Re: Mac marketshare 17% retail laptops, up to 55% of students at some universities

2007-10-22 Thread Severin Crisp
Martin a few more reminiscences may be of interest. Your comment on programming at Unix command line reminds me that my first face to face encounter with computers was on a Bendix G15 at National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa in the early 1960s. This was a paper tape machine whic

Re: Wireless Router

2007-10-22 Thread Paul K
Is the Belkin a wireless model? On 10/23/07, Michael Kane Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I am after some advice. My desktop G5 is hardwired to the > Belkin adsl/voip modem as supplied by iiNet. There is now a wireless > capable laptop machine in the house. How do I provide wireless ac

Re: Mac marketshare 17% retail laptops, up to 55% of students at some universities

2007-10-22 Thread Martin Hill
On 23/10/2007, at 10:22 AM, Severin Crisp wrote: Martin, I was a staff member in Physics at UWA at the time you mention and that department took Macs on board very willingly. Absolutely - many university departments and schools certainly jumped at the Mac - it was the Mac Plus lab in the sch

Wireless Router

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Kane Taylor
Hi all, I am after some advice. My desktop G5 is hardwired to the Belkin adsl/voip modem as supplied by iiNet. There is now a wireless capable laptop machine in the house. How do I provide wireless access for the intel Mac Book without compromising my G5/voip connection? Wireless for the G

Re: Mac marketshare 17% retail laptops, up to 55% of students at some universities

2007-10-22 Thread Severin Crisp
Martin, I was a staff member in Physics at UWA at the time you mention and that department took Macs on board very willingly. Most computing then was done centrally at WARC which had moved from the IBM 1620 through the DEC-10 into the CD Cyber era and Physics even had a remote teletype int

Re: Mac marketshare 17% retail laptops, up to 55% of students at some universities

2007-10-22 Thread Mark Secker
I may be wrong but I believe that Macs were sold at UWA in the 70s for basically close to cost to students. Obviously, Macs were really popular for that reason and because they were so far ahead of Windows at that time. well 80's (84 onward) actually... and as Martain said, even with th

Re: Mac marketshare 17% retail laptops, up to 55% of students at some universities

2007-10-22 Thread Martin Hill
On 22/10/2007, at 11:19 PM, Alex wrote: I may be wrong but I believe that Macs were sold at UWA in the 70s for basically close to cost to students. Obviously, Macs were really popular for that reason and because they were so far ahead of Windows at that time. I was a student at UWA during

POS Software

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Watt
Hi Guys, I am looking for some account software that is easy to use like Checkout (www.checkoutapp.com) but has links into a website. What we want to do is have a webstore that is linked directly into our POS system so that we only have to manage stock in one location, keeps amounts up to date an

Re: Mac marketshare 17% retail laptops, up to 55% of students at some universities

2007-10-22 Thread Alex
funny how so many of the staff here have Windows machines on their desktops and yet they have salary packaged Apple Laptops even the IT staff. When I started here I was the only Pro Mac computer support staff member fortnightly IT staff meetings were usually 10 minutes of rational

Re: Experiences with Next G Relocatable Wireless BroadbandSoftware ?

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Bull
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Encrypting Files (mostly text) on Windows and Mac

2007-10-22 Thread James Anderson
Hi all, I'll be backpacking overseas for a while soon and instead of taking my laptop, I'll be taking a 8GB flash drive with me. Some of the files I'm taking I want to be secure, in case I lose the flash drive or my bag gets stolen etc. Can anyone suggest a good encyrption method which will

Re: Mac marketshare 17% retail laptops, up to 55% of students at some universities

2007-10-22 Thread Mark Secker
As a Mac user since 1985, I find it astonishing to witness the strength of the resurgence Apple has made over the last few years. The latest figures continue to that trend: - Apple is growing at 8 times the rate of the rest of the industry and now has 8.1% of the whole US market. - Apple's notebo

Re: Hard Disk Error - Again

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Howells
On 22/10/2007, at 11:17 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: First I must thank Bob Howells for all the help he has given, teaching me how to back up all my partitions using Superduper. I erased and reinstalled the System X partition (which did not have enough contiguous room for a replacemen