Re: Market Opportunity

[Greg Manzie]

Gratitudeders mad/sir Reg

Created my ineducated dawning.

PS even the address was a hoot.

Regards

Greg Manzie
Director
Glyde Gallery Conservation
5 Glyde Street
Mosman Park
Western Australia 6012

Phone (08) 9383 3929
Mobile 0448 844 381
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On 12/04/2006, at 6:55 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Dear WAMUGgers

This is a little bit OT but as it's only a day to go until the big  
holidays for us teachers, here's something to bring a smile to your  
face.

Market Opportunity

[Reg Whitely]

Dear WAMUGgers

This is a little bit OT but as it's only a day to go until the big  
holidays for us teachers, here's something to bring a smile to your  
face.


This is a genuine email I received tonight. It is not recycled spam.

As an explanation: At Christmas time our 7yo grandson received a nice  
little Dorling Kindersley *toy* digital camera as a gift. It didn't  
have a Mac driver so I searched the internet for one. Finally I  
discovered that the camera was manufactured in China so I sent an  
email to the Chinese company requesting advice. In doing so,  I  
apparently registered my email with a Chinese marketing coordination  
organisation and now I'm getting heaps of email offering interesting  
marketing opportunities. (There could be a career opportunity here yet!)


This month alone I've received the latest updates on specialist and  
fashion bags, the best shipping company to use (with pics of huge  
freighters to prove the point), butterfly valves and ball valves,  
military boots and machinery, and several email which contain 100%  
每个月有余剩的些税票可向外提供,本着互惠互 so I  
don't really know whatzup! This is my very latest offer.


One day to go 个

Happy Easter
Reg

Begin forwarded message:


From: "old homespun cloth"
Date: 12 April 2006 5:26:27pm GMT+08:00
To: "rwhitely"
Subject: supply old homespun cloth

Dear mad/sir,

The Jiuhe textile mill is located produces township of Shandong  
Ningjin the cotton and kapok,
unifies the manual craft take the this locality high quality cotton  
as the raw material which
native several millenniums passes on from generation to generation  
to make the manual old

homespun cloth.

Old homespun cloth for purified cotton manual textile, warm in  
winter and cool in summer,
attracts the perspiration ventilation, does not get up the static  
electricity, kisses with
the flesh, has the extremely high use value. and further because  
the uneducated person cloth
line thick, texture deep, tone plain, therefore weaves on the end  
product clumsy plain is bold,
has the rich local breath and the bright national  
characteristic.Advocates the green, in the
return natural expense tidal current in now the society, it has the  
purified cotton quality of
 material, the natural environmental protection, the handwork  
weaves, characteristic and so on

national design reveals especially is precious.

My factory sincere welcome general everywhere customers discussion  
orders!


Shandong Jiuhe textile mill
 Contact person: zhang
 Address: South the Shandong Ningjin the link east road educates  
the new village

 Phone: 0086-0534-5211213
 Fax: 0086-0534-5211213
 http://jiuhe.ec51.com

Re: Itunes Music Store Rebuffering .. more info

[Paul Doyle]

Woops! Sorry Lloyd I should pay more attention.

Paul

On 12/04/2006, at 6:45 PM, Paul Doyle wrote:


Hi Lloyd,

Try:  iTunes /preferences /Store/ and tick load complete preview

I did this a while back after having the same problem over our 
wireless network.


Cheers
Paul

On 12/04/2006, at 6:34 PM, Lloyd White wrote:



I have ADSL at (supposedly) 512 and iTunes 6.0.4 (3) and am operating 
OS

10.4.6.

When I go to the Apple iTunes Music Store and try to sample some 
music it
connects instantly and then stops to "Rebuffer". I only get about 4 
seconds

of music and then it stops and Rebuffers  again. And again and again.
Hopeless for listening to anything.

Is this a common problem and can it be fixed? I don't recall having 
this

problem before the latest update. OSX 10.4.6

Lloyd

Further to my previous email above

I checked with my PowerBook using the same version of iTunes but with 
OSX
10.4.5 and have no problem getting instant samples from the music 
store.
Same modem. It seems to be an OS 10.4.6 problem. Christian suggested 
I tick
the preferences that says "load complete preview before playing". 
This stops

the constant rebuffering but it takes 70 seconds to load 30 seconds of
music.

Does anyone else experience this?

Lloyd







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Re: Itunes Music Store Rebuffering .. more info

[Paul Doyle]

Hi Lloyd,

Try:  iTunes /preferences /Store/ and tick load complete preview

I did this a while back after having the same problem over our wireless 
network.


Cheers
Paul

On 12/04/2006, at 6:34 PM, Lloyd White wrote:



I have ADSL at (supposedly) 512 and iTunes 6.0.4 (3) and am operating 
OS

10.4.6.

