Re: Skype audio quality

2007-10-10 Thread Greg Pennefather
The problem is possibly to do with your ADSL. The A in ADSL stands for asymmetric - meaning the speed of the link to you (download) is much faster than the link away from you (upload). If you have a 256kbps ADSL service then your upload speed is only 64kbps. Skype will likely use at least half

Re: Using Phone as modem

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi Rob My tip to take away your pain is - use the USB cable. I was delighted to find my powerbook (G4 1.67GHz) recognised my Nokia E61 when I plugged it in. Make sure you select PC Suite when the phone asks you which mode to use. You will probably have to get Telstra to tell you the username or

Re: Skype - how do I switch from speakers to handset automatically?

2007-02-28 Thread Greg Pennefather
Glenn On the Skype out problem, this is almost certainly a call signalling problem. The gateway Sykpe is using to connect to the public network is not recognising the answer signal from you office service provider or not sending the answer signal to your software. Given you don't have problems

Re: Wi-Fi an Telstra Bigpond cable

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Pennefather
Peter It should work if your desktop maintains the heartbeat. But, rest assured, the connection will drop if your desktop is switched off. You can get broadband routers that will maintain heartbeat for you for $100. The good news is that Telstra is going to do away with it - for this news and

Re: Mac longevity?

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Pennefather
I have a Mac II si that I occasionally use to play Pararena. It's late 80's early 90's From: Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:53:48 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Mac longevity? I should also mention that at the same primary school I am just

Re: Entourage recent addresses

2007-01-10 Thread Greg Pennefather
Found it. In Entourage preferences, click on Compose and the bottom section allows you to turn off recent addresses and clear the list. Cheers Greg From: Geoffrey Barbara Maidment [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:52:39 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject:

Re: Westnet speeds on 8MB plan

2007-01-10 Thread Greg Pennefather
Just a quick word on speed vs distance and G.DMT Just remember that your real speed is determined by the quality of the copper pair you're on, the distance from the exchange (cable distance) and what interference you get (from other ADSL services and things like ISDN). Check out the graph on

RE: exchange account

2007-01-09 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi Dave Check out the Working with Exchange Server chapter of the Office Resource Kit at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resources/resources.aspx?pid=resourcekitsrk=of fice2004 Cheers Greg -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David de la

Re: Cable Broadband

2006-12-27 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi Tim I wanted to send something to you earlier but have been busy. You have been well advised so far but one warning has been missing - Telstra cable BB still, as far as I know, requires some software to initiate and maintain the network connection. This is commonly known as heartbeat.

Re: Skype Connection

2006-12-14 Thread Greg Pennefather
David Unfortunately the V85 will not work with Skype. The V85 is a SIP device and Skype is, well, Skype. Both use VoIP but do not interoperate. To use the your V85 you will need to sign up with a VoIP service provider like kmoo (www.kmoo.com.au), engin (www.engin.com.au) or MyNetFone. One

Re: MS Word format

2006-11-22 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi Lloyd I have used Word for quite a while now (since version 3 in 1987) and agree wholeheartedly with Neil's recommendations. Start from the outline view to structure your headings/sections/chapters. The promote/demote buttons (arrows in the top left hand corner) are extremely useful and

Re: EyeTVDTT/EyeTV Hybrid/IceTV

2006-11-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
I'll try to keep the answer simple. Each time you split the signal, each of the 2 paths gets less than half the power. This happens because all of the elements, antenna splitters, are passive ie. not powered. So, you can very quickly reduce the power of the received signal down to almost

Re:

2006-10-24 Thread Greg Pennefather
Malcolm Do these 3 copies appear in the VPC List? If so, sounds like you have 1 copy of VPC installed but 3 virtual PCs and probably 3 VPC hard disk files. I just checked out what you can do in my copy of VPC 7 - shutdown the PCs you want to remove (leaving VPC running), select them in the VPC

Re: ADSL 2+ speeds? (was: Re: iiNet Changes and Internode)

2006-10-12 Thread Greg Pennefather
Martin Just a comment on your home wiring. A splitter will not increase your impedance (or should not). They are designed to present the same impedance (this is not resistive impedance but the characteristic impedance of the transmission line or cable) regardless of which port/connection you

