Re: problem with new mail in Lion

2011-07-25 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, DIVX codec not loaded as some users are reporting upon removal of DIVX codec all is well. Flip4mac and Perian only ones installed. Perian will play DIVX format in Quicktime... Cheers! `RobD... On 26Jul2011, at 6:30 am, tom samson wrote: AVI files still do not load. I can see the

Re: MacOS 10.7 (Lion) and colour calibration etc

2011-07-24 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Spyder 2 is definitely PPC only requires Rosetta, so SL being last OS X. Spyder 3 is Intel based, reports suggest it works with Lion. When, and if. I upgrade a machine later in week, will confirm? Datacolor very fast at updating software if needs to be, I would suggest they have been

Re: Does a Mac have this?

2011-07-18 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, OS X is a NIX OS, so many tools available via Terminal. Locate is such a tool, just type locate with any part of file or whatever you are looking for. Locate will find many variables, highlight then right click use Services, then open to run. Initialising is simple just run

Re: Final Cut advice

2011-07-13 Thread Rob Davies
Evening, Final Cut Pro X would be weapon of choice as you pointed out previous version does not seem to be continuing. Apple is putting eggs in one basket moving editing to prosumer, hence your camera market. I have not used program within a full on project, and I do not wish to. It seems to

Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-11 Thread Rob Davies
Mike, Eugene, It is just a word processing file. Hence, a text file with specific formatting saved by relevant program. It should open with textedit or any text editor (Word Processor), possibly not with format or specifics of said program. If curious and issues still. Send file of list

Re: final cut pro

2011-07-10 Thread Rob Davies
Morning Daniel, AVID is offering %60 of Media Composer for FCP customers. Pro level application compatibility not an issue. Expensive Plug-Ins, but it is a pro app. Premier from Adobe as another Alternative. It does now function within OS X very well, although Graphics Acceleration is Nvidia

Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-10 Thread Rob Davies
Hindi Word Processor File http://filext.com/file-extension/MDH Cheers! `RobD... On 11Jul2011, at 9:28 am, Mike Murray wrote: Hi muggers We've downloaded some files from an obscure UK university lecturer who refers to them as databases. They may be quite old (early 2000s). The

Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-09 Thread Rob Davies
to plug it in to. In all three scenarios I have a choice. What's next… making VPN's and encryption illegal? On 08/07/2011, at 7:52 PM, Rob Davies wrote: Hi Matthew, I would hate to burst your bubble, but if you are connecting via PPoE, you connection is being NAT'd, monitored

Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-08 Thread Rob Davies
Hi Matthew, I would hate to burst your bubble, but if you are connecting via PPoE, you connection is being NAT'd, monitored and filtered. This is in response to peoples lack of understanding of how networks function, do you think ISP's will give people access without some form of control.

Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-07 Thread Rob Davies
Evening, If you are a Telstra customer and connected by such you are being filtered. DNS as Ronni has stated before is to change an IP address into english, a URL. Most sites they are chasing are IP based, so the filtering will be done before it reaches DNS servers. OpenDNS servers are based

Re: PDF printing

2011-07-03 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, PDF/X will strip much from document as it is designed to pass through a prepress device without hassle. Annotations, Javascript, Encryption, Fonts have to be embedded, Trapping explicit, ETC... Specification for PDF/X http://goo.gl/g5fjA My experience from print window if you save as

1st Gen iPad

2011-06-26 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, First Generation iPad utilises both bands of the N WiFi spectrum? iPhone is only 2.4? Cheers! `RobD -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml

Re: 1st Gen iPad

2011-06-26 Thread Rob Davies
bounces better. Cheers! `RobD.. On 27Jun2011, at 8:30 am, Ronda Brown wrote: On 27/06/2011, at 7:47 AM, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, First Generation iPad utilises both bands of the N WiFi spectrum? iPhone is only 2.4? Hi Rob, Are you asking questions? Does the First Generation

