Strange beeps
My G5 1.8SP 10.5.6 has started to make very soft beeps not apparently associated with any particular application or action. I can turn them off by turning the sound off. I can nowhere find any setting that may have changed or been corrupted to cause this. These beeps are very soft and other sounds play at normal volume. Any suggestions for this New Year nuisance? 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange beeps
On 03/01/2009, at 4:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: My G5 1.8SP 10.5.6 has started to make very soft beeps not apparently associated with any particular application or action. I can turn them off by turning the sound off. I can nowhere find any setting that may have changed or been corrupted to cause this. These beeps are very soft and other sounds play at normal volume. Any suggestions for this New Year nuisance? Hi Severin, Normal culprits are mouse initiated actions. Preferences: Sound (Sound Effects Play user interface sound effects) or Universal Access - Keyboard (Sticky Keys Beep when a modifier key is set). Cheers, Ronni -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange beeps
Hi Severin, could this be your email advising you that you have a new one delivered ( could account for it being intermittent as it only occures when mail is delivered, ) if so it can be altered in your mail preferences , hope it is this simple ! cheers Bill On 03/01/2009, at 4:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 03/01/2009, at 4:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: My G5 1.8SP 10.5.6 has started to make very soft beeps not apparently associated with any particular application or action. I can turn them off by turning the sound off. I can nowhere find any setting that may have changed or been corrupted to cause this. These beeps are very soft and other sounds play at normal volume. Any suggestions for this New Year nuisance? Hi Severin, Normal culprits are mouse initiated actions. Preferences: Sound (Sound Effects Play user interface sound effects) or Universal Access - Keyboard (Sticky Keys Beep when a modifier key is set). Cheers, Ronni -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange beeps
Ronni, I had already tried those two. Finally traced it to the mouse itself, MS optical. Picked it up and blew and wiped the underside clean, which it appeared to be anyway! Problem now gone. All this after an afternoon spent running Virus Barrier complete scan, repairing permissions, running maintenace scripts, cleaning caches and running Disk Warrior all to no avail. A good clean up anyway for the New Year. Severin On 03/01/2009, at 4:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 03/01/2009, at 4:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: My G5 1.8SP 10.5.6 has started to make very soft beeps not apparently associated with any particular application or action. I can turn them off by turning the sound off. I can nowhere find any setting that may have changed or been corrupted to cause this. These beeps are very soft and other sounds play at normal volume. Any suggestions for this New Year nuisance? Hi Severin, Normal culprits are mouse initiated actions. Preferences: Sound (Sound Effects Play user interface sound effects) or Universal Access - Keyboard (Sticky Keys Beep when a modifier key is set). Cheers, Ronni -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Why does Archive Utility produce a cpgz file?
Hi Ronni I should clarify firstly that the zip issue is independent of the game. That particular pdf was just a random selection - any old document to use as a test. Incidentally though, I have no trouble accessing and playing that game via Safari (latest browse and OS). That particular pdf is one which I uploaded via the form at this link ... http://www.walkerglobalconsultants.com/contact/ContactUs.shtml Once a file is submitted, it is a sent to mailbox which I have access to. In between submission, and arrival in the mailbox as a zip file, this is what I have been told happens to it, as stated by one of the people behind creating the site ... It's something that I do in the code behind the scenes. It's using the ZIP compression algorithm. I've been able to open them in WinZip with problems. If I open the zip file with Stuffit Expander, no problem. If the file is opened by Archive Utility, I get a cpgz file. So I guess the question remains - why is it that Stuffit Expander and Springy Application decompresses this particular zip file just fine, but causes Archive Utility to create a cpgz file? I'll just use Stuffit Expander for now, but it'd be nice not to have to. Cheers, Steven On 03/01/2009, at 10:44 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Was this zip file downloaded from a Website or Web Server? If so if you download it using Firefox, does it unzip correctly? I think the problem may be caused by a misconfiguration on the download web server. Or, the person that sent you the zip file has not downloaded it or compressed it correctly? I dropped the Attachments.zip file you sent to me onto Springy Application v1.4.2 it opened a PDF titled Tredz.co.uk.pdf. If you click a link in the pdf you are taken to http://www.tredz.co.uk/game.asp to Tred2 Game which you need Flash Player 8 or later installed to play it. With both Safari Firefox the game is unable to be played even with Flash Player plugin 10.0.12.36 installed. Cheers, Ronni On 02/01/2009, at 2:14 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Hi Ronni Here's a sample file. I've received the following response to a question about what creates this zip file ... It's something that I do in the code behind the scenes. It's using the ZIP compression algorithm. I've be able to open them in WinZip with problems. Cheers, Steve On 31/12/2008, at 12:10 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Steven, yes email one to me as I have a few ideas why this is happening. I'll have a look at it tomorrow sometime. I have to knock off now and prepare for New Year's Eve ;-) Happy New Year all the very best for 2009. Cheers, Ronni On 31/12/2008, at 5:01 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Just seems to be some zip files Ronni. I created one myself using Leopard's Compress option, and then decompressed, and it works fine. If you're particularly interested I could email you a sample, but I'm content just to live it with it for now. Cheers, Steven On 30/12/2008, at 10:22 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 29/12/2008, at 12:36 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Hoping someone can explain to me why, when I double click on a zip file, Archive Utility creates a cpgz file of equal size? I've looked at Archive Utility's preferences, but there are no obvious settings to tweak. At the moment my workaround is to manually decompress the zip file with Stuffit Expander, but it would be better if Archive Utility would decompress zip files automatically. I realise I can change the system such that Stuffit Expander is the default application to decompress zip files, but is this the only option? It makes sense to me to have MacOS built in functions be the default. Hi Steven, Are you saying that all zip files are having problems or is just some failing to unzip correctly? Maybe the file is corrupt or was made by a pc user with a proprietary zip format that is not compatible? Make your own zip file and see if you can open it correctly. Download another zip file and see if you can open it. Archive Utility supports these formats: bom (.bom) [1] bzip2 (.bz, .bz2) cpgz (cpio gziped) cpio (.cpio) gz (.gzip, .gz) tar (.tar) tgz (tar gziped) tbz, tbz2 (tar bziped) compress (.Z) UUencode ZIP (.zip) – password-protected ZIP archives are not supported Cheers, Ronni Attachments.zip -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
End of Year Review
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