Erasing a HD
I recently purchased a Macbook Air and foolishly attempted to install Parallels and XP! Whilst the former appears to have installed successfully I have had nothing but problems with windoze and would now like to remove both of them. I have attempted to uninstall each item on various occasions using various methods and have not been sucessful - problems with administrator rights and not being authorised! As there is no other data on the hard drive that I require, I felt the simplest way to start with a clean slate was to use the 'Erase' feature in 'Disk Utility' but found the 'Erase...' button greyed out and therefore not an option. Is there any other way I can format my hard drive and start from scratch again? (I have the original Leopard OS disk) Kind regards, David Ring. -- 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: Erasing a HD
Hi David, I doubt whether you can erase the Hard Disk on which your operating system is installed. Usually this is done by booting the computer from the OS DVD (Leopard) and then reinstall. I believe that you can then have the ability to reformat the Hard Disk before the install. However with the MacBook Air, I'm not sure how to do this as it does not have an internal DVD/CD reader/writer. I you have another Mac, can you connect the two machines and start your MacBook Air in Target Mode and thus be able to reformat and instal Leopard? I'm sure one of our tech-savy contributors will help and correct what I have said if it is incorrect. Good luck kind regards, Philippe C --- Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Erasing a HD Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:53:35 +0400 I recently purchased a Macbook Air and foolishly attempted to install Parallels and XP! Whilst the former appears to have installed successfully I have had nothing but problems with windoze and would now like to remove both of them. I have attempted to uninstall each item on various occasions using various methods and have not been sucessful - problems with administrator rights and not being authorised! As there is no other data on the hard drive that I require, I felt the simplest way to start with a clean slate was to use the 'Erase' feature in 'Disk Utility' but found the 'Erase...' button greyed out and therefore not an option. Is there any other way I can format my hard drive and start from scratch again? (I have the original Leopard OS disk) Kind regards, David Ring. -- 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: Erasing a HD
On 15/07/2008, at 5:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, I doubt whether you can erase the Hard Disk on which your operating system is installed. Usually this is done by booting the computer from the OS DVD (Leopard) and then reinstall. I believe that you can then have the ability to reformat the Hard Disk before the install. However with the MacBook Air, I'm not sure how to do this as it does not have an internal DVD/CD reader/writer. I you have another Mac, can you connect the two machines and start your MacBook Air in Target Mode and thus be able to reformat and instal Leopard? Mactracker says a Super drive was optional ... so if you can read a DVD your sweet. Mactracker says ... NO firewire ports ... it's getting harder Mactracker says1 x USB2 port Only some Macs can boot from USB2 ports . I don't know whether you need any special external DVD reader to work on that port . Never tried it because my macs basically do not boot off USB but I do have an external DVD with both Firewire and USB2 ports . Read this article about booting on an intel mac http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/msg46218.html . Bob When you boot from your instal disk there is a Disk Utility under a drop down menu that lets you erase and reformat . I'm sure one of our tech-savy contributors will help and correct what I have said if it is incorrect. Good luck kind regards, Philippe C --- Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Erasing a HD Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:53:35 +0400 I recently purchased a Macbook Air and foolishly attempted to install Parallels and XP! Whilst the former appears to have installed successfully I have had nothing but problems with windoze and would now like to remove both of them. I have attempted to uninstall each item on various occasions using various methods and have not been sucessful - problems with administrator rights and not being authorised! As there is no other data on the hard drive that I require, I felt the simplest way to start with a clean slate was to use the 'Erase' feature in 'Disk Utility' but found the 'Erase...' button greyed out and therefore not an option. Is there any other way I can format my hard drive and start from scratch again? (I have the original Leopard OS disk) Kind regards, David Ring. -- 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] -- 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: Erasing a HD
