Re: What gives?

2006-05-10 Thread James Devenish
Hi Mac, What do you mean "[you] turned Debug on"? Where and of what does this Debug pertain? The screen message sounds like a panic dump (which is a set of details about a kernel panic). If you have installed a third-party tool, I'd suggest the third-party tool caused the kernel panic as part of

Re: System preferences

2006-05-10 Thread James Devenish
Hi Lloyd, Although I can't imagine why your startup items are being difficult, it could be a permissions problem. Startup items are recorded in ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist James.

Re: Security certificates

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
Sorry, just to clarify: - The site certificates are presented *to* your browser *from* the website. They expire if the website operator fails to renew them. They can also be revoked (but this should have a different alert message). - Your browser trusts the site certificate if it was issued by a t

Re: Security certificates

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
Hi, On 06/05/06, Severin Crisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Buying from a secure site with Safari I got the message that the site was not recognised because it had not renewed its security certificate. How do these work? Computers need some way of establishing 'trust" between a client and a ser

Re: GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
On 08/05/06, James Devenish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tom, Believe it or not, nothng has been lost. Apart from my i's, that is :-)

Re: GIGs on HDD

2006-05-08 Thread James Devenish
Hi Tom, Believe it or not, nothng has been lost. With decimal numbers (i.e., in most fields of endeavour outside of transistor electronics), a "gig" (slang for "giga") is a thousand thousand thousand. Thus, a gig is the same as an Australia billion. Likewise, hard-drive manufacturers describe th

Re: Safari speed

2006-05-07 Thread James Devenish
Hi, On 07/05/06, Peter Sealy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 4 Empty Safari's cache every day 5 Clear the history every day Generally, those two should *cause* slowdowns, not fix them. James.

Re: MS is driving me Nuts

2006-04-12 Thread James Devenish
In addition to the comments so far, two things: - You can turn the auto formatting OFF permanently via the menu options (I can't remember the specific name though, since I avoid using Word as much as possible). - If you notice the auto formatting has happened, type Command+Z (or use the Undo menu i

Re: Mail attachments

2006-04-07 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, I would have to check to see if I am still correct, but I think I previously pointed out that they are stored as part of the original messages. This is because Apple stores e-mail in its original Internet format (which by definition has the attachments embedded within the body of the e

Re: My Mac, Apple Mail, Safari, 4 Worms and even 4 Trojans: Yikes!

2006-03-26 Thread James Devenish
On 25/03/06, Reg Whitely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is weird because two of the mailboxes - Deleted Messages > and Junk have nothing in them. Could the boxes > themselves be carrying the virus? Not yet. > Here are the mailbox details from ClamXav log: > /Users/rwhitely/Library/Mail/[EMAIL

Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)

2006-03-21 Thread James Devenish
On 20/03/06, Antony N. Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So then I try to be smart arse and create an uncompressed ZIP file > with Stuffit. Antony, try creating an uncompressed *StuffIt* archive instead of a ZIP archive. Then, use StuffIt to expand the archive on the PC. Stuffit archive expansion

Re: web animations, die die die

2006-03-18 Thread James Devenish
Hi Brett, Yes, I'm a little surprised that Safari does not have a "stop animations" option. If you want to disable Flash, you could go to Mac HD > Library > Internet Plug-ins and trash "Flash Player.plugin" and "flashplayer.xpt", then do the same in Home > Library > Internet Plug-ins (if present).

Re: G5 fans

2006-03-18 Thread James Devenish
Hi Chris, I don't know specifically about any changes to the tolerances. The G5s have many sensors, but I guess you won't have a recorded history to peruse. There is also no utility bundles with Mac OS X for viewing you sensor readings :-( However, you could use Activity Monitor (Mac HD > Utiliti

Re: Speakable items - no commands visible

2006-03-17 Thread James Devenish
Hi Glenn, Did you get to the bottom of this? Are there any items in your Speakable Items folder (Home > Library > Speech > Speakable Items" (also available via the Speech system preferences). I think those files get copied to your personal folder from the factory master folder which is located els

Re: Printing problem

2006-03-13 Thread James Devenish
On 13/03/06, Severin Crisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As before, Page Setup hangs as does an attempt to retrieve the > printer information from Printer Setup. I have let Printer Setup > Repair do its stuff to no avail. Interestingly, if I ignore Page > Setup it will print or fax successfully.