Re: Battery/Power Management on Al PB G4 using 10.4.7

2006-10-04 Thread Greg Pennefather
Greg Pennefather wrote: Hi All I have been having an issue lately with using my 1.67GHz AL PB G4 with 10.4.7. I get a warning that I¹m running on reserve power (just like I always have) but with 9mins or so left the PB just runs out of power and shuts off. Sometimes it will resume where

Re: Blue G3 Blues

2006-10-03 Thread Greg Pennefather
Jude If the G3 is getting an IP address from the modem using DHCP you will see this in the network preference in system preferences. It should be 192.168.xxx.xxx. If it is 169.xxx.xxx.xxx then it's not getting an IP address. You can check by pinging the modem using the Network Utility. If the

Battery/Power Management on Al PB G4 using 10.4.7

2006-09-27 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi All I have been having an issue lately with using my 1.67GHz AL PB G4 with 10.4.7. I get a warning that I¹m running on reserve power (just like I always have) but with 9mins or so left the PB just runs out of power and shuts off. Sometimes it will resume where it left off but it has not been

Re: Upgrading iMac OS8

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Pennefather
When I got my Powerbook G4 (167MHz) it still came with Classic. If you install Classic and AW5 works under Mac OS 9.2 then you will still be able to use your documents etc - presumably. HTH Cheers Greg From: David Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:24:12 +0800 To: WAMUG

Re: instructions for windows..what for Mac?

2006-08-11 Thread Greg Pennefather
You can also use Network Utility in the Utilities folder for the traceroute Cheers Greg From: Nicholas Pyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:52:48 +1000 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: instructions for windows..what for Mac? On 10/08/2006, at 11:38 PM,

Re: Back up software

2006-08-08 Thread Greg Pennefather
Check out iBackup. It has some nice features like backing up system and application preferences. I've used it for a while now and the developer is always updating. Available on Versiontracker Cheers Greg From: Michael Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:13:35 +0800 To:

Re: XP to OSX via wireless?

2006-08-08 Thread Greg Pennefather
They certainly can talk - even to a PC. Same drill, create network etc. I've done this with a PC, even to share an Internet connection. Cheers Greg From: Reg Whitely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:21:39 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: XP to OSX via

Re: Problem that plagues:

2006-08-07 Thread Greg Pennefather
Tom It may be that your cables are marginal and that they will work with one switch and not another. A few things to try; 1. Set your Macs to use 10Mb/s half duplex Ethernet in the Network Preferences for Built in Ethernet and on the Ethernet tab. This will give them the best chance of

Re: info on BB connection

2006-08-04 Thread Greg Pennefather
it is a nobrainer so as to speak. I have a rim not more than 300 m from my place. Nick On 04/08/2006, at 12:54 AM, Greg Pennefather wrote: Dear All I thought I would just provide a little clarification seeing I have been involved with the ULL access regime from early on. The access

Re: Airport

2006-06-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
Joe The Airport requires proper configuration, it's not just about where the cables are plugged in. You have the cables plugged in correctly. Using the Airport Admin Utility configure the Airport base station. On the Internet tab set Configure to Using DHCP and make sure Connect Using is set

Re: a head scratcher for sure

2006-05-24 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi The only things I can think of are; the cable is too long and at the very limit of working - so it works with one Ethernet adapter but not another. Solution, shorten the cable run. The other is dependent on what you're plugging into - a hub, switch or the switch integrated into your ADSl

Re: PDF size blowout

2006-03-15 Thread Greg Pennefather
You can get reasonable size reduction without spending a cent or downloading any software. Choose print from the file menu. From the bottom drop down menu (in the upper half of the dialogue) choose Colorsync. The in the Quartz Filter drop down menu choose Reduce File Size. Cheers Greg

Re: ADSL2 router with VoIP

2006-03-06 Thread Greg Pennefather
I work for a VoIP service provider and we have found that one of the best implementations of VoIP is the Sipura software now found in the Linksys products. The one that does ADSL 2+, VoIP, wireless and 4 port switch is the WAG54GP2 - read about it at

Re: Printer PROBLEM

2006-03-01 Thread Greg Pennefather
Janis I have had similar printing problems in the past. I find that using disk utility to repair permissions usually fixes it - especially after a OS update. Regards Greg From: Janis Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:28:57 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hugh We're running a VoIP business for residential customers and have come across Bigpond cable a number of times and the trouble customers have plugging our phone adapter in. What we have found is that Bigpond cable only supports a single device - either the Ethernet port or USB, not

Re: ADSL Modems

2006-02-07 Thread Greg Pennefather
Callum You can achieve the networking/sharing requirements very cheaply and easily by getting an 8 port switch/hub. Won't give the wireless or ADSL 2/2+ compliance though. Plus, you will need a port to plug in your VoIP adapter Regards Greg From: Greg Satti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 07

Re: networking for idiots(me!)

