[OT] .. More food jokes ..
Hi All, Here is yet another twist on Microsoft jokes ... Instructions for Microsoft's TV Dinner: You must first remove the plastic cover. By doing so you agree to accept Microsoft rights to the TV dinner. You may not give anyone else a bite of your dinner as outlined in the TV Dinner Piracy section of the user agreement. You may, however, let others smell and look at your dinner and are encouraged to tell them how good it is. If you have a PC microwave oven, insert the dinner into the oven. Set the oven using the command line: mstv.dinn.//08.5min@@50%heat// Then enter: ms//start.cook_dindin/yummy|/yum~yum:-)gohot#cookme. If you have a Mac oven, insert the dinner and press start. The oven will set itself and cook the dinner. If you have a Unix oven, insert the dinner, enter the ingredients of the dinner, the weight of the dinner, the desired level of cooking and press start. The oven will calculate the time and heat and cook the dinner exactly to your specification. Be forewarned that Microsoft dinners may crash, in which case your oven must be restarted. This is a simple procedure. Remove the dinner from the oven and enter: ms.no.good/tryagainagain/again.crap. This process may have to be repeated. Try unplugging the microwave and then doing a cold reboot. If this doesn't work, contact your hardware vendor. Many users have reported that the dinner tray is far too big, larger than the dinner itself, having many useless compartments, most of which are empty. These are for future menu items. If the tray is too large to fit in your oven you will need to upgrade your equipment. Dinners are only available from registered outlets, and only the chicken XP variety is currently produced. If you want another variety, call MicrosoftHelp and they will explain that you really don't want another variety. Microsoft Chicken XP is all you really need. Microsoft has disclosed plans to discontinue support for all smaller versions of their chicken dinners. Future releases will only be in the larger family size. Excess chicken may be stored for future use, but must be saved only in Microsoft approved packaging. Microsoft promises a dessert with every dinner after Chicken XP. However, that version has yet to be released. Users have permission to get thrilled in advance. Microsoft dinners may be incompatible with other dinners in the freezer, causing your freezer to self-defrost. This is a feature, not a bug. Your freezer probably should have been defrosted anyway. No other company is allowed to create items to be used with Microsoft dinners without first partnering with Microsoft. This is solely to protect the consumer and is not intended to impede progress and creativity in the dinner industry. This includes, but is not limited to dessert. You may not play a game or use an application while you eat your Microsoft dinner unless that game or application was designed by a Microsoft partner and is certified by Microsoft to be %100 compatible with your Microsoft dinner. You are only leasing your Microsoft dinner, you agree to not reverse engineer your Microsoft dinner or send it out of the country. You may store one backup Microsoft dinner for personal use. Cheers, Peder
Video in Power Point
Sometimes when we play video from Power Point presentations - through a video projector the video appears as a box and the video does not display on the projected image. Has anyone seen this before? any solutions? -- Peter Irene Faulks Phone: +618 9457 0747 (h) Fax: +618 9457 0444 IF Mobile:0416 187 937 PJF Mobile: 0439 933 404 Mail address: PO Box 41 Riverton Forum Perth Western Australia 6148 Email: Irene: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
K750i availability?
Hi All! Does anyone know when the SE K750i will be hitting our shores? I'm in two minds to update to a K700i from my Nokia 3650, or wait for the K750i. Will it be supported in iSync? BTW, anyone interested in the 3650 when my new phone does arrive? Fully bluetooth and iSync compatible! Seeya Rod!
email message size
Can anyone point me in the right direction here. Our not for profit group uses a couple of Yahoo groups (like WAMUG used to be) - Yahoo puts a limit on mail size and too big a message returns an error: We are unable to deliver the message from xxx to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Your message was not delivered because it was too large. Yahoo! Groups does not accept messages (including attachments) larger than 1 megabyte. To resend your message, please compress or delete any attachments so that the total message size is less than 1 megabyte. OK, I accept Yahoo has to set limits and it's very infrequently that we run into the problem - my question is can I tell the size of the message before sending? Eg I just sent a message with a jpeg attachment but wanted to copy the message to our committee (we have a committee only yahoo group set up) - the finder showed the attachment to be 880k and the message was only a couple of paragraphs so I thought it would be OK, but it was still rejected and on examining the sent message I noticed that the mail window showed the attachment as 1MB - I presumed that this was just an approximation or does the email program increase the size of the attachment? I guess my real question is how can I see the size of the total message to see if it exceeds 1MB BEFORE I actually send it and then have it rejected. G4 400Hz Ti PB running OS 9.1 Outlook Express 5.02 TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Starwars Fan Film
This is not really directly Mac related... but is insanely cool non- the-less. http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/trailers/starwars/ revelations_film_QT_large.mov (It was made on a Mac though) - Matt
Motion
Anyone out there using Motion? I'm trying to get a line on why it crashes during renders sometimes. There would seem to be so many variables and I guess it's a version 1 release. 1.01 update applied. Any ideas welcome. Rob
Re: Starwars Fan Film
On 19/04/2005, at 11:03 AM, Matthew Healey wrote: This is not really directly Mac related... but is insanely cool non-the-less. http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/trailers/starwars/ revelations_film_QT_large.mov (It was made on a Mac though) - Matt Just watch out for the file size though folks. From memory it topped in at 260meg, so those on dialup might find it a bit of a stretch to download :-) Awesome special effects though! And the acting is on par with Episodes 1 and 2 :-) Seeya Rod!