Re: SSH failed passwords?

2006-03-10 Thread James Devenish
Good thinking Antony, On 10/03/06, Antony N. Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was curious as to if the failed login attempts (passwords) are > capable of being stored and thus if this was some kind of evil > phishing site for the careless typers - I've changed my password for > good measure any

Re: Mailbox problems

2006-03-07 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, Which version of Mail are you using? "White" mailboxes are mailboxes that don't contain messages. This type of mailbox can exist after importing messages from another mail client. I am surprised if you can drop messages into such mailboxes! If you do a "search" for one of the vanishe

Re: changing HD icon

2006-03-04 Thread James Devenish
On 04/03/06, wyvern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The image is in the clipboard, select HD and get info, click on the HD > icon and paste... the icon from the clipboard replaces the old > iconright? Were you logged in as an administrator? I would not be surprised if regular users are disallowed

Re: HTML to JPEG

2006-03-01 Thread James Devenish
Hi Ken, I don't know what you mean by "an HTML photo". There isn't really such a thing. Photos on websites are usually JPEG. All you have to do is drag the image from Safari to your desktop. You can alternatively do a Control-click on the image to get a menu that'll allow you to open the image in

Re: iCal alarm clock

2006-03-01 Thread James Devenish
Hi Ruben, I don't think iCal has this feature built in. However, perhaps there is some third-party software that extends iCal (just like there's software that extends Safari). If not, you can "do it yourself", even though it's not as elegant as setting the preference in iCal. Basically, go to you

Re: A Photoshop Query

2006-02-27 Thread James Devenish
Hi Denise, What do you mean "put Feathering on 1 pixel"?? Don't you want zero pixels?? Depending on how you have your workspace laid out, you probably have an options toolbar somewhere on your screen (e.g., across the top, just under the menubar). If so, set feathering to zero, turn anti-aliasing

Re: ClamXav Scan Report

2006-02-26 Thread James Devenish
To help find out where the offending files were downloaded from: On 26/02/06, Ronda Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You say "Examination of the cache files will reveal the source address". For each cache file listed by ClamXav, you need to open it as a text file (e.g., drag its icon onto TextE

Re: ClamXav Scan Report

2006-02-26 Thread James Devenish
Hi Ronni, Hopefully someone else can give you a ClamXav-specific answer. I'd say that you've visited a website that hosts this Trojan and that your computer has downloaded it. Perhaps it arrived as part of an e-mail or a website that you visited. I guess it got downloaded because the website uses

Re: Bad bluetooth mouse accuracy on pBook?

2006-02-26 Thread James Devenish
I think someone else recently posted about a mouse tracking problem. Can't remmeber if it was Bluetooth or not. Perhaps you are currently having a run of back luck in some way, as this type of issue does not seem to affect everyone. Hopefully not a flaky Bluetooth module.

Re: Adding photo as full page watermark?

2006-02-26 Thread James Devenish
Hi Sue, As others have indicated, it depends mostly on what programme you use to make your document. If you are using AppleWorks, can you tell us which of the following you have created: Word Processing, Drawing or Presentation document? You can use the toolbox to put an image into the background.

Re: Cross platform disk image

2006-02-26 Thread James Devenish
Hi Paul, If you create DVD/CD master image with Disk Utility, it will include hybrid HFS+ ISO/Joliet filesystems. This means that your friend can just burn the .dmg file straight to DVD/CD, and it should work fine in his or her computer. But if he or she is a Linux user and is used to mounting .

Re: Ports and the internet

2006-02-22 Thread James Devenish
Hi James, What OS are you using? Yes, you can use multiple connections at the same time. But, as you have noted, one connection will prevail when you make connections out from your computer to other computers. Internet (IP) protocol knows about "addresses" but not "ports", so unfortunately it is

Re: Mac OS X worms

2006-02-19 Thread James Devenish
On 19/02/06, gary dorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just out of curiosity, > would these wanna be hackers/worm writers etc need a mac to write a > mac worm/virus etc Not necessarily, though the ones discussed on this list probabl had to be. Of course, people have access to Macs in places like scho

