Re: Do I need help?

No everything is absolutely fine. All that means is that if you double click on these items it will try to load them in Warcraft 3. Everything should still run just fine and you can change those settings with the get info window anyway if you need to. You will probably never need to double cli

12" iBook G4 Survives Apartment Fire (With Pix)

Some cool photos of a 12" iBook G4 that survived an apartment fire and was still operational: http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1341 Enjoy! --- Richard Kay Fremantle Western Australia

Press report: Apple patch fails to fix critical flaws

Hi, The Age produced this article yesterday titled: Apple patch fails to fix critical flaws http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/26/1085461808172.html Regards Tim

[COMMPOST] Run Out Special

Hi All I have sourced some run-out models of the old Mac's which have just been superseded. Stock is limited so be in quick. I *may* also be able to get some of the older iBook G4 and just superseded PowerBooks for excellent pricing that I can also source for you. So if you were thinking of upgr

Do I need help?

Hi Wamugians I have an iMac running OS x.3.3 with a Z42 Lexmark inkjet printer. My dear son loaded a Warcraft III demo this week. It just so happened that I need to change my black ink cartridge. In that process I looked in my System/Extensions folder & lo & behold, the Lexmark items (and q

Re: DLink (was Billion 5100 Modem)

On 27/05/2004, at 6:00 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Interesting info on DLinks, for example,. you cant kill them by stuffing up the firmware... They run a lower level fixed firmware, which you can boot the router into and use to restore the operation firmware... Cheers Paul Which is good, as yo

[FS] 2x 3.5" Hard Disks + Ext 2.5" HD in FW case

Having a clear out... I have a few items to sell off. If no response in a couple of days you will find them on eBay !!! 1x 3.5" Seagate ST313021A mechanism (13Gb) - $40 1x 3.5" Seagate Apple Branded U Series 5 mechanism (20Gb) - $60 1x 2.5" Fujitsu MHK2120AT mechanism (12Gb) in a self powere

[FS] 2x 3.5" Hard Disks + Ext 2.5" HD in FW case

Having a clear out... I have a few items to sell off. If no response in a couple of days you will find them on eBay !!! 1x 3.5" Seagate ST313021A mechanism (13Gb) - $40 1x 3.5" Seagate Apple Branded U Series 5 mechanism (20Gb) - $60 1x 2.5" Fujitsu MHK2120AT mechanism (12Gb) in a self powere

Re: DLink (was Billion 5100 Modem)

Interesting info on DLinks, for example,. you cant kill them by stuffing up the firmware... They run a lower level fixed firmware, which you can boot the router into and use to restore the operation firmware... Cheers Paul Which is good, as you'll need to upgrade the firmware often (using a

Re: Billion 5100 Modem

If you have problems with a D-Link, and it has a console port, look up on the web page the method for accessing it through the console, early dlink used hyperterminal, later ones use telnet... Interesting info on DLinks, for example,. you cant kill them by stuffing up the firmware... They ru

Problem accessing HSBC online banking using Safari?

Anyone else have a problem accessing HSBC online banking with Safari? Works fine using IE 5.2.3, but no joy with Safari 1.2.1. Using OSX 10.3.3. Cheers...Steven

Re: Billion 5100 Modem

Paul wrote: I work at an ISP, we supply only D-Link modems and routers, and so far haven't had too many troubles. I have had a few issues with D-Link products, but mainly had media converters fail (the fibre to copper adaptors) I used to buy name brand stuff, but for small jobs I now use no

Re: Billion 5100

Dear Ruben, We have installed several Billion 5100 4-port modems for clients (Mac & PC) and they seem to work quite well. They seem to be lacking a couple of very advanced functions that the Netgears have, but you won't be using them anyway (mainly functions used for large companies). They a

Re: Billion 5100 Modem

I work at an ISP, we supply only D-Link modems and routers, and so far haven't had too many troubles. I personally use a Billion 741GE, and find that it has great features, and after a firmware update, is very reliable... i havent seen much of the 5100 model though... Also, with ADSL account

Billion 5100 Modem

I'm going to be upgrading to ADSL soon and have been doing a bit of research on http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/ I'm only looking at a low end account for a single G4-400 Mac. So far the Billion 5100 modem seems like the go for this. It's very affordable and has had nothing but good comments on the

Re: licencing

On 27/5/04 3:53 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 27/5/04 12:06 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding out about older >>> Mac OS licencing issues. >>> >>> The question is about

Re: MS Office 98 question.

On 27/05/2004, at 11:03 AM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: Hi all. I have just bought an iMac for my wife to do the office work on as her old iMac was in the process of dying :-(. Transferring her stuff across has been not an insignificant task but I am winning. My real problems are MS related (surp

Re: licencing

On 27/5/04 12:06 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding out about older Mac OS licencing issues. The question is about computers being given out by a charity. They tell me they can use OS 7.x.x legally but some of the s

MS Office 98 question.