Re: email message size
Neil Houghton wrote: Eg I just sent a message with a jpeg attachment but wanted to copy the message to our committee (we have a committee only yahoo group set up) - the finder showed the attachment to be 880k and the message was only a couple of paragraphs so I thought it would be OK, but it was still rejected and on examining the sent message I noticed that the mail window showed the attachment as 1MB - I presumed that this was just an approximation or does the email program increase the size of the attachment? I guess my real question is how can I see the size of the total message to see if it exceeds 1MB BEFORE I actually send it and then have it rejected. The reason why your 880k message grew in size was because of something called encoding. It may come as a complete surprise to you and others, but you cannot send attachments using email and anyone who says otherwise does not understand how it works. When you attach something to an email message, the attachment is translated into text, and that text is sent as part of your message. If you were to open the message you'd see all manner of gobbledygook and not your attachment. What makes it possible to make sense of that included piece of text, commonly referred to as the attachment is that there are all manner of standards, the most common today is MIME, that describe how your file has been translated into text. The limit of file size is not that of the attachment, but of the email message. The limit is a sensible one and you should adhere to it. It makes much more sense to send a URL, that way the recipient can decide if they wish to download your file now, or at a later stage. This might not make much sense to you, but imagine that the recipient is reading email on their mobile phone. They are charged per *kilobyte*, thus your 880k message is costing the recipient something like 2.2c per K, thus more than $20, just for your email. So, don't send attachments to groups of people, send them a URL instead. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital SLR pricing and buying O/S
Has anybody had any issues (positive or negative) dealing with Canon Australia regarding honoring worldwide warranty with canon goods purchased overseas? Looking at the EOS 350D and the 20D and the prices for both but specifically the 350D here are significantly higher than Japanese, US and even the traditionally more expensive European prices (particularly an issue as I have a supply of mid range Canon EF lenses and am not inclined to buy the lens kit package which, for some reason, is the only way you can buy the 350 in Australia). Personally inclined to leave off purchase until my next OS trip and pick one up in Singapore/Hong Kong or even S/H at one of the many used camera shops in Shinjuko or Akihabara Tokyo - personally I should have done it last time I was there as I saw several 10D's (at that time a current $2000+ model since replaces by the 20D) at sub $800 prices. I was speaking to my local IT/Apple shop who do not normally stock digital cameras about getting a Canon EOS 350D and the price they were given was a hundred dollars plus above even the Canon Australia price list on their web page. They told the shop that this was a high end professional digital camera which is interesting as Canon internationally is clearly marketing it along with the 300D as a entry level prosumer SLR (go to the US/European/Japanese web sites and it is obvious from the copy and images used this is aimed at upper end family/gadget buyers rather than cameras such as the EOS 20D's which is aimed at entry level professional SLR buyers.) this is doubly strange given these prices put it above the cost of a Nikon D70 (OK so the Nikon is body only but the basic lens on the 350 is a very basic lens) the D70 IS a professional quality high end prosumer SLR (and has found much favour and use with professional photographers particularly with sports photographers and photo-journalists). -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Re: Starwars Fan Film
Awesome special effects though! And the acting is on par with Episodes 1 and 2 :-) that bad eh? -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Re: Starwars Fan Film
On 19/04/2005, at 11:56 AM, Mark Secker wrote: Awesome special effects though! And the acting is on par with Episodes 1 and 2 :-) that bad eh? Lucas would be proud of it ;-) Meow, saucer of milk, table 2! Lucas probably would have sued if there was decent acting! Seeya Rod!
Re: K750i availability?
