Re: Safari failure
Vlad, I have also had some mixed experience with Safari lately. Like not opening a website, not playing QT movies if I have used the Flip4Mac plugin. My fix has been to delete the com.apple.safari.plist file, and bingo it works again. You could try that an see how you go. Cheers, Peder On 31/08/2006, at 21:12 , Vladimir James wrote: Just recently Safari has been unable to open certain websites, including my bank accounts. I get error messages like this: ** Safari can’t open the page. Safari can’t open the page “https://ibs.bankwest.com.au/BWLogin/ singleriblogon.aspx”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.Firefox IS able to open the troublesome sites. ** Firefox IS able to open the troublesome sites. I think it has something to do with Safari asking the wrong questions of sites that have tight security or perhaps include *https* in their address. Safari seems to have no trouble with most other sites. The only thing I can remember having done recently which might be involved was an over-enthusiastic clean-up with Yasu, which included wiping my keychain files. Emptying Safari's cache did not help. Yes, I have several times reported the problem to Apple. Can anyone suggest a fix? Vlad James G4/800; MacOS 10.4.7; Safari 2.0.4 (419.3); Firefox 1.5.0.6; -- 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]
Re: Safari failure
On 31 Aug 2006, at 9:12 PM, Vladimir James wrote: Just recently Safari has been unable to open certain websites, including my bank accounts. I get error messages like this: ** Safari can’t open the page. Safari can’t open the page “https://ibs.bankwest.com.au/BWLogin/singleriblogon.aspx”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.Firefox IS able to open the troublesome sites. ** Firefox IS able to open the troublesome sites. I think it has something to do with Safari asking the wrong questions of sites that have tight security or perhaps include *https* in their address. Safari seems to have no trouble with most other sites. The only thing I can remember having done recently which might be involved was an over-enthusiastic clean-up with Yasu, which included wiping my keychain files. Emptying Safari's cache did not help. Yes, I have several times reported the problem to Apple. Can anyone suggest a fix? You emptied the cache But did you remove the Cookies . Sometimes one of those can cause troubles . In Safari 1.3.2 they can be accessed from Safari Preferences.. security .. show cookies . I assume Safari 2.0.4 will have them in similar location . You can view the cookies and delete selected individual cookies ... or remove all . Remove all may cause you a little work for some locations to re-enter details. Bob Vlad James G4/800; MacOS 10.4.7; Safari 2.0.4 (419.3); Firefox 1.5.0.6; -- 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]
Re: Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
Hi Shay and WAMUGgers On 31 Aug 2006, at 9:20pm, Shay Telfer wrote: In the remote event the batteries catch fire. I'd rather they did so at my Apple resellers than at home with my wife and kids. No offence to those of you working at Apple resellers :) Given that batteries (not sure which manufacturer) are implicated in a recent fire on a cargo aircraft in the US, I'm amazed Apple lets you post them back. But yes, the recall is both inconvenient and disorganised. This is Apple's advice re discharging a battery before returning it. I guess it's a trust relationship, or we set fire to 1 800 000 letterboxes, post offices, postal vans, motorbikes, bikes, delis and pockets! What an act! You may print this page as a reference to bring with you to the Apple Service Provider. Please note, it could take up to 6 weeks for your replacement battery to arrive after your Apple Service Provider orders it. Shipping time may vary due to availability. Please discharge your battery prior to returning it: - Insert the recalled battery in your iBook/PowerBook, disconnect the power adapter, and turn on your computer. - Go to the Apple Menu, open System Preferences, and select Energy Saver. You’ll see an Optimize Energy Settings pop-up menu; select Highest Performance. - Let your computer run on battery power until the computer goes to sleep. This will take about four hours or less depending on the charge level of your battery. Tips for faster discharge: Play a DVD movie, a CD in iTunes (turn on the Visualizer), or the Chess game (set to play computer vs. computer). Important: Be sure to disconnect the power adapter before discharging your recalled battery. Do not leave your PowerBook unattended while it is discharging. Reg
Re: Safari failure
Have you tried Camino? It's nice and may help here. See http://www.caminobrowser.org/ On 31 Aug 2006, at 9:12pm, Vladimir James wrote: Just recently Safari has been unable to open certain websites, including my bank accounts. I get error messages like this: Reg
Re: iPod AM/FM receiver
On 30/8/06 8:43 PM, Reg Whitely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wamuggers Does anyone know of an AM/FM receiver for an iPod? Regards Reg Hi Reg Not sure on an AM/FM one, but Apple do one for straight FM. It is $79. Have a look here:- http://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore.woa/wo/2.RSLID?mco =1807F4C2nplm=MA070G%2FA (If the link doesn't work try the Apple store, then iPod Accessories.) Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
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Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
My PB's battery is affected. Looking at Apple's battery recall web page, it's clear there is a two class level of service being offered by Apple... In the US, Canada, all of Europe and Japan, Apple customers simply fill in a web form and Apple will ship a replacement right to your door and include a prepaid shipping label to return the old battery. Apple's Australian customers are classed with those of other third world countries and expect them to get their battery to their service provider and pay for petrol, parking and/or postage and packing as well as their valuable time. On contacting one service dept in Perth they say I have to first drop in the battery and then, when a replacement arrives, go back again and pick up the battery. Losing mobility in the meantime. Dear Apple: Why the different level of service, considering the extra we Aussies pay above the conversion from $US and GST? woz
Accessing mail accounts.
