Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

2010-02-02 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Thanks Ronnie, Raw Source was fine. Have sorted 'previous recipients' and also found a rogue address in the address book. Many thanks again, Jennifer On 1 February 2010 21:52, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello Jennifer, Did you clear/delete your previous recipients list? Also open

Re: macintosh generates spam?

2010-02-02 Thread James / Hans Kunz
hi Alex Peter thanks for your reply i found something interesting: i found this in my email logs send to me by my netgear router.. Mon, 2010-02-01 11:03:30 - TCP Packet - Source:81.213.166.245,3661 Destination:124.169.97.248,23 - [DOS] Mon, 2010-02-01 11:03:30 - TCP Packet -

Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

2010-02-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, Delete that rogue address in Address Book. The wrong TO: Address could only be coming from either your previous recipients list or Address Book. Those are the only two places it could generate from on a Mac. If then the problem is solved, you should post a new thread to WAMUG

The Great Firewall...

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi Everyone, iiNet are currently supporting a web site which allows you to send your thoughts to the senator responsible for implementing the Great Firewall of Australia. I found it when browsing the iiNet customer portal. To make it short, the filter is nothing but a waste of time and money

Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Moore
I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my computers via the router. With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer. I have tried printing out the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help forums) but it doesn't show on that. I'd

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Findlay
If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, Bonjour Browser to find it. Else if it has an IP lease from the router you can log in to the router and look at DHCP clients or attached devices. If you only have a few devices it should be pretty easy to spot. On 02/02/2010, at

Printer Error

2010-02-02 Thread Maureen
Hi At school I have a canon pixma printer connected to my MacbookPro, 10.5.8, 2.16GHz via USB This printer has run beautifully until just recently. Now I keep getting this message: Error Number : 300 The printer does not respond. Make sure that the printer is plugged in, powered-on, and

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Mike, If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices? I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email:

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, No, I exclude Entourage from my Time Machine back-ups and rely on my SuperDuper clone as my back-up. I accept the risk of losing the emails between my SuperDuper clones. I do however close ALL open applications before cloning. Whilst I haven¹t regularly checked the entourage database

Re: Printer Error

2010-02-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Maureen, The fact that it started working again and then stopped again tends to suggest an intermittent hardware fault to me. The first possible culprits to pop into my head are: 1) Faulty USB cable 2) Faulty USB port on the printer 3) Other fault with the printer 4) Faulty USB port on the

Ripple - an interesting idea

2010-02-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I hope you will forgive me a slightly off-topic post, but I thought fellow WAMUG list readers might find this use of internet advertising interesting, I certainly did. Ripple http://ripple.org came up with the idea of using internet advertising as a means of easily raising money for

Greetings

2010-02-02 Thread John Feltham
G'day folks, Many thanks for the hospitality extended to me this evening. John Feltham Townsville Mac Users Group - known as - NQMUG -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

2010-02-02 Thread John Feltham
G'day folks, Google fixed up my memory! :-) Here is the URL mentioned at the meeting. http://www.rihac.com.au ooroo -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Moore
Neil thanks for the advice but I'm not sure how you go about logging into the router. On 02/02/2010, at 6:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Mike, If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices?

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Findlay
You don't need to if you already found the IP address via bonjour browser. It's simply another way to find out information you already have. Assuming that you have now configured the printer as an IP printer your problem is now probably that you either have the wrong driver or that the driver

Re: HP Printer

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 02/02/2010, at 12:58 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Yes, if you remember when we talked I said there were basically three ways you could set up your printer, the Parallels manual probably explains this better than I did: There are three basic ways to set up printing in a virtual machine. You

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 02/02/2010, at 11:18 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: I wondered how long it would take for someone to suggest this “solution” – thanks John for raising this one. Having come from a Windows background, I find it hard to move to a program (Mail) that doesn’t have Contacts and Calendar functions

Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 02/02/2010, at 11:21 PM, John Feltham wrote: G'day folks, Google fixed up my memory! :-) Here is the URL mentioned at the meeting. http://www.rihac.com.au Thanks very much for that URL, John. It looks like a great site once you learn how trick their navigation system. It's

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 02/02/2010, at 10:14 PM, Mike Moore wrote: If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, Bonjour Browser to find it. Thanks Rob - Bonjour Browser has given me the IP address. Unfortunately though the printer still won't print. No matter what I do at the computer

Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Weaver
The ink site looks pretty good. Meanwhile does anyone know where to get genuine Brother laser toner cartridges for an HL2040 at a reasonable price. It's currently cheaper to buy a new printer ($88). Paul. - Original Message - From: Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au To:

Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

2010-02-02 Thread Lloyd White
I get mine from Cartridge World 596 Stirling Hwy Mosman Pk. 9385 2285. Toner for Brother HL 2040 is $68. I just checked with them and that is the current price. Lloyd The ink site looks pretty good. Meanwhile does anyone know where to get genuine Brother laser toner cartridges for an

Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Fuller
I wasn't at the meeting yesterday but the mention of the CISS from RIHAC prompted me to mention my experiences. I have had a CISS from RIHAC for my Epson Photo R230 for over a year now and it has served me wonderfully. The quality of the ink is on a par with the Epson inks but the main

Video stream and podcasts of Feb WAMUG meeting online

2010-02-02 Thread Martin Hill
Well, after an 18 month hiatus I've now got the dual-video camera and screen recordings of the WAMUG monthly meetings back on track and available this year. You can see last night's recording along with recordings going back to mid-2005 at the usual place:

Re: Video stream and podcasts of Feb WAMUG meeting online

2010-02-02 Thread Severin Crisp
Great stuff, many thanks for your efforts Martin. Much appreciated by enforced absentees like myself here in Albany! Severin On 03/02/2010, at 11:33 AM, Martin Hill wrote: Well, after an 18 month hiatus I've now got the dual-video camera and screen recordings of the WAMUG monthly

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Moore
Peter I tried what you suggested and it does ping successfully. What is really weird about all of this is when I first connected the printer I was able to see the printer fine. The first page I sent to print was an image and 80% of the way through the printer spat the dummy and aborted with a