Evening, I would suspect some form of network install via an optical device from another OS X machine on the network which would be wireless as the Air has no actual ethernet connection. Correction apparently there is a dongle? A google search should reveal some method or even the Apple manual most probably installed on the root drive normally known as Macintosh HD. http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3226p=9 Allow a lot of time to complete as network installs are notoriously slow even over ethernet. Cheers! `Rob... On 15Jul2008, at 4:53 pm, David Ring wrote: I recently purchased a Macbook Air and foolishly attempted to install Parallels and XP! Whilst the former appears to have installed successfully I have had nothing but problems with windoze and would now like to remove both of them. I have attempted to uninstall each item on various occasions using various methods and have not been sucessful - problems with administrator rights and not being authorised! As there is no other data on the hard drive that I require, I felt the simplest way to start with a clean slate was to use the 'Erase' feature in 'Disk Utility' but found the 'Erase...' button greyed out and therefore not an option. Is there any other way I can format my hard drive and start from scratch again? (I have the original Leopard OS disk) Kind regards, David Ring. -- 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: Erasing a HD
Hi David Why not just delete the program and it's settings itself? Parallels if you can't uninstall it is in Applications folder. Drag this to the trash. The Virtual Environment should be in Users/yourname/Library/Parallels . You can then drag that to the trash. If all that seems a bit strange, then grab a program called AppZapper:- http://www.appzapper.com/ It should do it all for you. If you're still having trouble and a reinstall seems like the last ditch attempt then they would be a go. Otherwise grab a consultant to come out, should be able to solve it quickly for you without reinstalling it I'd imagine. The cost of their service may work out much cheaper then all the time spent trying to solve the issue *and* having to reinstall everything. In the Mac world a reinstall should be the be all and end all of the last ditch attempt! :o) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 15/7/08 4:53 PM, David Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased a Macbook Air and foolishly attempted to install Parallels and XP! Whilst the former appears to have installed successfully I have had nothing but problems with windoze and would now like to remove both of them. I have attempted to uninstall each item on various occasions using various methods and have not been sucessful - problems with administrator rights and not being authorised! As there is no other data on the hard drive that I require, I felt the simplest way to start with a clean slate was to use the 'Erase' feature in 'Disk Utility' but found the 'Erase...' button greyed out and therefore not an option. Is there any other way I can format my hard drive and start from scratch again? (I have the original Leopard OS disk) Kind regards, David Ring. -- 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] --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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: Old Phone
Hi Barry, Without being too much of an alarmist, how old are your grandchildren? I am surprised to see children quite young (as in 8 and below) using mobile phones. Mobile phone companies simply brush off the dangers of mobile phones, but they are a health hazard - do your own research and you'll find enough evidence to alarm you. I have been concerned for various emissions such as electromagnetic radiation and those from telecommunication installations for more than 15 years - there's plenty of material there to help us make an informed choice; I find it ironic that a number of years ago, while the public in the UK were being issued with brochures on safe use of mobile phones (including the forbidden use for children between the ages of about 5 and 11) in the USA, Motorola signed a multi-million dollar contract with Disney to provide mobile phones to a similar age bracket. If anyone has any doubts on the dangers of mobile phone emissions from either base station towers or the phones themselves, speak to any armed forces communications officer. In New York city, they have been removing trasmission antennae from residential apartment blocks. Remember that smoking, asbestos and DDT were once considered safe. I carry a mobile phone for emergencies and NEVER leave it switched on next to my body for long periods. It's also not hard to find recent statistics on the number of car accidents caused by using phones whilst driving as compared to the benefits of having a mobile in a dangerous situation. Australia and the Mobile Carriers Forum are really back in the dark ages and are doing very little to inform us - if it doesn't matter to you then that's a personal choice - as for us, our daughters (4 and 8) already discuss the dangers of the overuse of mobile phones (yes, I shall be holding out as long as possible before allowing them to have a mobile). Mobile phones are making certain companies very, VERY rich with total disregard to the impact on the health of our society. Oh, besides health, I met a colleague's son who at a conference admitted that his last phone bill was around $3000 and his friend, around $1500. Gosh...what did we do without them? Regards Phil With so many people showing an interest in getting an iPhone is there someone with an old unlocked phone they have replaced. I am looking for something for one of my Grandchildren who tends to destroy phones with great regularity so it needs to be reasonably cheap. Bells and whistles are not required but it must pass the not daggy test. Also should be unlocked so current Vodaphone SIM card can be used. Thanks Barry -- 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: Be aware of door knockers, local in Perth