Re: ADSL2 speed Westnet

2011-06-22 Thread Rob Davies
7800N? Cheer John On 21/06/2011, at 12:11 AM, Rob Davies wrote: Hi John, Ok, now it is coming clearer, MTU Within your modem which I assume you do your PPPoE handshake with. Adjust the MTU too 1432, see if that sustains speed. Can actually go down to about 1400 safely, but start

Re: SMS/iMac

2011-06-22 Thread Rob Davies
Evening, SMS mac costs to send or something? Not sure remember reading or on list? Cheers! `RobD On 22Jun2011, at 9:54 pm, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Stuart, SMS Mac’ might be worth checking out. http://www.smsmac.com/en/ You can run SMS Mac in different ways: as a Dashboard Widget,

Re: New Time Capsule 2TB and 3TB, New Final Cut X etc on MacApp Store

2011-06-21 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Totally agree Matthew, Microsoft and there Digital Distribution network do as such, whatever the current dollar value. Before you all start. This is logging in within the Australian Portal. Autodesk are same digitally, although I find local distributor better value for money.

Re: New Time Capsule 2TB and 3TB, New Final Cut X etc on MacApp Store

2011-06-21 Thread Rob Davies
Sorry forgot a question. GST would be exempt from electronic distribution of software? Thanks. Cheers! `RobD... On 22Jun2011, at 7:01 am, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, Totally agree Matthew, Microsoft and there Digital Distribution network do as such, whatever the current dollar value

Re: ADSL2 speed Westnet

2011-06-20 Thread Rob Davies
Apologies List supposed to send Sunday Morning, John should have received then, but not list. Morning, Could go on about relevance or not of PING and DNS? Except one warning if you are an iiNet customer your free bandwidth (FREEZONE) known as WAIX in WA possibly will not happen, when using

Re: ADSL2 speed Westnet

2011-06-20 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, I agree with Robin it is not a DNS issue, as the technician would have checked for this in his fault diagnosis. Last Post to List, I can make your DNS PING response of 2-3ms if on iiNet ADSL1 or above. It simply is a congestion issue, and I still believe it is happening in his

Re: ADSL2 speed Westnet

2011-06-20 Thread Rob Davies
ceased just then. with only about a minute between tests. Cheers John John Daniels jdani...@westnet.com.au On 20/06/2011, at 4:36 PM, Rob Davies wrote: Apologies List supposed to send Sunday Morning, John should have received then, but not list. Morning, Could go

Re: ADSL2 speed Westnet

2011-06-18 Thread Rob Davies
for Westnet/iinet to get off their butt and fix it. Cheers John John Daniels jdani...@westnet.com.au On 16/06/2011, at 11:56 PM, Rob Davies wrote: John, No I was searching for an outside source tapping your connection. TIME of Day hints at some source which is constant

Re: Bigpond Elite network gateway

2011-06-16 Thread Rob Davies
David, Welcome to one of many problems with Wireless/3g connections. As with Cable a surge in users equals a reduction in service. Such is reasoning for an NBN, something even Sol agreed with. He moved Telstra into 3g because of copper problems and maintenance cost of such. Sparseness of this

Re: ADSL2 speed Westnet

2011-06-16 Thread Rob Davies
Daniels wrote: Hi Rob I have cable connection to the router and ethernet to a second Mac. I have tried wireless between the two Macs and found no difference in speed. Cheers John On 16/06/2011, at 1:15 AM, Rob Davies wrote: John, Does your abode have a wireless connection

Re: ADSL2 speed Westnet

2011-06-15 Thread Rob Davies
John, Does your abode have a wireless connection/hub/server, or other servers running of your ADSL connection? Cheers! `RobD... On 15Jun2011, at 10:39 am, John Daniels wrote: Hi James No There is no noise on my line but the attenuation is usually around 60. I am getting about 230KBs this

