Re - New Imac keyboard

[Paul Weaver]

Distilled water is a suitable medium for washing contaminated items - in the
olden days there were some celebrated demonstrations of  TVs working while
fully immersed in tanks of distilled water.  The problem with a keyboard is
drying it out.  But if the keypad is a sealed one-piece membrane you may
have a chance of recovery by carefully drilling some holes in the bottom of
the case and setting it in a warm place to dry out for a couple of weeks.  I
would buy a new keyboard in the meantime.

Cheers, Paul.


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Fremantle - Home of the Dockers

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Re: Program for very small children

[Andrew Schox]

James,
 
> Just wondering if anyone knows of a program I could run, so my 1 year
> old can bang on my keyboard and see pretty colours and things?
> I have been using keyboard cleaner, but it is just a black screen and
> it's just not very interesting for him.

I got Giggles for my young nephew. It's excellent (and I have to confess
that I quite enjoyed playing with it myself).

See: 

Cheers,

Andrew


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Program for very small children

[James & Simone Green]

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone knows of a program I could run, so my 1 year  
old can bang on my keyboard and see pretty colours and things?
I have been using keyboard cleaner, but it is just a black screen and  
it's just not very interesting for him.


Cheers
James

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Re: help weird access problem continued..solved.

[Rosemary Horton]

Issue solved.
He had got the new Trojan!! Evidently at the same time he was  
downloading a whole heap of software updates, he must have clicked on  
a site with dodgy codec stuff, and not been aware he was authorising  
non-apple downloads.


I finally twigged when he told me he would click on some sites and  
get re-directed to others.


My husband is a bit scared of technology so not as aware of not  
opening anything he sees!


Followed instructions here

http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/firstlooks/trojanhorse/index.php

Except not having 10.5 couldn't find the dns listing they reckon is  
in network system preferences.


As an aside where are they in Tiger?


Rosemary


On 14/11/2007, at 1:05 PM, Paul Willemse wrote:


Hi Rosemary,

Are you on OS X 10.5? If so, did the site get added to the  
'Parental Controls'?


Regards,

Paul

On 14/11/2007, at 12:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:


Hi Rosemary,

Sounds pretty tricky!

One thing I often find helps when it is not obvious where the  
problem lies

is to try and narrow down the areas by elimination.

Although, logically, the fact that you can connect OK suggests  
there is no
problem with the website server or the modem and the fact that he  
can access
other websites suggests that there is no problem with his internet/ 
email
connection - if it were just that simple he wouldn't be having  
problems!


So a few ideas that come to mind (apologies if you've already been  
through

this!) include:

1) As Bob suggested, try connecting the macbook directly to the  
modem by
ethernet - this should let you take the wireless connection and  
associated

settings out of the equation.

2) Try setting up a new user account on the macbook and try and  
access the
website when logged into that account - that lets you take out all  
his user

settings and preference files and should indicate whether it is a
machine/system wide problem or user problem.

3) How do you have your firewalls set up:
- modem/router firewall on, computer firewalls off
- computer firewalls on modem/router firewalls off
- some other combination of firewall settings
If you both have individual computer firewalls on, are there any  
differences

in your firewall settings?

4) Let us know how this goes - depending on the results, it might  
trigger

other ideas from the list

Good luck!


Cheers


Neil
--
Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


on 13/11/07 9:12 PM, Rosemary Horton at [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:



Further

He has not changed his mail settings or web access at all.


I've tried deleting and re-entering one of the email accounts
I've pinged/traceroute etc on his computer and it says "unknown  
host".

I've also cleared browser cache and cookies.
 I've used lookupd -flushcache in terminal;
and checked that nothing been added to /etc/hosts file

The most that happens is that momentarily his mail gets delivered,
and then goes offline, but he can't send mail nor access the  
website.


Rosemary


On 13/11/2007, at 7:14 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote:


There can't be anything wrong with the modem as I'm connecting  
fine.


He has no problem accessing other websites or email
I did ping/traceroute and get "unknown host"

Signal level in network is fine
I'm really stuck!!

Rosemary Horton
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On 13/11/2007, at 8:33 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:



did you check the settings, may be these are corrupted..modem
rebooted.
in the sys-pref (network) you can do a network test: are all dots
for the selected connection on green
cheers James

On 12/11/2007, at 19:50, Rosemary Horton wrote:



This comes in the weird category.

My husband and I connect to the net via airport express. He has a
mac book, I a macook pro.

This afternoon when I came home he said we'd lost the connection
to our domain (www.wordtrack.com.au) website and email.

I thought oh server is down at hosting company.

But that is not the case.

I can open website, send and receive email on our domain account
on my computer, but he can't and gets a "can't connect to server
" when trying to open the website. He has no problem accessing
other emails or websites

Is there some way he could have disabled access to just that  
domain?


Rosemary Horton
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