Re: Getting an iPod Shuffle *today*. Is it possible?
Funny, every time I turn on the tv there is an iPod Shuffle ad on! When there is no stock, there are tons of advertising. When there's heaps of stock, no advertising! Stupid Murphy's Law! :-) They've got Life's Random advertising up on bus shelters (I only noticed today, may have been earlier). Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Getting an iPod Shuffle *today*. Is it possible?
I have trouble swallowing that a corp. like Apple can do this sort of thing accidentally or through some oversight. I think they've must have been around long enough now to know how their stuff is going to sell, roughly. Is it just me but are there always folk who cant get their stuff for a week or more. If they indeed were up to something, what possible benefit could *not* selling your products ASAP. Sometimes I think I must have no business acumen at all ;) Which is better, to have a known quantity of orders to fill that you can plan and budget your resources for, or to build too many and then have to sell them at a discount (eroding your price point), and having to explain to your investors why you built too many of them... Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Getting an iPod Shuffle *today*. Is it possible?
My school ordered a G5 iMac in December. It might arrive next week! Are they also in short supply? Rod Pretty much anything using a G5 processor is constrained by IBM's G5 production line. At one stage I believe IBM were hand delivering them to Apple. Various anecdotal reports on Macintouch seem to indicate that some G5 iMac's power supplies may be dodgy, which would require the supplier (Delta Electronics, I believe) to work out what's going wrong and fixing it... Which would then mean more production delays etc.. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Administrator access
I have inadvertently changed the User Name of the Administrator on an iBook running OS X 10.8.3 and can now only log on as a user without Administrator privileges, other than reinstalling the system is there any way I can get in with Admin. privileges? Adrian Boot using the OS X install CD's and see if you can select 'Enable Root Account' from the File menu. At least I think that's what it's called. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: FW: ADSL Connection problem
Posted As requested,... Sent a reply,..but in case others have answers also. Have you rung iinet to see if there's an ADSL outage? They had one earlier in the week. If this is the case you'll usually hear a pre-recorded message. You can also check this web page (as you're using your dial-up account) http://www.iinet.net.au/fault/ Have fun, Shay Kind Regards Daniel -- Forwarded Message From: Lloyd White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:58:17 +0800 To: Daniel Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: USB hub intermittent working To WAMUG This morning I was on the internet when the power failed. I immediately unplugged the computer to avoid any fluctuations when the power came back on again which it did after 30 minutes. My computer works OK but I cannot get on to my server by my usual ADSL. I am sending this through my old dial-up POP through iiNet. I am at a loss as to what to reset or how to test the ADSL. The lights are blinking and the cables are all connected. Any suggestions please. Lloyd -- -- End of Forwarded Message -- 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] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Mac to PC attachments
A friend in Sydney using a PC on ADSL cannot see my attachments. They take the usual time to download at his end, but he cannot find the attachment. jpegs, mp3s, quicktime and WMA files do not appear at his end. What mail client is he using? What mail client are you using? If you're using Eudora and he's using Outlook 2002, this may be the solution: http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2453hq.html Is this likely to be a firewall setting? He receives such files from other PC friends and can view and play them. No. If it was a firewall setting he wouldn't receive any mail from anyone. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Home network mystery
Does anyone understand why a mac should register on the network while 2 PCs don't? Did you try replacing the network lead with a crossover network lead (or non-crossover lead if you're already using a crossover lead). The PowerBook is likely to autodetect what sort of cable you've got, whereas the windows boxes may not. Alternatively the windows boxes are looking for services on the network (that aren't there) to determine if they're on the network. Whereas the PowerBook is looking for something different. I suggest you tell the Wife and son to get Macs :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Stuff like this should be banned!
I am caught in the grip of one of the most addictive games I have seen since the glorious Apeiron. I'm not a great player of games, although I do enjoy the distraction a well-designed arcade-style game can provide. This game, Cosmo Bots (http://www.ctspgames.com/cbotsdeluxe.html), goes far beyond simple distraction. I just can't stop at that this is definitely the last go point I'm usually able to reach. It's totally compelling. Brilliant stuff. Ban it, I say! I'm wasting too much time with it!! (But I'm not deleting it) You'd better not play AirBurst Extreme then :) http://www.airburstextreme.com/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: G4 startup problems
I have a customer in Adelaide (fiances dad lol) he has a G4 (so he say, not sure on the model) it has a power switch on the front of the system and one on the monitor, when he turns it on, nothing happens, but if he hits reset button on the front, then it starts. He is running Os9, the PRAM battery has been replaced. Any ideas ? Regards, Kat. He has got the screen turned on, hasn't he? Does the monitor have a USB cable, and if so, is it plugged into the machine? Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Is this is iTMS roadblock we having been waiting for to clear?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229927903.html?oneclick=true Fingers crossed this goes through and iTMS can *finally* open up shop here in Australia! And I can stop breaking the law when I tape the West Wing, as it is on at such a stupid time of the night :-) Or indeed, not at all last night :) Really, I doubt this has anything to do with the iTMS delays. Otherwise, if they were really concerned about it Apple would have said Sorry, can't sell iPods in Australia, they're illegal. Not to mention any company selling video recorders... It is nice that copyright law in Australia might catch up with 30 years or so of technological progress, provided it then doesn't go and do something stupid as we're seeing happening in the US. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: OS X on Small Hard Drive
Just wondering if it's possible to install OS X on a 2GB hard drive. Thanks Ruben A. Franke Well, you can create an OS X boot CD, so you should be able to fit it into 2Gb. Depends what you want to do with it really... Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: bluetooth phones and macs
Have moved into the Sony Ericsson realm after seeing all the SE phones on the apple isync web site, including the K700i, which by all accounts it the replacement of the T630 and T610, which both worked flawlessly with isync in OSX. Well, my old T610 (total cost $200) works fine with iSync via BlueTooth. Sometimes the latest technology isn't the best :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Virtual Memory
Hi all Does OSX automatically use all hard drives attached for VM? No, it writes the files in /var/vm, which is usually on the boot drive unless you've gone to some efforts to put it elsewhere. If it did could this mean some performance increases? Marginally, as it'd reduce the delay due to waiting for the boot drive to do other things. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: iPod battery life?