Re: Phones and iinet naked

2011-06-15 Thread Rob Davies
I would suggest the length of ring from commencement to when iiNet answers message needs to be addressed. Remember iiNet's service is first others work in conjunction with. System does work with Panasonic, and all others.. RobD... Encpass life, breathe! On 14/06/2011, at 8:33, tom samson

OCR via iPhone

2011-06-09 Thread Rob Davies
Evening, Just had this emailed to me and thought of a common thread passing list frequently. So those that own an iPhone, not to sure of capabilities as have not investigated thoroughly yet. http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-textgrabber Look forward to some success or not with

Re: Sign or Encrypt Email Messages

2011-06-08 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Just a side note this does not stop SPAM as the header cannot be encrypted, some user information is visible. Data is protected with the necessary keys as Ronnie explained so eloquently. ISP's, providers of email services, software companies need to change SMTP ports from 25 to 465

Re: Lion available in July

2011-06-08 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Yes, Ronni we hear and agree! Not sure or read any to the contrary, but I would assume Apple has a contingency plan. As even in the good ol USA not everybody is connected to a T1 and beyond. There is still a lot of the country connected via dial up speeds, as with ours not in City

Re: Moving from Westnet to Bigpond ?

2011-05-29 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Firstly email will be an issue if using Westnet as server? Open gmail account(s), before switching transfer mail to this service does not matter if IMAP or POP. (Free) IMAP I prefer as stay's on server. (Accessibility) Once Telstra setup move back if necessary? Website if

Re: Recommendations of OCR software.

2011-05-18 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Adobe Acrobat works a treat. I.R.I.S software produces Readiris version 12 being current, cost? Included with quite a few scanners, or download. http://goo.gl/FGZzQ Posted Recently visit Archives.. Cheers! `RobD... On 18May2011, at 7:33 pm, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi everyone, I

Re: iPhone.

2011-05-12 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Reasoning for Airplane Mode selection is to turn of all services abruptly. Hence, nothing functioning that should drain battery excessively, if at all. So, if battery is faulty it will reveal itself succinctly. So, when the inevitable call is made to apple for warranty replacement,

Re: iPhone

2011-05-12 Thread Rob Davies
Hi Tony, Hold the power button, and home button together until phone resets. Apple icon appears. This hopefully will reset your iPhone inform of outcome. Cheers! `RobD... On 12May2011, at 7:06 pm, Tony Francis wrote: Helloo again. We now have another problem, today using the

Re: iPhone Battery.

2011-05-11 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Yes advice by Ronni, but also the WiFi constantly searching is another. So in settings the three big ones are together being WiFi, Notifications, and Location Services. Simple way to check if faulty battery switch on Airplane Mode see if battery life as bad? Cheers! `RobD... On

Re: modem settings for bigpond

2011-05-06 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Non Standard not really, I would not treat this as gospel?? Bigponds home page provides the settings for DNS and Preferred ADSL Encapsulation Method PPPoE??or A etc... You will run into issues with your primary LAN, with netmask as such 239.255.255.250? DNS Primary is correct and

Re: MBP Memory upgrade

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Late Reply. Holidays and stuff, http://www.maxfixit.com.au/shop/ an Australian version of OWC USA, parts are Guaranteed accordingly. Ram Lifetime and Apple approved as with USA store, pricing at moment is unbelievable. Many other Apple bits and pieces, externals are great,

Re: Seagate external drive

2011-04-25 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, When formatting make it FAT32 and it will read and write on all OS platforms. i.e WIN in all variants, Linux, UNIX, BSD variants and of course OS X. And before we all start the NIX versions have to have kernel configured as thus, same as one can build an OS X kernel enabling NTFS

Re: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??

