  
will display which region is selected in MacOS X. "


Be aware this will definitely void any warranty you have on machine  
with Apple, and for later machines it has a 2 in 3 chance of  
succeeding. Heed Rhonda's warning...


Cheers!
`Rob...

Re: dvd regions

[Rob Findlay]

This is from the University of Utah software support website.



The optical drive firmware and region management software restrictions that
prevent "Region Free" playback are part of the process used to decrypt the
DVD. VLC uses a library (libdvdcss) that accesses the DVD like a block
device bypassing the decryption process altogether. No invasive and risky
firmware update or third-party region-changing utility is needed.

In addition, bypassing the decryption process also eliminates the need for
the user to make region changes that require administrator rights. In this
way VLC is ideal for an open lab setting. Effective playback of a foreign
DVD with VLC, however, is possible only if the system and the application
are configured correctly.


On 30/11/05 6:39 AM, "Ronda Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> How true then is this information?
> 
> "That VLC or MPlayer which will allow you to read DVD's from each
> zone (warning, those softwares may sometimes change the region of
> your drive, without you being warned, this can lock your drive on the
> last selected zone after 5 changes).
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> On 29/11/2005, at 10:41 PM, Rob Findlay wrote:
> 
>> You can always use VLC player to play any DVD. It bypasses the
>> whole region
>> thing. To bypass the automatic loading of Apple DVD player when you
>> insert a
>> movie DVD go into system prefs and alter the automatic setting for
>> what
>> happens when you insert a movie DVD.
>> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
>> 
>> 
>> On 29/11/05 6:32 PM, "Rosemary Horton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Just played a dvd on my mac, warning me about the fact that I'm
>>> changing region codes. As I bought the dvd legally in a local store
>>> what gives? And what do I do if I run out of changes of region code?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   Rosemary Horton
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> 
>>> 
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Re: Thumbs.db

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 30/11/2005, at 1:48 AM, Bob Jackson wrote:

A Chinese friend has emailed me a Windows attachment entitled  
Thumbs.db which I suspect may contain photos. I could not find an  
application on my G5 iMac OSX 10.4.3 which would open the  
attachment. Any assistance would be appreciated.


Thanks
Bob


Much more information is required. At first guess this is nothing  
more than an Index file for a repository of image files. It's not  
possible to know more without know more about the program it belongs to.


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Re: dvd regions

[Paul]

Rosemary Horton wrote:

Just played a dvd on my mac, warning me about the fact that I'm  
changing region codes. As I bought the dvd legally in a local store  
what gives? And what do I do if I run out of changes of region code?


Read at own risk:

I went to http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php and chose my drive from the 
list and patched it to region free, I then use Region X to reset the 
count at will.


I have done this with a few drives on a few macs without drama, I get 
faster burn speeds too.


It was a while ago so the details may vary now.


Good luck
Paul (RPC0)

Re: Thumbs.db

[Paul]

Bob Jackson wrote:

A Chinese friend has emailed me a Windows attachment entitled 
Thumbs.db which I suspect may contain photos. I could not find an 
application on my G5 iMac OSX 10.4.3 which would open the attachment. 
Any assistance would be appreciated.



Thumbs.db is a windoze system file (invisible under windoze), it is 
created in any folder which contains images.

I'm almost certain it contains no readable info.

As they say; it is the chopping block, not the butcher ;-)
They'll need to try again to send you the images themselves.

Good luck
Paul

Re: dvd regions

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Rob,

How true then is this information?

"That VLC or MPlayer which will allow you to read DVD's from each  
zone (warning, those softwares may sometimes change the region of  
your drive, without you being warned, this can lock your drive on the  
last selected zone after 5 changes).


Cheers,
Ronni

On 29/11/2005, at 10:41 PM, Rob Findlay wrote:

You can always use VLC player to play any DVD. It bypasses the  
whole region
thing. To bypass the automatic loading of Apple DVD player when you  
insert a
movie DVD go into system prefs and alter the automatic setting for  
what

happens when you insert a movie DVD.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html


On 29/11/05 6:32 PM, "Rosemary Horton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Just played a dvd on my mac, warning me about the fact that I'm
changing region codes. As I bought the dvd legally in a local store
what gives? And what do I do if I run out of changes of region code?



  Rosemary Horton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




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Thumbs.db

[Bob Jackson]

A Chinese friend has emailed me a Windows attachment entitled 
Thumbs.db which I suspect may contain photos. I could not find an 
application on my G5 iMac OSX 10.4.3 which would open the attachment. 
Any assistance would be appreciated.


Thanks
Bob