Hi Ken, I had almost an identical occurrence about a fortnight ago. A well dressed chap of Asian decent aged about 20 came at about 5.30pm and told me Telstra had just completed maintenance in the area (Lesmurdie) and upgraded their system. Wanted me to return to Telstra. I cut him short and said I would never return to this company as I have nothing but contempt for them. I mentioned I was now on NakedADSL and very happy with iiNet. He agreed that Telstra couldn't match the plan I was on and bade me farewell. He never mentioned that he wanted to check my lines but then again I never gave him that opportunity. Perhaps I was lucky in my ignorance and hatred for Telstra. Regards, Eugene On 15/07/2008, at 9:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it's off topic but we should all be aware of this., especially those of you at home during the day. Ken Hello everyone, Just wanted to inform you all of an incident that happened to me yesterday (2/7/08). A door knocker came to my door in Karrinyup and said he was from Telstra. He was dressed in business attire (pants and a white button up shirt), quickly flashed an ID card that was hanging from around his neck (I didn’t get to read it), and held a clipboard and pen. He said that he had a print out of the houses in the area and that he was enquiring as to why I was not with Telstra. I told him that my home phone actually was with Telstra. He said that his information said otherwise. I told him that I had actually just moved in recently, so perhaps his information was not up to date. He then said that he would have to come in and check the line. When I said no, and asked why he would need to do that, he replied “Oh I won’t make a call, it won’t cost you anything, I just need to check your line”. I then told him that I don’t see why he needed to do that, and that I was not having any problems with Telstra or my bills at all, and he said “Well if you don’t let me in, Telstra will keep ringing and hounding you, and they will send me back around to check your line”. I told him no and closed the door. He then yelled something as he was walking away from my front door, and then hung around for a few moments near my car in the driveway before moving on to the neighbours houses. I have rung up Telstra and informed them of the incident, and they said that it was definitely not one of their workers. They said there would be no reason for someone to come in and check the line, and if there were any issues with the line they would contact you by phone and make a time. I was told to call the police and inform them, so I did this and was put through to Crime Stoppers and made a statement. They also said that this was suspicious and that I did the right thing by not letting this person in my house and for informing them. The only thing I should have done differently is contact the police straight after it happened. They would have been able to send a car around and pick up the person who would have still been in the area. However, they now have a report and if anyone else rings up to make a report they have information to put together a pattern. Anyway, this is just a warning and reminder to not let people in to your homes, even if they say they are from a reputable business and have some form of ID. If there really is something wrong, the business will contact you directly, not send a door knocker. Please forward this around to inform other people. Regards, Suzie Suzie Elias School Psychologist Swan District Education Office (Mon Tues) Canning District Education Office (Wed, Thurs Fri) -- 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: Erasing a HD
Like Daniel says you can get rid of a standard install of Parallels
and what ever flavour of Windows you've installed just by dragging
the Parallels application and the folder that the XP disk image file
lives in (Users/{your login name}/Library/Parallels to the trash.
No need to format the drive.
If it's asking for admin password on the mac side when you try delete
the application or settings files then your probably not logged in to
the mac as a user with admin rights. either log out and log in as an
admin user or, far easier, just over type your login name with an
admin account and enter its password
If this still fails (you are logged in as an admin account) then
suggest running disk tools to repair permissions, or activating root
(god mode) account via applications/utilities/Directory Utility
and use the root account's credentials to delete the files (and for
security reasons deactivate the root account back in Directory
Utility after your done).
only real exception to this would be if you set up XP originally as a
Bootcamp install and had to re partition your internal hard disk...
in that case I guess, not knowing if there are any repartitioning
tools for mac that will remove a partition on a live disk, then a
format and reinstall would probably be needed.
I recently purchased a Macbook Air and foolishly attempted to
install Parallels and XP! Whilst the former appears to have
installed successfully I have had nothing but problems with windoze
and would now like to remove both of them. I have attempted to
uninstall each item on various occasions using various methods and
have not been sucessful - problems with administrator rights and not
being authorised! As there is no other data on the hard drive that I
require, I felt the simplest way to start with a clean slate was to
use the 'Erase' feature in 'Disk Utility' but found the 'Erase...'
button greyed out and therefore not an option.