2011-04-25 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Thank's Ronnie for the info for ejecting a thumb drive,correctly. Reason for doing this is to empty all directories/folders including hidden directories/folders. OS X has hidden folders those that are preceded by a dot hence .Trashes where those files appeared from. Spotlight and

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-14 Thread Rob Davies
Acrobat Pro, does a fine job!! On 13Apr2011, at 11:35 am, Ray Forma wrote: Do you have any recommendations for text-recognition software that will run natively on a 64-bit Intel Mac? If so, please let me know. I need such an application to convert standard scanned images to text files.

Re: Wireless network range extender

2011-04-03 Thread Rob Davies
/2011, at 8:27 PM, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, Cable connecting AP's. WPA2 Personnel Shared Key with AES algorithms same for both AP's. SSID again same for both machines, do not worry about hiding actually slows down network whilst achieving nothing. Different IP address, but on same subnet

Re: Wireless network range extender

2011-04-02 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Cable connecting AP's. WPA2 Personnel Shared Key with AES algorithms same for both AP's. SSID again same for both machines, do not worry about hiding actually slows down network whilst achieving nothing. Different IP address, but on same subnet. i.e 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 with

Re: Introducing Toast 11 - Now Faster, Easier, and Packed with New Features

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Davies
Morning Merv, As explained before do not know, and have lodged a support question with Roxio to no actual upgrade path in AU. Forums have reported that this item can be upgraded at US online store paying US dollars. Just do not change locality and keep aware of Roxio shifting you to an AU or

Re: Toast 11

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Davies
Not sure why this differentiation, but has been highlighted before. Apple is a huge culprit with iTunes and App store, which I am grateful for US established account saves huge dollars. Adobe same huge differences when recognises Au. Microsoft one of the few which actually is cheaper for some

Re: Warning: Apple Store Fishing Attack Adobe, Edition

2011-01-29 Thread Rob Davies
Morning Kyle, Thanks, have received same forwarded to Apple Australia and Apple USA with captured addresses. Cheers! RobD... On 28Jan2011, at 5:13 pm, Kyle Kreusch wrote: Hi, All (GMUG) and WAMUG I felt compelled to warn people that there is currently an Apple Store fishing attack

Re: Wireless/Airport network on iMac faulty?

2011-01-17 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Sounds like a DNS issue, check that the DNS for ethernet is same as your Airport setup within Network Settings advance. Cheers! `RobD On 17Jan2011, at 1:58 pm, Denise Williams wrote: Hi All Firstly, thanks to Jane Rhonda for their advice RE unlocking my iphone for USA -

Re: Wireless/Airport network on iMac faulty? II

2011-01-17 Thread Rob Davies
, remembering that wireless once connection is made it needs to sync to AP with whatever security protocol has been put in place also frequency used i.e G, N, or B? Cheers! `RobD... On 18Jan2011, at 6:37 am, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, Sounds like a DNS issue, check that the DNS for ethernet

Re: Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-30 Thread Rob Davies
Hi Kyle, Bandwidth allocation has many different names pending on whom scripted it. ClearOS or Ebox/Zentyal being full bodied network Firewall/Gateway covers many other areas as well is simply bandwidth manager with an ACL time control for users. IPcop being the most simplistic

Re: Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-29 Thread Rob Davies
line Unix tools, then how come someone ingenious soul hasn't put a GUI on top of it and marketed it? Tim On 29/12/2010, at 8:27 AM, Rob Davies wrote: How is your home network setup i.e., server software or distribution? Many options available as all machines record usage Mac

Re: Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-28 Thread Rob Davies
How is your home network setup i.e., server software or distribution? Many options available as all machines record usage Mac for instance has many logs as do Win$. Activity Monitor, is one way of checking individual machines if on same network one can log into machine whilst on to view.

