default flag?

[John Reed]

Hi Wamuggers

The wee Australian flag on the top bar next to the Date and tie keeps
reverting back to the US flag without me telling it to.  Whilst this
doesn't affect the function of the machine, I'd rather it didn't make
political statements on my behalf and was wondering if there's a way
to stop it doing this or else get rid of the flag altogether
(hopefully this isn't an offence under the terrorism act).

Also is there a way to tell the machine that we live in a place that
uses PAL and to open video applications with default PAL settings
rather than NTSC? (realising that we'll probably have to get into
terminal command line territory)?

thanks in advance

john


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Re: Mac Book

[John Reed]

happened to my stepson's MB -  when it was looked at it wasn't that
bad - the power switch had failed - but you will need an Apple
trained technician 

john
>
>
> Original Message 
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: wamug@wamug.org.au
>Subject: Re: Mac Book
>Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:42:57 +0900
>
>>Hi
>>A student friend was using her MB last night when the screen went  
>>blank, she assumed the battery had gone flat but has since recharged
> 
>>the battery and with the power chord in the MB will not wake, it has
> 
>>blank screen and makes no noise, cap lock does not light, I have  
>>googled this for her but can not find a solution. Any suggestions  
>>would be gratefully appreciated.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Clive
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modified advice

[John Reed]

Thanks Bob

I'm sure you're right.  It's a David and Goliath thing.  They have
us.  I thought I'd share my tale to discourage others from being so
foolish as I.

I have contacted the ombudsman so will be interesting to see what
they say.


Rgds

John Reed


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Telstra Caveat Emptor

[John Reed]

I too have had a very difficult experience with Telstra.  I decided
to 'bundle' several mobiles, home phone and foxtel together into a
single bill account with reward options.  Sounded like a sensible
thing to do. I did the transaction on the phone.  A very pleasant
person in Darwin lead me through.  It was a great experience.  she
told me I had a 10 day cooling off period.  No worries.  The phones
came.  All ok except one of them was a black Telstra phone with no
camera, so as I hadn't opened it I called to ask them to send another
like the others and I would send this one back.  Now I'm dealing with
the bad cops.  Not possible.  No cooling off period.  Told I could
complain if I liked - the tone was very different to the nice person
who set up my account. Then the bills started coming.  Not single
bill, but all separate accounts.  An order of magnitude more
expensive that I had anticipated.  Many phone calls later I have
established what I wanted in the first place - single bill, but still
keep getting letters telling me to send in a single bill request form
even though I did some time ago.  I even got one of the people I
talked to to admit that I was lied to about the cooling off period,
but there was nothing that could be done about it.  And when you're
busy you just don't have the time to sit on the phone for an hour
waiting in a cue even before you get to talk to someone.  These
people are all over the place.My advice is if you start a
contract with them record the phone conversation like they do to you
or else you have no comeback.  

Caveat Emptor all right.

John Reed

On 30/01/2008, at 6:12 AM, bill parker wrote:

A very appropriate mail :

IF you are having trouble read this article today's news

<http://www.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_id=48221>

Bob








Peter,

I'd be very wary about Next G  and the  tick nonsense. I switched
to Next G last year before there was any real QC on the part of
Telstra.The bloke in the shop assured me that I would have
coverage "everywhere".

No.

I complained via the Telstra Complaints website and to me my surprise
I was contacted by a real person with actual  information and no
bullshit.   They offered me a ZTF as a "rural" ready tick phone.   A
clunky hard to use piece of rubbish as a it turns out, complete with
extendable aerial which makes no diff.

I was told where NextG would NEVER work ( anywhere on the Great
Northern Highway between Dalwallinu and Mount Magnet, unless I
invested in an expensive long range external aerial or use a satphone
for e.g.   - CDMA works fine there)And many other places where
few people live but roads carry large volumes of traffic.

The metro area?   Fine he said. No sorry, its not, chunks of the
Hills are silent for Next G (Glen Forrest, Parkerville etc)

Caveat Emptor!   Ask to see the coverage map.


Bill






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article on fixing dead ipods

[John Reed]

I came across this which may be of interest to the person who was
asking about a dead ipod

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08basics.htm
l?em&ex=1194757200&en=553f244aee4833ee&ei=5087%0A



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PB Titanium power supply

[John Reed]

Hi folks

my G4 Titanium Power book  power supply has packed up  - if anyone
has one they want to sell me please contact me off list


0414282115

rgds

john

Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OSX

[John Reed]

Hi Richard

You can download Windows Media Player 9  for Mac OSX from

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/windowsmediaplayerformacos
x.html

john

G4 PB screen?

[John Reed]

Hi Wamuggers

My mate Dave has a PB G4 550MHz (4 yr old).  The screen has just
failed but the computer works fine.

He was wondering if anyone has a broken laptop with a working screen
for sale, barter etc..

thanks in advance

john reed
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Port no. query

[John Reed]

Hi wamuggers

I am attempting to set up filemaker pro 6 so that I can publish some
databases on a website.  When I go to filmaker pro
preferences/application/plug-ins and check the 'web companion' plug-in, I
get a message

'the web companion cannot share files over the web because of a port number
conflict.  Please configure the plug-in to use a port number other than 80'

Does anybody know what number port I should reconfigure it to?

