Re: AGM results?
On 08/03/2006, at 10:57 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Who's on the new committee? Same bunch as before, with two new welcome additions Matthew Healey (President) Peter Hinchliffe (Vice Presdent) Colyn Healey (Secretary) Peter Bottman (Treasurer) Daniel Kerr (member) and now Susan Hastings (member) Ian Conaghan (member) Many thanks to Susan and Ian for their nominations. Both are very regular attendees of the monthly meetings, and Susan is well known for her work in video taping the meetings. We look forward to their contributions to the committee meetings Have fun, Shay -- 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] -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Re: Psychic Software
Morning Neil, GraphicConverter X updates regularly utilising many sources for update information. Hence, the relative information for your camera, scanner and output formats is usually of the latest tested data for said capturing devices or formats, just one of the reasons it is such a great piece of software for converting files. This allows the program to interpret correctly and succinctly the images exposed in each session - shoot. Not just orientation, but device settings such as Exposure EV's, white balance and all other variables collected during shoot, which are recorded within EXIF or XMP files and interpreted by this program. Thus, one very big reason I use this program continually and recommend it, and not just for RAW conversion although Adobes DNG converter has slightly improved with some cameras it still does not provide that moment of capture as succinctly as GraphiConverter X. But, thanks to Mark Secker with the information about Adobes Lightroom, this program and DNG could find a place in my workflow for RAW file formats. Mainly due to speed that it handles RAW format and quality of output is quite outstanding from camera to printer. Although Adobe have to add a few plug-in type functions for it to truly be an answer as I still find the need for GraphicConverter X or Photoshop to tickle the image some more. Another important factor is Lemke Software and their adaptation of Open Source software being a place they have evolved from and much of their programs as with Apple and OS X is provided through this channel. Hence, people whom have created relevant modules/programs or modified for own purpose have been included through the GNU license (many hands make lite work). So a very large information base of testing not just software, but devices is substantially increased. So, support Open Source or GNU licensed software providers and it's community, not just financially, but testing, documentation, or hacking. As ultimately the benefits are substantial for all. Cheers! `Rob... On 7Mar2006, at 10:24 am, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, When I use my digital camera, I often switch between portrait and landscape orientation - to suit the subject/scene. When I transfer the images I generally use a card reader just drag the images to the relevant pictures folder. Now when I browse through the pictures in the finder, Preview shows them all in landscape orientation and opens them in this orientation if I double-click them - I can then, of course rotate them to the correct orientation for viewing. Whilst this is a minor annoyance, I accepted this as inevitable since, as far as I knew, my Canon S45 does not have an orientation sensor and so would not know the orientation I am holding it when I take the picture. HOWEVER... today I was just browsing a folder using the excellent Graphic Converter (which I know is often recommended/referenced in WAMUG posts) when I suddenly realised that all the photo previews were being shown in their correct (with respect to gravity!) orientation as were the photos if I opened them. I always liked graphic converter but I now accord it new respect!... How does it know which is the correct orientation to display what is, after all, just a bunch of pixels? Intrigued, I checked the the Information pane there is nothing in the EXIF info to indicate orientation but I did notice that the image size was shown as 1704x2272 pixels for the portrait shots and 2272x1704 pixels for the landscape shots. If I import the photos into iPhoto, however, the photos are all shown in landscape mode and shown as 2272x1704 pixels in the info window. So, is Graphic Converter truly Psychic ??!! being a confirmed sceptic, I replaced the card in the camera and previewed the photos on the camera LCD and found (which I had not previously noticed) that the camera does actually display the previews in the correct orientation so presumably it has some form of sensor to detect vertical orientation which it then uses to set the height/width dimensions accordingly?? If so, why can Graphic Converter recognise this seemingly simple piece of info and display the image correctly whilst iPhoto, preview or IE seem oblivious and display all images in landscape format initially (Safari seems unable to simply open a plain JPEG file!). So has anyone else noticed which programs correctly interpret the photo orientation (like graphic converter) and which programs require you to actually rotate all portrait orientation shots (like Preview, iPhoto etc). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Macbook Pro boots Windows!