When I go to the Apple iTunes Music Store and try to sample some music 
it
connects instantly and then stops to "Rebuffer". I only get about 4 
seconds

of music and then it stops and Rebuffers  again. And again and again.
Hopeless for listening to anything.

Is this a common problem and can it be fixed? I don't recall having 
this

problem before the latest update. OSX 10.4.6

Lloyd

Further to my previous email above

I checked with my PowerBook using the same version of iTunes but with 
OSX
10.4.5 and have no problem getting instant samples from the music 
store.
Same modem. It seems to be an OS 10.4.6 problem. Christian suggested I 
tick
the preferences that says "load complete preview before playing". This 
stops

the constant rebuffering but it takes 70 seconds to load 30 seconds of
music.

Does anyone else experience this?

Lloyd







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Re: Itunes Music Store Rebuffering .. more info

[Lloyd White]

I have ADSL at (supposedly) 512 and iTunes 6.0.4 (3) and am operating OS
10.4.6.

When I go to the Apple iTunes Music Store and try to sample some music it
connects instantly and then stops to "Rebuffer". I only get about 4 seconds
of music and then it stops and Rebuffers  again. And again and again.
Hopeless for listening to anything.

Is this a common problem and can it be fixed? I don't recall having this
problem before the latest update. OSX 10.4.6

Lloyd 

Further to my previous email above

I checked with my PowerBook using the same version of iTunes but with OSX
10.4.5 and have no problem getting instant samples from the music store.
Same modem. It seems to be an OS 10.4.6 problem. Christian suggested I tick
the preferences that says "load complete preview before playing". This stops
the constant rebuffering but it takes 70 seconds to load 30 seconds of
music.

Does anyone else experience this?

Lloyd 


 

Itunes Music Store Rebuffering

[Lloyd White]

I have ADSL at (supposedly) 512 and iTunes 6.0.4 (3) and am operating OS
10.4.6.

When I go to the Apple iTunes Music Store and try to sample some music it
connects instantly and then stops to "Rebuffer". I only get about 4 seconds
of music and then it stops and Rebuffers  again. And again and again.
Hopeless for listening to anything.

Is this a common problem and can it be fixed? I don't recall having this
problem before the latest update. OSX 10.4.6

Lloyd 
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Re: the life of a thumb drive

[Malcolm Burtenshaw]

It's called SuperFetch, it needs to be explicitly enabled and you can  
only use one USB drive in its current incarnation.


I've played with it and in limited memory scenarios (<512MB) it  
actually increases application loading performance quite a bit.  
Choosing between flash memory with access times measured in  
microseconds and a hard drive where access is in milliseconds I know  
which one I'd choose for storing data that needs to be accessed quickly.


Mal

On 12/04/2006, at 1:53 PM, Mark Secker wrote:



In a practical sense? This will probably never affect flash memory  
in any way unless you used it as swap space for a Dell computer  
running Windows XP with 128M of RAM.


LOL! one word "MS-Vista".

to elaborate in case you haven't seen it - the current build of  
vista amalgamates all read/writable  "disk space" for swap files  
and caching including any thumbdrives that have the misfortune of  
being plugged in to it.
oh how slow it goes when it tries to do swap files to your poor  
little USB thumb drive you've just pugged in!

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Re: the life of a thumb drive

[Mark Secker]

In a practical sense? This will probably never affect flash memory 
in any way unless you used it as swap space for a Dell computer 
running Windows XP with 128M of RAM.


LOL! one word "MS-Vista".

to elaborate in case you haven't seen it - the current build of vista 
amalgamates all read/writable  "disk space" for swap files and 
caching including any thumbdrives that have the misfortune of being 
plugged in to it.
oh how slow it goes when it tries to do swap files to your poor 
little USB thumb drive you've just pugged in!

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Re: MS is driving me Nuts

[James Devenish]

In addition to the comments so far, two things:
- You can turn the auto formatting OFF permanently via the menu
options (I can't remember the specific name though, since I avoid
using Word as much as possible).
- If you notice the auto formatting has happened, type Command+Z (or
use the Undo menu item) immediately. Word will undo its
auto-formatting without undoing your typing. You can then carry on as
normal.

Re: the life of a thumb drive

[Malcolm Burtenshaw]

Technically its true. When you erase flash memory some of the cells  
can become damaged. Manufacturers include redundant cells and load  
balance healthy cells to make sure they last as long as they can.


In a practical sense? This will probably never affect flash memory in  
any way unless you used it as swap space for a Dell computer running  
Windows XP with 128M of RAM.


Mal

On 12/04/2006, at 10:10 AM, Peter Bull wrote:


Hi Muggers,
I often use a USB thumb drive as a giant floppy disk. I work in  
different places and it is great to be able to carry all sorts of  
stuff and use it on different computers. I have heard from a couple  
of people lately that thumb drives  have a limited life if used in  
this way, that is, they should only be used as backup storage. Is  
this true?

