Re: Weather widget
I have both the Weather Widget, and Degrees Down Under running at present. They are with 0.3 of a degree at the moment, which is pretty good when you consider the the Weather Widget rounds the temperature to the closet whole number, therefore DDU says 13.3, and WW says 13. Also as it is currently 2330hrs (11:30 pm) as I write this, the WW picture is also displaying correctly! Daniel F. On 15/06/2005, at 12:18, Severin Crisp wrote: I have followed the comments regarding the weather widget with interest as I find it similarly inaccurate. I use Degrees Down Under which has an onscreen temperature display (if you wish) and a link to the weather bureau and your local area. All in all I find the Dashboard widgets something I just don't use at this stage though I see the potential. Right now the widget shows the wrong forecast for Albany (15C as against official 17C) and the temperature is given as 16C whereas in actual fact the weather bureau (Albany Airport) gives 14.8C close to my own thermometer with 15.6C (I am always marginally warmer). By the way it is a beautiful sunny day here right now! Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp -- 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
Re: Skype
Stephen Chape wrote: I have been using Skype for about 6 weeks, since my wife's son moved from UK to United Arab Emirates. My phone is with AAPT and to phone UAE costs $1.21 per minute (UK is about 9 cents a minute). So if he is offline we use Skype to call his phone and ask him to go online so we can call back computer to computer. Oddly enough comp to comp is clearer than comp to phone. It is also free. To call comp to phone to UK is 3 cents per minute and to UAE is 35 cents per minute. And if you get a calling card it's even cheaper and you don't have to futz around with a computer or install Skype. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..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]
Pent4 goes 64 bit.....
Hi All! Found this little tidbit this morning: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1827984,00.asp Is this true 64 bit, like the AMD x86-64 series? If so, I guess that is one reason why Steve failed to mention 64 bit support in the new Mactels due in 2006. Intel just hadn't announced the availability yet :-) Chances are that's why there was a 2 week delay on the developer boxes from Apple. It may alleviate some of the fears of those who aren't comfortable with the switch. At least we *should* have 64 bit support when the Mactels do ship. Does anyone have an insight on how Altivec will be replaced? Obviously Intel could release something in the future that we don't know about, but if we look at what we have today, can it be replaced? Seeya Rod!
Mail attachments
I don't seem to have an 'Attach' button to put on the toolbar in Mail. I can use the 'Attach File' from the File Menu, but the missing button is annoying. Anyone else with this problem? Tony Cockbain Editor Australian Journal of Earth Sciences PO Box 8114 Angelo Street South Perth WA 6151 Australia Tel Fax 08 9367 7037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion [Francis Bacon] The Great Tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact [Thomas Huxley]
Re: Pent4 goes 64 bit.....
On 16/06/2005, at 8:12 AM, Rod wrote: Hi All! Found this little tidbit this morning: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1827984,00.asp Is this true 64 bit, like the AMD x86-64 series? If so, I guess that is one reason why Steve failed to mention 64 bit support in the new Mactels due in 2006. Intel just hadn't announced the availability yet :-) Chances are that's why there was a 2 week delay on the developer boxes from Apple. It IS the AMD x86-64 series. Intel and AMD have cross-licensing agreements. It may alleviate some of the fears of those who aren't comfortable with the switch. At least we *should* have 64 bit support when the Mactels do ship. We could have 64bit bit support if Apple chooses Opteron instead. Does anyone have an insight on how Altivec will be replaced? Obviously Intel could release something in the future that we don't know about, but if we look at what we have today, can it be replaced? The rumour is that Apple still has the rights to Altivec and is getting Intel to build it into the Pentium 5. I would take it with a grain of salt, but the same thing happened with the G5 and IBM. Also remember that a LOT of the things that Altivec was good for is now being replaced via the CoreVideo and CoreImage frameworks. In the end, only time will tell. - Matt
Re: Mail attachments
Tony, if you're using Mail in 10.4.x, are you trying to attach the Attach button in Mail's main window? You need to bring up a new message window, then select Customize Toolbar... from the View menu to be able to select the Attach button. If you're already doing this and its not available, then something has gone astray and you may need to reinstall Mail. Cheers, Mike On 16/06/2005, at 8:35 AM, Tony Cockbain wrote: I don't seem to have an 'Attach' button to put on the toolbar in Mail. I can use the 'Attach File' from the File Menu, but the missing button is annoying. Anyone else with this problem? Tony Cockbain Editor Australian Journal of Earth Sciences PO Box 8114 Angelo Street South Perth WA 6151 Australia Tel Fax 08 9367 7037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion [Francis Bacon] The Great Tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact [Thomas Huxley] -- 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
Re: Pent4 goes 64 bit.....
