Re: Internet over powerlines vs vacuuming
But iRobot make a Roomba our our little Robbie does a great job! Brian Sent from my iPhone On 18/10/2010, at 10:48, James / Hans Kunz sad...@iinet.net.au wrote: yes you still have to do that.. apple has not yet indroduced the i-vacuum but it's fact if you run a motor (your vacuum cleaner) then you can expect spiking or high frequency noise on the mains which then disrupts the rf link (you internet through power line system) thus average speed on the link drops but on switching off the motor the speed should rise again another thing can be the mains comes in on 3 lines if you have 1 modem on the line1 power section the other modem on the line2 section that aswell can affect the overall performance, James On 18/10/2010, at 10:25, Susan Hastings wrote: Vacuuming! You mean we still have to do housework! Sent from my iPad On 18/10/2010, at 9:16 AM, Andrew McColl ski...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote: How well do they go when you plug in something like a Vacuum Cleaner and run it? I had always been told that that was the problem with them. When you plug in something that pulls a lot of current it mucks up your network speed. Has that been your experience? Andrew Quoting Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com: I bought a set from Officeworks, the best quality set they had. They work brilliantly. Sent from my iPad On 17/10/2010, at 5:01 PM, McCallum Malcolm doc...@westnet.com.au wrote: I have been looking at Netgears xavb2001 with great interest . I wonder if anyone has any experience of using this equipment. I cannot find anyone selling it in Perth and getting hold of it seems difficult as in ES they are going like hot cakes. Mac 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 over 40 years in electronics -- 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
Best value wireless multifunction printer/scanner for Mac?
At risk of asking a dumb question due to the multitude of options, I need to grab a (preferably wireless but can hook into TC if not) multifunction office printer / scanner. Not so bothered about a fax function - who uses fax these days - but it'll probably have that anyway. Printing volume will be minimal, so will scanning for that matter, but just need one around since my HP Officejet 7210 died. Interested in views on the best Mac-friendly brand available at the moment. Anyone know what Choice recommended in their Multifunction printer report? I'll buy it if not. Cheers, Steven -- 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
Safari freezes
Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this. The Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my wife was using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it just froze, as it has done many times before over the almost 1 year we've had it. My old reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres away) I used as a control experiment and was instantly able to get the news.com.au site up on screen. She Quit Safari and started Safari again with no success. Wireless signal was showing Excellent on the Windows machine alongside and minutes before, the Macbook was able to web browse without issue. Ultimately a restart of the Macbook got it going again, but what really was the problem? Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause? I'd like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the 'risk register', but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least. Thanks. Peter. * NOTICE - This message from Hatch is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or proprietary. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. By communicating with us via e-mail, you accept such risks. When addressed to our clients, any information, drawings, opinions or advice (collectively, information) contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing agreements. Where no such agreement exists, the recipient shall neither rely upon nor disclose to others, such information without our written consent. Unless otherwise agreed, we do not assume any liability with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information set out in this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and destroy and delete the message from your computer. -- 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: Safari freezes
try Chrome… On 20/10/2010, at 2:01 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this. The Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my wife was using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it just froze, as it has done many times before over the almost 1 year we’ve had it. My old reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres away) I used as a control experiment and was instantly able to get thenews.com.au site up on screen. She Quit Safari and started Safari again with no success. Wireless signal was showing “Excellent” on the Windows machine alongside and minutes before, the Macbook was able to web browse without issue. Ultimately a restart of the Macbook got it going again, but what really was the problem? Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause? I’d like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the ‘risk register’, but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least. Thanks. Peter. N O T I C E - This message from Hatch is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or proprietary. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. By communicating with us via e-mail, you accept such risks. When addressed to our clients, any information, drawings, opinions or advice (collectively, information) contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing agreements. Where no such agreement exists, the recipient shall neither rely upon nor disclose to others, such information without our written consent. Unless otherwise agreed, we do not assume any liability with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information set out in this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and destroy and delete the message from your computer. -- 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: Safari freezes