2006-01-06 Thread Greg Pennefather
Rosemary Also make sure that Appletalk is enabled on the iBook in the Networks preference pane (Built in Ethernet - Appletalk tab) in system settings. Cheers Greg From: Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:32:59 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au

Re: networking for idiots(me!)

2006-01-06 Thread Greg Pennefather
Neil If you just have an Ethernet cable running between the 2 Macs you should set TCP/IP to have the address configured manually on both. Use 192.168.0.1 on one and 192.168.0.2 on the other. The netmask will be 255.255.255.0. On the Mac that DOESN'T dial the Internet set the Router to be the

Re: Disk Warrior 3.0.3 Need Help!

2006-01-04 Thread Greg Pennefather
Malcolm I would go with Disk Utility again and do a Verify Disk. If this reports any problems then follow the instructions at the top of the Disk Utility First Aid tab - boot from your OS X 10.4 CD/DVD and choose Disk Utility from the Utilities (?) menu. Then you can repair the disk if it is

Re: Remote Desktop on a VPN

2005-12-27 Thread Greg Pennefather
Robert If it works from one place and not another it si possibly a routing issue. Most ADSL modems/routers act as a DHCP server to issue IP addresses automatically and most default to 192.168.0.x but the Netcomm NB1300Plus4 uses 192.168.1.x (both ranges are legitimate as they conform to RFC

Re: Hello From A New Member

2005-12-23 Thread Greg Pennefather
Welcome Denis I find with Entourage that although the link looks dead when you paste it in it comes alive again when received. This will depend on the the email client used to read the email of course. Regards Greg From: Pauline and Dennis Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005

Re: Demise of IE5 and BBC School Website Help

2005-12-21 Thread Greg Pennefather
Reg Two things spring to mind. It is possible that the BBC site detects the browser and makes an arbitrary decision that Safari 1.3.1 is too old and won't continue. In this case, try using Safari enhancer which activates the debug menu in Safari. Then you can reload the page pretending to be

Re: Router doubling?

2005-11-16 Thread Greg Pennefather
Paul Absolutely. But no need for a router - a switch or a hub will do just nicely. But when you say long, no longer than 100m otherwise you go out of spec for Ethernet. Cheers Greg From: Paul Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:46:09 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List

Re: bin file

2005-11-16 Thread Greg Pennefather
Peter If it is firmware for you Sipura then it is likely that the .bin file is the firmware file. We are doing a fair bit of work with the Linksys PAP2 which has Sipura firmware and the files are .bin. Check with Sipura or you VoIP provider to confirm. Regards Greg From: Peter Sealy

Re: bin file

2005-11-16 Thread Greg Pennefather
the .bin file (on your Mac) and voila! This is how we do it on the Linksys PAP2 which, as I said, uses the same or similar firmware. I hope this works. Cheers Greg From: Peter Sealy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:58:03 +1100 To: Greg Pennefather [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: WAMUG

Re: Router doubling?

2005-11-16 Thread Greg Pennefather
13:38:19 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Router doubling? On 16/11/05 9:58 AM, Greg Pennefather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Absolutely. But no need for a router - a switch or a hub will do just nicely. But when you say long, no longer than 100m

Re: Data Transfer

2005-11-14 Thread Greg Pennefather
Tony Try out the Migration Assistant in the utilities folder on PB 2. I used it recently to move from one PB to another. It was completely pain free. There is only limited control but it should be enough for most cases. Good luck Greg From: Metal Artwork Creations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: StateWest online

2005-11-08 Thread Greg Pennefather
It is likely that the reason the new window does not appear is because Safari is blocking pop up windows. Try turning this off in the Safari menu or by typing cmd-k. I discovered this when using the Bankwest site and switching (momentarily) to Firefox. Firefox asked me if I wanted to allow the

Re: Safari - secure connections fail

2005-11-01 Thread Greg Pennefather
not have an https prefix just http On 31/10/2005, at 11:38 AM, Greg Pennefather wrote: Dear all Since yesterday I have not been able to connect to web sites using https. Safari reports that it can't make a secure connection. The 2 sites I have tried are Bankwest and eTrade. I connect

