Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

Hi Steven, Don't worry about the Unix issue. Most (but not all) Windows 'trained' support people have no exposure to Unix and therefore so not understand that most Windows services are actually "Unix" services that they have just given a GUI interface to. SSH is such a service (as is DNS, DHCP eve

Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

If you are making an outbound connection just specify the port number with the -p switch i.e. ssh ad...@host -p 1022 or whatever On 22/04/2009, at 4:00 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Peter. Tried your suggestion. Still no joy I'm afraid. Using Terminal though, there doesn't appear to b a

Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

On 22/04/2009, at 4:00 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Peter. Tried your suggestion. Still no joy I'm afraid. Using Terminal though, there doesn't appear to b anywhere to specify a non standard port number. Any idea how I go about that? Terminal appears to default to port 22 according to

Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

Thanks Peter. Tried your suggestion. Still no joy I'm afraid. Using Terminal though, there doesn't appear to b anywhere to specify a non standard port number. Any idea how I go about that? Terminal appears to default to port 22 according to the Terminal window, but I need to stipulate a dif

Re: iTunes playback gap?

Thanks for the suggestions. :) Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Unsubscribe -

Re: An Office quirk

Hi Severin, > When going to either Word or Excel or Power Point, by default a new blank > document opens.  I find this most annoying Do you remember version 5 of Microsoft Word for Mac, which was brilliant for its day? And then how Microsoft had its Mac developers lobotomised between version 5 an

Re: An Office quirk

Thanks to Ronni and Robert for their usual appropriate and useful responses. I will play with these ideas but at first try they do not achieve exactly what I was after. Severin Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP

Re: An Office quirk

On 21/04/2009, at 4:34 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: When going to either Word or Excel or Power Point, by default a new blank document opens. I find this most annoying as I normally go to Open Recent or for a new document I go via My Templates sitting in the Dock. I can find no way to stop t

Re: An Office quirk

On 21/04/2009, at 4:34 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: When going to either Word or Excel or Power Point, by default a new blank document opens. I find this most annoying as I normally go to Open Recent or for a new document I go via My Templates sitting in the Dock. I can find no way to stop t

An Office quirk

When going to either Word or Excel or Power Point, by default a new blank document opens. I find this most annoying as I normally go to Open Recent or for a new document I go via My Templates sitting in the Dock. I can find no way to stop this behaviour. Clearly it is not life-threatenin

Re: iTunes playback gap?

On 21/04/2009, at 11:19 AM, Paul Weaver wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. What would be nice is an easy way to tell iTunes to insert a delay of choice between tracks rather than a crossfade. I'm one of those people who appreciates a few seconds of silent contemplation and anticipation be