I am wondering if my iPod will play for the whole of a flight to Europe. Model M9282H. Using earphones with low volume. If not, any hints about extending the battery to the max on a plane? Catch the 3am flight. Stay up all night packing beforehand. Have a GnT or two when you get on the plane :) Turn the iPod on when you wake up. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Weird Email text
I'm on a yahoo group for the guild council at Curtin and it runs well but some of my Emails turn out strange and are pretty difficult to read through. I'm assuming it's something to do with attatchments. Is there any way to fix the problem or does the change have to be made at the other end. Any Light? Ruben A. Franke At a guess it's Entourage's way of sending appointments to multiple meeting attendees using VCal files. Probably your yahoogroup is stripping some necessary MIME headers or something, or the mail client you're using doesn't recognise Entourage's VCal files. So either fiddle with the yahoogroup settings or get everyone to stop using Entourage :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: G5 shutting down
Good afternoon everyone My G5 has adopted an annoying habit of either going to sleep, or shutting down, in the middle of a session. Has anyone encountered this problem? G5/1.6/768/OSX.3.7/20 cinema display. Waking from the impromptu sleep mode is okay with a few taps on the space bar, a few that is! other times it simply just shuts down whilst I am working on it. Main apps used; Photoshop CS, Word, Keynote, iMovie, Dreamweaver MX, Poisoned, PM6.5 (Classic). Safari, Mail, BluePhone Elite, GarageBand. Any thoughts? Cheers Jon Make sure you don't have anything blocking the airflow into/out of the machine. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Pending Mainstream Revolution
If Apple becomes more mainstream to whatever level (and we keep crowing about our immunity from viruses), will Apple products become a target and what is the probability that they will have a similar success rate as with the disruption to MS products? Are Macs inherently less vulnerable due to better design or is no-one targeting them because there is no challenge in knocking out 5 - 10% of the market when you can knock out 90% with the same effort? Cheers, Alex Traditionally (in the pre Mac OS X days) Macs enjoyed some protection because they didn't have a commandline. Currently they enjoy some protection because they use a different processor to the Wintel machines, and thus exploits for Wintel don't work on PowerPC (although this is changing) In the future, the security will be reliant mainly on the 40 years of Unix software development which underlies the Mac OS X architecture, combined with the 'fresher' technologies borrowed from the NeXT, Linux and Open Source communities, regular security updates (provided Apple keeps those Security updates coming, everything should be fine :) and a move towards stronger security architectures and better use of encryption. There are three sources of security problems, Open Source code, Apple's code, and third party code. Usually Open Source security problems are usually rapidly patched, and frequently Apple rolls these fixes into the next security update. Typically these problems are also present on all the platforms, although it's not necessarily that the exploit for PowerPC is widely available. Apple's code has 'security through obscurity' (which doesn't help much), and Apple's internal security group are responsible for ensuring holes are fixed as soon as possible in the next Security Update. Apple also has a vested interest in insuring its OS is secure. Third party code, such as Microsoft's products are going to be hanging around for a while, and really, I suspect that's where most malware propogation is going to happen, as individual companies with a single product may have less experience, source code that is not open for inspection, and no real responsibility for overall security. Really, if the percentage of Mac users out there increases, then it's likely that the percentage of Mac crackers out there will increase. The thing is to limit the rate of that increase as much as possible. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Safari vs Firefox
At 10:51 AM +0800 10/2/05, Toby Oldham wrote: Shay, why would Firefox not be addressing the same DNS info Safari is? It might explain my slow proxy.pac file issue ... Cheers, Tobes. They may be using the same DNS info, just differently. A hunch tells me it might be due to IPv6 issues, but that's based on no actual information whatsoever :) I do know that setting my DNS info correctly after the 10.3.7 update did resolve some issues for me when using Safari. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Help with email
Hi Is there a way to tell if an email that has been sent to a recipient has actually been opened? They have not been returned by the mailer daemon. Using Outlook Express and OS 8.6 and Entourage OS 10.3.6 Regards Maureen No. You can request a receipt, but it's no guarantee that the receiver will send you one. Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Safari vs Firefox
Used Macs since Lisa days and still own the latter. Currently G4 400, 768 Ram. A truly great machine. Since 10.3.7 Safari takes 1 min 30secs to open CommSec and CommBank - previously 15 to 20 secs. I have done all the recommended speed up routines to no avail. What is your DNS Server set to be in the Network Preference Pane? Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Welcome To The Revolution...Or How Everyone Switched To Apple!
about the only light in the bus school is that some academics have or intend to purchase macs simply because of how hard admin and support staff are trying to get rid of them unrelated but (IMHO) showing levels of complacency towards multiplatform non MS lockdown software - central IT just released the web based HRM system - YEH!! sounds great for all those mac users that were having to run Citrix Winfram client eh? doesn't it? Yep SOUNDS GREAT!!! ...catch is... as it stands it seems that it only runs on IE 6.x so they are telling mac users to install VPC and run IE 6 from winxp under VPC.. .or move to WIntel. This sort of thing was happening 10 years ago when I worked there (one of the reasons I left :( Although Maths getting rid of Macs is a bit of a downer, we played many happy hours of Bolo there :) Now all I have to worry about is taking over (or being taken over by) centralised state government IT :) But the good fight continues :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Drag Drop Users Folder ???
Question : I can bak up the users file to another hard drive BUT can it be drag dropped back into place on a new user ? Deep in the underpinnings of Unix is a userid associated with each user. If you're replacing the folder and it has the same userid (and hence privileges), you shouldn't have a problem. The userid depends on which order you create your users in, and probably a few other things, which probably depends on how damaged the disk is that you're dealing with. Otherwise, it requires fixing the privileges. Either way I'd run Fix Permissions from Apple's Disk Utility. If that doesn't work you'd need to fix them from inside Terminal. I highly recommend SuperDuper from http://www.shirtpocket.com/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Installer Failure
Dear all, What does this sound like? Powered up the iMac G4 733 the other day, blinking folder icon and no joy. Currently running 10.2.8. Ultimately had to reinstall from the discs (10.2). Were these the original disks that came with the machine? Have: Repaired permissions (twice) Repaired HDD (one minor error - repaired) What am I missing? Much gratefulness for any helpings - David It sounds like your install is broken. At that stage I'd probably get everything off the machine, erase the hard drive (with the 'write zeros' option turned on, it'll take a while) and try again with a different set of install disks. Being paranoid I'd try running memtest as well before doing all that... http://www.memtestosx.org/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Backup Disk Ideas?
A cheapish idea would be to buy two 3.5 IDE drives and then buy external USB drive cases for them - I think a 120/160GB drive is about around 100 dollars these days and a USB case should cost around the same - I used one of these setups once at an old workplace - a nice cheap solution. Oh, and a piece of tape to mark backup drive X on the drive (: Only downside was the cooling fan for the drive case was a little loud - and since I was sitting near the server most of the day, it was a bit irritating. I usually turned it off all day until I left for the day to leave the overnight backups running. Personally, I'd suggest never using USB to connect hard drives. In my experience it's slow (yes, even USB2), can cause disk corruption, you can't boot off them (there may be a few exceptions to this), and really it's not the job USB was originally designed for. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: iPod Shuffle RAID
Hi All, So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course! Follow along as we explore new depths of geekery... http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html Personally I'm amazed they managed to get one of them, let alone 4! Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Entourage
Is there any way Entourage can be configured so that it does not automatically send a receipt to people who request one. I have spoken to Westnet (my ISP) who have confirmed that I am automatically sending a receipt for mail opened even though I don't know this is happening. I am worried that spammers would be able to confirm my email address simply by requesting a receipt when they send their email. Thanks, Lloyd For many reasons, the easiest thing is to not use Entourage. I say this after having to rebuild the Entourage databases of numerous users. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Filemaker ?
