Re: Security certificates

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
Sorry, just to clarify: - The site certificates are presented *to* your browser *from* the website. They expire if the website operator fails to renew them. They can also be revoked (but this should have a different alert message). - Your browser trusts the site certificate if it was issued by a t

Re: Security certificates

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
Hi, On 06/05/06, Severin Crisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Buying from a secure site with Safari I got the message that the site was not recognised because it had not renewed its security certificate. How do these work? Computers need some way of establishing 'trust" between a client and a ser

Re: GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
On 08/05/06, James Devenish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tom, Believe it or not, nothng has been lost. Apart from my i's, that is :-)

Re: GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Satti
Hi Tom, Here's the explanation for a 160GB, same logic applies to all sizes: "A true Gigabyte is actual 1024x1024x1024 bytes. But the whole computer industry rounds this to 1000x1000x1000 for ease of understanding. So when the manufacturers make a 160GB drive it is actually 160,000,000,000 byte

Re: GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
Hi Tom, Believe it or not, nothng has been lost. With decimal numbers (i.e., in most fields of endeavour outside of transistor electronics), a "gig" (slang for "giga") is a thousand thousand thousand. Thus, a gig is the same as an Australia billion. Likewise, hard-drive manufacturers describe th

Re: GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread Paul
On 08/05/2006, at 6:10 PM, thefrogs wrote: Could someone please explain to me, again, the mathematics of bites. I have an 80 gig HDD that falls to 74.53 on my G5 -in Drive A a loss of 5.5 ^ gig I have a 120 gig HDD that falls to 111.79 on my G5 -in Drive B a loss of 8.1 gig In times gone by

Re: GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread Brett Carboni
If they get any bigger they'll be empty when you put them in (says he who just received his 160Gb internal hard drive for 17" Powerbook half an hour ago and is not looking forward to getting 'about this Mac' info regarding the real hard disk space). Brett Carboni Tsunami "Have a gigabyte of

GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread thefrogs
Could someone please explain to me, again, the mathematics of bites. I have an 80 gig HDD that falls to 74.53 on my G5 -in Drive A a loss of 5.5 ^ gig I have a 120 gig HDD that falls to 111.79 on my G5 -in Drive B a loss of 8.1 gig In times gone by I remember a gig was a gig Any views tom sam

Re: eye TV

2006-05-08 Thread Rod
thefrogs wrote: for the first time since I have had an eye TV I have linked it up to an arial but I get no reception other than a very bad 60 minutes. has anyone had success with it. Oh it is eye TV USB tom samson Search the archives. This was answered last week, where poor reception was

Old Gear

2006-05-08 Thread Adrian Skehan
I have an assortment of old gear that I need to find a home for other than the tip, among them is: IIsi with 33 Mhz Daystar Card installed; 7220/200 with PC Card installed and a 7200/90. All the above include all their original software and packaging. There is also an ImageWriter I, Apple I sc