Re: barebones ATA to FireWire bridge boards?

[RHowells]

OK ! I understand what you are about ... and that price at US$69 does  
not make much sense
when you compare it with Aus available Combo USB2 & Firewire plus box  
plus Power supply

all for about A$60 plus freight .

Look at these 2 places :-








Bob


On 23/11/2005, at 12:52 PM, Mark Secker wrote:


Anyone know where about in Perth or Australia I can get something
like this off the shelf:

http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/32

Basically a IDE/ATA to FireWIre case just without the case and
power supply.

the standard places like PLE, Austin, Tang don't carry this sort of
thing and don't seem interested in ordering a few in when they can
try sell you some  Maxtors or similar for  a higher percentage.

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Re: Safari consuming 100% CPU/RAM in 10.4?

[RHowells]

Macintouch has some answers to this :

Go here  :




Bob





On 21/11/2005, at 5:07 PM, Wendy S. Austin wrote:


Yes Martin,   I have the exact same problem.   I have long been in
the habit of having multiple windows with lots of tabs going and am
now suffering the beach ball effect too.  Running 10.4.3 on a 17" PB.

Wendy


On 21 Nov 2005, at 11:17, Martin Hill wrote:

G'day again everyone,
Just wondering if anyone else has been finding Safari starts eating
RAM and
processor cycles if left running for too long with lots of windows
and tabs
open?  Spinning beachball of death forever.  :-(


Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin
Coastal Road
Pomponette via Surinam
Mauritius Island
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Re: audio recording

[RHowells]

Rosemary,

A good starting point would  be to go to the WAMUG archives at



put   " Audio "   into the search box and hit your return key

You will get some 300 or so mails to read .

This same question has been covered a number of times so all of the 
answers will be there



Bob





On 22/11/2005, at 6:03 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote:


I know there are people out there who can help me.

I want to record audio onto my lovely Powermac (1.67 GHz PowerPC G4,
Memory 512 DDR SDRAM) running 10.4.3.

My ignorance in this area is profound.

 What cords, connectors, what do I  plug in and where? What software
is recommended?
To record
1) from audio cassettes.
2)  from lps.
3)  a microphone?

Is there software that will turn voice into musical notes?


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New TV screens in the offing ! ???

[RHowells]

Technology keeps advancing :
If you are interested in what is coming, check this article !





Have fun

Bob

Re: My Card Reader won't read a San Disk

[RHowells]

On 21/11/2005, at 9:12 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:


On 21/11/2005, at 5:04 AM, J Philippe Chaperon in WAMUG Mailing List
digest wrote:

I use a SanDisk 512MB (SD Card) in my Lumix LZ30, which seems to 
works OK in

the camera, however I  just cannot read the card when inserted in my
Transcend' card reader connected to my G5 1.8Mhz dual, running OS X 
3.3.9.



The card reader is connected to a USB 2.0 powered hub.




But is it working as a USB 2.0  ?
Is there perhaps a USB 1 device also plugged into that hub ???

Bob






I have used Disk Utility to try to mount the SD disk on the desktop, 
but
nothing happened. I also tried to reformat the card but Disk Utility 
bombed
with the dreaded beach-ball. Disk Utility was able to detect the 
Card, its

size etc, but was unable to mount it on the desktop.


Howdy J Philippe,

I had a similar problem with a San Disk card reader, so hied me to
the Google and found that Mac and SanDisk are not friends for a lot
of users.
The summary of a lot of technical stuff I read was that SanDisk
components are not "standards compatible" - something about their
drawing too much power via usb.   Macs don't like this I understand.

This research was done around a year ago, so things may have changed.

Nancy M

Re: G4 (Yikes) Problem

[RHowells]

On 21/11/2005, at 7:49 AM, Rick Armstrong wrote:

Running OS9.2.2 on an early model G4 350Mhz with 448Mb Ram, when I 
insert a

CD or Zip the system freezes,


The freeze can be caused by conflict between 2 extensions .

Looking at Mactracker for your Mac specs it says USB and firewire and
any scsi is via a PCI card.

You need to explore running the Mac with un needed extensions turned off
using the Extension Manager Control Panel !  ?  Have you done this 
before ?


So is the CD Scsi or ATAPI  ?   Ditto for the Zip which I assume is 
internal ! ?


Bob





 but shows up after a forced restart
(everything was fine with OS8.6) Sometimes the Zip or CD opens up fine 
but

not often.

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Re: Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[RHowells]

On 21/11/2005, at 10:39 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 21/11/2005, at 10:25 AM, Rod wrote:




I love it!  Go into the Harvey Norman up in Joondalup and the staff
try to talk you out of getting an iPod (go a Creative instead.
Whoohoo!).  Even all the iPod advertsing shelves in the store are
filled with Creative players :-)  Big iPod banner right above a
case filled with Creative rubbish!

And they have the hide to whinge about iPod stock levels!

Aren't you glad they don't sell Macs..

Seeya

Rod!


Hi Rod,

Harvey Norman aren't the only company who are having trouble dealing
with Apple.
Apple make great computers (there is NO DOUBT on this), iPods etc,
but getting them to supply them is a nightmare.



H !  Myers were  advertising Macs on the weekend . I presume they 
must have stocks ! ?


Bob





Cheers,

Ronni
PS Rod - Best of luck to the Little Dockers :o)




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Re: Cheap Audio In Solution?

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Quoting "Antony N. Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> A mate of mine has sadly nuked the sound in on his Mac (G4, 1Ghz, OS 
> 10.4) due what appears to be a faulty piece of external equipment.
> 
> Is there a cheap, easy new "sound card" option or something similar?
> 
> Cheers, Antony.
> 


This would do it   but price is another thing




Bob