Safari - secure connections fail

2005-10-31 Thread Greg Pennefather
Dear all Since yesterday I have not been able to connect to web sites using https. Safari reports that it can't make a secure connection. The 2 sites I have tried are Bankwest and eTrade. I connect to these sites daily and they have been working fine for years. I have used Firefox 1.5 to

Re: Safari - secure connections fail

2005-10-31 Thread Greg Pennefather
on your desktop. Worked for me. Hope it works for you. Jeff Regards Greg From: Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:25:00 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Safari - secure connections fail On 31/10/2005, at 11:38 AM, Greg Pennefather

Re: Safari quits again

2005-10-27 Thread Greg Pennefather
The old chestnuts should also be tried if you haven't already 1. Repair permissions 2. Boot from OS X CD and, using Disk Utility, repair the disk 3. Zap PRAM 4. Use Disk Warrior You might also clear out your favicons. I think Safari Speedup (?) will do that Cheers Greg From: Eugene

Re: internet connect prompt

2005-10-07 Thread Greg Pennefather
Peter Just make certain you don't have Connect using PPPoE checked in the PPPoE tab in Network Settings. Also check that you haven't configured a VPN in Internet Connect. Perhaps you could provide some detail about the prompt you are getting eg. what application is giving you the prompt (check

Re: Powerbook G4

2005-10-04 Thread Greg Pennefather
Try resetting the power management unit (PMU) - there are articles on how to do this on the Apple support web site. Also, reset PRAM by holding down cmd-opt-p-r when booting. I also recall seeing some articles on PB G4s not waking from sleep - have a search for those as well. Cheers Greg

Re: iBook won't start from DiskWarrior CD

2005-10-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
Go to the Alsoft web site and log a fault report. I did this and they got back to me pretty quickly. I had a similar problem but booting from an external FW DVD drive. My problem was that the DW CD probably didn't have drivers for my DVD player (LaCie) and yours might be similar although I

Re: airport on a windows network

2005-09-09 Thread Greg Pennefather
Mike Have a read of this article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424 From memory, you have to prefix the password to join a 3rd party wireless network (non Airport base station). There are quite a few other articles on the Apple Airport support site too at

Re: Epson Stylus 740 printer

2005-09-01 Thread Greg Pennefather
Also try repairing permissions. I sometimes have trouble printing and it's because the permissions in the spool directory have been addled. Cheers Greg From: Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:43:25 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Epson

Re: Wanted: Command Conquer Mac Discs

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Pennefather
You can also buy repair kits at CD/DVD shops from about $10. Not sure if they're as good as the Video store though. Cheers Greg From: Paul Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:04:22 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Wanted: Command Conquer Mac

Archives Access

2005-08-16 Thread Greg Pennefather
Dear All Sorry to trouble the list with an oft asked question, but the archives seem to be off line at the moment. I'd check the archives for articles about the archives but ... Anyway, I was after the helpful info on the dictionary file in OS X. Would somebody please tell me where it is and

Re: Archives Access

2005-08-16 Thread Greg Pennefather
12:09:26 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Archives Access On 16/08/2005, at 9:39 AM, Greg Pennefather wrote: Dear All Sorry to trouble the list with an oft asked question, but the archives seem to be off line at the moment. I'd check the archives

Re: .hqx

2005-08-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
Or, more accurately, de-binhex. But, yes, Suffit will almost certainly de-binhex the file. Cheers Greg From: Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:59:33 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: .hqx On 01/08/2005, at 5:52 PM, Malcolm J McCallum

Re: Dark Castle [was[freecycleperth] OFFER: Old Macs (Salter Point)]

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Pennefather
Just for you Dark Castle fans out there ... Return to Dark Castle is available free for OS X (check Versiontracker) and I believe it contains all of the Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle level plus new ones. It's in colour and should run on current Macs. I played it a year or 2 ago and it was

Re: Dial-Up Using Airport?