Peter Bull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (who is really looking forward to surgery  
next week - NOT)



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Re: the life of a thumb drive

[Robert Howells]

On 12 Apr 2006, at 10:08 AM, Mark Secker wrote:



backup storage .. hmm definitely not.

use them for transporting data between places while keeping the 
original data on at least one hard disk..
so i.g. transporting your assignment work from your home computer to 
your school/uni lab computer but always copying latest version to your 
home computer after each update.


life? had one die after 3 months of kid glove usage and have another 
thats 2 years old and  gone through the wash half a dozen times and 
still working.



From Daniel Kerr ( Macwizardy )  mail to WAMUG on 3rd April

Check the archives here :



You could buy yourself one with a 10 year warranty ..   ??




 FLASH DRIVES 
USB2 with 10year warranty!

128MB - $ 25 (RRP $  49)
256MB - $ 40 (RRP $  99)
512MB - $ 65 (RRP $ 165)
  1GB - $100 (RRP $ 179)
  2GB - $195 (RRP $ 509)
  4GB - $409 (RRP $1089)

Re: Maxtor external HD

[Malcolm Burtenshaw]

I just bought my dad a Maxtor 300G drive for his birthday and it  
works perfectly fine with his iBook running 10.4.


Just mounts like any regular drive.

Mal


On 12/04/2006, at 10:04 AM, Mark Secker wrote:

your mac  (10.2 on) will almost certainly read windoze formatted  
hard disks  and yes they can be reformatted (via apple's disk  
utilities). Only issue is if NTFS formatted (which london to a  
brick they are not) then OSX will honor XP's file permissions so if  
you swap between mac and winXP then you might find you can mount  
the disk and see the folders/files but not actually open them.


$150 ... hmmm might be worth it just for the cases but odds on the  
controller bridge would limit replacement disk size to 120GB






Hi Paul,

I have a Maxtor external drive at work which I back up my PC with,  
and

I've pulled files off it onto my Mac (when I cleverly managed to lose
a week's worth of work and had to redo it all over the weekend)
without needing to format it. I can't remember what version of Mac OS
I was running at the time, it was probably 10.3.something.

Kind regards,
Kelly

On 4/12/06, Paul Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trouble is, unlike the rest of the Maxtor range, they seem to only be
 formatted for Windoze.  Has anyone tried running these on OSX  
machines?  Can

 they be reformatted for Macs?

 Cheers, Paul.



Kelly Duffy

Illustration, Graphic & Web Design Services
Now also specialising in handmade invitations & cards.

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Re: the life of a thumb drive

[Mark Secker]

backup storage .. hmm definitely not.

use them for transporting data between places while keeping the 
original data on at least one hard disk..
so i.g. transporting your assignment work from your home computer to 
your school/uni lab computer but always copying latest version to 
your home computer after each update.


life? had one die after 3 months of kid glove usage and have another 
thats 2 years old and  gone through the wash half a dozen times and 
still working.




Hi Muggers,
I often use a USB thumb drive as a giant floppy disk. I work in 
different places and it is great to be able to carry all sorts of 
stuff and use it on different computers. I have heard from a couple 
of people lately that thumb drives  have a limited life if used in 
this way, that is, they should only be used as backup storage. Is 
this true?

Peter Bull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (who is really looking forward to surgery next 
week - NOT)



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Re: Maxtor external HD

[Mark Secker]

your mac  (10.2 on) will almost certainly read windoze formatted hard 
disks  and yes they can be reformatted (via apple's disk utilities). 
Only issue is if NTFS formatted (which london to a brick they are 
not) then OSX will honor XP's file permissions so if you swap between 
mac and winXP then you might find you can mount the disk and see the 
folders/files but not actually open them.


$150 ... hmmm might be worth it just for the cases but odds on the 
controller bridge would limit replacement disk size to 120GB






Hi Paul,

I have a Maxtor external drive at work which I back up my PC with, and
I've pulled files off it onto my Mac (when I cleverly managed to lose
a week's worth of work and had to redo it all over the weekend)
without needing to format it. I can't remember what version of Mac OS
I was running at the time, it was probably 10.3.something.

Kind regards,
Kelly

On 4/12/06, Paul Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trouble is, unlike the rest of the Maxtor range, they seem to only be

 formatted for Windoze.  Has anyone tried running these on OSX machines?  Can
 they be reformatted for Macs?

 Cheers, Paul.



Kelly Duffy

Illustration, Graphic & Web Design Services
Now also specialising in handmade invitations & cards.

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the life of a thumb drive

[Peter Bull]

Hi Muggers,
I often use a USB thumb drive as a giant floppy disk. I work in 
different places and it is great to be able to carry all sorts of stuff 
and use it on different computers. I have heard from a couple of people 
lately that thumb drives  have a limited life if used in this way, that 
is, they should only be used as backup storage. Is this true?

