Re: Apple store down

[Daniel Kerr]

On 12/9/06 11:22 PM, "Peter Cutrona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Just noticed that the apple au store is down. maybe some new goodies
> 
> Peter
> 

My guesses as follows:-

Updated iPod nano (up to 8GB?)
 iTunes Music store goes to iTunes Store
  - Now sells movies, well in the US anyway. ;o(
 iTunes version7
New updated iPod. Wonder if we'll see the one with a full
"touchscreen/wheel". Built in Bluetooth? 80GB and 120GB :o)))

Oh, and what did I read somewhere,...something called a TubePort. :o)

Well, we'll see how far off I am.

And that's not even my wishlist!! :o)

Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Mystery calls

[Severin Crisp]

My "mystery" calls have been traced to my monitored security system  
getting a bit overenthusiastic with is checking procedures.

Thanks for all the suggestions!
Severin Crisp


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Apple store down

[Peter Cutrona]

Just noticed that the apple au store is down. maybe some new goodies

Peter

Re: ITunes Music store is down,..

[Martin Hill]

Interesting to note it says "iTunes Store" not "iTunes Music Store" too.
:-)

I would think the chances of us here in the "Second World" getting the
movies and TV shows at last would be pretty remote though.  :-(

It continues to amaze me how high a profile in the Public Consciousness
Apple has now.  The press is just going gaga over every little thing Apple
does - all it took this time were two words!   ("It's Showtime")

It continues to be great time to be a Mac user.

I just hope Steve and the gang can sate people's expectations.  It's getting
harder and harder to compete with al the inflated imagination.

-Mart
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> From: Daniel Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:13:24 +0800
> To: WAMUG Mailing List 
> Subject: ITunes Music store is down,..
> 
> For those interested,...
> 
> 
> The iTunes Music store is down. When you open iTunes you now get the message
> saying
> 
> "It's Showtime. The iTunes Store is being updated"
> 
> Keyword there I'm sure is "showtime"
> Movies and Films to be purchased,..that we won't be able to get in Oz!
> /end sarcaism :o)
> Yay!!
> 
> 
> More to follow I'm sure!
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Kind Regards
> Daniel
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Re: Software Update

[Michael Woods]

List,

Just for a reference I solved the issue through a suggestion from my  
brother who is also a list member.


He told me to turn off IPv6.. Low and behold the issue has gone.

Once again thanks for the various suggestions

Michael




Hi Michael

Another thing to try is a reinstall of the 10.4.7 Combo Update. I'd  
download

it from here:-

Also see if you can through in some DNS settings into Network system
Preferences
(system Preferences - Network - Edit your current configuration -  
Go to the

TCP/IP tab, about halfway down is DNS servers.
Close everything, restart, take a depth breath and see how it  
goes. ;o)



Hope that works!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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ITunes Music store is down,..

[Daniel Kerr]

For those interested,...


The iTunes Music store is down. When you open iTunes you now get the message
saying

"It's Showtime. The iTunes Store is being updated"

Keyword there I'm sure is "showtime"
Movies and Films to be purchased,..that we won't be able to get in Oz!
/end sarcaism :o)
Yay!!


More to follow I'm sure!

Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Re: Software Update

[Daniel Kerr]

On 12/9/06 6:41 PM, "Michael Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 12/09/2006, at 8:10 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Muggers,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Problem:
>>> I cannot connect to Software Update, the error message returns:
>>> 'A networking error has occurred: timed out (-1001). Make sure you
>>> can connect to the Internet and try again.'
>> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> Trash the Software Update Preference file :
>>   /users/name/library/preferences/com.apple.softwareupdate.plist
>> 
>> Then restart and you should be ok.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Roni
> 
> Roni,
> 
> Sorry forgot to add that i have already tried that..
> I even installed onyx to completely clean the system to no avail..
> Never mind looks like i will have to wait for a combo update (10.4.8)
> to resolve the issue (or a complete reinstall)
> 
> Thanks to those that replied
> 
> Michael
> 


Hi Michael

Another thing to try is a reinstall of the 10.4.7 Combo Update. I'd download
it from here:-


Direct link to 10.4.7 Combo PPC Update


Direct link to 10.4.7 Combo Intel Update


You can install this over the top of what is already there.
(I've had something happen once before on a computer, where something
strange happened with the install, and the second install fixed it!
Computers eh!) :o)
Once installed, repair permissions.
Also see if you can through in some DNS settings into Network system
Preferences
(system Preferences - Network - Edit your current configuration - Go to the
TCP/IP tab, about halfway down is DNS servers. (here you can put a set of 4
digits from your ISP)
I notice you're with Westnet so your DNS settings would be as follows:-
203.21.20.20 (hit return)
203.10.1.9
(Click Apply now).

