Re: Set Top Box updates

Keith I see you've had some good suggestions so far. Martin's email on the PVR or DVR was great - I want one those but preferably a Tivo. However, if you're just in the market for the digital STB and are worried about firmware upgrades, you can spend a little more and opt for a model with the ab

Re: eMac Upgradable?

On 04/05/2005, at 10:33 PM, Rosie Cable wrote: Hi all I have an eMac 1GHz Superdrive (purchased new February 2004). Are there any components of the hardware that are upgradable? The only upgrade I have made, is to in to increase the memory to 768 RAM, but nothing else. Any information mu

Re: Set Top Box updates

Well, rather than a straight digital receiver set top box, we went for a DVR (Digital Video Recorder - which is basically a hard disk equipped digital set-top box) that allows you to record TV shows, pause live TV, etc in addition to having a digital TV tuner. We've actually had two digital set-to

eMac Upgradable?

Hi all I have an eMac 1GHz Superdrive (purchased new February 2004). Are there any components of the hardware that are upgradable? The only upgrade I have made, is to in to increase the memory to 768 RAM, but nothing else. Any information much appreciated Regards Rosie :-)

Re: Tiger non-delivery

No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new date of 4th May for delivery though. Mike :-) My Apple Maintenance Program copies arrived on Tuesday. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Techno

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

Hehe - double the fun on a mobile. Must say Mart, et al., I really appreciate being able to virtually attend the meeting from here in the Pilbara*. Best, Paul *NOW with 'broadband' 1.5mb/256k. On 5/4/05, Martin Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Paul Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > BTW - I

Reall Cool Widget

For those laptop owners,... Grab yourself this little widget, and before you head off somewhere you can set it to the Suburb, Western Australia, Australia and it will tell you where the WiFi hotspots are for that area! (There are 14 of them in Perth central apparently) :o)

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

> From: Paul Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > BTW - I haven't been able to access your part 2 segment of the May > meeting iLecture. My fault - I've been experimenting with adding iPod and mobile phone video options to the formats available for the WAMUG iLecture but I broke it instead. *sigh* The oth

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 4/05/2005 8:42 PM, "Paul Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A-ha. Cheers Daniel. Zoom is a very handy tool. > > BTW - I haven't been able to access your part 2 segment of the May > meeting iLecture. > > Best regards, > Paul > > - >ICT Coor

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

A-ha. Cheers Daniel. Zoom is a very handy tool. BTW - I haven't been able to access your part 2 segment of the May meeting iLecture. Best regards, Paul - ICT Coordinator Paraburdoo Primary School

[Meeting] Meeting Notes for May

Hi All! Notes from Tuesday's meeting. Apologies for poor grammar and spelling mistakes. I type faster then my brain can keep up. :o) Matt opened the meeting with the Tiger demo. He ran through some of the new features of Tiger. One of them was "Dashboard". It uses things called "Widgets", which a

Re: iPod for back up

Thats what I was hoping to hear Bob, thanks so much. On 04/05/2005, at 8:07 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 04/05/2005, at 7:11 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: When using SuperDuper to backup prior to installing Tiger, is it possible to back up to a 20Gb iPod as an external hard drive? Edward tha

Re: iPod for back up

On 04/05/2005, at 7:11 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: When using SuperDuper to back prior to installing Tiger, is it possible to back up to a 20Gb iPod as an external hard drive? Edward that should be possible by employing the Sparse Disk Image technique which I posted links for earlier today

OT : For all our mum's out there ...??

Hi All, This little snippet came across by desk, so being Mothers' Day this Sunday I thought this be something we may all have experienced. Cheers, Peder - 1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finis

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 4/05/2005 7:44 PM, "Paul Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very impressed with the iLecture. Great use of WA technology I seem > to remember. > > Matt, I noted the zoom in/out to the desktop technique that you used. > What is that effect? I use Mouseposé to draw students attention to > detai

Tiger features - an alternative review

I reckon a review needs to written about Tiger on how the things we use in our daily workflow, have been improved , added or reduced in capabilty and performance, I'll start ImageCapture- I mainly use it for scanning-( Espon perfection 610, which has worked well in OS X) image captu

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

Very impressed with the iLecture. Great use of WA technology I seem to remember. Matt, I noted the zoom in/out to the desktop technique that you used. What is that effect? I use Mouseposé to draw students attention to details on the desktop, but the technique you used seemed much more effective.

iPod for back up

When using SuperDuper to back prior to installing Tiger, is it possible to back up to a 20Gb iPod as an external hard drive?