Is there any other way I can format my hard drive and start from
scratch again? (I have the original Leopard OS disk)
Kind regards,
David Ring.
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Re: Old Phone
Phillip Arena wrote: Hi Barry, Without being too much of an alarmist, how old are your grandchildren? I am surprised to see children quite young (as in 8 and below) using mobile phones. Mobile phone companies simply brush off the dangers of mobile phones, but they are a health hazard - do your own research and you'll find enough evidence to alarm you. I have been concerned for various emissions such as electromagnetic radiation and those from telecommunication installations for more than 15 years - there's plenty of material there to help us make an informed choice; I find it ironic that a number of years ago, while the public in the UK were being issued with brochures on safe use of mobile phones (including the forbidden use for children between the ages of about 5 and 11) in the USA, Motorola signed a multi-million dollar contract with Disney to provide mobile phones to a similar age bracket. If anyone has any doubts on the dangers of mobile phone emissions from either base station towers or the phones themselves, speak to any armed forces communications officer. In New York city, they have been removing trasmission antennae from residential apartment blocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health Ironically removing phone towers means that mobiles then have to use more power to communicate with them. Better to have many lower power towers... More dangerous is the likelihood of someone running into you in their car while talking on their mobile phone! I carry a mobile phone for emergencies and NEVER leave it switched on next to my body for long periods. It's also not hard to find recent statistics on the number of car accidents caused by using phones whilst driving as compared to the benefits of having a mobile in a dangerous situation. I'd guess that you don't use wireless internet either? Or mains power 240V at 50Hz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_and_health#powertransmission Have fun, Shay (living dangerously) -- === 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 -- 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: Erasing a HD
Hi Mark and all,. Just to add to this,.. If there was a partition setup via Bootcamp then you can remove the partition very easily. All you have to do is Run the Bootcamp Setup Assistant again and say Create or Remove a Windows Partition. It will then give you the option to restore you hard drive back to one single partition. Very easy! :o) Kind Regards Daniel On 16/7/08 12:05 AM, Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only real exception to this would be if you set up XP originally as a Bootcamp install and had to re partition your internal hard disk... in that case I guess, not knowing if there are any repartitioning tools for mac that will remove a partition on a live disk, then a format and reinstall would probably be needed. --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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: Erasing a HD
thanks for that one - learn something every day... just nice to learn something useful like that rather than the usual stuff I learn ;) Hi Mark and all,. Just to add to this,.. If there was a partition setup via Bootcamp then you can remove the partition very easily. All you have to do is Run the Bootcamp Setup Assistant again and say Create or Remove a Windows Partition. It will then give you the option to restore you hard drive back to one single partition. Very easy! :o) Kind Regards Daniel On 16/7/08 12:05 AM, Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only real exception to this would be if you set up XP originally as a Bootcamp install and had to re partition your internal hard disk... in that case I guess, not knowing if there are any repartitioning tools for mac that will remove a partition on a live disk, then a format and reinstall would probably be needed. --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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 ~ http://www.pbase.com/marxz It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus -- 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: Erasing a HD
Yes, and anything that saves an erase and a reinstall is always a great thing! ;o) Kind Regards Daniel On 16/7/08 12:59 AM, Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for that one - learn something every day... just nice to learn something useful like that rather than the usual stuff I learn ;) Hi Mark and all,. Just to add to this,.. If there was a partition setup via Bootcamp then you can remove the partition very easily. All you have to do is Run the Bootcamp Setup Assistant again and say Create or Remove a Windows Partition. It will then give you the option to restore you hard drive back to one single partition. Very easy! :o) Kind Regards Daniel On 16/7/08 12:05 AM, Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only real exception to this would be if you set up XP originally as a Bootcamp install and had to re partition your internal hard disk... in that case I guess, not knowing if there are any repartitioning tools for mac that will remove a partition on a live disk, then a format and reinstall would probably be needed. --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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] --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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: Be aware of door knockers, local in Perth