Re: SMS/iPhone

2010-12-19 Thread Rob Davies
: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 On 19/12/2010, at 6:39 AM, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, Reset - Home+Power until Apple logo appears, I find turning phone on/off does not reset communications succinctly. I have noticed iPhone 4 does lock up quite significantly, missing calls

Re: SMS/iPhone

2010-12-18 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Reset - Home+Power until Apple logo appears, I find turning phone on/off does not reset communications succinctly. I have noticed iPhone 4 does lock up quite significantly, missing calls and SMS's. Apps seem fine and phone feels as it is working but the whole purpose of owning being

Re: Deleting Mail from the Server

2010-12-06 Thread Rob Davies
Eudora in all its glory is still available with a complete makeover of it's engine with the help of the Mozilla family of software. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE Very competent email client form testing thus far. Similar to Thunderbird well it is as both have same engine, but Eudora

Re: Optus unlocks iPhones

2010-12-01 Thread Rob Davies
Until NBN rolls out which is looking very dubious, Telstra has control of the copper wire and exchanges no matter what other companies or legislation is concerned. Remove the damn copper go with NBN and remove Telstra from equation. Although no doubt some other Gov Beuracracy will replace to

Re: Images in Word and PowerPoint

2010-12-01 Thread Rob Davies
Word is a word processor, all be it a fancy one that people think can accomplish more than a word processor was designed for. Same with Excel a spreadsheet very fancy calculator not a Database although many do use as such. Office i.e.. all above and more: in default settings, strip excess from

Re: Apple Store event for friday?

2010-11-23 Thread Rob Davies
The biggest retail day on US calendar known as Black Friday, following Thanksgiving being the official start of The Holidays as Americans define Christmas period. Cheers! `RobD... On 24Nov2010, at 11:01 am, Aurora74 wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any info regarding this? I have just

Re: iPhone doesn't auto connect to wireless network

2010-11-21 Thread Rob Davies
Hidden SSID does not work with iPhone 3G. Utilise WPA2 with a strong password, from memory I think 192 characters can be used, but I would go with minimum of 32 possibly adding some symbols also with of course upper lower case using zero not O easier when adding to phone/appliance. Hiding

Automatically connecting to a network with a hidden SSID is a bad idea

2010-11-21 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Courtesy of various blogs, and contributors Since your computer cannot passively listen for the SSID broadcast and automatically connect when it sees the SSID (which will not show in the beacon broadcast, since that is how hiding the SSID works), it has to actively send probe

WPA2

2010-11-21 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Apologies, but hey lets have a trilogy. A point on WPA2 and security, there is a supposed security hole with WPA2+TKIP. Therefore Security Mode is set at WPA2 Personal, WPA Algorithms set to AES on all your WIFI appliances. Hence, WPA2+AES Enterprise is for Radius Server connections

WPA2 II

2010-11-21 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Apology first post not certain what happened there... Apologies, but hey lets have a trilogy. A point on WPA2 and security, there is a supposed security hole with WPA2+TKIP. Therefore Security Mode is set at WPA2 Personal, WPA Algorithms set to AES on all your WIFI appliances. Hence,

Re: .MTS files and iMovie

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Davies
: Yes it is and I can use a video converter to capture the files and make them .MOV that iMovie then recognises. Regards John C From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Rob Davies Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 4:02 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re

Re: .MTS files and iMovie

2010-11-16 Thread Rob Davies
Is the card recognisable by machine at all, mounts within Finder, Desktop etc??? Cheers! `RobD... On 16Nov2010, at 11:51 am, CARLSON John wrote: Hi Ronnie and other wamuggers, Ok have bought a new expensive (relatively)card reader - no luck, I was really hoping this would do the trick.