Re: Zip problems

2006-02-17 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, I don't know if your problem is well-known or not (i.e., can Google shed any light or not?). But I think the last time you had this problem, I suggested that you make the files available to one or some of us so that we can investigate/ Unfortunately, on that occasion, you had already d

Re: First self-propagating worm targeting Mac OS X

2006-02-17 Thread James Devenish
On 17/02/06, subscribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you have to: ... As I think Craig Ringer has pointed out before, any user is free to (say) delete files from their desktop. Therefore, if the user downloads and double-clicks a programme that (say) deletes all files from the desktop, then the

Re: Washing out in Power Point

2006-02-17 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, Either the JPEG format or Powerpoint are probably not storing and retrieving the correct colour profiles. Check that you have not accidently created JPEGs with a CMYK profile in Photoshop, as Powerpoint may not interpret the colour values correctly. (I'm just stabbing in the dark here.

Re: Finally, a radio station that has some sense!

2006-02-10 Thread James Devenish
Sorry everyone, that should have gone to Mark, not the list.

Re: Finally, a radio station that has some sense!

2006-02-10 Thread James Devenish
On 10/02/06, Mark Secker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you mean a lot like what Triple J and ABC National been doing for > the last 2 or 3 years? Tut tut, Mark, you haven't been absorbing your West Australian newspaper, have you? You should know by now that ABC is just a TV station, with virtuall

Re: I have a problem!

2006-02-07 Thread James Devenish
On 07/02/06, McCallum Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife's iMac has a [feature]. When you move the mouse cursor to the > right the desktop moves to the left :-( I have a 20/12 granddaughter Is "20/12" a reference to her eyesight? I guess she's turned on the Zoom feature, which means you

Re: Cables USB2/USB1

2006-02-06 Thread James Devenish
I imagine USB 2 cables come with the "USB Hi-speed" logo in the moulding or on a sticky label. Severin, by going to Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info > USB, you can find out whether each device is connected at USB 1 ("Up to 12 Mb/sec") or USB 2 ("HIgh-speed Up to 480 Mb/sec"). Your USB 1 cabl

Re: Tiger Upgrade = Waiting, waiting, waiting

2006-02-03 Thread James Devenish
Antony, Generic suggestions: (1) some kind of network or directory services issue (DNS, authentication, etc.) (2) some kind of I/O problem, e.g. dodgy hard drive, corrupt disk directory (maybe permissions problem -- though I can't quite see how). In particular, the "lookupd" background tool could

Re: Can't open InDesign Files

2006-02-03 Thread James Devenish
Hi Rick, Sounds very typical of trying to open a "new version" document using a "less new version" of InDesign. Check all the computers for their versions of InDesign CS 1 and CS 2 (i.e. InDesign v3.x.x, v4.x.x, etc.). In the past, there were some versions of the InDesign Updater (all approx 40MB)

Re: iCal advice needed please

2006-02-01 Thread James Devenish
Hi Joe, I haven't got a 10.3.9 machine in front of me to test this evening, but in Tiger (10.4.4) with iCal 2.0.3 there is an option in the Print dialogue. Under an "Options" heading there are two tickboxes: "Mini-monhts" and "Calendar Keys". Obviously, turning off the Mini-months increases the am

Re: Password

2006-02-01 Thread James Devenish
Ken, What OS are you using (8, 9, X, etc)? Also, when you say "connect to network", do you meant hat you have an Ethernet LAN and are you trying to connect TO other computers FROM your G4, or the other way around? If you are connecting to other computers from your G4, you will need to set up your

Re: Disappearing disk space

2006-01-28 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, I don't know why disappearing disk space is a recurrant problem for you, but perhaps it is due to large cache directories (e.g., consider that apps like Adobe Bridge can just keep growing and growing, and some Adobe apps used to have a bug where they didn't release their temp files). A

Re: Duplex printing orientation

2006-01-26 Thread James Devenish
Neil, The answer depends on the printer driver. Are you using a PostScript printer or something else? Try going into Page Setup and changing the landscape orientation direction.

Re: Address book

2006-01-26 Thread James Devenish
Hi John, I don't have all the answers you need, but one kludgy idea that springs to mind is that you could give your sportres address a name that is more distinctive (e.g. 'twasr' as an acronym for "The West Australian Sports Results"). You are less likely to encounter a conflict with "real" addre

Re: %CPU 121%?