Hi all. I have just bought an iMac for my wife to do the office work on as her old iMac was in the process of dying :-(. Transferring her stuff across has been not an insignificant task but I am winning. My real problems are MS related (surprise,surprise!). In WORD there is a system that when

Re: Where to get iPod cases in Perth?

I got my iPod case and iPod from a place called DiGiLife www.digilife.com.au They would probably know because when I went there they know the people in Sydney. If you go to the website that may be more helpful - Original Message - From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WAMUG Mailing List"

Re: Panther on a Bondi iMac

Have you tried upgrading your ram. I know OS X.2 needs to have 128mb of ram for the OS just to run, I have also read the min requirements and it should go on iMac so ram, the more ram the better it will run - Original Message - From: "BART RAFFAELE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WAMUG Mailing L

RE: MacOS X 10.3.4

Essentially, the screen freezes except for the cursor (which sometimes becomes a spinning beachball for a while then goes back to a cursor) ... the cursor moves but doesn't react to anything (i.e. nothing is highlighted, no pop-up text appears) ... however - the CD tray eject key works kinda. You

[OT] PC Notebook Query

Hi all, I have found (to my sorrow) that I am going to have to get hold of a Windoze capable notebook ASAP. This is required so that I can access data from a PC to use within my own Mac software [hence this post]. Specifically, I need this so that I can run MS Access (by which I mean: 1970s techn

RE: MacOS X 10.3.4

Especially odd since I performed a clean install of 10.3.3 a week ago (unsuccessfully attempted to fix what I suspect is an intermittent logic board issue with this dual 1.8). I'm going to try downloading and applying the 10.3.4 combo update tomorrow ... if that doesn't work perhaps DiskWarrior w

Re: MacOS X 10.3.4

Just tried this here Toby and mine works fine . sounds like a spot of DiskWarrioring wouldn't go astray. Hmm ... after installing 10.3.4 I can no longer repair permissions or verify ... well, anything - using Disk Utility. I get: "Disk Utility stopped verifying permissions on "Macintosh

FS [Perth] Aluminium 15" Powerbook 1ghz

As new condition. This is the 15" Aluminium Powerbook 1ghz G4 768MB DDR RAM Airport Extreme Combo Drive 60gb HDD Bluetooth OS X 10.3 Panther As new condition, I'd much prefer to sell this in Perth so the buyer can inspect and see it's condition. It's been kept happy in a laptop bag the whole t

licencing

Hi all Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding out about older Mac OS licencing issues. The question is about computers being given out by a charity. They tell me they can use OS 7.x.x legally but some of the systems are capable of using OS 8 or even 9. Must they be licenced?

Re: [4Sale] eMac 800 with Superdrive - $1000!!!!

Not sure if this came through yesterday, but I'm dropping the price to $950 for a quick sale. Seeya Rod! On 26/5/04 12:22 PM, "Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All! > > There's been a price drop. You can get yourself into the cheapest > dvd-burning Mac for $1000. Bargain in anyone's

Re: 10.3.4 Out!

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 08:14, Richard Kay wrote: > - improved disc burning and recording functionality Any idea if that might include UDF and/or ISO9660 DVD writing support? If so, I'll actually have to consider updating our OSX box to 10.3. mkisofs and cdrecord are all well and good for me, but

[ADMIN] List Outage

HI All, We had to change the IP address of the wamug server. Everything should be back to normal now. - Matt

For sale,PC, to help me buy a mac!

I own an old LC3 thats a bit tired, and I can't do much with it... I'm selling my PC,it's a: P4 2GHz, 80GB (1 WD Caviar 40, 1 IBM Deskstar 40) 7200rpm Hard drives, 24x12x24 rewriter, 40x CDRom, floppy, network card, Intellimouse Explorer, keyboard, 17" monitor, GeForce 2 MX440 64MB video card,

Buying my first Mac: Selling my PC

This email didn't come through from the mail group last time I sent it Resending: I own an old LC3 thats a bit tired, and I can't do much with it... I'm selling my PC,it's a: P4 2GHz, 80GB (1 WD Caviar 40, 1 IBM Deskstar 40) 7200rpm Hard drives, 24x12x24 rewriter, 40x CDRom, floppy, n

RE: MacOS X 10.3.4

Hmm ... after installing 10.3.4 I can no longer repair permissions or verify ... well, anything - using Disk Utility. I get: "Disk Utility stopped verifying permissions on "Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered: No valid packages" T. > -- > From: Peter Hinch

MacOS X 10.3.4

MacOS X 10.3.4 has been released. It is available from Software Update as an incremental update, or from Apple Downloads as either an incremental update or a combo update. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Deve

10.3.4 Out!

Now available via OS X Software Update (41.0MB): 10.3.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" and is recommended for all users. Key enhancements include: - improved file sharing and directory services for Mac (AFP), UNIX (NFS), PPTP,