Thanks in advance

john 

Re: How to view .ht files?

[John Reed]

Thanks dave, craig, kaye

Have downloaded Interarchy and it's very impressive

john


On 1/2/05 5:31 pm, "David Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> John
> 
> I use Interarchy as my FTP client and it has an option to switch to
> viewing .files in the preferences, I can also view the contents and
> edit the files using the BBEdit tools without downloading the file.
> 
> As I have the Fetch program I thought I would see if I was able to
> see any .files, but no I couldn't and I could not find any options
> in the program to do this.
> 
> One thing to remember if you do get access to the .files and you
> want to download them to edit or whatever, you will have to
> temporary rename the file by getting rid of the "." if you are
> using OS X as the .files will otherwise also be invisible on your
> computer.
> 
> Dave Watkins
> 
> 
> 
> At 4:52 PM +0800 1/2/05, John Reed said:"
> 
> Hi wamuggers
> 
> I have a password protected site on a linux server which uses .htaccess and
> .htpasswd files - only problem is when I log into the site with fetch I
> can't see them - any clues how I can make them accessible?
> 
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How to view .ht files?

[John Reed]

Hi wamuggers

I have a password protected site on a linux server which uses .htaccess and
.htpasswd files - only problem is when I log into the site with fetch I
can't see them - any clues how I can make them accessible?

g4 PB running 10.3.6 fetch 4.0.3

Ta

john

Making an avi with Compressor?

[John Reed]

Compressor seems to be pretty quick  - other converters take forever to make
an avi - is there any way to set Compressor to make an avi?

john

Quick time pro

[John Reed]

Hi matt

Go to
Quictimeplayer/preferences/registration

Registered to: QuickTime Pro  (case sensitive - exactly like this)
Organisation: QuickTime Pro
Number: your serial number

And that should do it

john

Separating odd and even numbered files

[John Reed]

Hi there wamuggers

I have a folder containing an image sequence saved from FCP in a folder.

Projectname 0001.png
Projectname 0002.png

Etc to 2887

What I want to do is separate the odd numbered files from the even no. of
files (I'm converting interlaced alternating field 3d into red blue 3d)

Does anybody know how to do this separation process?

Thanks in advance

john

Re: Drafting program

[John Reed]

Haven't tried it but domus.cad looks ok

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/domuscad.html



On 25/11/04 5:44 pm, "Brett Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does anyone know of a simple drafting program as I am planning a
> renovation and want to get an idea of how the floorplan would look.
> 
> Brett Curtis
> Master Window Cleaners
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Filemaker pro to ical?

[John Reed]

Hi wamuggers

I have a very basic calendar in filemaker pro 6 which is a date field and a
note field, and then a year summary chart that looks up from that database.
Does anybody know of a way of transferring this to ical?

Ta

john

Recording ichat video conf, and bluetooth phone qu

[John Reed]

Dear WAMuggers


1. Is there any way of recording an ichat video conference?


2. Dave Caqrson has a new phone bluetooth enabled NEC E616V Telephone &
computer recognise each other but can't exchange data - does anyone have any
experience with this type of phone?  (he's using a Titanium 550Mz 10.3.5
using a USB bluetooth dongle)

Thanks in advance

John Reed

re:Keyboard Help Please

[John Reed]

I found when I upgraded to 10.3 that a lot of the keyboard shortcuts for
Final Cut Pro 4 no longer worked even though the keyboard assignments in
preferences were correctly set (using a g4 DP tower) - a colleague checked
on a g5 at Curtin Uni video prod dept and it was the case on this also -
haven't had time to try and sort out why

john

Ti powerbook cd drive problem

[John Reed]

I have a g4 ti powerbook 667mhz with a CD read/write and DVD player.  The
DVD is working fine - just installed Final Cut using it.  However it does
not recognise a CD, and spits it out.  Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers
John

making mp3's from aiff's

[John Reed]

I'm trying to make some mp3's of various specs from aiff files to put a 
band's music onto their website so it can be downloaded in various 
resolutions according to the user's connection speed and machine...also 
it needs to be playable on a windows machine or a mac...
I haven't found an application yet which gives me choices about 
specifications - itunes gives me a 46mb mp3 which is too big, final cut 
pro doesn't give me an mp3 export option, or quicktime, or peak dv, or 
soundtrack (as far as i can see anyway)


any clues?

thanks in advance

john

looking for usb minidisk deck

[John Reed]

looking for usb minidisk deck either to hire or buy

thanks in advance

john
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filemaker pro calendar solution?

[John Reed]

hi folks

I'm using filemaker pro 6 and osX 10.2.3

I'm looking for a comprehensive calendar that gives me daily entry , 
weekly, monthly and yearly summary (yearly as in columns of months to 
print off wall chart summaries). I want to integrate it with other 
filemaker pro databases for organising projects. It seems that 
calendar monster used to be the answer but that seems to be untraceable 
after filemaker 4. CC calendar from Clevelandconsulting.com looks good 
but doesn't have a yearly view. Skedpro and Appt1.0v7 FM5 look a bit 
clunky.

ical looks good but isn't filemaker pro and doesn't have a yearly view.

Does anyone know any solutions and are there any workarounds to 
integrate existing calendars (eg entourage, ical) with filemaker pro?

thanks in advance

john


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