Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Bob, I think you may have missed the point of Peter¹s question. Ronni¹s email and link covers setting up and installing Snow Leopard ­so as Ronni says: !!! VERY IMPORTANT !!! The computer you are going to install Snow Leopard on MUST be setup with the GUID partitioning scheme. However,

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-26 Thread James Devenish
Hi Peter, 2009/8/26 Peter Tomlinson raspt...@gmail.com: Regarding the formatting of drives does that include all external drives? Snow Leopard will continue to read and write external disks (and thumb drives, etc.). The GUID partition issue is only relevant for disks onto which you are

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-26 Thread James / Hans Kunz
i can assume that only the harddisk where snow leopard lives must have a guid partition, it would be strange if i have to shift over 5 terabytes out to nowhere just to repartition/reformat all my hd's which are extended/extended-jounalled format there is no warning on apples site about this

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-26 Thread Ronda Brown
On 26/08/2009, at 4:34 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Peter, 2009/8/26 Peter Tomlinson raspt...@gmail.com: Regarding the formatting of drives does that include all external drives? Snow Leopard will continue to read and write external disks (and thumb drives, etc.). The GUID partition

Re: Apple Mail - questions about 'Rules'

2009-08-26 Thread Steven Knowles
Heyy, great idea James. I was punching the air for a moment ... however ... I checked out the range of conditions, and there isn't one that I can see which enables you to effectively state If message is flagged then Mail seems to acknowledge the relevance of flagging a message if a

Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Howells
HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn

Re: Entourage to Mail

2009-08-26 Thread John Daniels
Hi Rob Can you tell me how I get to the settings you show. Also what is screendump from Thunderbird? John On 25/08/2009, at 10:31 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: It'll be one of these options - screendump from Thunderbird. These are for receiving - check the smtp settings for sending. Assuming

Re: Behind The News PDFs

2009-08-26 Thread Travis Hansen
Thx Guys, Barry, do you have the font family Amasis MT installed on your system? Mine looks like what Robert describes. Interesting though that it's OK in Safari 4 for you. I'm using Safari 4.0.3 (It's not a beta anymore, is it?) Here's a screen shot of a previous week:

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread Craig Bruce
I miss playing with hypercard on my old performa 5200 :) -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au Twitter Maxstyle_com_au Facebook http://www.facebook.com/maxstyle Disclaimer: The information

Re: Behind The News PDFs

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Howells
On 26/08/2009, at 9:03 PM, Travis Hansen wrote: Thx Guys, Barry, do you have the font family Amasis MT installed on your system? Mine looks like what Robert describes. Interesting though that it's OK in Safari 4 for you. I'm using Safari 4.0.3 (It's not a beta anymore, is it?)

Re: Behind The News PDFs

2009-08-26 Thread Barry Sexstone
Travis No this is not one of my installed fonts. I have not retained the opened pdf so I cannot tell you what font it appeared in. I will tryn to have a look at it to-morrow. Regards Barry On 26/08/2009, at 9:03 PM, Travis Hansen wrote: Thx Guys, Barry, do you have the font family

Re: someone using our wireless

2009-08-26 Thread Steven Knowles
If you know how to log in to your router Rosemary, which you should be able to do from your web browser, you can (i) go to wireless security and set a password, and/or (ii) set up a closed network. For the latter, look for something that says publish SSID or broadcast SSID, along those

Re: someone using our wireless

2009-08-26 Thread Dark1
Unlikely to be the case if you have your wireless password protected but quite possible if it isn't. First thing you want to do is log into your router and set up a password for your wireless network if you haven't already. If you have one but your still concerned then you can change

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread Bill Parker
If only Bob. My first one was an SE or some such name. Megabytes were unheard of. Nothing to do with telephones, ethernet or anything else. The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS machine my neighbour had. But I

someone using our wireless

2009-08-26 Thread Rosemary Horton
I think someone is using our wireless connection. Our usage has rocketed up How do I know? How do I stop it? Rosemary Horton rosemary.hor...@gmail.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: someone using our wireless

2009-08-26 Thread Susan Hastings
Hi, that happened to us, until I realised that synchronising my idisk was the problem. As uploads count as well as downloads and I had nearly 20 gig it was eating up our bandwidth. So, I stopped it syncing of course. On 26/08/2009, at 10:08 PM, Dark1 wrote: Unlikely to be the case if