Hi All! Its finally happened: http://www.mathcaddy.com/windowsxpbootsonamac%21%21%21%211/ :-) Seeya Rod!
Severin Crisp - could you email me please!
Hi Severin, I've lost your email due to *another* hard drive failure :-( Could you please email me direct. Seeya Rod!
Problem with iiNet?
I just discovered that many e-mails sent to me by various e-mail lists have been bouncing. Only discovered it when e-mails from yahoogroups did not arrive and I checked the website. The message said, as an example: Week of Bounced messages 3/5/20063 2/26/2006 17 2/19/2006 16 2/12/2006 18 for a total of 550 messages, when they cut off service. We have broadband and iPhone service from iiNet. We use a G4 PowerMac dual processor tower and a G4 Powerbook, both running 10.4.5. We use Safari and Mail.app. We have a 604T Wireless D-link router from iiNet. Our download limit is 4 Gb, but we have never remotely approached that amount. Usually the broadband is pretty zippy, but there have been occasions when it has slowed to such a crawl that we had to give up any browsing. iiNet says probably our hardware or software is at fault, but I doubt it. Can anyone shed light on what is happening? Is it likely something to do with iiNet's service? Thanks, Pat
SFTP and Resource Forks
I frequently SSH / SFTP in to my machine at home with Interarchy to grab needed files. How do I deal with dragging files over with resource forks such as clippings etc? Can I command line gzip them or something? Or should I try Samba or something else in future? (I'm not quite ready to get all the VPN stuff happening at both end methinks). Cheers, Antony.
Re: SFTP and Resource Forks
On 09/03/2006, at 2:34 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote: I frequently SSH / SFTP in to my machine at home with Interarchy to grab needed files. How do I deal with dragging files over with resource forks such as clippings etc? Can I command line gzip them or something? Or should I try Samba or something else in future? (I'm not quite ready to get all the VPN stuff happening at both end methinks). One option would be to use an AFP connection through an SSH tunnel: eg: ssh -L 10548:127.0.0.1:548 [EMAIL PROTECTED] then: open afp://localhost:10548 Have a look at http://macosx.miraworld.tv/ssh/ and http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/41879 HTH Steve.
Re: SFTP and Resource Forks
On 09/03/2006, at 14:34 , Antony N. Lord wrote: I frequently SSH / SFTP in to my machine at home with Interarchy to grab needed files. How do I deal with dragging files over with resource forks such as clippings etc? Can I command line gzip them or something? tar on Tiger always preserves resource forks, so tar cf someName.tar folderName works. scp works too, but you need to give it the -E option, as in: scp -Er folderName [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Josh http://josh.corduroy.biz
Re: SFTP and Resource Forks
One option would be to use an AFP connection through an SSH tunnel: That is so cool not to mention so easy! Thanks for that - I don't know how much time I wasted in the past doing things other ways. Cheers, Antony.
Re: Problem with iiNet?
