Re: cpu activity on a web page

2005-04-24 Thread Steven Tan
Probably the Flash loading in the page. Flash player 7 for Mac OS X is still very processor intensive even though it has improved a lot in the latest version. Flash player 8 should be out soon and hopefully they will address the issue and make it more efficient. Steven On 24/04/2005, at 11:37

Re: cpu activity on a web page

2005-04-24 Thread Mike Fuller
Yes, Nancy, this site generates near 100% cpu on my 1.8GHz G5 iMac. What does it all mean... On 24/04/2005, at 5:17 PM, Nancy McIntyre wrote: Howdy, Can any reader confirm the near 100 percent cpu activity when viewing this page: http://myplace.westnet.com.au/default.aspx in any or all of

Re: IiNet Broadband 2?

2005-04-24 Thread David Noel
-- I've done this same change about 3-4 weeks ago, and so far there have been no problems. The download speed you get depends on your distance from your exchange, I am about 3 km from mine (Subiaco) and get about 5100. -- You don't get a detailed list of your non-local calls from iiNet, but thi

Canberra to Blackheath near Katoomba

2005-04-24 Thread Malcolm J McCallum
Dear All, Well here we are in the Blue Mountains. We had a wonderful week in Canberra with Sue's cousin Peter & his partner Jill. We have been to Canberra before, but we really enjoyed this visit. We were there particularly for Peter's 70th birthday party which was held by Lake Burley Gri

Re: iMac SE issues

2005-04-24 Thread Adrian Skehan
This may not be helpful but is amusing. This problem reminds me of a 40 mb external drive I had many years ago that wouldn't spin up, I drilled a hole through the outer and inner case that were aligned with the edge of the disk at an oblique angle, to start it I would give it a prod with a knit

cpu activity on a web page

2005-04-24 Thread Nancy McIntyre
Howdy, Can any reader confirm the near 100 percent cpu activity when viewing this page: http://myplace.westnet.com.au/default.aspx in any or all of Safari, Firefox and Camino? I note that turning off the big flash phone ad reduces the cpu activity by around 40 percent. thanks in advance

Re: iMac SE issues

2005-04-24 Thread Mark Secker
I would also get the power supply checked out, to me (without opening the box) I would say it is suffering, and is not providing the grunt it needs to start, if the HDD you are running is an older one (more than 2-3 years) the bearings will be wearing and the grease starts to go hard when col

Re: iMac SE issues

2005-04-24 Thread Kathy Quinlan
Ronda Brown wrote: On 24/04/2005, at 3:02 PM, Christian Kotz wrote: When starting it up today, I was greeted by further bad news. The computer made 3 beep tones and the power light flashes three times in amber quite rapidly then changes to green, then back to the flashing amber. What does th

Re: iMac SE issues

2005-04-24 Thread Ronda Brown
On 24/04/2005, at 3:02 PM, Christian Kotz wrote: When starting it up today, I was greeted by further bad news. The computer made 3 beep tones and the power light flashes three times in amber quite rapidly then changes to green, then back to the flashing amber. What does this mean? prior to th

Re: iMac SE issues

2005-04-24 Thread Christian Kotz
When starting it up today, I was greeted by further bad news. The computer made 3 beep tones and the power light flashes three times in amber quite rapidly then changes to green, then back to the flashing amber. What does this mean? prior to this It also was crashing after loading Open Transpor

Re: Printer not responding

2005-04-24 Thread Robert Howells
On 24/04/2005, at 11:12 AM, Vladimir James wrote: I recently upgraded a slot-loading iMac from MacOSX 2 to 3.8. Since that time the "Printer is not responding". I have pinged Ethernet with positive results, so the problem appears to be the printer. Connections are solid, and it prints a test

Printer not responding

2005-04-24 Thread Vladimir James
I recently upgraded a slot-loading iMac from MacOSX 2 to 3.8. Since that time the "Printer is not responding". I have pinged Ethernet with positive results, so the problem appears to be the printer. Connections are solid, and it prints a test sheet without problems. It worked fine previously.

Re: email attachment weirdness

2005-04-24 Thread Greg Satti
Hi Neil, I got the same email yesterday so its possibly how it was sent. I know they had to resend one a couple of weeks/months ago but that was because they forgot the attachment. Kind regards, Greg Satti www.zytech.com.au PO Box 758, Bunbury WA 6230 Ph: (08) 9721 1125 Fx: (08) 9721 1126 Mob: 04

email attachment weirdness

2005-04-24 Thread Neil Houghton
I receive a weekly Market Bulletin from Commsec - its a pdf sent as an attachment to an HTML email. This week the email didn't show an attachment but seemed to show much of the source code - starting at: > Mime-Version: 1.0 and including tall the html coding and raw PDF code in the body of the ema

Re: iMac SE issues

2005-04-24 Thread Neil Houghton
on 24/04/05 01:09, Christian Kotz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry what I meant by three strikes is first I power it up and the HD > moves to position but there is no tone or screen activity so I push the > reset button and boot it again, by this stage the screen is on but no > sound or HD acti

Re: iMac SE issues

2005-04-24 Thread Christian Kotz
Sorry what I meant by three strikes is first I power it up and the HD moves to position but there is no tone or screen activity so I push the reset button and boot it again, by this stage the screen is on but no sound or HD activity. Third time/second reset it fires up with start up tone and OS