Peter Bull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (who is really looking forward to surgery next 
week - NOT)

Re: Maxtor external HD

[Kelly Duffy]

Hi Paul,

I have a Maxtor external drive at work which I back up my PC with, and
I've pulled files off it onto my Mac (when I cleverly managed to lose
a week's worth of work and had to redo it all over the weekend)
without needing to format it. I can't remember what version of Mac OS
I was running at the time, it was probably 10.3.something.

Kind regards,
Kelly

On 4/12/06, Paul Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trouble is, unlike the rest of the Maxtor range, they seem to only be
> formatted for Windoze.  Has anyone tried running these on OSX machines?  Can
> they be reformatted for Macs?
>
> Cheers, Paul.


Kelly Duffy

Illustration, Graphic & Web Design Services
Now also specialising in handmade invitations & cards.

Web: http://members.westnet.com.au/Kelly_Duffy/
Call: 0405 910 502

Maxtor external HD

[Paul Weaver]

Officeworks Freo have a great pile of Maxtor "Basics" external 100gb USB
hard drives for about $150.  See
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.ba88f6d7cf664718376049b291
346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Products/External%20Storage/Maxtor%20Basics%20Fam
ily/Personal%20Storage%203200

Trouble is, unlike the rest of the Maxtor range, they seem to only be
formatted for Windoze.  Has anyone tried running these on OSX machines?  Can
they be reformatted for Macs?

Cheers, Paul.


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Fremantle, Home of the Dockers
Western Australia.


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Re: COMBANK WARNING

[Mike MOORE]

Your not Robinson Crusoe


On 12/04/2006, at 7:46 AM, Robert Howells wrote:


Hi Everyone,

Watch out   !!

My mail this morning included a fishing scam for
Commonwealth Bank account and password details .


Cheers

Bob


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Re: MS is driving me Nuts

[Rob Phillips]

When you have bullets turned on, each new line starts with a bullet. 
However, entering two carriage returns turns this off.


Word is very frustrating in the way it handles 'automatic' bullets 
and numbering.  I found that sometimes when it was going haywire, 
especially with numbering, that clicking the formatting button on and 
off several times returns you to the desired formatting.


Another tip is to use Styles.  I have a body text style and a bullet 
style saved in my Normal template.  For both of these I have defined 
keyboard shortcuts, so I can format paragraphs as I go without 
needing the mouse.


Hope this helps.

Rob


Alex wrote:


Hi Muggians

Can some-one please help me?  When I type away in MS Word it will 
often format itself without my prompting it.


An example would be putting in bullets or indents after one has 
been made, but I don't want the subsequent one/s.  I have to delete 
the unwanted format about 10 times before it finally realises I 
don't want it there.


Hi Alex

Ah yes, (swear)Word.

I believe when you use bulletting, to turn it off you click 
(unclick?) the button on the formatting toolbar (which you should be 
viewing) which will be depressed whenever you use bullets/numbering.



Good luck

Paul

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COMBANK WARNING

[Robert Howells]

Hi Everyone,

Watch out   !!

My mail this morning included a fishing scam for
Commonwealth Bank account and password details .


Cheers

Bob

Re: 8 inch disk loading

[Paul]

James / Hans Kunz wrote:

thanks for all the responses, the problem was that i was thinking of a 
8cm but writing of a 8 inch disk
in the time between i could acces a manual in which  i found a warning 
not to insert 8cm disks

sorry that i caused a mixup with cm & inch
cheers   James



...damn, will we ever be free of this imperial to metric transitional 
period?!

So confusing ;-)


Cheers
Paul

Re: MS is driving me Nuts

[Paul]

Alex wrote:


Hi Muggians

Can some-one please help me?  When I type away in MS Word it will 
often format itself without my prompting it.


An example would be putting in bullets or indents after one has been 
made, but I don't want the subsequent one/s.  I have to delete the 
unwanted format about 10 times before it finally realises I don't want 
it there.


Hi Alex

Ah yes, (swear)Word.

I believe when you use bulletting, to turn it off you click (unclick?) 
the button on the formatting toolbar (which you should be viewing) which 
will be depressed whenever you use bullets/numbering.



Good luck

Paul

Re: 8 inch disk loading

[Mark Secker]

ah  I understand now they mean the small/mini/single CD's - yeah 
don't put them in the drive 'cause you'll never get them out (with 
out a trip to an Apple repairer (and non warranty so )).


same with those "credit card CD" jobs

thanks for all the responses, the problem was that i was thinking of 
a 8cm but writing of a 8 inch disk
in the time between i could acces a manual in which  i found a 
warning not to insert 8cm disks

sorry that i caused a mixup with cm & inch
cheers   James

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