Re: Mac Mini Server

2010-11-16 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Yes, but follow some advice. First and foremost read documentation, when initial install takes place this user is Admin. When dealing with server this users password is the default password to be used with the servers dedicated user name diradmin. wazmac || OSX Server Setup Notes

Re: .MTS files and iMovie

2010-11-14 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, I do not use FCE. But for AVCHD devices or basically any card/HD recordable devices within Final Cut Pro, log and capture is the way of importing. So, I assume FCE should do same? Except JVC for which I use iMedia Converter: in past MPEG streamline. Problem Files: Normally one can

Re: Page layout software

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Davies
SCRIBUS scribus.net | Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing Scribus Public Wiki Fully featured DTP program. New version released a month or 2 back. Community support excellent via mailing list and Wiki. Cheers! `RobD On 11Nov2010, at 3:50 pm, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks to all who

Re: Apple discontiune Xserve - get them while they last

2010-11-07 Thread Rob Davies
Morning Kyle, On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Rob Davies rjda...@gmail.com wrote: No need to add OS X standard as OS X server is a standard install of OS X with the Daemons accessible to the uninitiated and some administrative software. So it still behaves as per OS X just a bit more fruit

Re: Apple discontiune Xserve - get them while they last

2010-11-06 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, No need to add OS X standard as OS X server is a standard install of OS X with the Daemons accessible to the uninitiated and some administrative software. So it still behaves as per OS X just a bit more fruit to access if required, as OS X standard can be employed to behave as OS X

Re: Apple discontiune Xserve - get them while they last

2010-11-06 Thread Rob Davies
I think acceptance into other servers with software could be inevitable. Cheers! `RobD On 07Nov2010, at 2:39 am, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, No need to add OS X standard as OS X server is a standard install of OS X with the Daemons accessible to the uninitiated and some administrative

Re: Which Windows for Boot Camp?

2010-10-20 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Domain Server Compatibility:- OS X server does not support Windows 7 at all as per Apple information release MacWindows: Apple, MS, say Win 7 client can't join OS X Server PDC Domain But some have made it work others have not. I have no success yet utilising PDC in SMB, but Samba can

Re: How to organise multiple HDs

2010-10-20 Thread Rob Davies
Hi Brian, Huge Question many answers. Currently have network functioning or just machines connected somehow, i.e ethernet connecting and sharing enable on each machine or a dedicated Gateway behind ADSL modem. Which also begs question what is your internet connection. Importantly knowledge

Re: How do you make a bluetooth connection between Mac iPhone

2010-09-30 Thread Rob Davies
...@possumology.com on 30/9/10 3:11 AM, Rob Davies at rjda...@gmail.com wrote: Morning, As mentioned Bluetooth support within iPhone is for devices only, as per most things Apple. USB connection and GraphicConverter will do same as Bluetooth except with cable connected? Another App

Re: How do you make a bluetooth connection between Mac iPhone

2010-09-29 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, As mentioned Bluetooth support within iPhone is for devices only, as per most things Apple. USB connection and GraphicConverter will do same as Bluetooth except with cable connected? Another App called FileApp will allow a little more flexibility, but requires DiskAid on desktop,

Re:Re: How do you make a bluetooth connection between Mac iPhone

2010-09-29 Thread Rob Davies
Morning Again, Image Capture through USB also. I suppose that means iPhoto also; do not know do not use, but Adobe Bridge recognises. Cheers! `RobD.. On 30Sep2010, at 3:11 am, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, As mentioned Bluetooth support within iPhone is for devices only, as per most things

Re: Mac mini vers iMac

2010-08-28 Thread Rob Davies
Morning All, I have noticed this issue with iMacs previous and current models, also a lot of LED monitors of recent purchase. But, once monitor has been calibrated it is perfect no tint, cannot fault current 27 iMac once achieved. Reasoning for this is quite simply, colour temperature

Re: Canoscan LIDE 25 CS5

2010-08-27 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Check the TWAIN pug-ins is in Plug-ins/Import-Export folder, if it is then an email to Canon for an updated driver would be on the cards. Cheers! `RobD... On 27Aug2010, at 6:44 am, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi WAMUGers Recently installed CS5. Now my I can't use the import from

Unwanted parts

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon all, A UWA BFA student is requiring U/S parts, hence not working, or just unwanted, never to be seen again. These parts will become part of an Art Project, all contributions very much welcome. Does not matter which parts everything accepted, but would prefer hard drives or

Re: new iMac - printing times out and pauses

2010-08-02 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon all, The place to start with all printer problems is localhost:631 from machine that is causing error. This brings up the CUPS printing window which is what OS X utilises for printer control. Administrator is what you want to select then select device. I would say the printer is

Re: Web Hosting

2010-08-02 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, http://www.ilisys.com.au Originally and stilled within WA, although Admin control is in Melbourne? Means corporate identity is there, and sometimes support may transfer there. Great support very flexible to what can be installed in your environments, some of the best backbone in

Re: Tutorials.

