Re: Strange behaviour

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Reid
Hi Daniel (& Ronni) I have run the procedure more than once. Each time, at item 6, I get back all the mailboxes except Inbox and Sent. I note that ~Library/Mail/Mailboxes contains all but these two. I hope that with all the to-ing and fro-ing I've done I haven't lost them. Re Ronni's Number 2 sug

Re: Dust removal etc.

2009-03-26 Thread James / Hans Kunz
google for "ifixit" an american firm for mac spare parts & manuals for dissassembly & replacing parts, I got my powerbook manual for free or try this: www.ifixit.com/ James \ On 27/03/2009, at 10:40, Barry Sexstone wrote: I have an iMac which is about 2 1/2 years old. I suspect it may be r

Re: Dust removal etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Barry Sexstone
Thanks Ronni, I already vacuum/blow what dust I can from the machine. I was more interested in finding out if anyone had encountered a problem or attempted to internally clean. Barry On 27/03/2009, at 11:30 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Barry, I have never seen anything from Apple for

Re: Dust removal etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Barry, I have never seen anything from Apple for internal cleaning the Intel iMac and I think your best bet is to just lightly vacuum the bottom air intake grill and upper vent slots or use "Compressed Air" (as suggested before). From what I've read, because of the low fan speeds, a

Re: Dust removal etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Barry Sexstone
Yes, 2 GHz core 2 duo. model ID iMac5,1 On 27/03/2009, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 27/03/2009, at 10:40 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote: I have an iMac which is about 2 1/2 years old. I suspect it may be running a little hotter as fan noise and apparent speed up of fans seems to be incr

Re: Dust removal etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Ronda Brown
On 27/03/2009, at 10:40 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote: I have an iMac which is about 2 1/2 years old. I suspect it may be running a little hotter as fan noise and apparent speed up of fans seems to be increasing. With previous machines it has been possible to get inside and remove any build u

Dust removal etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Barry Sexstone
I have an iMac which is about 2 1/2 years old. I suspect it may be running a little hotter as fan noise and apparent speed up of fans seems to be increasing. With previous machines it has been possible to get inside and remove any build up of dust etc. This machine being in one piece has

Mail Strange Behaviour

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Anderson
Daniel, For the past month or so I have had an issue with Mail Preferences - I wonder if it relates to the issue you responded to yesterday as well. Mac OSX 10.5.6 MacBook 2Ghz Intel Core Duo (2Gb Ram) I have several signatures, which at start up each day have disappeared from my preferences

Re: Strange behaviour

2009-03-26 Thread Ronda Brown
On 26/03/2009, at 10:42 PM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: I can now contribute usefully to this discussion - well perhaps not usefully, but I can at least explain exactly what Ian is going through. I visited Ian's place today at his request and saw for myself just what is happening. It is tru

Re: Apple equivalent of Putty ?

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Mulroney
Hi Steven, On 27/03/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I'm trying help an IT guy, a Windows guy, do some testing of speeds when it comes to me accessing a particular server. To do whatever he needs me to do, something to with ssh connections, and something about needing to redirect lo

Re: Apple equivalent of Putty ?

2009-03-26 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Putty is an emulator for Unix commands - e.g  ssh, telnet and rlogin. ssh runs native from 'Terminal', or you may find it easier to use a GUI such as Fugu: http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/ Terminal isn't really an application, it just provides access to underlying Unix based commands in t

Re: Apple equivalent of Putty ?

2009-03-26 Thread Alexander Hartner
You can (should) use terminal. To use sag you need to have a user account and the address of the server: Example: ssh -l username hostaddress ssh -l root 192.168.56.43 Hope this helps Sent from my iPhone On 26 Mar 2009, at 16:43, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm trying help an IT guy, a Windows

Re: Apple equivalent of Putty ?

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 27/3/09 1:43 AM, "Steven Knowles" wrote: > I'm trying help an IT guy, a Windows guy, do some testing of speeds > when it comes to me accessing a particular server. > > To do whatever he needs me to do, something to with ssh connections, > and something about needing to redirect local ports to

Apple equivalent of Putty ?

2009-03-26 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm trying help an IT guy, a Windows guy, do some testing of speeds when it comes to me accessing a particular server. To do whatever he needs me to do, something to with ssh connections, and something about needing to redirect local ports to server, he would use Putty in the Windows world.

Re: Strange behaviour

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Howells
On 26/03/2009, at 10:42 PM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: I can now contribute usefully to this discussion - well perhaps not usefully, but I can at least explain exactly what Ian is going through. I visited Ian's place today at his request and saw for myself just what is happening. It is t

Re: Strange behaviour

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Peter Did you try my suggestion I posted the other day, as I've had the same thing happen, and the fix I posted has always worked for me, ...the same as what you've listed happening. ---quote This was the fix I used for this. See how it goes. 1. Go to Macintosh HD/Users/yourname/Library. Move

Re: Strange behaviour

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 25/03/2009, at 11:05 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hi Ian Can you go to your desktop , find the copy of Mail you would have put there when I asked you previously highlight it and then do an Apple plus I this should give you an information window which will show what size the folder is . H

Re: Safari 4

2009-03-26 Thread Dark1
The Top Site feature is really good when you've configured it to hold position on the sites you use alot. Everyone seems to not like the tabs up top at first but love it after a few days using it. Ruben I'm starting to really like the "Top Site" feature. Very cool. Taking a bit to get used

Re: Safari 4

2009-03-26 Thread Travis Hansen
I'm starting to really like the "Top Site" feature. Very cool. Taking a bit to get used to the tabs being up the top though. Travis 2009/3/25 Severin Crisp > > Despite my reticence where beta versions are concerned the ongoing discussion > tempted me to try out Safari4. It certainly is a not