2006-01-26 Thread James Devenish
On 26/01/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is that 121% relating to the dual processors, as in a total of 200%? I haven't got a dual-processor with Activity Monitor in front of me to check, but typically "yes", a dual-processor machine would have up to 200% utilisation in many recking tools.

Re: Lost mail

2006-01-24 Thread James Devenish
On 24/01/06, Ronda Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/01/2006, at 3:56 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > Have you tried to 'Rebuild' the Mailbox? And don't forget to back up your mailboxes before doing major reorganisations. You can also back up your mailboxes *right now* before rebuilding. I don't

Re: Eudora-Mozilla

2006-01-17 Thread James Devenish
n 11/01/06, Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd recommend grabbing Firefox instead (available from mozilla.org); > it's just the browser part of Mozilla, and integrates better into the > operating system. It'll do things like use your internet preferences to > see what mail client you pre

Flip4Mac: Ridiculous Licensing? [was: Re: Windows Media Player R.I.P.]

2006-01-14 Thread James Devenish
Hi, Has anyone noticed the different licensing conditions of Flip4Mac compared to Windows Media Player? For all those who have installed Flip4Mac, do any of you adhere to its licensing conditions? It stipulates, among other things, that "Back-Up Copy. You are permitted to make one (1) back-up or

Re: 24 hour time in excel

2006-01-13 Thread James Devenish
Hi Chris, On 13/01/06, Chris Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I add 8 hrs to those records with the time after midnight (eg 0:00:25) > for example, starts the day at 8:00:25. But the records with time prior to > midnight (eg 22:15:25 ends up at 30:15:25). I am not familiar with how Excel

Re: Keyboard backlighting

2006-01-13 Thread James Devenish
Hi On 13/01/06, Edward Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though I have illuminate keyboard in low light conditions turned > in in the system preferences my backlighting is not working. It was > happening prior to updating to 10.4.4 Have you tried any "obvious" measures yet, like checki

Re: Previews in Tiger

2006-01-12 Thread James Devenish
Hi Chris, Perhaps I have a similar experience as you, then. On further examination, all Adobe Creatuve Suite apps *fail* to show previews in one way or another (either by showing generic icons or not showing any type of preview). So far this only seems to affect PDF files. Nevertheless, all other

Re: Re: Previews in Tiger

2006-01-12 Thread James Devenish
These automated replies to mailing list messages drive me nuts! On 12/01/06, Metal Artwork Creations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The office of Metal Artwork Creations is now closed until Saturday > 20th January as Tony and Margaret take a short break. > > You are still welcome to submit your orde

Re: Previews in Tiger

2006-01-12 Thread James Devenish
Hi Chris, For me, this is only a problem with Acrobat Pro. Other apps show the previews properly. Perhaps it is an Adobe issue. If so, Adobe's support site is often good enough for workarounds (go to http://www.adobe.com and follow the Support links).

Re: Discrimination!

2006-01-12 Thread James Devenish
Hey Severin, On 11/01/06, Severin Crisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, for the moment, Google Earth has firmly established itself as a > great time-waster! One annoying feature is the way the resolution > for various areas is different. Our previous home in Dalkeith is > clear in all detail

Re: Static icons/folders

2006-01-09 Thread James Devenish
Hi Jon, I have not idea what might be causing your problem, but it (both Finder and Photoshop) sounds specifically like a "drag and drop" handling issue. In addition to trying any general tactics (e.g., repairing permissions -- just a thought), perhaps you can do a web search for issues with drag

Re: EEEK! Scampering Mouse

2006-01-08 Thread James Devenish
Paul, Just as an anecdotal datum, I can't personally recall every experiencing the motion-related behaviour you describe, not under any platform (Mac Classic, Mac OS X, Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux for intel, etc.) nor with any type of mouse, trackball or trackpad, nor with ADB, PS/2, USB, Bluetoot

Re: Mail attachments

2006-01-05 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, On 05/01/06, Severin Crisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where does Mail store attachments? Are you using Panther or Tiger, and are you using an IMAP or POP account? There is no such thing as an e-mail attachment -- it's just a convenient illusion. With POP messages, Apple Mail tends

Re: Audio from DVD - word of caution

2006-01-04 Thread James Devenish
Hi everyone, On 04/01/06, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use DVD Audio Ripper...[being used]...[crackable]. Don't forget that the WAMUG list is archived. So, be careful what you write. I think the owners of your DVDs' content (i.e., copyright holders -- probably large companies) and also t

