Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Kay
I've reported the problem to Bigpond via phone to a guy called 'Adnan' who says that they have an internal "yellow alert" (not for public release) that Bigpond may have a problem with connections to certain US sites, but the local Bigpond page problem was news to him. I fear the email debac

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Rod
On 23/07/2005, at 1:42 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:02 +0930, Onno Benschop wrote: Use traceroute and see what it says. I don't suppose Mac OS X comes with `mtr' or an equivalent in the Network tool? That'd be awfully nice. Closest is probably Network Utility in /Ap

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:02 +0930, Onno Benschop wrote: > Use traceroute and see what it says. I don't suppose Mac OS X comes with `mtr' or an equivalent in the Network tool? That'd be awfully nice. -- Craig Ringer

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Kay
I seem to be slipping further into the quicksand ... I thought I'd check out the Bigpond 'Technical Support email form' to see what sort of information Bigpond requires if I am forced to report my present difficulties. Lo and behold, when I try to go here: http://bigpond.custhelp.com/cgi-b

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Kay
Bear with me Onno, I'm a philosophy student. I had to look up 'traceroute' on the net to work out what you wanted me to do. Any way, this is what I get. I'm hitting trouble after LINE 24. But I'm not sufficiently technical to interpret the information. Can you or anyone else diagnose what t

Wireless Access at Curtin

2005-07-23 Thread Gordon Campbell
Since I know there are a few other staff/students at Curtin on the mailing list, I thought I'd drop out the bit of news that Apple laptops can now access Curtin's Wireless without requiring a special Cisco PCMCIA card. There's details here http://wireless.curtin.edu.au The VPN client is no long

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Onno Benschop
Richard Kay wrote: richard-kays-ibook-g4:~ rmkay$ telnet www.apple.com 80 Trying 17.112.152.32... telnet: connect to address 17.112.152.32: Operation timed out telnet: Unable to connect to remote host I'm going through the Fremantle exchange with Bigpond. As I said before, I can connect with

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Kay
Just for fun ... I've just reinitialised my hard drive ... repartitioned it ... and done a clean install of 10.4 and updated it to 10.4.2 via Software Update. So there are some Apple servers I CAN connect to. Even after doing this, however, when I try to connect to www.apple.com/au I'm get

Re: MiniDisc

2005-07-23 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, On 22/07/2005, at 6:20 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Thanks Daniel. Hi Rob Yes it is possible. The easiest way I found to do it (for a client that had the same thing) was the Griffin USB iMic. Yep, once I wrote email I thought of the Analogue route which is sort of what the iMic is m

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:07:00AM +0800, Richard Kay wrote: > Time to hose the drive and reinstall Tiger. I don't think it would be reasonable to jump to that conclusion. Different subscriber networks can route their traffic differently, and servers can choose to di

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Kay
Bugger ... and it works when I take my iBook down to the main street of Fremantle and connect to the net via the free community wireless network. Time to hose the drive and reinstall Tiger. Thanks for the assistance everyone. RK On 23/07/2005, at 7:15 AM, Mike Murray wrote: Working fine

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Mike Murray
Working fine from here using bigpond broadband Mike On 23/07/2005, at 12:17 AM, Richard Kay wrote: Bugger ... sounds like a problem at my end ... although I've quit, emptied cache, reset Safari etc. and it is still happening ... all my other links to every other site are working flawlessly

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Kay
Bugger ... sounds like a problem at my end ... although I've quit, emptied cache, reset Safari etc. and it is still happening ... all my other links to every other site are working flawlessly. Wonder if it is a Bigpond thing? RK On 23/07/2005, at 12:08 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: All definitely

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 22/07/2005 11:59 PM, "Richard Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah ... something definitely happening tonight. > > I go to www.apple.com.au several times a day. > > For the second time this evening (11.58pm), www.apple.com.au is > timing out with the message: > > "Safari could not open the