Close everything, restart, take a depth breath and see how it goes. ;o)


Hope that works!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Re: A mystery

[Stephen Chape]

Do you have a monitored security system ?
We had this happen recently and found it was notifying base that the  
backup battery was low and needed replacing, sometimes twice every  
day !!


On 12/09/2006, at 10:37 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:

I have a really strange one which I am sure has a simple  
explanation.  My recent phone bill has come up with a rash of 1300  
calls, more than the rest of my calls in total number (but not  
cost).  Investigation shows that they are all short calls to the  
same number and daily at 2.36am.  The number is 1300 303 494 and  
dialling it brings up a modem.
All the evidence screams computer to me.  At that time my G5 is on  
but fully asleep, from Sleep in the Apple menu.
I am on broadband so Intego, Software update and anything else  
should not initiate a phone call.  My G5 does not have a modem  
though I share the modem in my wife's G3 iMac via ethernet router  
for sending faxes.  At the this time of night her iMac is always  
shut down.

Any suggestions?
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




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Stephen Chape

Re: PDF

[Stephen Chape]

Surely she could simply use the "print as PDF" function built into  
OSX ??


On 12/09/2006, at 9:12 AM, Tony Monaghan wrote:


Greetings,

My wife is doing some freelance work for the BBC and they've requested
that her invoices be sent as a PDF.

I did a bit of google-work and all I found was the prospect of  
spending

a large amount of money to buy the software.

A friend said she had downloaded a free PDF programme but it wasn't
Mac-compatible.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Tony





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September WAMUG meeting Streaming video available

[Martin Hill]

Some of you may have noticed the streaming recording of the WAMUG meeting
last week has been available since shortly after the meeting thanks to the
new automated iLecture recording system installed in the Geology seminar
room venue.

Rather than using a video camera to capture the meeting, the system records
whatever gets shown on the big screen at high resolution synchronised with
the audio from the audio system in the room, so you can clearly see the
mouse moving around and read all of the small text etc.

You can see it at the usual place:

http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692

 :-)

-Mart

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ipod woes

[Rosemary Horton]

My ipod (photo) has been flaky since I got it. About every second  
time I connect to my computer, it doesn't appear in itunes or Finder  
(although it shows up in the usb section of system profiler) and of  
course it shows "do not disconnect" on the screen.


Mostly , after a lot of tries I get it to re-set. I usually re-run  
software updates and a couple of times I've done a restore. (Another  
couple of times the apple re-seller did the same) I did suggest it be  
swapped in the early months..but they didn't reckon there was a problem


This time, it's locked on "do not disconnect" and I can't get it to  
re-set. I've made sure it's charged..but just no go. Has anyone any  
suggestions?



 Rosemary Horton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A mystery

[James Green]

Do you have a house alarm? These may dial back to base if they are  
monitored.


Cheers
James

On 12/09/2006, at 10:37 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:

I have a really strange one which I am sure has a simple  
explanation.  My recent phone bill has come up with a rash of 1300  
calls, more than the rest of my calls in total number (but not  
cost).  Investigation shows that they are all short calls to the  
same number and daily at 2.36am.  The number is 1300 303 494 and  
dialling it brings up a modem.
All the evidence screams computer to me.  At that time my G5 is on  
but fully asleep, from Sleep in the Apple menu.
I am on broadband so Intego, Software update and anything else  
should not initiate a phone call.  My G5 does not have a modem  
though I share the modem in my wife's G3 iMac via ethernet router  
for sending faxes.  At the this time of night her iMac is always  
shut down.

Any suggestions?
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




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Re: Software Update

[Michael Woods]

On 12/09/2006, at 8:10 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



Hi Muggers,


Problem:
I cannot connect to Software Update, the error message returns:
'A networking error has occurred: timed out (-1001). Make sure you
can connect to the Internet and try again.'


Hi Michael,

Trash the Software Update Preference file :
  /users/name/library/preferences/com.apple.softwareupdate.plist

Then restart and you should be ok.