Re: N.I.H. Image

2006-01-02 Thread James Devenish
Hi, On 02/01/06, McCallum Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can some one tell me if there is a OS X version of The National > Institute of Health programmeImage. I do not seem to be able to > find it. I don't know the answer off the top of my head but (FYI) there is also something called "

Re: More discussion on iTunes and Gracenote

2006-01-02 Thread James Devenish
A word of warning: On 02/01/06, James Devenish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...you can completely obliterate your cached Gracenote data... The above advice only applies if you are also willing to lose your manually-entered data. To prevent iTunes from downloading Gracenote data in

Re: More discussion on iTunes and Gracenote

2006-01-02 Thread James Devenish
Some more answers and other responses: Paul, I believe that iTunes does not "re-download" new Gracenote data unless you explicitly request "Get CD Track Names" from the "Advanced" menu. If this is too awkward for you, you can completely obliterate your cached Gracenote data as per my previous e-ma

Re: ITunes and Gracenote gripes

2006-01-01 Thread James Devenish
Hi Paul, On 01/01/06, Paul Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every time I put a new shop-purchased music CD in the computer there is an > automatic connect to Gracenote and down comes a whole lot of usually error > riddled information about what is supposed to be on the disk. I can't say I've h

Re: Scanner software.

2005-12-28 Thread James Devenish
Hi Lloyd, Mac OS X comes with built-in software for many scanners (not sure about yours). If so, you can use the "Image Capture" application (in your Applications folder) to do scanning. It can also share your scanner with other Macs via your home network (if desired). I don't know if it would be

Re: Project management software

2005-12-06 Thread James Devenish
Hi, Although thiswon't help you very much, you can hide iCal To-Do items by going to Preferences and choosing "Hide To-Do items with due dates outside the calendar view".

Re: dvd regions

2005-11-30 Thread James Devenish
Hi, On 30/11/2005, at 1:12 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: Rob Davies wrote: Return DVD and inform store of such an issue While they might be breaching an agreement with their suppliers, I really don't see how they'd be doing anything legally wrong. Rosemary, I am also not sure that the shop has do

Scrolling errors (Mac OS X)

2005-11-22 Thread James Devenish
Hi everyone, Is anyone with Tiger experiencing erroneous scrolling when combining a scrollwheel with mouse clicks? I have observed this to happen with both "lists" and "panes" that have scrollbars, and also in text-edit boxes. Basically, here are the apparatus and steps to reproduce: - People us

Re: An Acrobat6 niggle

2005-11-22 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:29:03PM +0800, SevCrisp wrote: > Every time I restart Acrobat6 it comes up with a warning "Acrobat has > been updated. Please restart before continue". In general, that type of warning is typical when you have just "installed" some finicky

Re: New powerbooks with WPA Airport issues?

2005-11-20 Thread James Devenish
Hi Martin, I don't think there is any widely-known problem with the latest PowerBooks, unless there is a problem related to Enterprise WPA. I see that recent updates to Mac OS X 10.4 have included some changes to Apple's WPA compatibility. Perhaps check what version the PowerBooks are running. Al

Re: Tiger print to PDF problems

2005-11-09 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:59:39PM +0800, Mike MOORE wrote: > On 08/11/2005, at 8:30 PM, James Devenish wrote: > >What version of Mac OS X are you using? > Tiger 10.4.3 Thanks. > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >on Tue, No

Periodic tasks [was: Re: G5 slowing down]

2005-11-08 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:59:21PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > Mac OS X is at its fourth major revision, and Apple still haven't put > a tool like anacron in place to run scripts after the machine next > starts up if it misses a timed job. I have no idea why Apple h

Re: Tiger print to PDF problems

2005-11-08 Thread James Devenish
Hi, What version of Mac OS X are you using? In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0800, Mike MOORE wrote: > PROBLEM 1 > I have had problems with the fonts in PDF versions of CAD drawings I > have sent to a PC user. I am using the save to Postscript file > option

Re: Problem with Software Update

2005-10-24 Thread James Devenish
Hi, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:32:10PM +0800, J Philippe Chaperon wrote: > For some time now Software Update would allow me to 'Download' the latest > updates, but after having finished the download a message would come up > advising that I do not have enough permiss

Re: Website download protection

2005-10-24 Thread James Devenish
Hi William, If you are selling the images, why not put crummy thumbnails onto the web so that people can't actually view the proper images in the first place? Perhaps you could use a more robust watermark, or place a black X in the middle of each picture? Also, I'd be suspicious of statistics abo

Re: Safari losing touch?, Bank Account, etc.