On 9 Mar 2006, at 1:50 PM, Pat Scott wrote: I just discovered that many e-mails sent to me by various e-mail lists have been bouncing. Only discovered it when e-mails from yahoogroups did not arrive and I checked the website. The message said, as an example: Week of Bounced messages 3/5/20063 2/26/2006 17 2/19/2006 16 2/12/2006 18 for a total of 550 messages, when they cut off service. We have broadband and iPhone service from iiNet. We use a G4 PowerMac dual processor tower and a G4 Powerbook, both running 10.4.5. We use Safari and Mail.app. We have a 604T Wireless D-link router from iiNet. Our download limit is 4 Gb, but we have never remotely approached that amount. Usually the broadband is pretty zippy, but there have been occasions when it has slowed to such a crawl that we had to give up any browsing. iiNet says probably our hardware or software is at fault, but I doubt it. Can anyone shed light on what is happening? Is it likely something to do with iiNet's service? Thanks, Pat The messages would bounce before they got to your computer ! Typically they would bounce if your ISP rejected them because your mail box was full . Do you have your Mail software set to leave the messages on the Server ? Can you access your mail via a web access at your ISP and see just how much mail is sitting in your mailbox ? What size is the Mailbox anyway ? Do you get many mails with attachments that would fill it up ? just a few thoughts for you 1 Bob
Re: MacOS malware
but notice the under 30 minutes one was for users who already had local non admin accounts on the target machine with attacks launched via ssh terminal sessions on a mac OSX server. the successful attacker found a way to escalate their account privileges up from a standard (non admin) user to admin privileges (or at least privileges high enough to get write access in to the web sites directory. These sort of loopholes and backdoors have been found in all multi user systems and should not be a major chore to fix. most desktop users would not have enabled SSH sharing anyway (which is off by default) so 99.99% non OSX Server macs should be totally immune to said attack . This is obviously a security issue but an issue only with malicious current users or hacks by outsiders who use dictionary attacks when you have admins who allow users to have use non secure passwords (like Password Monday) and simple user ID's (like bob, john Jane) - this approach being a time intensive script bassed raw force attack launched from a single (or a number of zombie bots) should generate enough alarm bells about excessive log in attempts from certain narrow range of IP addresses in the servers log transcripts to notify the administrator/owner worth their pay/salt to notice them. the mac server in the second challenge, without local SSH user privileges, has as at time of the articles publication, yet to be to be compromised beyond being bombed off line by a denial-of-service attack - something that in most secured sites would be prevented by routers and firewalls running to a null address any attack once suspicious activity is detected (though this of course has the same effect to legit users outside of the secure perimeter of making the machine appear to be offline). Interesting article Mac OS X hacked in under 30 minutes and Another Mac OS X hack challenge launched. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/ -- Regards, Ray Forma Tel Fax 61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob 61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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]
Panther on BW G3
Can anyone tell me why my G3 300mhz unit with 256MB RAM doesn't boot on Mac OS X start up disc or copies on the HD? It just sits with the Apple Logo and spinning disc thing :P -Christian
Re: Panther on BW G3
On 9 Mar 2006, at 9:07 PM, Kerryn Kotz wrote: Can anyone tell me why my G3 300mhz unit with 256MB RAM doesn't boot on Mac OS X start up disc or copies on the HD? It just sits with the Apple Logo and spinning disc thing :P -Christian Christian, It seems like you are a bit frustrated , otherwise you would realise asking us a question without providing clues is just as good as asking How long is a piece of string ? Now to your problem : 1. Has this ever run on PANTHER ? 2. Have you tried to boot on OS9xx and with what result ? 3. What version of G3 300 ? Does it have USB or is it Scsi ? 4 What year of manufacture ? More questions after we get those answered ! Bob
Re: Panther on BW G3
On 10/03/2006, at 12:07 AM, Kerryn Kotz wrote: Can anyone tell me why my G3 300mhz unit with 256MB RAM doesn't boot on Mac OS X start up disc or copies on the HD? It just sits with the Apple Logo and spinning disc thing :P A couple of possible causes; How large is you HD? Some models of G3s have issues with Mac OS X, where the OS *MUST* be contained within the first 8GB of hard drive space - so the best way to ensure that is to partition the drive so you have a 8GB partition as the FIRST partition (and then the rest of the drive can be as you like) and install Mac OS into that. But based on you description of not actually booting, you probably need to install some of the Firmware updates. I think you can do this by running Software Update under Mac OS 9 and should tell you which updates you need. If not, see the following; http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117 If you are trying to install 10.3.2 then checkout this Technote; http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25793 and http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25776 -- Nicholas Pyers, Macintosh User Group Resources email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.nicholaspyers.com/usergroups