Hi everyone Does anyone know if its possible to get a Filemaker Pro script to run at set time? ie: everyday at 12 noon? You (or somebody) could probably write an AppleScript that calls the FileMaker script and set the AppleScript to run at a predetermined time. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Powerbook hanging in iTunes and not restarting with Disk Warrior
At 8:58 PM +0800 3/2/05, Tim Law wrote: He is very computer savvy, but only moved from the dark side with the purchase of this Mac last year. I've got him repairing permissions using Disk Utility at the moment just to him into the diagnostics side of things. He'll run Onyx when that is finished. Did Disk Utility report any errors? He's borrowed my copy of Diskwarrior to see if that will help sort things out, and now cannot reboot from the DW CD in order to run DW. He IS holding down the C key to start up from the CD, and a message appears telling him he needs to reboot. ie it's not rebooting from the CD. I've never seen that before with DW so can't help him. Try holding down the option key while booting and then selecting the DW CD. It's possible that your version of DW is too old for his machine. He also cannot change the permissions necessary to allow Disk Warrior to work from the CD after he has started up in OS 10.3.7. We've done the 'Get info' and tried to change permissions there. The icons he needs to change are dimmed. You shouldn't need to change the permissions to run DW. A little later: He's just told me Disk Utility has frozen half way through Verifying Disk Permissions, and he can't go back to the finder or use the Dock etc etc. All sounds rather desperate. Any hints please? Turn off Nortons temporarily and see if that fixes things. Also, run Memtest OS X and see if it finds anything. Good luck, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: ISDN failures
Have recently installed ISDN, and it works fine at 128k -- when it's working. I regularly get knocked offline after anywhere from a few minutes to more than an hour. The error messages always state The modem has unexpectedly hung up. Please check your settings and try again. followed by The USB device has been unplugged while an application was still active. This can result in loss of data. However, no USB device has ever been unplugged or plugged during these failures. Nor have there been any incoming calls. Call waiting is off. I am usually doing little if anything (reading an email perhaps) when the connection fails. My previous dialup connections were very slow, but disconnections were rare. Equipment: iMac G4/800, 512k RAM, MacOS 10.3.6, NT1 Plus II self-powered modem connected to G4 by USB. Is it plugged into the keyboard port, or the back of the machine? Are there a lot of other devices plugged into USB? Any USB Hubs? It's possible the modem draws too much power under some conditions, which might cause problems. Also, check all the USB connections. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: laptop stand
Personally I have an older Toshiba that, under Linux, has nice manual fan and power control, so I can run it in slower-and-silent mode even on mains. I'd actually be very interested in knowing if the mac laptops have this (and if you can manually turn the fan on if you wish to keep the laptop cooler than it does normally). Nope. Because I imagine that most users are really concerned about the speed of their laptop's fan. I can see the online discussions now: Should my fan be on 3100 or 4500 RPM? Or: I forgot to turn my fan on and my laptop got really hot and no longer works... Help! Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: laptop stand
sorry this screams gadget gimmick - so long as there is sufficient airflow any decent laptop stand should not need additional cooling and simply moves the fan noise from inside the case to outside the case. Any well designed laptop will have sufficient cooling by convection (simply air flowing around it) and/or by its internal fan to allow it to work on any flat surface so long as the laptop stands on it's feet. (This doesn't always hold true to things like using it on a bed spread or similar where the surface touches the back plate rather than just the feet). But a stand is definitely useful if you're going to use your TiBook or AlBook on your lap. I'm glad my machine appears sweat resistant so far... Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Downloading music from Destra
The new government chose to enlarge intellectual property restrictions beyond even the FTA's requirements. Although some people hoped the FTA would introduce fair use or personal use provisions, I don't think any legislation of that type has been passed. If you have a time machine, you might like to start a political campaign about eighteen months ago. There already is a political campaign in Australia, and it's been running for more than 18 months, c/o the Electronic Frontiers Association. http://www.efa.org.au/ Rather than anyone starting their own, probably better to support the EFA. Have fun, Shay (EFA member) -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Downloading music from Destra
Reading further it says Notice that EasyWMA will not convert wma audio files including DRM. For these files, EasyWMA will problably just create an empty file. Don't have a clue what DRM is. Digital Restrictions Management (or Digital Rights Management, depending on which side of the debate you're on). Designed to stop you playing music you paid for (or designed to stop people ripping off your music, also depending on which side of the debate you're on). More likely to inconvenience and frustrate people than anything else. Anybody had better success with playing files from Destra? Personally if they make it that difficult I'd rather not give them my money. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: why MAC?
Does anyone have a good factual source - suitable for a person who knows NOTHING about computers and does not wish to - as to why to buy a MAC laptop vs a Windoze PC machine? Bill Mac users have larger vocabularies: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/35130.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Ciphire - more
I should have added, can Mail send encrypted messages to non-Mail or even PC users? Not stated in the Help file. thanks - DD I believe it can with a bit of fiddling... http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html http://www.macwrite.com/criticalmass/gpgmail-on-mac-os-x.php These pages might also be useful... http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/ http://www.pgpi.org/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: OS10.2.8 repair - keys in wrong order
[...] says 4 files at fault - repair again verify - says fault- keys in wrong order - repair do again same fault- repair [...] and restarted spinning wheel at start up and doesn't progress any suggestions? chow DiskWarrior http://www.alsoft.com/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Reverse lookup?
Hi Bob, Although my phone number is listed in the telephone book, I do not want everyone I give that number to to have access to my address. For example, I have my phone number marked on my house keys, so that if they are lost the finder can call me. I don't want anyone finding the keys to have free access to my house to take what they like! Regards, John Taylor In the IT trade this is known as Security through obscurity, which is generally taught to mean 'No security' Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Re : Reverse lookup?
The trick seems to be answering the phone quickly and then talking to a person to tell them you want to be off their list. Our major problem is the way our phone is set up there is a few second delay between when you pick the phone up ( ie the line becomes active) and you can talk to the other person, and the computer interpreted this as there being no one home, and so hung up on us. Once we were able to talk to a person we solved the problem but it took a while ( and some, in this case helpful, discussions with telstra) to work out how to stop it. Not sure if they work here in Australia, but you could try playing these three tones at the start of an answering machine message: http://privatecitizen.com/sit.html (Or playing them to everyone who rings you up, but it's probably easier to get the answering machine to do it). Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Reverse lookup?
