Bigpond Mail Problems
Hi all, Has anyone noticed erratic behaviour with Telstra Bigpond Mail recently. Over the last week or so (I'm not sure exactly when I first noticed it) I seem to be getting a lot of mail error messages. The message I get (I run Outlook Express) when I get info from the error log is: Error Could not retrieve mail from the account Neil Houghton. Explanation The server returned the following error local error; please try again later (AU). Error: 7002 The error seems to be short term since I have OE set to check for mail every 10 mins and I don't get a string of consecutive errors. Also often if I run send and receive immediately after an error it will run OK, though sometimes it takes two or three tries. From the error message it would seem that the problem is at Telstra's end? But as I say, the problem is quite frequent now whereas up until a week or so ago I never (or almost never that I remember) saw it. Has anyone else noticed this problem? 400MHz Ti G4 Powerbook OS 9.1 Outlook Express v5.02 Telstra Bigpond dial-up using nation-wide 019830 # TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Griffin Thing
Due to lack of interest i still have not tried my new toy Do you have a copy of the program we spoke of see you at the store next time John D Wood Phone/Fax 08 94480075 Timepieces dont really keep time They just keep up with it Sobel 95 Hi John The 10.2.3combo upgrade CD is in the post, let me know when it arrives. Thanks! Kind Regards Daniel Kerr
Sony P800 syncing with Mac
Just saw a customer's Sony P800 mobile phone and was impressed. Perhaps this can do away with my Newton as long as it can import 8 years of contacts, recurring appointments and notes. The owner who writes a electronica column seemed to think it didn't sync with the Mac. In Windows you can drag drop spreadsheets to the phone. Was very impressed, esp with ICQ ability which is cheaper than SMS and the programs available. Anybody on the list have any success linking their phones with their Macs? It's almost perfect. Not sure about the small screen, but handwriting recognition was good, albeit not as god as Newton but that doesn't matter when your screen is wearing out :-) Brett Carboni Tsunami Sushi Bar SMS your takeout order to us (yes, really) 0417 922944 BTW, seems Newton is still very popular. http://www.macpolls.com/index.php
Re: Sony P800 syncing with Mac
Just saw a customer's Sony P800 mobile phone and was impressed. Perhaps this can do away with my Newton as long as it can import 8 years of contacts, recurring appointments and notes. The owner who writes a electronica column seemed to think it didn't sync with the Mac. In Windows you can drag drop spreadsheets to the phone. Was very impressed, esp with ICQ ability which is cheaper than SMS and the programs available. Sony Ericssons are usually what Steve uses to demo iSync, so I'm sure it'll work with the Mac, the question is, how well? Dropping spreadsheets onto the phone might be a bit dubious though. Anybody on the list have any success linking their phones with their Macs? I've iSynced my Palm and phone with my Mac, and I'd be quite happy with it if there were some way of copying syncing notes off my Palm with some application. Alternatively there is a phone client which lets you download, edit and upload the address book from such phones via BlueTooth. http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/EricssonClient/index.html It's almost perfect. Not sure about the small screen, but handwriting recognition was good, albeit not as god as Newton but that doesn't matter when your screen is wearing out :-) The printing recognition is quite good, but I don't know about handwriting (I don't think I tried cursive script). The GUI isn't as good as the Newton's though. Sigh. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer If destruction be our lot, we Opinions for hire [POQ] must ourselves be its author [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord and finisher - Abraham Lincoln
Wanted - IDE hard disk
Hi, does anyone have a spare IDE hard disk (drive only, enclosure not required) that they no longer need? -- Andrew Nielsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Starfish Technologies Pty Ltd http://www.starfish.net.au/ ACN 076 426 714 / ABN 49 426 849 601 Tel: 0500 555 677
Re: Sony P800 syncing with Mac
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 01:29 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Just saw a customer's Sony P800 mobile phone and was impressed. Perhaps this can do away with my Newton as long as it can import 8 years of contacts, recurring appointments and notes. The owner who writes a electronica column seemed to think it didn't sync with the Mac. In Windows you can drag drop spreadsheets to the phone. Was very impressed, esp with ICQ ability which is cheaper than SMS and the programs available. Sony Ericssons are usually what Steve uses to demo iSync, so I'm sure it'll work with the Mac, the question is, how well? Dropping spreadsheets onto the phone might be a bit dubious though. The non-PDA SonyEricssons work fine. The P800 is quite a different beast. If you try and sync it with a Mac using iSync it will pretty much kernel panic every time. You should be able to sync the P800 when Panther rolls out. From what I have heard, you will be able to sync just about everything with it then. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony P800 syncing with Mac
Can't say too much without dobbing somebody in but you may see a syncing solution for the P800 prior to Panther. You can copy information Mac to P800 via Bluetooth but the iSync solution is obviously the way to go one never knows what might be around the corner. BTW the P800 is THE neatest phone I've ever used. On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 04:10 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 01:29 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Just saw a customer's Sony P800 mobile phone and was impressed. Perhaps this can do away with my Newton as long as it can import 8 years of contacts, recurring appointments and notes. Sony Ericssons are usually what Steve uses to demo iSync, so I'm sure it'll work with the Mac, the question is, how well? Dropping spreadsheets onto the phone might be a bit dubious though. The non-PDA SonyEricssons work fine. The P800 is quite a different beast. If you try and sync it with a Mac using iSync it will pretty much kernel panic every time. You should be able to sync the P800 when Panther rolls out. From what I have heard, you will be able to sync just about everything with it then. Matt Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith Palmer Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231 Phone: 0419927101 Fax: 0897915900 the online data storage technology store - http://www.zytech.com.au/ Get FREE business cards at - http://www.zytech.com.au/contact.html