Re: Panther on BW G3
Its a 6 Gb HD so you may be onto something as the other machines were 9GB and 12Gb and they run panther fine. It has the latest firmware for G3 towers, 1.1 and I'm trying to install the basic 10.3 from CD but on some of my CD installers causes its open firmware console to launch. I have an 8.5 Gb model in the post :) - Christian On 09/03/2006, at 10:03 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: On 10/03/2006, at 12:07 AM, Kerryn Kotz wrote: Can anyone tell me why my G3 300mhz unit with 256MB RAM doesn't boot on Mac OS X start up disc or copies on the HD? It just sits with the Apple Logo and spinning disc thing :P A couple of possible causes; How large is you HD? Some models of G3s have issues with Mac OS X, where the OS *MUST* be contained within the first 8GB of hard drive space - so the best way to ensure that is to partition the drive so you have a 8GB partition as the FIRST partition (and then the rest of the drive can be as you like) and install Mac OS into that. But based on you description of not actually booting, you probably need to install some of the Firmware updates. I think you can do this by running Software Update under Mac OS 9 and should tell you which updates you need. If not, see the following; http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117 If you are trying to install 10.3.2 then checkout this Technote; http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25793 and http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25776 -- Nicholas Pyers, Macintosh User Group Resources email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.nicholaspyers.com/usergroups -- 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]
Panther on BW G3
Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9 March 2006 10:56:56 PM To: Kerryn Kotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Panther on BW G3 OK ! Last thing first: I asked for the birth date as a check against the model number and description. That all checks out OK , and the Mactracker info says your firmware version should be the right one. A little advice : Depending on what you wish to do with the Mac , it can be helpful to partition the Hard drive so that you can load 9.2.2 on one and OSX on the other. This will allow you flexibility to boot from either and you can still use that same 9.2.2 as the Classic OS if you wish. I have hacked about putting OSX on a lot of older stuff and I found it very difficult to load Panther on a G3 300 . Jaguar seems to load a lot easier on that speed Mac . I had no trouble getting Panther on a G3 350., but it was very slow installing. It is a known fact that Panther is very picky with Ram to the point that it will not run on some Ram that Jaguar is quite happy with. If you have some Jaguar disks you might try to start from the Jaguar CD and see how you fare there. As to Partitioning the Hard drive, you should be able to fit the OSX Panther into 4.5 Gb with 1.5Gb for the OS9.2 , but you should find that you are very restricted with what you can do with the Mac . If you get a bigger Hard Drive then OSX does need to be on the 1st Partition and the partition AND its INDEX needs to be No bigger than 8Gb. You need to make the partition a bit less than the 8 . Hope that helps Bob On 9 Mar 2006, at 10:11 PM, Kerryn Kotz wrote: wow you are perceptive through text :P Okay its a G3 300mhz using a Rev A logic board. I've seen two other models with faster processors come through my way and panther installed and ran fine on them, this one seems to be different. I'm trying to put Panther on its 6 gig HD. It runs 9.2.2 no probs and like the subject states it's a Blue and White model meaning its USB and firewire based. Seems like the perfect candidate for pantherfication :P its birthday according to the specs on back is 27/2/99 -Christian On 09/03/2006, at 9:50 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 9 Mar 2006, at 9:07 PM, Kerryn Kotz wrote: Can anyone tell me why my G3 300mhz unit with 256MB RAM doesn't boot on Mac OS X start up disc or copies on the HD? It just sits with the Apple Logo and spinning disc thing :P -Christian Christian, It seems like you are a bit frustrated , otherwise you would realise asking us a question without providing clues is just as good as asking How long is a piece of string ? Now to your problem : 1. Has this ever run on PANTHER ? 2. Have you tried to boot on OS9xx and with what result ? 3. What version of G3 300 ? Does it have USB or is it Scsi ? 4 What year of manufacture ? More questions after we get those answered ! Bob -- 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]