2005-07-20 Thread Greg Pennefather
Kevin The first thing that jumps out at me is that the Airport thinks it is connected to the Internet via Ethernet. So it is unlikely it will try to establish another connection to the Internet if it thinks it's already connected! So, I'm wondering if you have the WAN port plugged into a switch

Re: Size of PDFs created under OSX

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Pennefather
Also have a look at PDF Shrink on Versiontracker for the demo and the vendor's web site. I use a couple of tools for PDFs, the wonderful and free Combine PDFs (specially useful if you print from a Word document with multiple sections) and PDF Shrink to reduce the size if you have graphics, lots

Re: Ethernet and a PowerMac 5500 Mac OS 8.1

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Pennefather
Yvonne First thing to check is that you have the Ethertalk extension loaded. Either turn it on in extensions manager (remember that!) or load it off you install disks. If you don't have it try searching on Google for somewhere that will let you download it. Try the Realtek driver for MacOS

Re: Wireless/wired data transfer

2005-07-05 Thread Greg Pennefather
Matt First things first - try to isolate the problem. Plug the 2 Macs into the Netcom modem and try the file copy, then plug them both into the Linksys, then one in the Netcom and one in the Linksys. If all works well then it is a wireless problem. So, turn off the Airport Express (APE) and

Stolen Al PB 1.25GHz

2005-06-28 Thread Greg Pennefather
Dear All We have some guys over from the US to help us with our business and the first night they were here one of them had their Al PB 1.25GHz stolen - not the greatest introduction to Perth. Anyway, if anyone comes across one of these being offered from a dodgy source I'd appreciate it on

Re: Stolen Al PB 1.25GHz

2005-06-28 Thread Greg Pennefather
Thanks Shay, I'll get them to call it in. Cheers Greg From: Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:48:40 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Stolen Al PB 1.25GHz Dear All We have some guys over from the US to help us with our business and the

Re: ibook not charging

2005-06-17 Thread Greg Pennefather
Toby Before replacing the battery try resetting the power management unit (PMU). For instructions go to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 There are also a few battery utilities available a sites like Versiontracker that might help in diagnosis or in recalibrating your battery

Re: Billion 5100 and iChat AV?

2005-06-15 Thread Greg Pennefather
Sorry to all for coming into this halfway but it sounds like some of you are having trouble with the type of NAT (network address translation) your various routers/modems use. For any application needing to contact another client behind a NAT or be contacted behind a NAT there needs to be a

Re: FTP through Tiger Server Firewall problem

2005-06-11 Thread Greg Pennefather
PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:56:23 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: FTP through Tiger Server Firewall problem From: Greg Pennefather [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the FTP client is able to connect and issue commands but then doesn't get any response, then using a passive

Re: FTP through Tiger Server Firewall problem

2005-06-10 Thread Greg Pennefather
If the FTP client is able to connect and issue commands but then doesn't get any response, then using a passive ftp client and server is the answer. FTP has always been a problem for firewalls and that's why passive mode clients were introduced. It's been a long time since I looked at this but,

Re: word to pdf

2005-05-26 Thread Greg Pennefather
Chris Yes, I've come across this one and it's easily solved. Print to PDF will always split a Word file at a section break but will see in the directory you save the file to that there are other files with the same name with numbers added eg printfile.pdf, priintfile1.pdf, printfile2.pdf etc

Re: Set Top Box updates

2005-05-05 Thread Greg Pennefather
Keith I see you've had some good suggestions so far. Martin's email on the PVR or DVR was great - I want one those but preferably a Tivo. However, if you're just in the market for the digital STB and are worried about firmware upgrades, you can spend a little more and opt for a model with the

Re: Airport Extreme Interference

2005-04-29 Thread Greg Pennefather
Chris Can you be a little more specific about what you mean when you say it doesn't work? Open Internet Connect and check the signal level to ensure your machine is still talking to the Airport. Then in the bottom of the Airport window in Internet Connect you will get information about whether

Combo Drive

2005-04-20 Thread Greg Pennefather
Dear All Ever since I upgraded to 10.3.6 (now at 10.3.9) the combo drive in my TiPB G4 550 won't read optical disks. It still burns them but won't read. So, does anyone have a dead PB with a combo drive they think works or a 2nd hand drive that they'd like to sell or swap? Thanks for any help.