Will Mail access mail accounts other than my own, especially one hosted on a different ISP? Naturally I will have all the passwords etc! 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: Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
I couldn't agree more Woz Thomas was in Melbourne last week and found his PB battery was in the recall category. According to the Apple site I was reading, I thought he would be able to have a replacement battery sent and then do the exchange. But no, one of the Melbourne Apple dealers said that wasn't the way it was being organised for this recall and that he had to leave the battery with them and wait four to six weeks (!) for one to come in and then return to pick it up. The PB has been doing all sorts of strange things now that it is minus the battery (don't know why) and it has to stay plugged in to the power supply. Incredibly annoying. Totally illogical handling of what should be a simple exchange programme. Wendy Wendy Austin Thomas Oswin Coastal Road Pomponette via Surinam Mauritius Island tel/ans/fax: +2306257399 iChat/MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
Quoting Warren Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On contacting one service dept in Perth they say I have to first drop in the battery and then, when a replacement arrives, go back again and pick up the battery. Losing mobility in the meantime. My Joondalup AppleCentre has offered to mail the new battery to me in Geraldton, then I return the old one, or pick it up in Perth, should I be down that way. Shop around! However Apple may take up to 8 weeks to get the new battery to them in the first instance. An aside, John Willcock College up here in Gero has a renowned 1:1 iBook program for all their students. Currently every iBook is locked away - over 700 of them - waiting for replacements, due to duty of care and safety issues :-(( Reg
Re: Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
Hi Warren, They did a recall on the MacBook Pro's battery a fortnight or two ago. This was less public then the iBook/ PowerBook recall. I filled out the form on the Apple website. The battery was delivered from the Eastern State by overnight express the next day. They picked up the old battery the following day. Same thing happened with a colleague. I was surprised as they said 3 - 5 days delivery. No complaints here. Regards, Eugene On 31/08/2006, at 11:43 AM, Warren Jones wrote: My PB's battery is affected. Looking at Apple's battery recall web page, it's clear there is a two class level of service being offered by Apple... In the US, Canada, all of Europe and Japan, Apple customers simply fill in a web form and Apple will ship a replacement right to your door and include a prepaid shipping label to return the old battery. Apple's Australian customers are classed with those of other third world countries and expect them to get their battery to their service provider and pay for petrol, parking and/or postage and packing as well as their valuable time. On contacting one service dept in Perth they say I have to first drop in the battery and then, when a replacement arrives, go back again and pick up the battery. Losing mobility in the meantime. Dear Apple: Why the different level of service, considering the extra we Aussies pay above the conversion from $US and GST? woz
Re: Accessing mail accounts.
Go to Mail Preferences accounts and look at an existing account : You should be able to set up a new account with all the relevant information .. including the mail server where the Mail account is located ... Now whether you can get to that mail will probably depend on whether Westent allows you to get to that server for the mail . You could just try it for the trial remember to make your Mac leave the mail on the server Bob On 31 Aug 2006, at 11:50 AM, Severin Crisp wrote: Will Mail access mail accounts other than my own, especially one hosted on a different ISP? Naturally I will have all the passwords etc! 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 -- 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]
Re: Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
this certainly sucks, surprisingly I only have to deal with 5 replacement batteries out of the macs I support but my guess across the university, including salary packaged units (which are legally university machines until payed out) there would be well in excess of 100 units. we have the central IT department handling a bulk replacement though this might still take several weeks but at least it isn't, yet stated that they require the users to hand over their batteries prior to arrival of replacement units as for problems with battery removed. most modern laptops (macs included) no longer have a CMOS/PRAM battery as this job is handled by trickling a current off the main battery. hence the machines will lose setting such as date and time and revert back to thier default date settings (some time 2001 for the PowerBooks affected this round) this will affect a number of programs not the least e-mail. a quick fix for this is to have the computer set to pick up its time from a WOrld Clock (in the date and time settings) so if the computer is on the internet you boot the computer up and login as usual then leave it for a few minutes while it syncs its date and time with the selected world clock before launching any applications (so may need to remove applications from login list if applicable) I couldn't agree more Woz Thomas was in Melbourne last week and found his PB battery was in the recall category. According to the Apple site I was reading, I thought he would be able to have a replacement battery sent and then do the exchange. But no, one of the Melbourne Apple dealers said that wasn't the way it was being organised for this recall and that he had to leave the battery with them and wait four to six weeks (!) for one to come in and then return to pick it up. The PB has been doing all sorts of strange things now that it is minus the battery (don't know why) and it has to stay plugged in to the power supply. Incredibly annoying. Totally illogical handling of what should be a simple exchange programme. Wendy Wendy Austin Thomas Oswin Coastal Road Pomponette via Surinam Mauritius Island tel/ans/fax: +2306257399 iChat/MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus
Re: Accessing mail accounts.
