Re: G5 to PC was a hoax

2004-02-01 Thread Dave Choy
Hey everyone, That story someone posted about some dude turning his G5 into a pc that gave some people nightmares etc etc has turned out to be a hoax. While I thought it was real, i didn't really care since you'd have to be an absolute loser to do that. Take a look:

Quicken 2004 in Perth ?

2004-02-01 Thread Phil Goodall-Smith
I notice that macmall.com.au is advertising that they have imported versions of Quicken 2004 for sale on the net Does anyone know of anybody in Perth that would stock this or does anyone have a copy they want to sell. I would prefer to buy locally and off the shelf if possible...

Good items going cheap(er)

2004-02-01 Thread Edward Arrowsmith
This week its $125 the lot For sale: 1 x Fantom Drives Firewire 16X CD Burner 1 x Zip Drive with 6 x 100 Mb discs 1 x Keyspan USB - serial dual adaptor 64 Mb P100 G4 RAM All in perfect working order. $150 the lot

Re: Not received

2004-02-01 Thread Rod Blitvich
The same happened to me. Whilst you receive other's postings, someone has to manually enable you to make postings. In my case this took around 10 days, probably due to holidays and such. Matt Healey can help. Cheers Rod on 1/2/04 8:46 AM, Severin Crisp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently

G4 to G5 Trade-up Program In Oz?

2004-02-01 Thread Richard Kay
Interesting post on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ START QUOTE 'Here's a tip - don't expect new G5's before 3/26/2004. Apple Oz (Australia) have just introduced a trade up program - they give buyers A$1000.00 (appx. $775 US) tradein for a G4 (no specific model mentioned) on a new G5, The

Re: G4 to G5 Trade-up Program In Oz?

2004-02-01 Thread Larry Pohl
On 01/2/04 12:49 PM, Richard Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting post on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ START QUOTE 'Here's a tip - don't expect new G5's before 3/26/2004. Apple Oz (Australia) have just introduced a trade up program - they give buyers A$1000.00 (appx. $775 US) tradein

Re: G4 to G5 Trade-up Program In Oz?

2004-02-01 Thread Richard Kay
No go ... error message upon clicking on that link. Cordially, Richard Kay --- Fremantle Western Australia On 01/02/2004, at 1:08 PM, Larry Pohl wrote: SNIP See this thread: http://forums.maccentral.com/wwwthreads/showflat.php? Cat=Board=generalNum

Re: G4 to G5 Trade-up Program In Oz?

2004-02-01 Thread Larry Pohl
On 01/2/04 1:16 PM, Richard Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No go ... error message upon clicking on that link. Cordially, Richard Kay --- Fremantle Western Australia On 01/02/2004, at 1:08 PM, Larry Pohl wrote: SNIP See this thread:

Re: Softwindows on OSX

2004-02-01 Thread Murdoch Allen
I think you will find you will need VPC6 virtual PC On 1 Feb 2004, at 8:46 AM, Janice Rolf wrote: Hi I'm just about to switch to OSX and would like to know if I can use Softwindows 98 on OSX ? Have been using successfully with OS 8 to run various scientific software. Also will software

Re: G4 to G5 Trade-up Program In Oz?

2004-02-01 Thread Dark Servant
I wonder what Apple would actually do with all these old G4's. I doubt they'd be sold 2nd hand and the parts probably wouldn't be all that useful. Perhaps they'd be donated or something. It would seem like a waste to just retrieve them and then throw them out. Interesting post on

Eudora failure to highlight

2004-02-01 Thread Tom Lewis
Does anyone have experience with Eudora the email program? I'm using Eudora Pro 3.0. For years it's run v. well, but now received mail in the in box (and other filtered boxes) as well, isn't highlighted as being unread by having a little black dot beside it. I've messed around re-setting

Thanks Matt

2004-02-01 Thread Severin Crisp
Thanks, Matt, I am now able to post again Severin ___ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842

Re: ilife 04 upgrade - bah humbug

2004-02-01 Thread Paul Caroline van der Mey
This date is starting to become commonplace, must be something behind it... Paul Interesting post on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ START QUOTE 'Here's a tip - don't expect new G5's before 3/26/2004. snip The program starts today and ends 3/26/2004 so I'm guessing the new G5's are

Frozen iMAC

2004-02-01 Thread Bill Parker
Folks, I have just acquired an iMac 350Mhz machine from a government department at a bargain price (Dont laugh Phil!!). After setting it up and letting loose on a bloke who doesn't normally use Macs, its now frozen. We ran a few diagnostics, found the usual crop of files with wrong files

Re: Frozen iMAC

2004-02-01 Thread James Devenish
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:39:08PM +0800, Bill Parker wrote: I can get as far as the desktop showing all icons as per normal with the keyboard and mouse as normal then she dies about 10 secs after the icons come on.. With Mac OS 7/8/9, this sort of problem can

Expertise Req'd - S/ware development - linkages

2004-02-01 Thread Michael Anderson
Can anyone point me in the right direction and / or give me some preliminary advice, as I am not a programmer. I cannot find any dental programs in Australia for the Mac environment capable of what is required below. A search of the web indicates that some s/ware in France maybe able to do

Re: iPhoto4

2004-02-01 Thread John Winters
I think you have to BUY the whole package iLife 04 to get this upgrade. I HAVE purchased, and find the upgraded iPhoto to be be a big improvement for my large library of hi res pics. Much faster to open, much faster to load pics, and able to batch label images. The searching works a bit

Accessing files on NTFS server in OSX

2004-02-01 Thread John Winters
I have a small island of Macs in a Windows/Novel Netware network. A key shared data file is located on an NT server which is of course accessible by the PC¹s in my department, and the Macs using OS9 and DAVE. With the much vaunted Windows connectivity in OSX I thought I would be able to log in to

Re: Eudora failure to highlight

2004-02-01 Thread Bob Jackson
At 6:49 PM 1/2/04, Graham Green eloquently proclaimed... Does anyone have experience with Eudora the email program? I'm using Eudora Pro 3.0. For years it's run v. well, but now received mail in the in box (and other filtered boxes) as well, isn't highlighted as being unread by

Re: G4 to G5 Trade-up Program In Oz?

2004-02-01 Thread Rod Lavington
On 1/2/04 3:26 PM, Dark Servant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what Apple would actually do with all these old G4's. I doubt they'd be sold 2nd hand and the parts probably wouldn't be all that useful. Perhaps they'd be donated or something. It would seem like a waste to just retrieve

Re: Frozen iMAC

2004-02-01 Thread Rod Lavington
Hi Bill, On 1/2/04 5:39 PM, Bill Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I have just acquired an iMac 350Mhz machine from a government department at a bargain price (Dont laugh Phil!!). After setting it up and letting loose on a bloke who doesn't normally use Macs, its now frozen. We

Re: Frozen iMAC

2004-02-01 Thread Rod Lavington
On 1/2/04 5:43 PM, James Devenish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:39:08PM +0800, Bill Parker wrote: I can get as far as the desktop showing all icons as per normal with the keyboard and mouse as normal then she dies about 10 secs after the

Re: iPhoto4

2004-02-01 Thread Rod Lavington
On 1/2/04 6:50 PM, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you have to BUY the whole package iLife 04 to get this upgrade. I HAVE purchased, and find the upgraded iPhoto to be be a big improvement for my large library of hi res pics. Much faster to open, much faster to load pics, and