Re: Combo Drive

2005-04-20 Thread Greg Pennefather
PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:35:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Combo Drive On 20/04/2005, at 12:22 PM, Greg Pennefather wrote: Dear All Ever since I upgraded to 10.3.6 (now at 10.3.9) the combo drive in my TiPB G4 550 won't read optical disks

Re: Combo Drive

2005-04-20 Thread Greg Pennefather
for your help. This list is terrific. Cheers Greg From: Daniel Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:46:16 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Combo Drive On 20/04/2005 12:22 PM, Greg Pennefather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All Ever since I upgraded

Re: Entourage won't delete attachments from Exchange mailbox

2005-04-15 Thread Greg Pennefather
Steve I'm sure I'll be but the first to tell you this. Once you have removed the attachments, the size of your mail file will not reduce until you rebuild it. To do so you need to quit all Office applications (eg Word, Excel) including Entourage. Then restart Entourage - once you have double

Re: Printing in Classic via Wireless

2005-04-12 Thread Greg Pennefather
It sounds like you router is routing between the switch ports and the wireless interface. Plenty of wireless access points with inbuilt switches just switch between the switch ports and the wireless. If this is true, then as others have pointed out, the routing software on the G604T would need

Re: Printing in Classic via Wireless

2005-04-12 Thread Greg Pennefather
Diana If you're buying a new printer then get one with an inbuilt Ethernet port. These all support IP printing as do OS 9 and OS X. If your chosen printer only has a USB port then also get a USB print server (a Netcomm USB print server will set you back another $150 or so) and again these all

Re: DD and the undoing of same.

2005-01-10 Thread Greg Pennefather
Malcolm That sounds like Disk Doubler from memory. I did have it - I'll check to see if I can find it (may take some time) but who knows if it will work under OS 9 or Classic - I think it was built for OS 8 and is certainly not going to work under OS X. Cheers Greg From: Malcolm J McCallum

Re: audio from powerbook to ext amp

2004-12-31 Thread Greg Pennefather
Chris Quickly head down to Tandy or Dick Smith and buy a mini audio to dual RCA adapter (plug) plus the RCA to RCA leads to plug in to your stereo. This is assuming your PB has an audio out jack. If not, the Griffin iMic is required from an Apple dealer. So the answer to your question is -

Weird CD Combo Drive Behaviour

2004-11-12 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi All Just yesterday I ran into a weird problem with my CD combo drive on my TiPB 550 (512MB RAM) running OS X 10.3.6. I inserted a blank CD and it simply wasn't recognised. Disk utility couldn't see it and I couldn't eject it without restarting with the mouse button held down. So I tried

Re: Nokia Phone - No Mac Drivers

2004-09-28 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi Diana I have successfully used my Nokia 6310 over dialup and GPRS with infrared. In the network pref pane I select the IRDA Modem tab and use the Nokia Infrared modem that appears in the list. I've had no problems and I have a vanilla Panther installation on a TiPB 550. Hope this helps

Re: Connecting PowerBook to Television or VCR

2004-09-01 Thread Greg Pennefather
Michael A few tips for new players 1. Make sure no applications are running 2. Connect to the TV 3. In the displays settings pane do a Detect Displays 4. Make sure the TV display is set for millions of colours in the displays settings pane 5. In the displays settings pane move the menu bar

Canvas Fix

2004-08-31 Thread Greg Pennefather
For those who have the problem with Canvas not launching past today (I believe), a fix has been posted. Unfortunately it requires some tinkering with ResEdit or Resourcer but it is purported to work until 2039. The fix doesn't say this but, as usual, if you are going to do this make sure you

Re: Canvas vs omnigrumble

2004-08-26 Thread Greg Pennefather
There is also an issue with Word in Office X and how well it handles PDF. Omnigraffle uses PDF to draw and store as does OS X I believe. But Word doesn't handle it too well and the result is poor both on screen and printed. I used Omnigraffle to prepare some flow charts about 3 years ago and

Re: Virtual PC and Classic

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Pennefather
Diana This may or may not be related to your problem - I had an authentication problem with CUPS where I would put in my admin username and password when requested and it would fail to authenticate every time. The reason being that there was a change in the way passwords were stored from Jaguar

What Happened to Mac OS Rumors?

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Pennefather
Does anyone know what happened to my favourite rumours site? I haven't been able to connect for weeks. I'm used to them going off the air for days at a time but they usually come back - not this time it seems. Thanks Greg

Re: What Happened to Mac OS Rumors?

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Pennefather
Thanks to all - I'm reading the rumours again. Cheers Greg From: Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:31:22 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: What Happened to Mac OS Rumors? Does anyone know what happened to my favourite rumours site? I

Re: TIVO-like service for Australia at last!