Does anyone know if there is a way to do a reverse lookup on a phone number in Australia? cheers Jude The Reverse White Pages were removed from sale after (amongst other things) Telstra won a court decision http://www.geocities.com/ssamam/reverse.html There may be copies out there still somewhere. Otherwise your best bet is informing the police, and the telecommunications company and the Australian Communications Authority if the call is harassing. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Unable to download
Hi Wamuggers I have a problem as I am unable to download irrespective of which browser I am in. (Safari and IE quits and Firefox does nothing) All other internet services work fine( email browsing software update and Ichat) I have reinstalled the OSx to version 10.3.3 and updated to 10.3.7 and trashed preferences. Using ADSL DSL 300 with iinet. Ibook G4 384MB All ideas will be greatly appreciated. Rob By 'Download' do you mean 'unable to view web pages'? Have you tried remote web pages (like www.slashdot.org) and local ones (like iinet's?) Check to see if you have a proxy set in System Preferences' Network Panel. Choose whichever networking you're using from the 'Show' pop-up menu and then click the 'Proxies' tab and make sure your Web and Secure Web Proxy settings are set correctly for iinet (which according to their handbook indicates that they should be empty). Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Tv on PB G3 pismo
Is it possible to watch TV on PB G3 Pismo? If so how? John That's really two questions: * Is it possible to get TV input into a PB G3 Pismo? Yes. The USB EyeTV is a solution for standard TV. If you need HD TV then you'd need the FireWire version (although technically that requires a G4 minimum), and most reviews seem to indicate that a G5 is necessary for HD TV playback. You can also watch live TV from the USB EyeTV on a Pismo. (You could also pass TV from a source with a tuner (such as a video recorder) in via a firewire video camera or other firewire converter, but this is much more involved). Note that EyeTV TV Guide solutions aren't the greatest in Australia (although this is gradually improving...) A review of the EyeTV 500 is at http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/eyetv500.php Note that the better the resolution you want, the more disk space it takes. The EyeTV USB takes up abour 600Mb/hour. DV camera video is 12Gb/hour. HDTV video from the EyeTV 500 is about 6Gb/hour. If you want to purchase a HD TV recording solution you should do so before the US FCC mandated 'broadcast flag' comes into force, after which TV stations can determine whether or not you're allowed to record particular programs. Both EyeTV solutions are detailed at http://www.elgato.com/ or ask WAMUG regular Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * If the TV is pre-recorded (say, by an EyeTV or downloaded from one of the various sources on the net) you may be able to play it with QuickTime Player, or the free VLC, available from http://www.videolan.org/ If you just want to watch TV on a spare monitor you have lying around, you could try the AverMedia TV box http://www.scorptec.com.au/index.php?catid=0035order=manufactureroffset=30 Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Question: AppleWorks 6 PDF
However there is new software replacing Appleworks and I do not know about that ! Bob The new iWork is basically a word processor (Pages) plus a presentation app (KeyNote). AppleWorks is a word processor (which does presentations), spreadsheet, database, painting and drawing package. So, not really much of a replacement yet. Perhaps iWork '06? Or by that time they might have devoted some Apple programmer time to the Aqua Open Office effort... Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Mac Mini
'Live' from the Keynote via Macintouch.com: Mac Mini [13:45 EST] How many times have I heard why doesn't Apple offer stripped down Mac? We do - shows XServe at Va. Tech but today: Mac Mini * FW, USB, modem, Ethernet, slot-load optical, analog and digital video, headphones * BYODKM: brign your display, keybd, and mouse * size of HD external HD or even paperback * comes w/ Panther, iLife 05, * $499 - 1.25 GHz, 256/40 * $599 [missed specs] * avail. Jan 22 All prices in $US Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Headless iMacs: was - Re: WOT! World of Warcraft for Mac
Do you think there's any chance at all if they released an iMac, it would have a decent system bus and a swappable AGP port? If all I wanted to do was play games I'd just build my own PC box, but the iLife software is just so cool. *sigh* I'm just asking for something outside of Apple's markets I guess. Let us know eh Matt? I doubt they'll manufacture a cheap box which has a decent system bus and swappable AGP port. Those sound like things customers would be prepared to pay money for. Cheap, fast, good, pick any two P.S. 'was at the London Apple Store over Christmas ... is a huge and fun place, with lectures, Genius bar types and display macs you can check your webmail on. I can't imagine anything like it ever getting the critical mass of customers to support it in Australia though. Apparently in the US you can pick (hip, fashionable, beautiful) people up in the Apple Store in New York :) http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/207031.htm However, one thing Oz will probably always have over Uk'ers is FM transmitters for our iPods. Broadcasting of any kind (without a licence) is illegal in Britain *nyuck nyuck* Brought to you by the land of the TV detector van and the Television licence :) Have fun, Shay (Shivering with anticipa- -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: DD and the undoing of same.
Hi Wamuggers. Many years ago I used a programme to compress my files for storage that produced a DD file. I have now lost the programme but not the compressed files :-( Can any one help please? Mac Malcolm McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently Stuffit Expander handles Disk Doubler (.dd) archive files. http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Creating SVCD with Toast 6
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to create a SVCD from iMovie using Toast 6. According to the manual, I can drag and drop the reference movie of iMovie into toast, and it will create the SVCD. However, with the resulting disk, the video and audio get out of sync very quickly. From memory you need to have your camera set to use 16-bit audio to fix the out-of-sync problem. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61636 Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: mailer-daemon - one for the technical minds
but I didn't attach anything the only thing I did differently to the questioning one was to cut something from a forum web page and paste it into the email Yvonne Text from pages would usually be pasted in as styled text. If the font's different, or there's bold or italic text, then it's styled. Some e-mail clients offer you the option of stripping styles before sending the mail. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Non Reply To Posts
Create a new netiquette page or modify an existing one. Publish it on the list from time to time (say every 3 months). This might be of some use, without all the Apple specific stuff though :) http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee6bc80 Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Non Reply To Posts
I'm a bit confused about this. Can anyone please explain the reply system? Surely many off-list replies are sent purely because this odd system of not being able to reply to the list solely by just hitting reply. If you reply to all, then you are sending two messages, which I find unnecessary, and if you want to just reply to the list, which IMO is mostly what people want/should be doing, you have to replay to all, then delete the individual's address and then move the WAMUG address to the the correct box. This doesn't happen in any other list/forum I subscribe to and I find it a pain, what's the reason? Thanks, Matt. The problem with 'reply to sender' as the default is that many (particularly novice) users intend to reply to the poster, and don't realise it's actually going via the list. This of course is then usually followed by a post which says I'm sorry about that. And then possibly a post from someone else which says That's ok etc. This way it requires a little more thought (and effort) to send a message to the list, and it doesn't happen by default, hopefully increasing the signal-to-noise ratio. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: 3-D on iBook?
