WAMUG BBQ

2008-12-07 Thread Martin Hill
Hey, thanks everyone for the BBQ today. Excellent venue, great view, great weather, good company, excellent steaks (thanks Mac!) and no crowds this time! brilliant. We enjoyed it greatly. :-) -Mart, Tiff Elyssa Martin Hill email: mart_hill at mac.com

Re: FS: $550 or best offer G5 SP 1.8gh 2g RAM + Apple Cinema Display 20

2008-12-07 Thread gary dorn
Hi, Includes wireless and bluetooth, one 300g HD and one 80g HD, and single layer Superdrive. The G5 does have the quirk of not going to sleep by itself, but will go to sleep if you choose that option from the Apple menu. The Cinema Display was second hand, purchased from another WAMUG

G5 sold

2008-12-07 Thread Susan Hastings
Hi Gary, this has now sold. cheers, Susan. On 08/12/2008, at 9:10 AM, gary dorn wrote: Hi, Includes wireless and bluetooth, one 300g HD and one 80g HD, and single layer Superdrive. The G5 does have the quirk of not going to sleep by itself, but will go to sleep if you choose that option

iphone trakcing

2008-12-07 Thread gary dorn
howdy found this iPhone app for tracking your iPhone if lost/stolen http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/iphone/ I gather its probably US centric, is there anything like this for Australia? -- gary dorn north perth -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: iphone trakcing

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew
Looks impressive and it's free as well. Would it still work if the iphone was stolen and wiped - either by theif or owner (I saw them talk about that in the keynote ages ago - was a feature that appealed to the corporate/army users who were testing it)? Andrew On 08/12/2008, at 10:36 AM,

myob

2008-12-07 Thread Martin Sulkowski
Hi everyone even if it is not mac related. I use Myob Accountedge 5.0.1 and have the following problem : If I enter invoices in Purchases with the LAYOUT SERVICE and enter the jobname I can see this jobtransaction in FIND TRANSACTION JOB If I enter invoices in Purchases with the

nab banking problems

2008-12-07 Thread Martin Sulkowski
Some time ago I enquired about nab banking problem couldn't solve it and didn't bother then . The answer is that it was the internetprovider .Nab had a few customers with satellitedishes who had similiar problems and they created a special log in side for satellite users with problems

WTB iBook

2008-12-07 Thread KEVIN Lock
A friend wants to buy an iBook with a reasonable battery. It doesn't necessarily have to be one of the faster models. Anyone know of one for sale? Thanks Kev -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: iphone trakcing

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Fowler
This function could open up a whole can of worms Soon you will able to track your kids/spouse Peter On 08/12/2008, at 10:51 AM, Andrew wrote: Looks impressive and it's free as well. Would it still work if the iphone was stolen and wiped - either by theif or owner (I saw them talk

Wanted to buy - PC laptop

2008-12-07 Thread Kaye and Geoff
Hi, My sister, who is a Mac user, wants to buy a second-hand PC laptop to set up as a game-playing machine. We wondered if anyone has a laptop from the dark side that they no longer use. Only requirements are: 15 screen (or better) enough memory to be useful running XP reasonable price I

Re: iphone trakcing

2008-12-07 Thread Rob Phillips
I saw a service called something like Where's my partner advertised on TV late on Friday night Rob Peter Fowler wrote: This function could open up a whole can of worms Soon you will able to track your kids/spouse Peter On 08/12/2008, at 10:51 AM, Andrew wrote: Looks impressive

Re: iphone trakcing

2008-12-07 Thread Eugene
It will not trak the movement of the iPhone / iPod touch all of the time, this goes against Apple's policy that no application can run in the background. It only invokes itself when Safari is used to access a page - the most common page to use is Google. It then sends a location and time

Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Rob Findlay
I have a client with some floppies that were apparently written from a 1986 Macintosh. They contain some word/write documents he wants to convert to a modern format. I've tried plugging in a USB floppy reader on Mac OS X and also putting the disks into the drive of an old G3 Powermac

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread KEVIN Lock
I have a working 6200 with a laser printer attached, but am unsure if it will read that old stuff. Then there is the problem of transferring the data. It could be printed out and possibly scanned again. If it could be done I am happy to do it at no cost. I live in Bibra Lake. regards

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Kevin, This was possibly a Mac Plus running System 6.0.x in 1986? Looking back through my Apple History files I found this, may not help you much though ;-( Working with older disk images on newer computers: You can format 800K (2DD: double-sided, double-density) disks as 400K (1DD:

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Rob, If it was the Macintosh Plus, the machine may have had single-sided (400K) drives. Such disks are only readable in very old Macs. What floppies are they? If you know someone who has an Imation SuperDisk Drive, they can read both 800K and 1.4 MB floppy disks. However, they cannot

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Rob Findlay
Thanks Ronni, they are Verbatim HD format. We have an Imation drive here that reads 800k I've also tried them in a Beige G3 with an actual floppy drive. Both these drives read floppies that we have here so I know they work. The disks were written quite recently apparently and still read on

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Rob, They are probably 400K floppies which Apple support (partially) up to OS 7.6.1. 400K floppies are not supported in Mac OS 8 or later; you must copy the data onto an 800K or 1.44 MB disk. For a very complete description of the limitations of System 7.x in handling 400K floppies

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Rob Findlay
That sounds like a good plan. How amenable would you be to me giving your details to my client to drop around the disks and make some arrangement to make it worth your while to do so? I would pass the disks back to him and let him deal with you directly if you were willing to do that.

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Mervyn Giuliana Bond
My MacPlus of 1987 would not read HD disks, only DD. Is the computer being used a Classic, which would read HD, so would Kevin's 6200 - and from there using a MacLink conversion they could be stepped up to say Word 6 or Claris 5 and from there to more recent applications. Merv Thanks

Re: WTB iBook

2008-12-07 Thread Michael bradley
Hi Did someone get back to you? Mike KEVIN Lock wrote: A friend wants to buy an iBook with a reasonable battery. It doesn't necessarily have to be one of the faster models. Anyone know of one for sale? Thanks Kev -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: WTB iBook

2008-12-07 Thread Kevin Lock
I have had a couple of replies so far. Do you have an iBook for sale? regards Kevin On 08/12/2008, at 4:05 PM, Michael bradley wrote: Hi Did someone get back to you? Mike KEVIN Lock wrote: A friend wants to buy an iBook with a reasonable battery. It doesn't necessarily have to be one

Re: Very Old Disks

2008-12-07 Thread Reg Whitely
I've got a Mac SE in a cupboard but it's not running at the moment. It may need a new battery. Happy to lend it if you get it running, but it's in Geraldton Reg On 08/12/2008, at 2:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Rob, If it was the Macintosh Plus, the machine may have had single-sided