2005-10-18 Thread James Devenish
Hi, Vlad and Tony: could I suggest that if Safari has trouble with a web page, use the 'bug feedback' option to send your feedback to Apple. The option is available either as a toolbar button or via the 'Safari' menu. (Whether the problems are more with the website standard or the browser complian

Re: Microsoft Word query

2005-10-12 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:10:52PM +0800, Andrew Schox wrote: > Has anybody had their "save" and "save as" file menu items disappear > in Word (2004, v 11.1)? The machine in question is running 10.4.2. I think there is a facility to "customise" your menus. Hopefully

Re: iBook won't start from DiskWarrior CD

2005-10-03 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:00:31PM +0800, J Philippe Chaperon wrote: > I tried the laptop with all external devices disconnected with no luck. ... > I'll report this problem to Alsoft. I'm sure they will come up with a > good solution. My first though is that your CD

Re: MS Office update (Office 2004 11.2.0 SP2)

2005-10-01 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:18:27PM +0800, Alex Novakovic wrote: > Would like an opinion as to whether it is worth updating Office 2004 > for Mac (of course) Service Pack 2 - it is a whopping 56.7 MB > download! What am I getting, gold? There are lots of modification

Re: Mac v PC

2005-09-30 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:26:02PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > > However, it is a courteous thing to do for a Mac user to run AV > > software, just not essential. > Almost. I'd still be concerned about Word macro viruses, myself. Or > is Office/X sufficiently incompa

Re: Mac v PC

2005-09-27 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:47:47PM +0800, Rick Armstrong wrote: > I have a frustrating debate with a collegue who swears that a PC can do > anything that a Mac can do but cheaper and faster. A comparison like that is no better than saying that Ford cars carry more sh

Re: Zip files and Zip files?

2005-07-27 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:00:44PM +0800, Andrew W. Hill wrote: > Three main methods are using "Archive" from OS X, Stuffit's zipping, > and gzip from the terminal. FYI: gzip and zip are completely different despite their similar-sounding names and overlapping applic

Re: Remote SSH question...

2005-07-27 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:10:07PM +0800, Matthew Healey wrote: > So therefore how do I fix the path on inky so that my original > command (ssh inky.mur.wocwa.com unison -version) works without > any problems? I think your inky command *does* work: absolute paths are

Re: Remote SSH question...

2005-07-27 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:22:02PM +0800, Matthew Healey wrote: > At first it thought it was a path issue, but everything seems to be > right there as well. > > chloe:~ root# ssh inky.mur.wocwa.com echo $PATH The error is that $PATH is being expanded on chloe,

Re: Bill Gates rezones the Earth

2005-07-26 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:20:24PM +0930, Onno Benschop wrote: > Laurie McDonald wrote: > >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/msn_earth_deletes_aple/ > For starters the Microsoft offering uses data from the USGS - the US > Geological Survey and appears to be no

Re: Zip files and Zip files?

2005-07-25 Thread James Devenish
A couple of thoughts: - There are some variations on the ZIP theme, but I wasn't aware of any generally compatibility problems these days. - Different operating systems (including commonplace ones like Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, UNIX/Linux, Windows) have different "allowable" sets of filenames

Re: New On The Apple Store

2005-07-24 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:31:14PM +0800, Richard Kay wrote: > It must be BIG ... the Australian, American, French and English > AppleStores have been updating now for close on 90 minutes! ;-) Oh, a power outage? ;-)

Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK

2005-07-23 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:07:00AM +0800, Richard Kay wrote: > Time to hose the drive and reinstall Tiger. I don't think it would be reasonable to jump to that conclusion. Different subscriber networks can route their traffic differently, and servers can choose to di

Re: Pagemaker conversion wanted

2005-07-16 Thread James Devenish
Hi Glen, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:39:48AM +0800, Glen Low wrote: > I got a couple of files from my old graphic designer days that I'm > pretty sure are just simple text in Pagemaker files. Did you get a reply? I was going to dig out some of my old PageMaker file

Re: Importing graphics into PowerPoint 2004 for Mac

2005-07-16 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:35:46PM +0800, Ronda Brown wrote: > I'm just wondering why don't you use Keynote2 ? It accepts PDF. Because I don't already have Keynote.