Hey Peoples, I am looking for a 3D program for my iBook 1.2GHz. I'm still looking but I also wanted to share my story with you =) You could try Blender http://www.blender3d.com/ It's open source :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: weather
Tom, I keep this URL (named 'weather' )in the Safari and Firefox bookmarks bar. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDW12300.txt As a consequence of your letter I placed the bookmark in the dock and it works fine: just opens up the relevant browser page. Michael There's also an Australian App called Degrees Down Under that displays the local weather info in your Dock http://homepage.mac.com/rjsdev/FileSharing29.html I also find the radar loop useful if I think it's about to rain http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR122.loop.shtml#image Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Problem sending emails to list
Hi all One of your members Paul Chong contacted me off list. He is receiving emails from the WAMUG list but his postings are being returned with the message that the list only accepts plain text and his messages are multipart. He is trying to post an add. He is using Eudora 5.1 on Power Mac 7600/120. I don't use Eudora so could someone who does post instructions for him on how to set his outgoing mail to plaintext here. Since he is receiving WAMUG emails he'll get the answer he needs straight away. Thanks Greg Sharp Choose Settings... from the special menu Select the Styled Text icon from the list in the left hand side of the Settings Dialog. Choose Send plain text mail only Optionally check the 'Ask every time' Click OK. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Label printers...
Hi... Does anyone have any experiences (good or otherwise) with label printers/making machines (for the computer or otherwise)? A big plus if it can also do barcodes... Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: LCD dead pixels
Hi All How are dead pixels fixed on laptop screens. I am using a Clamshell laptop and a single pixel in the middle of the left corner is dead I think. On blue backgrounds it turns white and o black it turns orange etc. It's unbelievably annoying so I was hoping someone has a fix. Do I need a new screen over one pixel? Regards Christian Try massaging it gently with your finger. Sometimes this works. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR
HI Everyone, Is there anybody on list that is familiar with teh Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR ? Would be a pity if it needed to go to the dump simply because I could not get it to work . What's it doing/not doing? Are the paper out/jam/toner lights flashing in any particular pattern? W h e n t h e y e l l o w l i g h t s b l i n k a l t e r n a t e l y o n e o n , t h e o t h e r o f f , t h e n r e v e r s e t h e p r i n t e r's c o n t r o l l e r n e e d s r e p a i r . W h e n t h e y e l l o w l i g h t s b l i n k t o g e t h e r b o t h o n , t h e n b o t h o f f t h e p r i n t e r' s p r i n t e n g i n e n e e d s r e p a i r . From: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Printers/Personal_LaserWriter_NTR.pdf Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Recommendations for a scanner please
Hello, I am looking for scanner to work with my TiBook G4/800 with 10.3.6. (not worried about it being portable, this is almost totally deskbound these days. Predominantly most likely to used for scanning photo's - do not have a digital camera, do have a very nice SLR, and reckon a scanner is the way to go. Do not have a huge budget but would rather pay a bit more for a better version than the cheapest one around. Any recommendations/ideas or don't touch gratefully received. You get much better scans from scanning the negatives than scanning photos, as negatives provide you with higher contrast... http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/images Kodak offers to provide you with a PictureCD (not a PhotoCD) of your images for $10 extra at some outlets at the time of developing. I'm quite happy with that service. My experience with paying for batch negative scans at a photo shop for old negatives is that usually they'll scan them without any scratch reduction etc, which is much better done at the time of scanning. Having borrowed a Nikon negative scanner from a friend the images (and scratch reduction) were vastly superior to those I got from the person at the store (admittedly I didn't shop around for quality) who didn't really care. Of course the downside is you need to scan them yourself (or pay a flunky). I have no experience with flatbed scanners with slide adaptors, which seems to be what you're asking about. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: FW: 10.3.7 Is Out- HELP!!
Why the problem...perhaps there were some corrupted update packages coming off the Software Update servers yesterday or corrupted ones in particular ISP caches?? Anyway time to enjoy some sleep. The archives should be checking themselves with checksums to make sure they're not corrupted, and if they are they shouldn't begin the installation. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: 10.3.7 Is Out- Warning to FireWire drive users
Hi... Note that if you're installing 10.3.7 you should unmount and disconnect any FireWire drives before running the installation. (Of course how you do this if you're booting off a FireWire drive is left as a challenge for Apple's users) Have fun, Shay (FireWire, now more fun than SCSI!) -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: mpeg file not openable
howdy, the other night a fired and I attempted to down load some film of Sunday School kids to make some clips to show on sunday morning, from a Canon mini dv camera. But alas for some reason the connection via firewire failed- we figured something wrong with the cable, because the same thing happened when we connected to his PC. We ended up borrowing a another camera and laptop form a golfing pro friend - (its good being in a church were so many people have modern computers cameras and the like - shame only 2 of use macs) any way we got the movie clip on the camera onto the lap top via fire wire via microsoft movie maker. dunno what format the file became, anyway as far as I know iMovie only accepts DV as the input file, so we used some DVD software to create a mpeg2 file hoping that would be openable on my mac. DV format isn't MPEG2. When I got home, Quicktime says that the 650MB mpeg file ins not a file format that quicktiem understands? - oh bloody hell mate so my question is, if a movie is made and loaded onto pc, how do we get it onto a mac, so that is useable and useful. MPEG2 is one of those evil patented standards which requires licensing. You can license the QuickTime en/decoder from http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71206/wo/zy1SW4EEp8EN3VqQNpj1REitRi9/1.0.11.1.0.6.25.7.11.4.3 The reason it costs US$19.99 is because Apple is forced to pay royalties for it. You can probably play the file for free using VLC which is at http://www.videolan.org/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: paper thin optical scanner
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20041212p2a00m0dm01c.html I guess it will be of more use than scanning the labels of wine bottles the cost is interesting 100th of the cost of normal scanners I guess with a proper housing and connectors the cost would still be in the 10's of dollars rather than current scanners hundred+ dollar If it's that thin you could print on it directly :) Oh, wait... Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: iPhoto disaster
Dear WAMUG, Just hit a problem with iPhoto. I ran it and imported from my camera, with delete after import checked. I went away and came back, it appeared to have done the importing and said the camera had no photos. I was a bit shocked when the import only showed the three oldest of the 22, and Last Import showed the same. I closed it and reopened - and even these photos had disappeared off iPhoto. Personally I never let iPhoto delete images from the Camera. I use Image Capture (as it also imports movies, whereas iPhoto ignores them). Thanks for any advice. Panicking, Download PhotoRescue and see if it can recover the images from the card http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ If you're really paranoid then do it from a machine other than the one you ran iPhoto on. Then run DataRescue or something over the machine to see if you can recover any image files from it http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_info.php?PHPSESSID=736eece8df1f1bcb8393c7e4ca88aad8 Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: help re burning DVD
3] Bought a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-108 dual layer burner 4] Using toast 6 plug and burn First off the encoding took about 56 hours which just about drove me nuts then the actual burning of the 40min 57sec movie took 38 minutes. The G3 iMac will take ages as it doesn't have Altivec (part of G4's and G5 processors that makes image processing and other operations much faster). What sort of DVD discs were you using? DVD-R? Dual layer disks probably won't play on household DVD players. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: making simple things harder
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/changingapps.html
the last part of this explains:
Want to cruise through the applications in this window in reverse
(from right to left)? Just press Shift-Command-Tab. Hey, somebody
might want to do this. Really
hands up those of us who know that you can do the same with just the
{`} button?
