Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, On your Mac are you getting full bars on the WiFi symbol in the Menu bar on the 5GHz 802.11n Network? Option click on the WiFi symbol in the menu bar on your desktop. Is PHY Mode: 802.11n? Is Channel: 149 (5 GHz)? What is Transmit Rate:? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 24/05/

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Some additional information - - - I resurrected an old Acer laptop (Windows XP and Internet Explorer) and an old Acer Aspire One Linux (old Firefox). SBS website loaded almost instantly on both devices! Connection via wireless "G" (or older) on both. Is this pointing to failure of t

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni I deleted older messages from this email.Answers to your questions inserted into your text. Thanks for your specific questions - calming and rational - I was beginning to freak out! I looked at the Belkin Security Log which has some interesting entries (meaningless to me) - SYN

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, From reading your reply below I would suggest the problem is with your Network. The problem is not machine or browser specific, it is happening on both machines in both browsers. It should not be taking so long to load a web page. You could be experiencing dropouts / spasmodic connection

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Things are very peculiar. Came (partly) good during testing. > Go to System Preferences > Network - select the connection you are using > (Wi-Fi or Ethernet), then click the Advanced button, then 'Proxies' check > that NOTHING is selected here. > On both Macs, Network Proxies for bo

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, My little Perez wishes we could go on our normal 5KM everyday walks. I have not been able to walk Perez since the end of January :( I hope to be able to go a short distance in the near future. Re: your Safari problem: something is very wrong on your computer or Safari install. Can you a

Re: Apple Notes

2013-05-23 Thread Marcus F Harris
Yes, thanks Ronni, V10.8.3 I do like the features of NOTES, but I was wondering if it was lockable. The fact that it is available on all our devices through iCloud is a concern because other family members don't secure their devices with a password entry. I suppose I am going to have to scrub k

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni I too had to stop due to pressure from my support crew - my Miniature Schnauzer wanted her evening walk. I applied your suggested values, restarted the iMac then tested again. > What link can't you access? > www.sbs.com.au > www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/ Can't access either. Blue progre

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
No special plugin needs to be installed from the SBS site. What link can't you access? www.sbs.com.au www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/ Flash Player.plugin v 11.7.700.203 Also in your System Preferences > Other - Flash Player, click on it then 'Storage' do you have 'Ask me before allowing new sites to sav

Fwd: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
re-sending in Plain Text Begin forwarded message: > From: Alan Smith > Subject: Re: SBS Television Frequency > Date: 23 May 2013 1:09:59 PM AWST > To: wamug@wamug.org.au > > Hi Ronni > > Thanks for picking up the last point - SBS website access has been > frustrating me for quite a while. Ac

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Sorry typo should have been 10:02:02 AM AWST My excuse is that I'm having a 'new' side effect to one of the drugs I have to take for my medical treatment and it is affecting my eyes. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 23/05/2013, at 4:12 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Alan the list members received your ori

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Alan the list members received your original message at 1:02:002 AM AWST Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 23/05/2013, at 4:01 PM, Alan Smith wrote: > re-sending in Plain Text - - - > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Alan Smith >> Subject: Re: iPad Battery charge cycles >> Date: 23 May 2013 10

Fwd: Bluetooth File Exchange

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
re-sending in Plain Text - - - Begin forwarded message: > From: Alan Smith > Subject: Re: Bluetooth File Exchange > Date: 23 May 2013 2:22:52 PM AWST > To: wamug@wamug.org.au > > Hi Ronni > > Terriffic! But how can I actually send a file? I went through all the set > up procedures, read th

Fwd: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
re-sending in Plain Text - - - Begin forwarded message: > From: Alan Smith > Subject: Re: SBS Television Frequency > Date: 23 May 2013 12:52:10 PM AWST > To: wamug@wamug.org.au > > Hi Susan and Walter > > Good to get confirmation that SBS has changed frequency. > > I watch very little televis

Fwd: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
re-sending in Plain Text - - - Begin forwarded message: > From: Alan Smith > Subject: Re: iPad Battery charge cycles > Date: 23 May 2013 10:02:02 AM AWST > To: wamug@wamug.org.au > > A wrap-up on iPad battery life - - - > > I went to the Garden City Apple store and asked about reading the "100

Re: TEST - no reply needed

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Hats off to Ronni!! Just sent you a reply re data integrity - and converted it to plain text to send. (This note arrived just in time.) This email from you had to be converted too as I selected "reply". My Mail is doing something funny. It's not holding preferences - such as NOT "Vie

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-05-23 Thread Laura Webb
Re Eye TV. Thanks Susan. I have already re tuned my TV but it did not occur to me that I also need to re tune EyeTV. I have now done that by using the Set Up Assistant so hope that does the trick. I've missed last night's recording of Borgen but should be able to catch up with SBS On Demand.

Re: Data Verification when copying files.

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Thanks for that. To test the process I ran the Terminal command on each iMac citing copies of the same file on each (assumed to have good data). And got the same checksum, as expected. But this is not a practical process to run against every file copied!Hence my search for an in

Re: TEST - no reply needed

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Are you receiving the WAMUG emails Alan? If so, check you are sending/replying in Plain Text email to WAMUG mailing list. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 23/05/2013, at 2:40 PM, Alan Smith wrote: > My last few "replies" to WAMUG today have not appeared in the website mail > archive, a

Re: Safari handicap?

2013-05-23 Thread Curtis Peter
Then again - it might have saved you money :) On 23/05/2013, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > Just one of the reasons I always like to have at least 2 browsers available. > > Sometimes it may be down to websites using non-standard code which breaks > more or less gracefully on different brows