2004-07-29 Thread Greg Pennefather
Unfortunately this content is not allowed to find its way on to a set top box or be used for any application that allows ads to be skipped or removed. Cheers Greg From: Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:40:30 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re:

Re: Ti powerbook cd drive problem

2004-07-20 Thread Greg Pennefather
John The CD may be one of the copy protected audio CDs. This has happened to me with one of these but my drive still reads everything else. Cheers Greg From: Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:17:47 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Ti

Re: Ibook Power Adaptors

2004-07-01 Thread Greg Pennefather
Rod I have a yo-you style from an original clam shell iBook lying around if you're interested. Cheers Greg From: Rod Blitvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:56:12 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Ibook Power Adaptors Please does anyone know where we

CUPS Help

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Pennefather
Dear All I recently went in to CUPS to make some changes to one of my printers. When I go to make changes I get asked for a username and password - this didn't happen prior to upgrading to 10.3.4. Any username and password combination I use fails. Does anyone know which username/password combo

Re: TCP/IP LAN (9.x)

2004-06-10 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hi Dave It is possible to share files with XP using OS 9. But you will need additional software. The best I've seen (and used) or read about is Dave from Thursby (www.thursby.com). They used to have a download and free 30 day trial so you could check that out. It may well be that your device

Re: Problem printing over a network

2004-06-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
Steven I'm guessing that the iPrint is an Appletalk based device. If that is the case, the reason that you can't print is because the Airport doesn't route Appletalk - only IP. That is why it will work on the LAN port. This is because the Airport wireless network and the LAN port exist on the

Re: Copying files from Mac to Win2K server

2004-05-07 Thread Greg Pennefather
A couple of other things to try. Make a disk image of your backup using disk utility and store it on the Win2k server. Or, try using SilverKeeper from Lacie available from www.silverkeeper.com. I have had problems running Silverkeeper in 10.3 but it worked fine in 10.2 and never presented any

Re: 'cpe'

2004-05-04 Thread Greg Pennefather
Yay James! The pedants amongst us finally have a voice. It is always grating to hear someone use premise when they mean premises. Basically, premise is not the singular of premises. CPE is a generally accepted industry term meaning customer premises equipment. Simply, any equipment associated

Re: Airport, bigpond ADSL and SMTP e-mail relaying

2004-05-04 Thread Greg Pennefather
Mark A couple of things to try before making any radical changes to your network. 1. You say you POP off a server at UWA. It looks like you have your Reply to address set as the UWA address. It may be that the Telstra SMTP server won't route your mail because of this. Try setting your reply

Re: Locking an OS X Machine

2004-04-23 Thread Greg Pennefather
I lock my machine the way Shay suggests (and I'm very pleased 10.3 requires a password when it wakes from sleep) but, if you have Panther, you could select the Login Window ... from the multiuser menu in the top right hand corner. This will bring up the login screen - effectively locking the

Re: Setting up Network printer help

2004-04-20 Thread Greg Pennefather
Rod There is a Laserwriter utility for Windoze available at http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Eng lish-North_American/DOS-Windows/Printing/LaserWriter_for_Windows_95/LW95_422 .ZIP The Laserwriter manual specifies this as the way to set up a Windoze peecee

Video Card Suggestions

2004-04-14 Thread Greg Pennefather
I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on what video card might be suitable for a Powerbase 200 PCI Mac clone and where I might buy one. Thanks for any help Cheers Greg

Re: Accessing website harbottle

2004-04-07 Thread Greg Pennefather
Brett There is a script that checks for browser version and screen size. It seems if you don't fit the narrow range of browsers then nothing happens. Using the debug menu in Safari (thanks to Safari enhancer) to set the user agent to MSIE 6 for Windoze I was able to get the page to load no

Re: Terminal FTP

2004-04-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
The simple and elegant solution is to use the Finder to connect to your ftp server. In the Go menu choose Connect to Server In the dialogue box that appears, enter the server address as ftp://server.address (or server.name) and this can be stored as a favourite. You will be prompted for

Re: Best and cheapest ASDL in Perth

2004-04-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
We're using Swiftel in the office and it has been reliable and is very price competitive. I think they have the same cheap deal as everyone else at $29 with 200MB but their other deals include generous amounts of downloads and the excess charge is 0.5c per meg which is about one twelfth of most

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