2010-07-23 Thread Rob Davies
Evening, Assuming web site is Apache powered as this is installed within OS X, solution lies within .htacces. Which is the Apache process for accomplishing various custom processes within a page/s or directories. This following guide as it states is comprehensive , but many more available.

Re: Tutorials.

2010-07-23 Thread Rob Davies
the 'Introduction Description' site, to my other site which is password protected. I guess this would be similar to what David suggested. Thanks again Rob for your impute. Cheers, Ronni On 24/07/2010, at 12:01 AM, Rob Davies wrote: Evening, Assuming web site is Apache powered

Re: lousy VOIP

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Wireless connections fluctuate substantially in comparison to a fixed line. VOIP requires minimal fluctuation, hence why providers suggest one utilises QOS, and iiNet modems are actually preset to do this. Remember also that ADSL for most people in Australia is very unstable due to

Re: lousy VOIP

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Adam I actually utilise what they refer to as a VOIP ATA, which once placed within network becomes your VOIP connection point. So independent of modem connection. Currently at home I use the Linksys ATA very solid and easy to setup with many variables if inclined, but just the

Re: Epson Stylus Pro 3880

2010-07-14 Thread Rob Davies
Morning All, Not sure if this will solve issue, but I have noticed some strange behaviour with print queues recently. This happens when a job for some unknown reason does not print or sits in Que. Waiting, why??? (printer off, connection not available, out of ink/toner??) First point of call

Re: Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

2010-06-24 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Remote Install within Utilities, from another Apple machine. External USB DVD drive, Firewire drive. One sideline is Windows 7 has issues authorising/binding against SAMBA PDC. Cheers! `RobD... On 24Jun2010, at 9:00 pm, Stuart Breden wrote: Currently I have a Windows server and

Re: Aperture how to books

2010-04-25 Thread Rob Davies
Morning All, A great resource I stumbled across many moons ago, especially if you purchase a couple of books a year? Safari Books Online http://www.safaribooksonline.com The purchase of one or two in a year justifies cost, but a fast technical/academic/business library resource

Re: Final Cut

2010-03-15 Thread Rob Davies
Evening, Not exactly, separate ideologies of same software. FCP has been part of Final Cut Studio for a while now even though it holds it's own version number currently FCP 7.?. Very much a Professional product with industry standards built in, etc.. FCE is basically an upgrade to iMovie

Re: Address Book problem

2008-12-01 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Sounds like printer driver is running out of real estate, so have you tried other printers on said machine. Resetting labels info through layout button, correct page size (A4 or US Letter) or labels selected in drop down box is correct, with relative page size which then

Re: Installing Linux in VMWare Fusion with Leopard

2008-11-16 Thread Rob Davies
Why the need when OS X is just that, A UNIX based operating environment, linux programs are already running with significant amounts binary coded if not installed. (some require X11 installed) http://developer.apple.com/unix/ http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html

Re: Email servers etc - I need some ideas

2008-10-22 Thread Rob Davies
Morning All, Pending on your Corporate Computer Security planning (intranet, internet or extranet) and laws, I find it very hard to go pass Google as Steve suggested. But be very careful in checking these laws based on your business model and corporate responsibilities. Accessibility