Importing graphics into PowerPoint 2004 for Mac

2005-07-16 Thread James Devenish
Hi, I've decided to give Microsoft PowerPoint a go, even though I would normally avoid it like the plague. Having done all the text for my presentation, I am now inserting the graphics. And there is a problem. All my standard images are (and have for years been) in PDF. However, Microsoft softwar

Re: Batch color profile converstion (Adobe RGB vs sRGB)

2005-07-15 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:11:45AM +0800, Adam Yap wrote: > Does anyone know how I can batch convert color profiles. Photoshop > has an Automator action which will assign a colour profile to an > image but not convert (a process which seems to be more appropriate

Re: Size of PDFs created under OSX

2005-07-14 Thread James Devenish
Hi, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:52:26PM +0800, Kaye and Geoff wrote: > We were asked to turn a PC-using friend's MSoft Word docs into PDFs > to make them smaller (she needs to email them to multiple recipients). If it's problematic for her to be sending a 5.2MB attac

Re: unwanted grey lines in word document

2005-07-12 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:36:57PM +0800, Mark Secker wrote: > I have a user who on his old word documents and on word documents he > gets from other people he gets grey "guidelines" across the page. Two things come to mind: Drawing Toolbar > Draw > Grid > Show Gri

Re: Shock and horror

2005-07-06 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:17:39PM +0800, Mark Secker wrote: > no I know the company Altera and it's not them though the product > sounds like "Altera" - haven't gotten the minutes from that meeting > yet so don't know the spelling Alteris > >>We're looking at u

Re: exe files

2005-07-05 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:51:31AM +0800, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: > Is there any way of viewing animated .exe files in OS X please? A .exe file is generally a Windows programme. I would suggest that you treat an "animated .exe" as a virus unless proved otherwise, *e

Re: Cant access disk

2005-07-04 Thread James Devenish
Hi, Yes, I was joking :-) I've seen this 'sidebar problem' once before. The issue I have seen is that if my sidebar contains a link to a networked folder that has a custom icon, *and* I log out and then log back in, the sidebar tends to hang while it attempts to prompt for a password. There's obv

Re: Cant access disk

2005-07-04 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:48:00PM +0800, Paul wrote: > >Perhaps your sidebar preferences are corrupt. > OMG! ;) What gives you that idea? I just like saying it.

Re: Cant access disk

2005-07-04 Thread James Devenish
Perhaps your sidebar preferences are corrupt. Try moving the following file to a new location, then logging back out and back in to see if it makes a difference: $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist If you can't do this from the affected account with the Finder, you could try us

Re: Aluminium PowerBook

2005-06-25 Thread James Devenish
Hi Christof, While you *might* have a software problem, slowdowns are reasonably typical when hard drives are physically faulty. Potentially, you might have lost some data, too. Someone else on this list might be able to recommend your steps from this point forward. If you don't have backups, I'd

Re: Special Character Keystroke

2005-06-24 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:53:25PM +0800, Paul Kitchener wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there is a keystroke for an e with a ? over it? Can you describe it with words: is it "e with an acute accent"? If so, the combination is Option+e (then release those keys), follo

Re: Macusers out in the cold again!!

2005-06-23 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:51:03AM +0800, Neil Houghton wrote: > > System Requirements > > *Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or XP > > *Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher > > *256 MB of RAM > > *3D Graphics Card > > *nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra >

Re: Tiger: Apple Mail badge

2005-06-22 Thread James Devenish
[And apologies to all those who have noticed that my e-mail was threaded to the end of someone else's -- I rarely make that mistake! Tired.]

Tiger: Apple Mail badge

2005-06-22 Thread James Devenish
Hi, With Tiger, does anyone have a problem whereby the red `badge' does not appear in the Mail dock icon when new messages have arrived? I.e. you are not visually notified of new mail, even though it's sitting in the INBOX of your only account, and "include when automatically checking for new mail

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