Hi Peter I had a very similar problem at home too. It has to do with Safari 5.0.1 later prefetching DNS lookups and your router or your ISP's DNS server not handling the number of requests Two options - use another DNS server e.g. 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 (google's open servers) instead of your ISP's. - use Terminal to disable Safari's prefetching... defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false Apple Support article... http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408 Changing the defaults seemed to work for me. cheers woz On 20/10/2010, at 11:01 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this. The Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my wife was using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it just froze, as it has done many times before over the almost 1 year we’ve had it. My old reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres away) I used as a control experiment and was instantly able to get the news.com.au site up on screen. She Quit Safari and started Safari again with no success. Wireless signal was showing “Excellent” on the Windows machine alongside and minutes before, the Macbook was able to web browse without issue. Ultimately a restart of the Macbook got it going again, but what really was the problem? Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause? I’d like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the ‘risk register’, but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least. Thanks. Peter. -- 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: ?*%$$# Time Capsule
Jim, Are you talking about time machine or TIME CAPSULE ??? Cheers, Walter On 20/10/2010, at 10:46 , Jim D wrote: When I bought my Mac, I perused the Mac website about TM, shock and horror! The comments on the Time machine, by the hundred condemned it without reservation. It would appear to have a most dodgy power supply, that when it dies (18-24 months) also fries the bloody disk. Needless to say, I got the WD book thingy solution. Jim On 19 October 2010 12:44, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I'm about to watch time fly and throw TC out the nearest window. I got over all of my previously whinged about error messages by one of two solutions, I don't know which one ultimately provided the fix, but erased data entirely, and disconnected all users (Airport Utility Manual Setup Disks Disconnect All Users). The backed up everything from scratch, the major downside being loss of all historical backups. The backups from scratch seemed to work. However now, not every time but intermittently, I get ... Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 169.72GB but only 122.2MB are available. Time machine needs work space ... blah blah blah TM waits for me to click OK. Then, if I 'Backup now' TM proceeds with a backup in the usual manner, and keeps going until next time I get the 'backup too large' message. According to the TM Preferences window, there is about 500GB of available space, which is about right after taking into account the two Macs I've backed up. I've been putting up with the inaccurate 'backup too large' message, however just now I had a need to go into TM and recover a previous version of a file I've stuffed up. Disappointingly, I find that TM hasn't been retaining old backup data. I have 'Now' backup, and that's it. No historical backups to wade through. I assume this has something to do with the 'backup too large' problem. The problem I'm having is with my MBP. I've checked TM on the other machine, an iMac, backing up to this TC. No problem. Retention of historical backups appear to be taking place for the iMac. All machines running latest OSX. Any suggestions? Cheers, Steven -- 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 -- Jim Duffield 0405583977 Skype: oldozsapper Wolf, Wellington, Shaka [Zulu], Lawrence, Monash...not only displayed a general absence of authoritarian traits but also showed a lively regard for the prime responsibility of the commander: conservation of his force and concern for the psychological and physical welfare of his troops. Prof Norman Dixon, RE, MBE - 'On the Psychology of Military Incompetence', p. 275 -- 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
Dear generous advisorsI have a word doc with pages in both portrait (text) and landscape (tables). If, when I go to print, I click on "save to pdf", only the portrait pages are converted, not the landscape.I have searched on-line for an answer but it appears the solution is to buy a pdf converter program. Although happy to buy software, I rarely have portrait and landscape in the same doc and would prefer to find a simple answer. Otherwise will purchase software as recommended.Word 12.2.7Macbook Pro 17" running 10.6.4Thanks 08 9367 35560413 806 406gl...@glenncardwell.comwww.glenncardwell.com --TheWAMacintoshUserGroupMailingList-- 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: pdf
Hi Glenn,unfortunately save as PDF doesn't handle MS Word's change in orientation.Two possible solutions:Print selected pages to PDF collated by orientation. eg pages 1 to 5 if they are in portrait and 6 to 10 if they are in landscape.Alternatively import into Pages which doesn't handle change in orientation and it reformats everything to portrait. Then print to pdf. Regards, Eugene On 20/10/2010, at 12:00 PM, Glenn Cardwell wrote:Dear generous advisorsI have a word doc with pages in both portrait (text) and landscape (tables). If, when I go to print, I click on "save to pdf", only the portrait pages are converted, not the landscape.I have searched on-line for an answer but it appears the solution is to buy a pdf converter program. Although happy to buy software, I rarely have portrait and landscape in the same doc and would prefer to find a simple answer. Otherwise will purchase software as recommended.Word 12.2.7Macbook Pro 17" running 10.6.4Thanks Glenn only signature.jpg08 9367 35560413 806 406gl...@glenncardwell.comwww.glenncardwell.com --TheWAMacintoshUserGroupMailingList-- 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 --TheWAMacintoshUserGroupMailingList-- 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