From a User Interface perspective the 'shift' option is more
intuitive as the shift is a modifier on the command-tab meaning
'reverse'. Some Mac text editors (BBEdit for example) support
shift-delete for forward-delete, for example.
Have fun,
Shay
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Re: Addressbook sms send by bluetooth
Looking to get a bluetooth phone that will send sms's by typing on the Mac and sending using the phone. LOTS of people want us to phone them back with bookings confirmations and we end up playing phone tag or they just don't turn up. Turning into a lot of work and being able to use templates of messages would be handy. Apple's compat list not much good. My P800 is on there but it can't do it. Don't want to use I/net service because they charge and I have space on my cap to use up. Anyone use this feature? FYI, the services my Sony-Ericsson T610 provides are Device Services: OBEX File Transfer, Dial-up Networking, Voice gateway, Serial Port 1, Serial Port 2, OBEX Object Push, IrMC Synchronization, HF Voice gateway, OBEX Basic Imaging according to the BlueTooth Preferences panel. It does let you SMS from the Address Book. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Separating odd and even numbered files
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? Using the Finder you could do a search for each of 0.png,2.png,4.png,6.png,8.png and then drag those files off to a separate folder. Or do it for the odd trailing digits if you prefer :) Or, open Terminal, type cd and drop the folder the images are in in from the Finder and hit return. Then paste in this command: mkdir even; mv *[02468].png even and hit return and all the even files will be moved to the newly created even directory. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Photos for wamug list
On 30/11/2004, at 11:08 AM, Malcolm J McCallum wrote: Hi, I want to put an email to the list which has some photos that go with the e-mail. So I do not irritate people with moderately large downloads I feel I should be able to put them on the wamug server. Is that ? possible? good idea?not a good idea? Mac Malcolm McCallum I think it's a good idea. It's something WAMUG members should be able to do. It should not be technically difficult, because there is plenty of cheap, even free software available to help construct and publish this sort of stuff these days. Gallery is relatively easy to set up (for a unix application :) on the server, supports multiple users and has an iPhoto plug-in available for it. Although its themes would probably require tweaking to match the rest of the site... http://gallery.sourceforge.net/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: iBook vs Powerbook
As someone eyeing an iBook as a possible replacement for a dying laptop, I'd be interested to know how much control over this stuff OS/X gives you. The Energy Saver preferences pane lets you choose whether you want 'higher performance' or 'reduced' processor speed, amongst other options. I find the metal machines are somewhat warmer, possibly because metal's better at conducting heat than plastic is. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: X-Plane Users?
Hello Just wondering who uses X-Plane to fly their Macintosh, how they find it and what control hardware they use. It looked pretty good. Much better than my skills at flying it. Although personally I would have counted pulling the landing gear up while on the ground as a crash. Especially as it then let me put it back down :) And I only used a keyboard :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Help needed!
I have been sent a PhD thesis in a format I do not recognize, can some one help please. The opening of chapter one according to text edit is :- WPCò$ At a rough guess I'd suggest that the WPC means it's some variety of WordPerfect. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: modem being naughty
howdy, Could anyone give me a clue about why my system wants to load this modem on hold service when I have not selected the option in the UI? Possibly the ModemOnHold is always loaded anyway as part of the internal modem support and is just told to do nothing if the option isn't selected. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Question for those on iiNet Broadband...
On a slightly different but maybe related topic: We have been experiencing periodic loss of ADSL connectivity in the last couple of weeks with no real explanation. The boys at Computer Trade Centre suggested it could be the problem mentioned on D-Link Tech Support to do with upgraded or new DSLAM. http://www.dlink.com.au/tech/drivers/files/routers/troubleshootingADSL.htm At the moment I am connected and I am not going to try anything yet Does anyone know if I can access the modem's command line using Terminal? There was a suggestion that I would need to use a PC! Open the Terminal (in your Utilities folder). Type telnet 192.168.0.1 and hit the return key. Assuming that's the IP address of your router on the local LAN (it should be the number next to 'Router' in the TCPIP pane of your Network Preferences panel). Although I suspect the DSL300 doesn't work like that as it's a modem, not a router. If that doesn't work you may need an appropriate serial cable and USB-serial adapter such as a keyspan. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re:
Hi all, I am getting a lot of 'Returned mail ' which is in fact spam. I am always just a little anxious that some of it is genuine. As far as I am concerned this is a new development. Am I alone? Malcolm McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: macquack No, sadly you're not alone! The easy way to tell is, does the bounce message contain a message you sent in the first place? Was the intended recipient someone you were sending mail to? Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: chmod +x on the executable
I just downloaded some BOinc software from SEti that says * Macintosh OS/X, Unix and Linux users: Use gunzip to uncompress if your browser has not done it for you. Then chmod +x on the executable and run it. Please excuse me. What on earth does this mean? The file says, there is no default application The client is Unix based, so you'll need to run it in the terminal. So you'd download it to somewhere and then open terminal and type gunzip then drop the file into the terminal window and hit return. This uncompresses the file Then type chmod +x and drop the now uncompressed file into the terminal window and hit return. This sets the file's executable bit. Then drop the file into the terminal window and hit return. This will run the commandline application and prompt you to answer some questions and enter your magic codes that SETI have e-mailed you. Personally I'd recommend waiting for the GUI version if this all sounds too difficult :) So, for example you might see machine: gunzip ~/Desktop/boinc_4.13_powerpc-apple-darwin.gz machine: chmod +x ~/Desktop/boinc_4.13_powerpc-apple-darwin machine: ~/Desktop/boinc_4.13_powerpc-apple-darwin Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Battle on for next DVD standard
As a result, a Blu-ray disc is expected to have storage capacity of more than 50 gigabytes, compared with about 30 gigabytes for HD-DVD. A single-sided, single-layer current-generation DVD can store only 4.7 gigabytes. Which is why I'm hoping Blu-ray wins the battle. My Retrospect backups would just fit on one of those 50Gb disks :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Airport card?