Cheers,
Roni


Roni,

Sorry forgot to add that i have already tried that..
I even installed onyx to completely clean the system to no avail..
Never mind looks like i will have to wait for a combo update (10.4.8)  
to resolve the issue (or a complete reinstall)


Thanks to those that replied

Michael

Re: A mystery

[James Devenish]

Hi Severin,

Sometimes, modems can be "attacked". I can't remember the details.
Perhaps it is just a faxing issue. In any case, maybe Mac OS X keeps a
log of calls or faxes??

James.

Re: A mystery

[Reg Whitely]

I know someone who had a networked printer in his government office  
that did that. Secret printer business?


Reg

On 12 Sep 2006, at 10:37am, Severin Crisp wrote:

I have a really strange one which I am sure has a simple  
explanation.  My recent phone bill has come up with a rash of 1300  
calls, more than the rest of my calls in total number (but not  
cost).  Investigation shows that they are all short calls to the  
same number and daily at 2.36am.  The number is 1300 303 494 and  
dialling it brings up a modem.
All the evidence screams computer to me.  At that time my G5 is on  
but fully asleep, from Sleep in the Apple menu.
I am on broadband so Intego, Software update and anything else  
should not initiate a phone call.  My G5 does not have a modem  
though I share the modem in my wife's G3 iMac via ethernet router  
for sending faxes.  At the this time of night her iMac is always  
shut down.

Any suggestions?
Severin Crisp

Re: Spreadsheet for OSX to replace Excell ??

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Bob
Ragtime Solo is somewhat like Appleworks and has desktop publishing 
facilities and a spreadsheet.  I have used the former extensively but 
not the latter.  Separate spreadsheet pages can be linked.  I do not 
know the capacity of a single sheet.  Ragtime Solo was free if not 
used for commercial purposes.  However, that privilege has been 
removed.  If you wish to try it I can forward a CD.


At 3:50 PM +0800 12/9/06, Robert Howells wrote:

HI Everybody,

Has anybody found a spreadsheet that will equal Excell and handle multiple
worksheets in the one document ?

Appleworks can run on OSX but will not convert / handle multiple worksheets !

Thanks

Bob


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Re: Spreadsheet for OSX to replace Excell ??

[Ronda Brown]

On 12/09/2006, at 4:19 PM, Rod wrote:


On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 15:50 +0800, Robert Howells wrote:

HI Everybody,

Has anybody found a spreadsheet that will equal Excell and handle
multiple
worksheets in the one document ?

Appleworks can run on OSX but will not convert / handle multiple
worksheets !

Thanks

Bob


Hi Bob,

You might want to have a look at NeoOffice:



or in development at the moment is a fully Cocoa app called Tables:



or



(mesa3, about $30 US)

At the moment, Tables is free, Neo will stay free.

Seeya

Rod!


Another two worth looking at Bob (but they aren't  cheap) are:
1. Mariner Calc - Macintosh Spreadsheet Software - v 5.5.1



"Maturity is everything
Introduced in the mid 90's, Mariner Calc is considered one of the  
most mature spreadsheet applications on the Macintosh platform. Over  
the years, Calc has evolved from nothing more than a HyperCard stack  
to chart the stock market, to now one of the only applications in the  
world to rival Microsoft Excel. Whether you use Calc at work or at  
home, feel confident in knowing you are benefitting from more than a  
decade's worth of code maturity and evolvement. "


2.  Pyramid 1.6.4



" Create multiple worksheets within a single document."

Cheers,
Ronni

Re: Spreadsheet for OSX to replace Excell ??

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

tables is still in beta but its a pretty good beta


cheers

nat

On 12/09/2006, at 3:50 PM, Robert Howells wrote:


HI Everybody,

Has anybody found a spreadsheet that will equal Excell and handle  
multiple

worksheets in the one document ?

Appleworks can run on OSX but will not convert / handle multiple  
worksheets !


Thanks

Bob


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Re: Spreadsheet for OSX to replace Excell ??

[Rod]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 15:50 +0800, Robert Howells wrote:
> HI Everybody,
> 
> Has anybody found a spreadsheet that will equal Excell and handle 
> multiple
> worksheets in the one document ?
> 
> Appleworks can run on OSX but will not convert / handle multiple 
> worksheets !
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob

Hi Bob,

You might want to have a look at NeoOffice:



or in development at the moment is a fully Cocoa app called Tables:



or



(mesa3, about $30 US)

At the moment, Tables is free, Neo will stay free.