On 19/04/2005 10:48 AM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! Does anyone know when the SE K750i will be hitting our shores? I'm in two minds to update to a K700i from my Nokia 3650, or wait for the K750i. Will it be supported in iSync? BTW, anyone interested in the 3650 when my new phone does arrive? Fully bluetooth and iSync compatible! Seeya Rod! Hi Rod Last time I checked with the suppliers it was still at least a month away before we saw it,..which was making it May. They said it would still be in short supply, so if I wanted one (which I was querying for another client) they said it would be a good idea to get a back order in. Pretty much the same as ordering Apple things really. :o) Hope that helps! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Titanium Powerbook
Hi Muggers, If anyone has the same or a very similar machine to the one below I have a buyer. Please contact me offline to discuss. Regards all, Ken Titanium PowerBook G4 1 GHz 2 year old Specs are: - 15 LCD display - 1G RAM - 60G hard-drive - 64MB video ram - DVI video out - DVD/CD-RW Combo drive - Airport card included - OS 9 bootable (this is the last PowerBook able to boot from OS 9) Ken Jackson T 08 9271 0389 T 08 9271 1874 F 08 9271 0870 M 0409 770 747 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motion
Anyone out there using Motion? I'm trying to get a line on why it crashes during renders sometimes. There would seem to be so many variables and I guess it's a version 1 release. 1.01 update applied. Any ideas welcome. Rob There's a good Motion forum at http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/list.php?f=7. Lots of helpful people and not so clicky that they won't respond to newcomers. cheers Jude
Re: Titanium Powerbook
I've been tracking a few on e-bay currently - though one may have finished by now - it was edging up to $3000 which is about what I payed for mine 2 and a half years ago (and mine has 1G RAM rather than the 512 and a DVD RW rather than the DVD-R superdrive* that the e-bay one has !!! *Ok so mine is just the normal super drive flashed to DVD -RW but still ;) Hi Muggers, If anyone has the same or a very similar machine to the one below I have a buyer. Please contact me offline to discuss. Regards all, Ken Titanium PowerBook G4 1 GHz 2 year old Specs are: - 15 LCD display - 1G RAM - 60G hard-drive - 64MB video ram - DVI video out - DVD/CD-RW Combo drive - Airport card included - OS 9 bootable (this is the last PowerBook able to boot from OS 9) Ken Jackson T 08 9271 0389 T 08 9271 1874 F 08 9271 0870 M 0409 770 747 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Upgrade rant
A few years ago I switched from Macromedia to Adobe products, figuring Adobe had more of what I needed. Went flat out last August, investing in the Adobe CreativeSuite Premium for about $1500. I thought I was all set. Less than 7 months later Adobe signals the latest CS upgrade. About $1300. Just to upgrade. Now, Adobe has swallowed Macromedia. I dread thinking about what the next upgrade will cost. Makes the PantherTiger upgrade look like excellent value. Peanuts. Vlad James
Re: Spamfire
Yes ...!!! I have had the same problems, the support people are currently looking into the problem... I am still waiting for an answer and a solution. Ken... On 18/4/05 7:43 AM, bill parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Anyone out there using Spamfire?I just upgraded to Ver2 and everything has gone haywire. Any help welcome. Bill
Re: Upgrade rant
On 19/4/05 6:50 PM, Vladimir James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago I switched from Macromedia to Adobe products, figuring Adobe had more of what I needed. Went flat out last August, investing in the Adobe CreativeSuite Premium for about $1500. I thought I was all set. Less than 7 months later Adobe signals the latest CS upgrade. About $1300. Just to upgrade. Now, Adobe has swallowed Macromedia. I dread thinking about what the next upgrade will cost. Makes the PantherTiger upgrade look like excellent value. Peanuts. Look on the bright side I have to spend $1000 + on the CS2 upgrade like you but also I'll have to spend $6500+ for Tiger Server Unlimited a new Xserve, $1000 upgrading to Final Cut Studio, Tiger Client upgrades for 10+ client machines around $800 and around $4000 on a new G5 for my new main day to day machine. In the last few months I also spent $1500 upgrading to Filemaker 7 Server Advanced, $400+ upgrading WebStar V server/mailserver software, $500+ upgrading Lasso Server , $600+ on new Gigabit PCI cards, $1500+ on Gigabit Switches, $2500 on a second hand Xserve with 10.3 Unlimited Server, $3000 on a replacement 17 Powerbook for my son for school, $500+ on a Rack for my servers, $100's on cables, patch panels etc + many thousands on other required/desired software, external hard drives etc. I currently have around 13 machines and should get to 15-16 by June and I run everything from home. I also runs 3 not for profits MUG's which limits the number of hours I can actually earn an income (I also run 4 online businesses as a sole trader) so costs like these have a huge impact on my standard of living. Add to this, I'm a sole parent of a 17 year old son (with special needs) fighting for access to my 14 year old daughter who was kidnapped by her mum 5 years ago (despite court orders giving me access) after throwing my son out on the street. She ran off with an aboriginal (who goes by an alias) to the country with my daughter and wont let me have any contact or even let me know what town they live in. It's been years since I've been to a pub, seen a band, had a holiday or eaten out and I basically work around 16-18 hours a day 365 days of the year just to keep my head above water and earn enough to keep fighting (legal fees) to get my daughter back. As they say, Life wasn't meant to be easy.
help
OK no flames or spam please Is there anyone out there on the list that has a ugh pc laptop I could borrow for 20 minutes . Reason being I have a superdrive for my laptop that is set to master and the only way to set it to slave is to flash it but i need to put it into a pclaptop to do it
Entourage inbox times incorrect
The inbox times on Entourage are incorrect, sent is correct.Is there a way to set the inbox time? Thanks, bill