New Virex
When on earth are we going to see a new version of Virex for either 9.x or X ? I was thinking about it today and it's just so klunky (to me anyway) - it just seems very ancient and ugly. I also seem to remember is isn't exactly easy to install / use under OS X. Perhaps its just a case of if it ain't broke - don't fix it! Cheers, Antony. -- == = = = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = = = = ==
Re: New Virex
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote: When on earth are we going to see a new version of Virex for either 9.x or X ? I was thinking about it today and it's just so klunky (to me anyway) - it just seems very ancient and ugly. I also seem to remember is isn't exactly easy to install / use under OS X. Perhaps its just a case of if it ain't broke - don't fix it! 7.1 was released recently, but in all honesty... virus scanners are next to useless on a Mac (not counting MS Office junk). - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Virex
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote: When on earth are we going to see a new version of Virex for either 9.x or X ? I was thinking about it today and it's just so klunky (to me anyway) - it just seems very ancient and ugly. I also seem to remember is isn't exactly easy to install / use under OS X. Perhaps its just a case of if it ain't broke - don't fix it! 7.1 was released recently, but in all honesty... virus scanners are next to useless on a Mac (not counting MS Office junk). Well yes, this last point is true,..but it's always good to have some protection. I always look on it like car insurance,I have it,..but I sure as hell hope I never have to use it!!! (And no digs at my car thanks Matt or Phil) :p I used to use Virex, but since they sort of left the race when OS X came out, I changed across to Norton AntiVirus. I find the Live Update feature handy and it's fairly easy to use! (Well that's when I load it of course) :o) I remember working on a client's machine when they got told they had a virus (on their Mac.) I was a bit dubious, but infact all of their Microsoft Word and Excel files (ie their documents) had a Macro Virus but the rest of the System was clean,...including all the Applications (Microsoft Word and Excel included),..so went to show that the Mac holds up,...but Windows lets it down! :o)) well that's my view on it anyway! Enjoy!! Kind Regards Daniel Kerr -- --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Re: Wanted - IDE hard disk
Hi Andrew Due to a recent death (our pc) we have two IDE Seagate Ultra DMA 100 Drives that we want to convert into the Cash for Blue and White G3 Scheme. Our poor little 6100 is looking forward to retirement. We would like to hang onto both drives really, but as we need cash for a replacement machine, we are willing to sell a kidney! Take your pick: 20gb $100 (ST320410A) 10gb $60 (ST310211A) If anyone out there knows of an ATA/PCI mac for sale, that students could afford, please let us know. We currently have $500 to spend with a view to gathering together another hundred or so. Thanks Paul Andrew Nielsen wrote: Hi, does anyone have a spare IDE hard disk (drive only, enclosure not required) that they no longer need? -- Andrew Nielsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Starfish Technologies Pty Ltd http://www.starfish.net.au/ ACN 076 426 714 / ABN 49 426 849 601 Tel: 0500 555 677 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Internet Explorer
My apologies if the groups gets this twice, but it didn't appear in my inbox all day so I assume the first one didn't actually get sent properly. Hi all, I had some problems with Internet Explorer 5.1, running on Mac OS9.2 the other day. Its a G4 tower (466) with 640mb RAM. IE crashed my computer and when I restarted all my IE preferences had changed. The homepage had changed to an MSN page I don't recall ever having visited rather than the default page, the security settings changed to maximum, the browser colour had even changed. My default mail program had also changed, including the Mail alias on the desktop, and my dictionary/spelling settings had changed to US English. None of my automatic logins worked and neither did the auto-fill related things. It was as though IE had reinstalled itself and overwritten all the preferences and related things but the favourites and cookies were all still there. It was really strange and I have never seen or heard of it before. Its been running a little slow recently, particularly with the Internet, and its crashed quite a lot more than it should, and not with particularly taxing tasks. It can run multiple big graphics packages without issues but a few Internet related apps and it runs quite poorly. I have a 56k dialup connection with iiNet and have had no problems like this before with their service. I reset all my preferences again and they've saved without a problem but its still running slowly and below its usual stable self. I ran Virex, with the most recent virus definitions (updated last night), and it found nothing and my computer is regularly maintained with Disk Warrior. I've updated all my Microsoft office programs and Entourage, which is my default mail program, and there are no further security patches or updates on Mactopia. I've virtually ruled out software conflicts and I have no idea what else it could be. If anybody could give me any suggestions I'd really appreciate it. Perhaps I need a different virus scanner or to try some further maintenance, or search for something specific, but I have no idea what. Its got me stumped this time. Kind regards, Kelly Duffy
Re: Digest Number 1239
704 Mb and about 400 photos How much memory does your Mac have? How many photos do you have in iPhoto? Thanks, Shay