On 15/07/2008, at 9:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it's off topic but we should all be aware of this., especially those of you at home during the day. Ken See Inside Cover, The West Australian, this morning (16 July 2008) 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. -- 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: Old Phone
I didn't actually ask for a health report. On 16/07/2008, at 12:06 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Phillip Arena wrote: Hi Barry, Without being too much of an alarmist, how old are your grandchildren? I am surprised to see children quite young (as in 8 and below) using mobile phones. Mobile phone companies simply brush off the dangers of mobile phones, but they are a health hazard - do your own research and you'll find enough evidence to alarm you. I have been concerned for various emissions such as electromagnetic radiation and those from telecommunication installations for more than 15 years - there's plenty of material there to help us make an informed choice; I find it ironic that a number of years ago, while the public in the UK were being issued with brochures on safe use of mobile phones (including the forbidden use for children between the ages of about 5 and 11) in the USA, Motorola signed a multi-million dollar contract with Disney to provide mobile phones to a similar age bracket. If anyone has any doubts on the dangers of mobile phone emissions from either base station towers or the phones themselves, speak to any armed forces communications officer. In New York city, they have been removing trasmission antennae from residential apartment blocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health Ironically removing phone towers means that mobiles then have to use more power to communicate with them. Better to have many lower power towers... More dangerous is the likelihood of someone running into you in their car while talking on their mobile phone! I carry a mobile phone for emergencies and NEVER leave it switched on next to my body for long periods. It's also not hard to find recent statistics on the number of car accidents caused by using phones whilst driving as compared to the benefits of having a mobile in a dangerous situation. I'd guess that you don't use wireless internet either? Or mains power 240V at 50Hz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_and_health#powertransmission Have fun, Shay (living dangerously) -- === 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 -- 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: Be aware of door knockers, local in Perth
Thanks Eugene, Hard to know what their desired objective is but the reason for the post is to make us all aware that there are people trying to get in to folks places, you have to ask yourself what would take place once they gain entrance?? Are they 'casing' the joint? It's doubtful they would attempt anything physical with a guy but women are another matter I'd suggest. Everyone on the list might like to mention this to all of their friends in so doing maybe prevent someone from enduring a painful experience... Best, Ken On 15/7/08 11:29 PM, Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ken, I had almost an identical occurrence about a fortnight ago. A well dressed chap of Asian decent aged about 20 came at about 5.30pm and told me Telstra had just completed maintenance in the area (Lesmurdie) and upgraded their system. Wanted me to return to Telstra. I cut him short and said I would never return to this company as I have nothing but contempt for them. I mentioned I was now on NakedADSL and very happy with iiNet. He agreed that Telstra couldn't match the plan I was on and bade me farewell. He never mentioned that he wanted to check my lines but then again I never gave him that opportunity. Perhaps I was lucky in my ignorance and hatred for Telstra. Regards, Eugene On 15/07/2008, at 9:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it's off topic but we should all be aware of this., especially those of you at home during the day. Ken Hello everyone, Just wanted to inform you all of an incident that happened to me yesterday (2/7/08). A door knocker came to my door in Karrinyup and said he was from Telstra. He was dressed in business attire (pants and a white button up shirt), quickly flashed an ID card that was hanging from around his neck (I didn¹t get to read it), and held a clipboard and pen. He said that he had a print out of the houses in the area and that he was enquiring as to why I was not with Telstra. I told him that my home phone actually was with Telstra. He said that his information said otherwise. I told him that I had actually just moved in recently, so perhaps his information was not up to date. He then said that he would have to come in and check the line. When I said no, and asked why he would need to do that, he replied ³Oh I won¹t make a call, it won¹t cost you anything, I just need to check your line². I then told him that I don¹t see why he needed to do that, and that I was not having any problems with Telstra or my bills at all, and he said ³Well if you don¹t let me in, Telstra will keep ringing and hounding you, and they will send me back around to check your line². I told him no and closed the door. He then yelled something as he was walking away from my front door, and then hung around for a few moments near my car in the driveway before moving on to the neighbours houses. I have rung up Telstra and informed them of the incident, and they said that it was definitely not one of their workers. They said there would be no reason for someone to come in and check the line, and if there were any issues with the line they would contact