Hi... Does anyone have an original Airport Card they're interested in giving away/selling off? If so, let me know how much. Otherwise I'll hit eBay. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: empty cache
Hi all, With respect to my previous posting regarding emptying Safari's Cache automatically. I have tried a script (found on the internet) that invokes the 'empty cache' option on Safari. I was going to put it as an application in the logout folder in the student's workspace. It seems to read well but comes up with an error. Here is the script: tell application Safari activate tell application System Events tell process Safari click menu item Empty Cache... of menu Safari of menu bar 1 end tell end tell end tell However it returns the error: System Events got an error NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError 4 A search on the internet reveals the error stating the object doesn't support the command that was sent to it Can any one put me on the right track? The ellipsis (...) after Empty Cache should be a proper ellipsis (ie option-:) You'll also need to tell Safari to click the Empty button after selecting that menu item :) Probably easier to just quit Safari and delete the cache files from ~/Library/Caches Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord thttp://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: PC vs Mac? No contest
If anyone knows of any Package for mac that is as good as Protel 99SE and can let me come over and have a play, I may be able to dump M$ windows for ever and turn my PC's into servers ;) Kat. I don't know about 'as good as Protel', but there was this on Macintouch the other day ADsoft released the first Mac OS X version of its EAGLE Layout Editor, a printed circuit board design tool. The software, which requires the use of Apple's X11 window manager, offers up to 16 signal layers, undo/redo for any editing command to any depth, electrical rule check, an integrated text editor, a full set of parts libraries, and much more. The EAGLE Layout Editor is available in Light, Standard, and Professional versions with prices ranging from $49 to $399. It runs on Mac OS X 10.3 with X11, Linux kernel 2.x and up, and Windows. http://www.cadsoftusa.com/info.htm I also tried out Darwine recently. Bizarre seeing the Windows RegEdit app running on your Mac under X11... I expect that Protel (or at least Access) probably won't work, sadly, but it might be worth a try. http://darwine.opendarwin.org/download.php Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Transfer OSX to New Hard Drive
Try SuperDuper from Shirt Pocket Software http://www.shirtpocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html Does a better job than Carbon Copy Cloner in my opinion. Have fun, Shay A better job in what way? The copies SuperDuper makes can actually boot, whereas none of the copies I've ever made with CCC have ever booted. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Mail and images
On 16/11/2004, at 11:28 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: If you add a picture to a contact's card in Address Book, the picture appears in other applications that use Address Book information. For example, when you read email from that person in Mail, you'll see their picture in the message window. You'll also see it when you add the person to your Buddy List in iChat. I thought this was the case but AFAIK I've never received a Vcard from Mark. I've received a couple of emails off-list from him, but I've certainly never imported a photo myself. Do Vcards automatically attach to an email? Then when I add this address to my address book, it grabs the vCard data? BTW Don't take anything personally Mark - it doesn't bother me - I just wondered how it all works :-) It's possible the image is embedded in the e-mail header, in a similar way to that used by the X-Face tag on some other e-mail systems. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Transfer OSX to New Hard Drive
The copies SuperDuper makes can actually boot, whereas none of the copies I've ever made with CCC have ever booted. Have fun, Shay Have you clicked preferences and ticked the box that says make bootable? I've never had it fail either. Also you can use rsync for scheduled incremental backups which is very cool. Rob Yes, many times with no success. CCC uses psync rather than rsync as psync should preserve file metadata and resource forks. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: file sharing
I am really stupid. I can't make file sharing work. Most things happen easily but I can't get this to happen. Here is the scenario: 15 PowerBook and 12 iBook both running 10.3.6 both have file sharing turned on but can't put files in the drop box because message says do not have privileges. Can't connect to the other because message says password is incorrect. I would greatly appreciate if someone could do a step by step in plain English run down on how to get file sharing to work. It's a long shot, but if the password's greater than 8 characters long, just try typing the first 8 characters. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Video editing hardware/software
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations about video editing hardware/software to transfer VHS to Mac via firewire/usb. Any good and/or bad reports greatly appreciated - cheers. Depending on what level of editing you need to do, I find iMovie to be pretty good (and better at outputting to some DV cameras than Final Cut Pro :) Don't forget iMovie can be beefed up with third party effects plug-ins. For those not afraid to do some basic scripting to 'roll their own' effects I find VideoScript to be pretty useful too... http://www.videoscript.com/download.html QuickTime Pro is also useful if you want to cut and paste bits of movies together. There are a number of similar tools listed at http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode=basicaction=searchstr=movie+editplt%5B%5D=macosxx=8y=8 A copy of iMovie 4 iDVD - The Missing Manual is also a good stocking stuffer :) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/imoviemm4/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Update 10.3.6 Firewire drives latest.
At 2:02 PM +0800 15/11/2004, Robert Howells wrote: So sure it is OK to update to 10.3.6, just make sure you do not have the drive connected when running the update and make sure you get the Combo update. Sigh. That will be particularly useful when I attempt to upgrade my Mac that only has OS X installed on an external drive! As a general rule I only install combo updates these days anyway, as there all too frequently seem to be issues with the partial updates. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Transfer OSX to New Hard Drive
How would you go about transferring a whole boot up drive to a new Empy Hard disk?? Try SuperDuper from Shirt Pocket Software http://www.shirtpocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html Does a better job than Carbon Copy Cloner in my opinion. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Computer to Computer
Dear members, I wish to connect 2 G4 computers together via ethernet cable (not with an ethernet hub) Would I use a standard ethernet cable (blue) or a crossover ethernet cable (red). Many thanks Any machine with a G4 in it should support automatic detection of the cable type, so in theory it shouldn't matter. Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: ADSL Availability in Joondalup and Osborne Park
I can hardly believe that - this means that in the midst of an explosion of low cost ADSL marketing by all and sundry, Joondalup and Osborne Park are left out. Surely this can't be true. As you pointed out a) There's an explosion of ADSL and b) it's low cost. Hence lots of people will have been taking up connections, and they haven't had any money to spend/incentive to provision the exchanges with new rack space to plug everything into. Upgrade schedule info is at http://www.telstrawholesale.com/products/docs/access_broadband_adslre03.pdf http://www.telstrawholesale.com/products/access_broadband_reports.htm But it doesn't seem to list an Osborne Park exchange as far as I can see. You may be able to get onto one of the wireless networks running across Osborne Park, but the connection would probably be severely restricted. http://www.e3.com.au/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Office A4 Default Solved
For those who know easy it would be easier if this was in the basic page set up OR when you register office as an Australian user they know were are not using the US paper format... Or they could check the system's default page format as set in Apple's Printer Setup Utility's Preferences dialog. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Help ! I cannot open my mac :-(
Hi everyone, I acquired a eTrex GPS hand held and I have MacGPS. Wanting to get the two aquainted I bought a Keyspan USB serial adaptor and uploaded the software that came with it to my White iBook/500. They did not seem to be talking to one another and then the mouse froze :-( I rebooted and got a mac OS/X /? flashing icon. I zapped the pram booted the baby and after much swearing and cursing I am now in the state that I get a blank white screen , I cannot get the original software disk to come up, putting in Mac OS X.2 install disk will not load, I hear the disc spin up and then slow down. I have tried to start with shift held down and with T held down without any luck. I remember watching Matt start up in Unix but do not know how he did it and wonder if I did manage to do that whether I could navigate my way through to the 'nasty software which I suppose is causing the trouble. The ever helpful Dan is working his butt off and cannot get here until at least tomorrow. Can anyone make any suggestions immoral or otherwise ;-) Mac Try starting up with command v held down. This will display what's happening, which might display an error message. You might also try rebooting with the shift key held down for longer. Good luck, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Detailed look at MacOS X 10.3.6
If you want to read a much more detailed run-down of the the changes made to MacOS X in the 10.3.6 release, have a look at http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/11/10/osxupdate/index.php Syndicated from the excellent http://www.macjournals.com/ newsletter (well worth the subscription fee, as long as you've got enough time to read it every week!) Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: .wps
I have received a file from a novice computer user in France called: Document sans titre.wps Does anyone know what the extension .wps means? Look suspiciously like a virus but the sender has only been on the internet for a week or so. It takes under about 20 minutes for an unprotected Windows machine to get infected if it's connected to the internet. It takes longer than that for Windows users to download their security patches. It's probably a Microsoft Works document. I'd suggest they re-save it as text or RTF and send it again as Microsoft Works has gone the way of the dinosaurs. You should be able to open it with Microsoft Word and save it as something more useful. Have fun, SHay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: .wps
Thanks to Tim for helping me open this .wps file. BBEdit does the trick and opens MSWorks files. BBEdit will open any file. That doesn't necessarily mean it does so in a useful fashion :) Alternatively, open Terminal and type strings and then drop the file into the Terminal window and hit return to get a list of strings in a particular file. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Home permission repairs?
