Re: Iomega Predator CD-RW Question -Doh

2004-03-01 Thread aurora
Hi, Just reread my last email and the last part did not come out right. What I meant is that they are a stationery store and not an apple store. I would have no right to expect the wonderful technical information that this list could provide from them. Sorry the excitement of seeing David Bowie t

Problem with USB hub

2004-03-01 Thread J Philippe Chaperon
Dear WAMUGers, I am having a small problem when using a Belkin USB 2.0 hub in that when the computer is turned on, any device (currently a ZIP 100) connected to the hub does not seem to be recognised. It even looks like the hub itself is not recognised as System Profiler does not show the hub unle

Re: start up problems

2004-03-01 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 28/02/2004, at 8:37 AM, Bart Raffaele wrote: Hi all I'm having problems with my iMac Bondi , When i turn it on the old favorite folder comes on and flashes with the question mark and stays on. I haven't seen this problem since the days of my SE/30, Meaning i might have a serious problem

Re: Meeting

2004-03-01 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 28/02/2004, at 10:15 AM, Matthew Healey wrote: There is one thing about that raffle, and that is that it will be held on the April meeting. The reason for this is that our members site wont be finished for about 2 weeks. There will be a raffle though... and we do have some cool prizes. -

[For sale] PowerMac G4 500 (AGP)

2004-03-01 Thread Paul & Caroline van der Mey
Purchased this unit at the Apple Centre Cannington closing down sale! Was the top of the line G4 at its time of release G4 500 (AGP) DVD RAM drive (Cartridge type) 10 Gig HDD 256 MB RAM Zip 100 DVI & VGA video output ports Original OS9 system disks Original keyboard & puck mouse Manual Original

Re: Iomega Predator CD-RW Question

2004-03-01 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 29/02/2004, at 1:31 PM, aurora wrote: Hi, The Office works catalogue has an Iomega Predator 3 CD-RW USB external drive for sale. I like the looks of it but am unable to determine if it will run with my machine. Can you please help? I have a G3 powerbook 333MHz (bronze keyboard) with 32

Re: Iomega Predator CD-RW Question

2004-03-01 Thread Dave Choy
While the whole "clueless" staff thing is a reality, the really nice thing about Officeworks is that you can buy it, try it, and if it doesn't work you are entitled to a full refund - all you need to say was that it was "unsuitable". That being said, you might just want to go and buy a LaCIe U

BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread dgager
Thanks to those wamuggers who provided pointers - am now up and running with a Netgear FVS318 Router/Firewall running Panther on a network of 3 macs and 2 ethernet printers. Whirlpool was not quite up to date as the Netgear routers they recommend are no longer available. But a very helpful bod

Parallel to USB adaptor.

2004-03-01 Thread Robert Howells
Hi All, I am looking to connect a printer from a USB port to a Printer Parallel Jack. Sometimes called Parallel to USB adaptor. Is there anybody with such a thing surplus to requirements ? TIA Bob

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Chris Burton
Dudley and muggers I have found the same, having been connected to cable since last monday arvo. What a HUGE difference. The only thing I did when telstra rang to confirm the booking on the saturday, was to tell them I was using a mac with 10.3 installed. The techie who came out, was reasonabl

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:28, dgager wrote: > It seems to me that a lot of the angst about BigPond cable on > macscould be just ancient history. I really couldn't have found it > morestraightforward. It's not so much the difficulty - or lack thereof - of setup, as what happens when, 3 months into

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Bob Jackson
At 3:28 PM 1/3/04, dgager eloquently proclaimed... It seems to me that a lot of the angst about BigPond cable on macs could be just ancient history. I really couldn't have found it more straightforward. I thoroughly agree! Unfortunately there are some people who had bad experiences

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:36, Bob Jackson wrote: > I thoroughly agree! Unfortunately there are some people who had bad > experiences in the past and continue to recount them without > appreciating that the current situation is totally different. Is it? Do their ToS now guarantee that they won't

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Bob Jackson
I think that your views will never change no matter what Telstra does. Your previous comment says it all - At 7:05 PM 1/3/04, Craig Ringer wrote: Then again, I'm a /really/ bitter ex-Bigpond Cable customer. Bob At 7:48 PM 1/3/04, Craig Ringer eloquently proclaimed... On Mon, 2004-0

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:59:17PM +0800, Bob Jackson wrote: > I think that your views will never change no matter what Telstra > does. Your previous comment says it all - > At 7:05 PM 1/3/04, Craig Ringer wrote: > >Then again, I'm a /really/ bitter ex-Bigpond Cable

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:59, Bob Jackson wrote: > I think that your views will never change no matter what Telstra > does. Your previous comment says it all - > At 7:05 PM 1/3/04, Craig Ringer wrote: > >Then again, I'm a /really/ bitter ex-Bigpond Cable customer. This is true - and I thought it o

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Craig Ringer
Actually, I should provide a quick reference to back up a few of my points here: > If Telstra: > - Ceases trying to rip off it's customers with "low cost" plans > that have low caps and per-megabyte charges > ( not just the current batch, which are even worse - >

Re: BigPond Cable No Worries

2004-03-01 Thread Bob Jackson
I think that it would be fair to everybody on this list if we just agreed to disagree and leave it at that. However before ending this thread may I say that, as a lawyer, I have never had any problems with the contracts or contractual changes made by Telstra. I have never worked in a computer

Bigpond cable download allowance

2004-03-01 Thread John Daniels
The cheap cable contract now offered allows a download of 500mb per month. Can someone give me an example of the number of emails I could download or web pages it is possible to visit for 500mb?

Free Software

2004-03-01 Thread Bob Jackson
The following software is gathering dust and I would like to give it free to a Mac user senior citizen - *Mac OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) *Toast 5 (Titanium) *DiskWarrior 2.1 I live in Leeming. Bob

Re: Bigpond cable download allowance

2004-03-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 20:55, John Daniels wrote: > The cheap cable contract now offered allows a download of 500mb per month. > Can someone give me an example of the number of emails I could download or > web pages it is possible to visit for 500mb? According to http://www.bigpond.com/internet-pl

Re: Bigpond cable download allowance

2004-03-01 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 01/03/2004, at 8:55 PM, John Daniels wrote: The cheap cable contract now offered allows a download of 500mb per month. Can someone give me an example of the number of emails I could download or web pages it is possible to visit for 500mb? Why bother with broadband if this is all you are

Re: Bigpond cable download allowance

2004-03-01 Thread Craig Ringer
> According to them, you could download 5000 emails and view 7000 web > pages on 500mb. I challenge anybody on a 500mb plan to try it, and tell > me what their bill is next month. No, I won't pay the extra! I forgot to note: nobody on a 500mb plan is likely to actually have usage anywhere near thi

March CD - WAMUG Group

2004-03-01 Thread Stuart Elvish
Hello everybody, I know that we have left this a bit late, however better late than never. TNet.com.au will of course be providing a CD again at the next meeting and we wanted to know what to put on the CD, and how many people would like a copy at the meeting. Any suggestions would be grea

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Findlay
>> >> You can find hundreds of emulators you can run on the mac from amigas to zx >> spectrums. Although getting the game roms is another thing. >> > > in the words of the Bard: > > "There's the rub" > > I wish I could resurect my old 7300 hard disk that had hundreds of > ROMS on it .. free G

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-03-01 Thread Adam Yap
Ehem... Somewhere around the place i have 6 CDs full of Mame ROMs. There's also a DVD distribution floating around somewhere but I'd saw that distributing would be errrm... unwise. Adam On 01/03/2004, at 11:46 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: You can find hundreds of emulators you can run on the ma