you by phone and make a time. I was told to call the police and inform them, so I did this and was put through to Crime Stoppers and made a statement. They also said that this was suspicious and that I did the right thing by not letting this person in my house and for informing them. The only thing I should have done differently is contact the police straight after it happened. They would have been able to send a car around and pick up the person who would have still been in the area. However, they now have a report and if anyone else rings up to make a report they have information to put together a pattern. Anyway, this is just a warning and reminder to not let people in to your homes, even if they say they are from a reputable business and have some form of ID. If there really is something wrong, the business will contact you directly, not send a door knocker. Please forward this around to inform other people. Regards, Suzie Suzie Elias School Psychologist Swan District Education Office (Mon Tues) Canning District Education Office (Wed, Thurs Fri) -- 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: Old Phone
On 16/07/2008, at 8:48 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote: I didn't actually ask for a health report. Just goes to show how the members on the list CARE about the well beingof the other listers On 16/07/2008, at 12:06 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Phillip Arena wrote: Hi Barry, Without being too much of an alarmist, how old are your grandchildren? I am surprised to see children quite young (as in 8 and below) using mobile phones. Mobile phone companies simply brush off the dangers of mobile phones, but they are a health hazard - do your own research and you'll find enough evidence to alarm you. I have been concerned for various emissions such as electromagnetic radiation and those from telecommunication installations for more than 15 years - there's plenty of material there to help us make an informed choice; I find it ironic that a number of years ago, while the public in the UK were being issued with brochures on safe use of mobile phones (including the forbidden use for children between the ages of about 5 and 11) in the USA, Motorola signed a multi-million dollar contract with Disney to provide mobile phones to a similar age bracket. If anyone has any doubts on the dangers of mobile phone emissions from either base station towers or the phones themselves, speak to any armed forces communications officer. In New York city, they have been removing trasmission antennae from residential apartment blocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health Ironically removing phone towers means that mobiles then have to use more power to communicate with them. Better to have many lower power towers... More dangerous is the likelihood of someone running into you in their car while talking on their mobile phone! I carry a mobile phone for emergencies and NEVER leave it switched on next to my body for long periods. It's also not hard to find recent statistics on the number of car accidents caused by using phones whilst driving as compared to the benefits of having a mobile in a dangerous situation. I'd guess that you don't use wireless internet either? Or mains power 240V at 50Hz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_and_health#powertransmission Have fun, Shay (living dangerously) -- === 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 -- 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] -- 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: Old Phone
Barry Sexstone wrote: I didn't actually ask for a health report. It did, however, seem to me that you yourself gave a version of one. Cheers Paul -- 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]
Sharing Screen over the internet
Hi guys, I think this has been asked before but I can't find it. I set my dad up with a new iMac in Bunbury. I'm in Perth and I want to be able to see and control his screen. What do I need him to do at his end, and what information (IP adresses etc) do I need at this end? I have Apple Remote Desktop here on a Macbook Pro running Leopard. Or is it easier to use Share Screen? Cheers Travis -- 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]
Toast error
Hi folks, Trying to burn a movie disc in Toast I get the error message: The drive reported an error: SENSE KEY = MEDIUM EROR SENSE CODE =OXOC WRITE ERROR. I think it may be the .DV file has a problem?? Any experience with this error?? 10.4.11 on a G5 Toast 8 version 8.0.1 Thanks IA, Ken -- 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: Toast error
S ok...seems I had a couple of dud discs?? Thx, Ken On 16/7/08 12:26 PM, Ken Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Trying to burn a movie disc in Toast I get the error message: The drive reported an error: SENSE KEY = MEDIUM EROR SENSE CODE =OXOC WRITE ERROR. I think it may be the .DV file has a problem?? Any experience with this error?? 10.4.11 on a G5 Toast 8 version 8.0.1 Thanks IA, Ken -- 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: Old Phone
I appreciate this information Phillip, thanks. Wendy __ Wendy Austin Mauritius Island On 15 Jul 2008, at 19:04, Phillip Arena wrote: Mobile phone companies simply brush off the dangers of mobile phones, but they are a health hazard - do your own research and you'll find enough evidence to alarm you. I have been concerned for various emissions such as electromagnetic radiation and those from telecommunication installations for more than 15 years - there's plenty of material there to help us make an informed choice; etc -- 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]
