Re: OSX, removable media drives and firewire/usb

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 11:13 AM, Mark Secker wrote: > Has anybody used a LS120 drive in a 3rd party firewire or USB case > under OSX? > Would it need additional drivers to use standard floppies and the 120 > Meg LS disks? > > Standard issue external USB LS120 drives just plug and in

Re: Long Filenames

2003-02-05 Thread Paul
Subject: Re: Long Filenames > >do you have "joliet extension" installed, that enables the long file > >names on iso9660 disks > >James > > It won't enable filenames longer than 31 characters, as the Finder > doesn't support them (it uses the old filesystem API's, not the new > HFS+ API's) Tha

Re: Not Mac friendly

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 09:04 AM, Eugene de Gouw wrote: > I just tried it in Safari, most pages download OK until you get to > the aerial photos than you get a big red message saying that Macs are > not supported at the moment. Disappointing! > > It works fine under Internet Exploiter

Re: AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin
No, it was bought in India when he purchased the TiBook. One would think these things would be universal. Wendy On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 11:33 Asia/Dubai, Daniel wrote: As long as the Applecare was bought in Australia, you *should* be fine!! ;O) Kind Regards Daniel Kerr Wendy Austin

Re: AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Daniel
Latest on the AppleCare saga is my friend is phoning the Apple store in India where he purchased the TiBook and AppleCare. Apple in Sydney is also phoning 'someone'. I can now give you a further update to that above, latest SMS says Sydney have agreed to fix the TiBook. I suspect my friend has b

Re: AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin
Latest on the AppleCare saga is my friend is phoning the Apple store in India where he purchased the TiBook and AppleCare. Apple in Sydney is also phoning 'someone'. I can now give you a further update to that above, latest SMS says Sydney have agreed to fix the TiBook. I suspect my friend has

Recycle IT has old mac stuff in stock

2003-02-05 Thread Mark Secker
I've just been down to Recycle IT in Osbourne Park Industrial area to dispose of several old 486 computers and they have had a large shipment of pre-G3 macs in. Heaps of monitors mostly 15" though, various LC, 7100 & 7200's and a Color Classic (though Greg might not sell this last one - he see

Re: AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Daniel
Well now its a bit more confusing. If the Applecare is purchased in Australia it covers it globally. (Like Applecare purchased in the US is globally.) Apparently it can depend on the country where Applecare is purchased. I checked the India Applesite, and it doesn't mention if it works the sam

Re: AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Karl Videmanis
An AppleCare Protection Plan that is purchased in Australia for notebooks has global repair coverage. Download the pdf from http://www.apple.com.au/support/products/pdf/AUST_ACPP_FS.pdf Rgds Karl On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 01:06 PM, Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin wrote: Thanks for

Re: Sticking cursor

2003-02-05 Thread Daniel
2. Does anyone have a full list of Extensions (OS 9.2) that explains their uses, so I can decide to run/disable etc? is there such a thing? Hi Jon (and all) You could look at a shareware program called Extension Overload. It is very good!! You can grab i from Versiontracker

Re: AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin
Thanks for this Daniel Certainly is not what we wanted to hear! Seems very illogical to me given that laptops are mobile. Will pass the information on. Thanks. Wendy On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 08:58 Asia/Dubai, Daniel wrote: Hi Wendy (and others) My understanding on this, is that the

Re: AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Daniel
Good morning All A friend bought a TiBook in India where he was living at the time and also purchased AppleCare. He is now in Sydney and has a problem with the TiBook but is being told by Apple there that AppleCare is not international. Surely this can't be the case, especially with a laptop. Do

AppleCare

2003-02-05 Thread Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin
Good morning All A friend bought a TiBook in India where he was living at the time and also purchased AppleCare. He is now in Sydney and has a problem with the TiBook but is being told by Apple there that AppleCare is not international. Surely this can't be the case, especially with a laptop.

