Re: Further attempts at virus spreading!

2004-05-24 Thread Robert Howells
On Sunday, May 23, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Brad Helden wrote: Hi Rob, I have told iPrimus of the problem and they informed me that 'for just a few dollars more' they have a anti-virus system available that will weed out those nasty virii. Aint it nice to know they are so obliging to help.

Re: Further attempts at virus spreading!

2004-05-24 Thread Doug Wilson
Heh Brad , They seem to be saying it is time you changed your ISP. I don't have any trouble over this way. Cheers Bob Westnet offer a service for $10 a year that kills most spam but their anti-virus service is free and excellent. Their ADSL prices are quite good as well.

Re: Further attempts at virus spreading!

2004-05-24 Thread logrythm
On 23/05/2004, at 11:41 PM, Doug Wilson wrote: Heh Brad , They seem to be saying it is time you changed your ISP. I don't have any trouble over this way. Cheers Bob Westnet offer a service for $10 a year that kills most spam but their anti-virus service is free and excellent. Their ADSL

Re: Further attempts at virus spreading!

2004-05-24 Thread Doug Wilson
Im with westnet and pay $20 per year for virus scanning. I think you might be too. Cheers Paul Possible, I don't actually handle the account myself.

Apple Educational talk this Wednesday

2004-05-24 Thread Shay Telfer
Forwarded from Stephen Atherton (so reply to him, not me!): I am running an event THIS Wednesday in Perth at ECU. It is an update on Apple technologies as well as a semi literature review of what folks are doing out there- heaps of case studies in tertiary ed (K-12 folks may gain something

Wamug subscriptions

2004-05-24 Thread Robert Howells
To Whomever can respond ! ? Various requests have been floated on this mail list about Subscriptions! Never have I seen a response from the Treasurer ! Can we subscribe by Bank transfer and will i get an acknowldgement ! ??? Thank you Bob Howells

Problem with Disk Warrior 3.0.1

2004-05-24 Thread J Philippe Chaperon
Dear WAMUG'ers, I have been having some problems with Disk Warrior 3.0.1. I'm running OS X 10.3.3 on a G5 and I cannot seem to boot the machine from the Disk Warrior CD at the first try. It will eventually boot, but only after 3 or more tries. Wonder if the quality of Disk Warrior is going

Security update for earlier versions of OSX?

2004-05-24 Thread Neil Blake Associates
Hi all Following all the discussion on the list I was keen to run the security upgrade, but find it is only available for 10.2.8 or 10.3.3. Does this mean that earlier versions of OSX are not vulnerable to this security problem, or that Apple has not got its act together yet with an update for

Re: Problem with Disk Warrior 3.0.1

2004-05-24 Thread Shay Telfer
Dear WAMUG'ers, I have been having some problems with Disk Warrior 3.0.1. I'm running OS X 10.3.3 on a G5 and I cannot seem to boot the machine from the Disk Warrior CD at the first try. It will eventually boot, but only after 3 or more tries. To quote my e-mail to the list from last Thursday:

Re: So this is what windows is like ! ?

2004-05-24 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:09, Robert Howells wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html?from=storylhs Not always. My Win2k install on my home desktop is well into its second year, alive and well. Of course, all I ever use it for is the odd game, and I'm utterly paranoid

Re: IE dropout problem

2004-05-24 Thread Neil Blake Associates
Hi all Thanks to those who responded to my message about the curious internet dropouts my Mac has been suffering lately. I have quite by accident discovered that the problem seems to be caused by my Favourites being corrupted - not sure why - or how to fix it. When I enter a URL manually it

Apple Address Book refuses to load

2004-05-24 Thread Douglas Sheerer
For no reason that I can think of Apple Address Book will not load. I have re-installed from a back up copy of the programme (am using OSX. 10.3.3 Panther) - still will not load. Any ideas? -- Douglas Sheerer Director (B.A. Art + Design, Post Grad Dip Fine Art, Master of Arts, Art - New

Re: So this is what windows is like ! ?

2004-05-24 Thread James Devenish
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:32:33PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: I'm presently rebuilding that OSX box that decided that it didn't feel like shutting down. Just out of curiosity, does the BSD shutdown command work fine? Does init identify in its output any processes