Re: Tiger non-delivery

On 04/05/2005, at 5:46 PM, Greg Sharp wrote: On 4/5/05 6:55 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new date of 4th May for delivery though. I don't know what Apple Australia's position is on this, but in the US those

re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

Just finished viewing part I over dinner. Direction: straight adherence to the Dogme 95 school. Screenplay: no groundbreaking plot departures, but for lovers of the film mac genre, it has all the elements - right down to the wisecracking investigator. Cinematography: a refreshingly direct app

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

> Last time I checked, we usually call it hail, or hail stones. > > In any event, I'm Matthew, not Daniel. > > :-) > > - Matt Woops. Sorry about the mixup about who's who. It may well be hail in the picture, have to check the developers notes. Hail and freezing rain are quite different. Hail c

Re: Tiger non-delivery

On 4/5/05 6:55 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new date of 4th > May for delivery though. I don't know what Apple Australia's position is on this, but in the US those promised Tiger by the 29th who didn't receive it al

[no subject]

With Tiger up and running I have a few observations to make. I found this one of the easiest system transitions I can remember, in large measure due to my prestudy of the two eBooks "Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger" and "Take Control of Customizing Tiger" from www.takecontrolbooks.com w

Re: Set Top Box updates

Check out the TEAC Digital Player. http://player.teac.com.au/index.html I have updated the software on my unit twice using the internal modem. I think they are available at Target, Myer and Megamart. Can't recall the current price but is probably between $200 and $300. I have mine connected

Re: Can't dialup to net

Something you can try, when I was on OS9 I had the same thing happen, though it might not be caused by the same thing. Under TCP/IP, in the control panel, it had defaulted/changed itself to connect via ethernet, not PPP. Good luck. On 5/4/05, Robert Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 04/

RE: Tiger non-delivery

No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new date of 4th May for delivery though. Mike :-) -Original Message- From: Mike Fuller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 4:51 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Cc: Subject:Tiger non-delivery I still ha

Tiger non-delivery

I still haven't received my Tiger from the up-to-date program. I left a message with the up-to-date Australian agents but it's USA who calls back (and I was out at the time). Has anyone else on this program still not got their Tiger? Mike

Re: Query on iCal under Tiger

On 04/05/2005, at 4:42 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 4/05/2005 4:36 PM, "Ronda Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 04/05/2005, at 1:48 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Umm,...am I missing something? (OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o) In iCal when I go to the preferen

Set Top Box updates

Our family are considering purchasing a Set Top Box in an attempt to improve the fringe-signal ghosting and snow that currently constitutes our TV picture. Most models advertise that they can be firmware updated for increased functionality, and they all say the same thing: "Just download the

Re: Query on iCal under Tiger

On 4/05/2005 4:36 PM, "Ronda Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 04/05/2005, at 1:48 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> Umm,...am I missing something? >> (OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o) >> >> In iCal when I go to the preferences and tell it that I only want >>

Re: Query on iCal under Tiger

On 04/05/2005, at 1:48 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Umm,...am I missing something? (OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o) In iCal when I go to the preferences and tell it that I only want to view between the hours of 8am and 10pm it still shows me midnight to midnigh

Re: Tiger

Thanks all for the help. Adrian On 04/05/2005, at 3:52 PM, Rod wrote: Hi Adrian, Are the eMacs moveable? If so, you can put them into FireWire target mode, connect them up to a machine that does have DVD. Boot DVD machine off the Tiger DVD, then install Tiger to the FireWire eMac's h

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 04/05/2005, at 2:52 PM, Doug Wilson wrote: You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin iLectures system has finished processing it: http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.las

Re: Tiger

You could use Net Restore http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html with the netboot feature of your OSX Server software. Not trivial but it's possible. Alternatively you can clean install the software on an eMac with a DVD drive then use Carbon Copy Cloner (same URL as above) to copy the

Re: Tiger

Hi Adrian, Are the eMacs moveable? If so, you can put them into FireWire target mode, connect them up to a machine that does have DVD. Boot DVD machine off the Tiger DVD, then install Tiger to the FireWire eMac's hard drive instead of your own. You will need a 6pin to 6 pin FireWire ca