Seeya

Rod!

Spreadsheet for OSX to replace Excell ??

[Robert Howells]

HI Everybody,

Has anybody found a spreadsheet that will equal Excell and handle 
multiple

worksheets in the one document ?

Appleworks can run on OSX but will not convert / handle multiple 
worksheets !


Thanks

Bob

Fonts

[Ikon Design]

Hi All

I'm operating Indesign CS2 on G4 500MHZ OS Tiger, On thursday I was  
working on a document and all fonts were present, this morning they  
had disappeared though they are visible in the font file in the  
library. I have moved the fonts to the font file in Indesign and they  
are now usable . Because the fonts are now in two place I would like  
to know the correct location for them and why they would not work  
from the library font file.

Thanks in advance

Em

A mystery

[Severin Crisp]

I have a really strange one which I am sure has a simple  
explanation.  My recent phone bill has come up with a rash of 1300  
calls, more than the rest of my calls in total number (but not  
cost).  Investigation shows that they are all short calls to the same  
number and daily at 2.36am.  The number is 1300 303 494 and dialling  
it brings up a modem.
All the evidence screams computer to me.  At that time my G5 is on  
but fully asleep, from Sleep in the Apple menu.
I am on broadband so Intego, Software update and anything else should  
not initiate a phone call.  My G5 does not have a modem though I  
share the modem in my wife's G3 iMac via ethernet router for sending  
faxes.  At the this time of night her iMac is always shut down.

Any suggestions?
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: PDF

[Susan Hastings]

Hi Tony, you just got it from three of us in quick succession!  
cheers, Susan.

On 12/09/2006, at 9:12 AM, Tony Monaghan wrote:


Greetings,

My wife is doing some freelance work for the BBC and they've requested
that her invoices be sent as a PDF.

I did a bit of google-work and all I found was the prospect of  
spending

a large amount of money to buy the software.

A friend said she had downloaded a free PDF programme but it wasn't
Mac-compatible.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Tony





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Re: PDF

[Steven]

Tony, as far as I know Tiger OS has the ability to create PDFs built into
it.

Open an invoice, click on the Print icon or select File>Print.., then look
for the PDF button in the lower left corner of the print window. Click the
button and select 'Save as PDF...'.

Cheers, Steven


On 12/9/06 11:12 AM, "Tony Monaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> My wife is doing some freelance work for the BBC and they've requested
> that her invoices be sent as a PDF.
> 
> I did a bit of google-work and all I found was the prospect of spending
> a large amount of money to buy the software.
> 
> A friend said she had downloaded a free PDF programme but it wasn't
> Mac-compatible.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Tony

Re: PDF

[Martin Hill]

Any reason why you can't use the save as PDF function built into the
standard print dialog in Mac OS X which allows any Mac program to export
directly to PDF?  With Tiger, the Print to PDF options include saving as
compressed PDF, encrypted PDF etc.

Just click on the PDF button at the bottom left of any print dialog.

-Mart
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> From: Tony Monaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:12:15 +0800
> To: WAMUG Mailing List 
> Subject: PDF
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> My wife is doing some freelance work for the BBC and they've requested
> that her invoices be sent as a PDF.
> 
> I did a bit of google-work and all I found was the prospect of spending
> a large amount of money to buy the software.
> 
> A friend said she had downloaded a free PDF programme but it wasn't
> Mac-compatible.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Tony
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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PDF

[Tony Monaghan]

Greetings,

My wife is doing some freelance work for the BBC and they've requested
that her invoices be sent as a PDF.

I did a bit of google-work and all I found was the prospect of spending
a large amount of money to buy the software.

A friend said she had downloaded a free PDF programme but it wasn't
Mac-compatible.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Tony

 

 

Re: Software Update

[Ronda Brown]

On 11/09/2006, at 1:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi Muggers,


Problem:
I cannot connect to Software Update, the error message returns:
'A networking error has occurred: timed out (-1001). Make sure you
can connect to the Internet and try again.'


Hi Michael,

Trash the Software Update Preference file :
  /users/name/library/preferences/com.apple.softwareupdate.plist

Then restart and you should be ok.

Cheers,
Roni