Re: Every ISP in Oz is ripping you off

2008-09-29 Thread Rob Davies
Hi All, Answer.. TELSTRA, and Communication Act. As Reasoning , research NAKED DSL when technology available, and the actual take up date by ISP's in Australia? Has this reduced the cost ? But, whom still controls communication from exchange to socket? It does not take a rocket

Re: Every ISP in Oz is ripping you off

2008-09-29 Thread Rob Davies
On 30Sep2008, at 10:40 am, Matthew Healey wrote: On 30/09/2008, at 9:57 AM, James Green wrote: We might be highly urbanised, but you still have to look at the numbers, 20 million people vs. 125 million people in Japan. The cost per head of population of installing infrastructure is a lot

Re: Help with courses pretty please

2008-09-13 Thread Rob Davies
Morning All, There is a lot available online, bit more info would be useful. Apple seminars has a diverse range for many scenarios available for free from Apple online Seminars. http://www.seminars.apple.com/ Apple developers offers quite an array of information and assistance

Re: f-keys on Keyboard

2008-09-10 Thread Rob Davies
Morning All, Thanks Ronnie as always helpful, but the f-keys have changed somewhat as the F7 through to F12 are Audio and Video on new Aluminium Keyboards. With the show all open at F3, Dashboard at F4, Brightness at F1 and F2. These F keys can be reprogrammed also toggled via a fn key,

Re: iPhone purchase [advice]

2008-09-07 Thread Rob Davies
Hi All, Have been with Virgin Mobile for sometime now, phones delivered next day by courier if ordered before Lunchtime and in stock. This is online or by phone, if a new customer I would go with phone, but be prepared for a long wait to talk to a customer service representative. But,

Re: Free roaming smtp server?

2008-08-13 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Utilise a webmail account from your ISP or Web Host if possible. Set it as IMAP if possible, or leave on server for POP one can then set email client to check when able, and other times utilise web connection for email with Webmail. Cheers! `Rob... On 13Aug2008, at 9:18 pm,

Re: Erasing a HD

2008-07-15 Thread Rob Davies
Evening, I would suspect some form of network install via an optical device from another OS X machine on the network which would be wireless as the Air has no actual ethernet connection. Correction apparently there is a dongle? A google search should reveal some method or even the Apple

Re: Naked DSL Question

2008-07-13 Thread Rob Davies
iiNet naked takes a while to settle once initial installation has been complete. Then the next problem evolves when iiNet finally synchronise you over to naked from within iiNet family of old. This issue I am not aware of with those that are new to iiNet. So for first bill cycle there are

Re: DNS vulnerability

2008-07-13 Thread Rob Davies
iiNet resolved issue sometime last week rolling out patches within DNS servers. These being brought back online and cycled over the weekend with no apparent issues as part of their upgrade being moved forward. This issue could also be a reason for slower than normal connections or

Re: Who [got] an iPhone to[day]?

2008-07-13 Thread Rob Davies
Morning Martin, Thanks for the information, question regarding WiFi. Does the phone automatically detect then inform accordingly of services, or is it a physical profile change once in such area. So, all of the browsing one does goes through to WiFi connection and not your monthly data

Re: Telstra iPhone 3G data plans

2008-07-10 Thread Rob Davies
Totally agree Martin, but the same old answer keeps flowing past these companies whom provide our telecommunication. The size of the country with it' s sparseness and only minimal amount of subscribers, so they try to redeem there initial expense when providing so called leading edge

Re: Ebay

2008-07-06 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Accept it is a risk and take precautions. Ask for serial numbers of machine, also provide boot rom version, model identifier. These give you some scope for seeing if it is stolen from Apples list. Also if specifications actually match build time and machine specifics. Organise own

Re: Sony DCR-HC36E Handycam not recognised on Firewire Port

2008-07-01 Thread Rob Davies
Morning Ronni, Not sure of the camera or it's abilities, but if it is recorded using DV? It is still a DV tape so just utilise another source for output, information is already there. Although some say it may degrade if a lower quality VTR is utilised, personally never been an issue. As

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