Macs-4-u Snow Leopard Availability

2009-08-26 Thread Charles Taylor
Hello anyone from the Eastern Suburbs or the Hills, I have 60 copies of Snow Leopard arriving by courier from Apple on Friday AM. About 20% are pre-sold but if anyone needs one, they will be on sale from 10:00am while stocks last. Also, any WAMUG member who needs an iPhone case can purchase

WAMUG Meeting Reminder: 01 September 2009 (Please Do Not Reply)

2009-08-26 Thread Pete Smith
G'day again all WAMUGGERS Well, August has nearly past us by. Have you set your iCal for next Tuesday 1 September 2009 for the next WAMUG meeting? In no particular order: Denice Williams is going to talk to us about Digital Photography; Daniel Kerr will tell us about iWeb; and Hopefully,

Re: Entourage to Mail

2009-08-26 Thread Rob Phillips
Sorry John. I was too terse. I can't easily tell you exactly what to do. I currently use the Thunderbird mail program, and I copied a screen dump from that. If you can find the equivalent 'advanced' screen in both Mail and Entourage, you will probably find that one is different from the

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread Rob Phillips
Hmmm. And I started in 1987 (I think), programming with a Mac 512k with 2 400k floppy drives - no hard disk. The OS fitted on one floppy, the compiler fitted on another, and my program was on a third. Most of my time was spent swapping floppies. Nevertheless, the graphical user interface

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread Joe Mastrella
Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of ram.That's right, 20 mega bites of ram. We have come a long way since then. Cheers, Joe On Wed,

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread lynnkoh
omg, hypercard, clarisworks (homepage to be exact)... oh why do we have to upgrade... had all my fun on my old macs my 1st mac was one of the last b/w ones, then i had one of the 1st thick, black brick chunk colour ones (oh, cant remember the models of those 2), but they were running os9 i

Adobe won't support CS3 on Snow Leopard ...

2009-08-26 Thread Peder Kristensen
Hi All!, If you are a CS3 user, then you may find this link of interest ... Adobe has confirmed that its applications are for the most part compatible with Mac OSX 10.6 http://9to5mac.com/adobe_nixes_slcs4 Cheers, Peder -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
I'm about to show my age here :) My first Apple was an Apple II+ Then: IIe IIGS Mac+ SE 6100 7200 BW G3 G4 G5 and now 3 macbook Pro's And does anyone remember the Apple Credit card? Roger On Thu Aug 27 7:02 , lynn...@westnet.com.au sent: omg, hypercard, clarisworks (homepage to be

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 27/08/2009, at 7:11 AM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: I'm about to show my age here :) My first Apple was an Apple II+ Mine was an Apple //c in 1984. We bought in preference to the brand new Mac at the time because it had a lot more educational software for it, and the RAM was the

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread James / Hans Kunz
but can you imagine in 1979 apple II+ with 64k ram a great floppy drive with 150kbytes capacity dos 3.3 operating system then in 1984 the apple IIc with 128k ram floppy drives with 720k capacity, prodos 9 operating system there was appleworks allready well known and the first steps to a

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread David Peake
While we're all getting nostalgic, if anyone has a Mac Plus, Mac SE, or similar vintage Apple Mac sitting dormant under a coating of dust in their shed, I'd be more than happy (as a collector) to offer a good home and/or donation if required. Used to love our old Apple IIGS, so simple but

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
The IIGS was a very nice machine excellent sound and graphics at the time :) I remember buying a CPM card for my Apple II + in 1979 and also a 128k ram card!!! Roger On Thu Aug 27 11:55 , David Peake dpe...@printforce.com.au sent: While we're all getting nostalgic, if anyone has a Mac Plus,

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread Clyde McLennan
Yes, can remember the Apple II with its 5 1/4 inch floppies with affection. I was working at the Nowra (NSW) paper mills and implemented a mill shop floor data collection using about a dozen apple computers networked together using a Corvus network with a central disc drive. The

Re: Entourage to Mail

2009-08-26 Thread Ronda Brown
On 25/08/2009, at 9:45 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi all On my Intel iMac I can receive and send emails using Entourage without a problem and without using a password. However when I switched to Mac Mail the program asks me for a password and does not accept the password which would

Keychain?

2009-08-26 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Is there a way to turn off keychain? Or disable it for certain apps, like safari?   Best Regards Hugh Griffiths -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2009 1:05 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List