CommPost: $49 Flash Drives, $9.99 FireWire

2003-02-05 Thread Zytech online store
We have just a few of the old model 32MB FlashDrives that we are going to clear for just $49 - http://www.zytech.com.au/usb/pen/index.html Just insert WAMUG special in the Special Comments field at checkout and we'll bill you the special mail list price. Some Flash Drives are now all-aluminium a

Meeting Photos

2003-02-05 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi all, The photos from last nights meeting are up on the web site. Congratulations to Peter Botman and June Moss for winning the copies of F1 Championship and Keynote. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--

Re: Long Filenames

2003-02-05 Thread Shay Telfer
do you have "joliet extension" installed, that enables the long file names on iso9660 disks James It won't enable filenames longer than 31 characters, as the Finder doesn't support them (it uses the old filesystem API's, not the new HFS+ API's) Have fun, Shay -- === S

Re: Long Filenames

2003-02-05 Thread James Kunz
do you have "joliet extension" installed, that enables the long file names on iso9660 disks James Shay Telfer wrote: > > >Any tips or solutions will be hugely appreciated. > > Find a Mac OS X machine to do it. > > Toast probably won't support the long filenames for files it's > loading from Sys

New iMacs

2003-02-05 Thread Shay Telfer
To quote Macintouch, all prices in $US: Apple this morning updated its iMac line, adding AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth support (but not FireWire 800) to a new 17-inch model, priced at $1,799 with a 1-GHz processor. This system includes a

iLife

2003-02-05 Thread Keith Palmer
I've been waiting on my copy of (purchased) iLife which has yet to ship from Apple. They have just told me that there are no copies of iLife in Australia and they won't start shipping from Sydney until early-mid next week. H . Keith Palmer Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd PO Box 342 Bunbury

OSX, removable media drives and firewire/usb

2003-02-05 Thread Mark Secker
Has anybody used a LS120 drive in a 3rd party firewire or USB case under OSX? Would it need additional drivers to use standard floppies and the 120 Meg LS disks? I have an IDE LS120 drive in my XP PC and need to free up an IDE port for an extra hard drive so would like to put the LS120 in a e

iMac for sale

2003-02-05 Thread Kathryn Purvey
I have a purple iMac 333 for sale... $700 any offers. ? call Kathy 08 9470 2662

Re: poor relation screen freezes

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Weaver
Seeing as you have done a clean install of Sys 8.6 one of Apple's suggestions to avoid screen freezes is to trash the file Desktop Printer Spooler. Also I reinstall Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in such stressful times. This can usually be done with Microsoft Self Repair, which is probably

Fw: Not Mac friendly

2003-02-05 Thread Chuckey's server
- Original Message - From: "Chuckey's server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Secker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:26 AM Subject: Re: Not Mac friendly > HI just tested this site on my microshaft pee cee > > it needs to install a plug in for you to use the servic

Re: Sticking cursor

2003-02-05 Thread Jon Davison
Top of the morning to you all, a couple of queries. 1. I have recently encountered the following annoying problem. The mouse is sticking every now and then, independent of how many open apps there are. Freezing when dragging info to folders etc, on IE5, Photoshop 6/7, Dreamweaver 4. The system

Re: Cheap Mac wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Griffiths
I have a 7300/200 with 196mb ram and a 17" moniter I wanted to get rid of for $300 or thereabouts?! Regards Chris Visual Management Level 3, 949 Wellington St, West Perth WA 6005 Phone: 9324 3144 Mobile: 0417 847 825 / 0417 VISUAL www.visualm.c

Fwd: Re: Not Mac friendly

2003-02-05 Thread Eugene de Gouw
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Re: Not Mac friendly

2003-02-05 Thread Mark Secker
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 05:23 PM, Lloyd White wrote: I tried to get on to DOLA's aerial photographs at http://www.landonline.com.au/ It will not handle Macs. I made my complaint and was told that it might come . Lloyd Seems to work OK using Safari (but you do need to be running

Re: Not Mac friendly

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 05:23 PM, Lloyd White wrote: > I tried to get on to DOLA's aerial photographs at > http://www.landonline.com.au/ > > It will not handle Macs. I made my complaint and was told that it > might come > . > > Lloyd > Seems to work OK using Safari (but you do need to

Re: SCSI, Toast & OSX + Internet time outs

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 03:45 AM, Douglas Elford wrote: > Oh another, having been just disconnected 'due to lack of network > activity' while writing this e-mail is there a way of adjusting that > timing? > System Preferences -> Network -> PPP Tab -> PPP Options button -> Disconnect if