Hi Severin, Bob This shouldn't be a problem. I use Entourage rather than mail but AFAIK they should work the same - I can't imagine that Mail would be less functional than Entourage in this respect ;o (The following all applies to standard POP mail accounts - I've never played with IMAP) Here in Albany I have several email accounts set up in Entourage some access email accounts with my ISP (Bigpond) others access email accounts set up as part of a website I run (different server, different company, different domains) its just a case of setting up each account with the correct username/password and making sure that you nominate the correct mail server for that particular account. Similarly, when I go up to stay with family in Perth and want to check my email I just go onto their (Windows) computer open up Outlook (their mail program) and set up a new account with my bigpond details (the other accounts just wait till I get back to Albany, though I could also set them up if I wanted). Their ISP is iiNet but that doesn't make a difference. Since I like to archive lots of mail, I normally set up accounts on other computers to leave the mail on the server - then when I return to Albany all the mail I read in Perth is still waiting and I can delete/save as I choose) One thing to be aware of is that, although the POP server obviously has to be set as the mails server for the account to be accessed, it is generally safer to set the sending STMP server to the mail server of the ISP you are connected through since a lot of ISPs (including Bigpond) don't let you send mail via other STMP servers due to (they say) spammer abuse. I used to send email from my website accounts via the website STMP server but that stopped working quite a while ago when Bigpond introduced this policy but changing the STMP server to Bigpond's solved the problem. Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- on 31/8/06 12:41 PM, Robert Howells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to Mail Preferences accounts and look at an existing account : You should be able to set up a new account with all the relevant information .. including the mail server where the Mail account is located ... Now whether you can get to that mail will probably depend on whether Westent allows you to get to that server for the mail . You could just try it for the trial remember to make your Mac leave the mail on the server Bob On 31 Aug 2006, at 11:50 AM, Severin Crisp wrote: Will Mail access mail accounts other than my own, especially one hosted on a different ISP? Naturally I will have all the passwords etc! 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 -- 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] -- 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]
Re: Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
just a general hint: if you use the laptop w/o battery, you should borrow a ups to secure constant 240v supply, the battery serves partly as spike catcher thus your laptop is more stable with battery inserted... w/o battery the laptop reacts on variations spikes in the power supply cheersJames SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway
Safari failure
Just recently Safari has been unable to open certain websites, including my bank accounts. I get error messages like this: ** Safari can’t open the page. Safari can’t open the page “https://ibs.bankwest.com.au/BWLogin/ singleriblogon.aspx”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.Firefox IS able to open the troublesome sites. ** Firefox IS able to open the troublesome sites. I think it has something to do with Safari asking the wrong questions of sites that have tight security or perhaps include *https* in their address. Safari seems to have no trouble with most other sites. The only thing I can remember having done recently which might be involved was an over-enthusiastic clean-up with Yasu, which included wiping my keychain files. Emptying Safari's cache did not help. Yes, I have several times reported the problem to Apple. Can anyone suggest a fix? Vlad James G4/800; MacOS 10.4.7; Safari 2.0.4 (419.3); Firefox 1.5.0.6;
Re: [COMMPOST] Elgato eyeTV DTT Super Special - NOW IN STOCK!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 August 2006 8:14:23 AM Neil, [...] 3) Well, the product specs say EyeTV Hybrid can be used to record from an analogue or digital video source. You can probably record your VHS tapes as the software will record from an analogue 'source', but I wouldn't be sure about the quality. The product specs only show that it comes with EyeTV 2 digital TV recorder software. The Canopus ADVC55 is a better solution and is designed for analogue to digital conversion (costs $359). In my experience the EyeTV (even the analogue USB version) has quality that meets or exceeds consumer VHS. If you're particularly worried set the quality to high. Thanks, 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://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: Battery exchange - why second class service in Australia?
On 31/08/2006, at 11:43 AM, Warren Jones wrote: Apple's Australian customers are classed with those of other third world countries and expect them to get their battery to their service provider and pay for petrol, parking and/or postage and packing as well as their valuable time. On contacting one service dept in Perth they say I have to first drop in the battery and then, when a replacement arrives, go back again and pick up the battery. Losing mobility in the meantime. In the remote event the batteries catch fire. I'd rather they did so at my Apple resellers than at home with my wife and kids. No offence to those of you working at Apple resellers :) Given that batteries (not sure which manufacturer) are implicated in a recent fire on a cargo aircraft in the US, I'm amazed Apple lets you post them back. But yes, the recall is both inconvenient and disorganised. 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://newtonslore.com/ fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