Tiger

The copy of Tiger I have received consists of a single DVD I do however, have to install it onto a couple of eMacs which are part of a X Server network, unfortunately they don't have DVD drives in them, can anyone advise me how to deal with this other than ask Apple for it on CDs'

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

> You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting > tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin > iLectures system has finished processing it: > > http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692 > > No doubt Matt will put a lin

Re: you want respect on the road... you got it ....

yeh as I said forgot to put "off topic" in header in the subject and, well, I am some what weird (or so I've been told) - I can live with that. The link was actually sent to me by a Ulysses guy I do occasional mac support for and there are at least half a dozen (that I know of) WAMUGers who ar

Re: you want respect on the road... you got it ....

On 04/05/2005, at 2:15 PM, Mark Secker wrote: maybe the Ulysses club should have escorted their members in to Camberra with this... it might have avoided their run in with the Rebels MC Mark... you really should check your emails before you send them. The stuff you keep sending to the lis

Re: you want respect on the road... you got it ....

of course that should have been tagged as OT ... sorry -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ "Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." - Miguel de Unam

you want respect on the road... you got it ....

maybe the Ulysses club should have escorted their members in to Camberra with this... it might have avoided their run in with the Rebels MC http://www.ulyssesclub.org/members/classifieds.asp for more details. http://www.ulyssesclub.org/images/classifieds/6605/X1114876605.jpg -- ~ Mark

Re: Can't dialup to net

On 04/05/2005, at 11:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with "bad authentication". We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side, they gave us a test acc

Re: Can't dialup to net

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with "bad authentication". We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side, they gave us a test account, tested with another ISP

Can't dialup to net

I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with "bad authentication". We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side, they gave us a test account, tested with another ISP (still using Telstra's Mega

snappy Tiger but some bugs and omissions Re:

Techspot's reaction to Tiger ... http://www.techspot.com/ pretty much agree - on both my G4 400Mhz (512MB RAM) and a G4 1Ghz (1GB RAM) machine they both seem to launch programs and display folders with large volume of items extremely quicker and more stably than 10.3 an example I've note

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

If anyone else is having this problem, please let me know - I assume it is playing fine for everyone else? Edward, did you try one of the low bandwidth versions of the video (ie video 56k or even video 28k)? If have tried those, there may be a firewall between you and the streaming server that is

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 04/05/2005, at 9:57 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: When i go to the site and click on QT, select the bandwidth, all I get is a negotiating message for a long time. Is there something obvious I am not doing please? Did you select the speed of your access ?eg... 56k video Bob Works for

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

When i go to the site and click on QT, select the bandwidth, all I get is a negotiating message for a long time. Is there something obvious I am not doing please? On 03/05/2005, at 11:03 PM, Martin Hill wrote: You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting tonigh

Backups and Sparse Disk Image's

Good Morning All, Last night there was a little discussion about backup's and Superduper ( it supports tiger ) Here is the link for the instructions on how to configure and use a " Sparse Disk Image ". with Superduper and

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 03/05/2005, at 11:03 PM, Martin Hill wrote: You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin iLectures system has finished processing it: http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.l

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

Hi all, something that I missed whilst changing the DV tape was when someone asked Matt if there were any problems/bugs with Tiger. Matt said that he had not experienced any difficulties at all so far, or words to that effect. That might be something others have wanted to know about. Cheers, Susan.

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 04/05/2005, at 3:05 AM, Brett Carboni wrote: On 3/5/05 11:03 PM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this: You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin iLectures system has finishe

Re: Streaming Video recording of tonight's meeting

On 3/5/05 11:03 PM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this: > You'll find the streaming video recordings of part 1 of the WAMUG meeting > tonight should appear here later this evening (Tuesday) once the Curtin > iLectures system has finished processing it: Well done everyone. I finally get

Query on iCal under Tiger

Umm,...am I missing something? (OK, so that leaves me wide open for lots of replies,...I know) :o) In iCal when I go to the preferences and tell it that I only want to view between the hours of 8am and 10pm it still shows me midnight to midnight. Well OK, yes I know I work til late in the morning,

Re: Updated iMacs

> http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/05/03/updated.imac.g5.desktops/ > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - > Guidelines - > Unsubscribe -