Now finding that I can't get the users permissions repaired correctly even from a backed up disk Not important right now as I'm just going to CCC the whole back up on to the internal drive but has anybody else noticed this or able to suggest a fix? I'd guess that it's possible (but unlikely) that something in the OS X update changed the UIDs. Alternatively, has the 'respect permissions on this volume' setting for the FireWire drive/iPod changed? There seem to be preliminary reports on http://www.macintouch.com/panreader43.html of possible weirdness with external FireWire devices under 10.3.6, so strange things may still be afoot. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Home permission repairs?
for the record the external firewire drive is a Yikes model G4 tower that was placed with the user while his G4 iMac was warranty serviced. iMac came back with a new hard disk and 10.3.6 installed I updated my iPods OS to 10.3.6 so that I could test 10.3.6 without installing it on my work mac (though I've had it on my laptop since it came out with out issues) As far as the computer is concerned when booted from iPod it doesn't seem to matter what respect/ignore permissions is set to. booting from the Yikes box which is still running 10.3.5 (which is a CCC'ed image of his iMacs disk prior to going in for service) and logging in as an admin user or root (which is what I tried first) and copying his results in the same end permissions issues when booting the iMac back to 10.3.6. As it is I've got his machine for only an hour or so late this afternoon (which is all he can spare it for) so I'll just image his old disk on to the iMac. WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro Sounds like the user ID's are different on the different boot disks. Try nidump passwd / When booted from each system and see if the user ID's match (The user ID is the number after the second colon) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: 10.3.6 via software update
I am donwlaod now teh 10.2.6 update - but? where does software update put the installer file? is there a default location I can't find it If you elected to download and keep the file (from the Software Update Menu), it will put the package in /Library/Packages Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Mac Malware / Spyware threat
Dear WAMUG members, I turn to you guys in this time of trouble as a regular reader of the informative posts to WAMUG. I have been lurking on this list for the last year. Well not quite a lurker, coz I did introduce WireTap when it first came out so I have contributed to our collective knowledge once!! I am in a hotel in Portland, Oregan USA and it has wireless access (US$6 a day). Yesterday I hexperienced something as a Mac user of 8 years as never b4. As soon as I logged to this network in the local hotel I have had problems with a VERY WEIRD 'popunder Javascript' (having looked at the source) which takes over my internet connection and thus I have been unable to load a page for the last 2 days. Have I experienced the first ever example of Mac Spyware or Mac Malware??? I accessed the internet at San Fran Airport no problem with T-Mobile (US$5 an hour). Sydney Airport was also no prob at all. All websites loaded produce the same infinitely reproducing popup windows ( actually a pop-under window). This is the page source: Does the hotel's wireless redirect you to a web page for you to enter a registration ID or username or something? (this is quite common with paid access wireless) If so I'm guessing it probably also pops up an ad (which possibly has faulty javascript). Did you turn pop-up blocking on in Safari (command-k)? Does the hotel's wireless require you to specify a proxy server for web access? If so, have you done so? Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Redirecting in Eudora?
Is there a way to do the redirect to option (to a quick recipient) without it opening a window to edit it? I'd like to be able to (manually) redirect 50+ mail items and not have 50+ edit windows open! If I do it as a manual filter does it also open edit windows? I've been scouring the manual and reading the Eudora knowledge base to no avail... Cheers, Antony. Hold down the Option key and the 'Redirect To' option under the Message menu will become 'Turbo Redirect To'. You can also make Turbo Redirect the default from the 'Miscellaneous' panel of the Settings window. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Skype CPU usage usage on older macs
Anybody have suggestions on good SIP phone apps for OS/X? There's the open source OhPhoneX: http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/ohphoneX-docs/ohphoneX.html And the XPhone http://www.nikotel.com/software.htm which is rebadged for a number of VOIP gateway companies such as TerraCall http://www.terracall.com/ As to whether they're good or not, I have no idea :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Eudora Firefox
Hi Wamuggers Last night I sent two replies to another list I am with and they bounced back. Someone suggested that I could be sending my email in HTML format. I have looked through preferences and can't see any such choice. Can some-one kindly let me know where to find out? From the Special menu, open Settings and then scroll to the Styled Text panel. Click the 'Ask me each time' checkbox. That way Eudora will warn and ask you if you are sending anything with styles. Was there any warning message in the bounce messages? Usually they contain some information about why they were bounced. Also, recently in the thread about bad Windows someone (Shay?) made a cryptic remark about Firefox - (don't tell them about Firefox - I think). Could someone expand upon the Firefox thing please? It's a nice secure, simple yet expandable web browser: http://www.mozilla.org/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Retrospect 6 restore CD...
Hi... Does anyone have a Dantz Retrospect 6 recovery CD I can borrow (or have the Retrospect Media Kit for sale and in stock (not the full copy of Retro)?) I have a downloaded licensed copy of Retro, but that doesn't include the bootable recovery CD :(, and I'm not 100% sure the one I built myself is functioning correctly. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia TechnomancerChronopolis Quiz Day Opinions for hire [POQ] Sun. March 14, Hyde Park Hotel [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://chronopolis.sf.org.au/
Re: ATO Tax form
The answer is NO. The ignorant Tax office still keeps perpertrating that myth that you can do your tax on line. You need some glass to use there e .. stuff. See here :- http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/content.asp?doc=/content/32234.htm Bob Actually, according to reports you can run it under Wine under linux. You can run Linux under Bochs (or Virtual PC) on your Mac. So you can run it without Windows, but it does require some effort (especially if you want to submit it tomorrow :) http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/10/0600.html http://www.winehq.com/ http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