snip Does anyone have an insight on how Altivec will be replaced? Obviously Intel could release something in the future that we don't know about, but if we look at what we have today, can it be replaced? The rumour is that Apple still has the rights to Altivec and is getting Intel to build it into the Pentium 5. I would take it with a grain of salt, but the same thing happened with the G5 and IBM. Also remember that a LOT of the things that Altivec was good for is now being replaced via the CoreVideo and CoreImage frameworks. In the end, only time will tell. So essentially it comes down to shear grunt and a decent gpu on the graphics card. I guess that was Apple's plan all the way back to the retail launch of 10.3. Start replacing the altivec stuff now (with 10.4), so the OS is transportable to virtually any cpu. Smart thinking, in my book. Nothing worse than for a company's fortunes to be tied so closely to another. Motorola seems to spring to mind :-) As it has been said before, this is going to be a very interesting year! Seeya Rod!
Re: Adding User Problems
umm let me hazard a guess, off the cuff and all that, that somehow the new user has been created with a UID (User ID) of less than 500? UID's of 501 or lower are generally reserved for system processes and are hidden from the GUI's list of users Hi all, Has anyone had this problem? I add a user, and all seems well (including the creation of the user's directories, etc), but the new user does not appear either in the user list in the accounts preferences pane, or when I use the login screen! I've also tried rebooting with no effect. I'm using 10.4.1 on a 1.25GHz G4 17inch iMac. Cheers, Andrew -- 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# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Re: Adding User Problems
umm let me hazard a guess, off the cuff and all that, that somehow the new user has been created with a UID (User ID) of less than 500? UID's of 501 or lower are generally reserved for system processes and are hidden from the GUI's list of users can you explain this number figure a bit more, what does it relate to? ta -- gary dorn north perth
Re: Adding User Problems
UID is the User Identification Number of an account, all accounts have them. users (and viz. accounts) are not necessarily human, certain processes (programs/groups of programs etc) are also users and have their own UID's for various reasons such as so that they can have permissions set to do stuff that the normal user can't or to stop them from going amok and doing stuff they shouldn't do (writing to another processes memory allocation etc.) THIS IS A GOOD THING - as you don't want everything running with Root (God mode) rights. i.e. Root is UID 0. Your built in web server (if your running it) is UID 70 you can see this in the activity monitor utility when you select the all processes then double click on one that doesn't have your login name against it UID's allocated to processes are 500 and under, the first user you create is 501 and then new created users sequentially incremented from that. You can, and their are valid reasons for doing this, change a user's ID (it's not quite as simple as typing a new UID somewhere) to be below 501 and when you do that that user becomes invisible to all other users with UID's over 500. Or you can go the other way (not recommended for non human UID) top hit from google got this which has among other off topic stuff is the gist of changing UID http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~eme/mac.html umm let me hazard a guess, off the cuff and all that, that somehow the new user has been created with a UID (User ID) of less than 500? UID's of 501 or lower are generally reserved for system processes and are hidden from the GUI's list of users can you explain this number figure a bit more, what does it relate to? ta -- gary dorn north perth -- 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# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
G4 for running a benchmark
Hi All I need to run a benchmark for one of my products, macstl. It should be a late model fast G4 e.g. a Powerbook G4. It's a fairly fast benchmark so it won't use up much of your time, but I need to run it sometime late this afternoon (16 June) and no later... if you are willing to do this, please email me ASAP and I'll send you the executable file sometime in the arvo. Thanks! Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com aim: pixglen
Re: Adding User Problems
On 16/06/2005, at 13:28 , Mark Secker wrote: umm let me hazard a guess, off the cuff and all that, that somehow the new user has been created with a UID (User ID) of less than 500? UID's of 501 or lower are generally reserved for system processes and are hidden from the GUI's list of users No, this is not the problem. This is affecting at least two computers that I use, running 10.4.1 - one clean installed, the other delivered with 10.4. The new user's home directory is being created, but no user or group is created. The home directory is even created with the (seemingly) right UID (ie. 523, then 524 for two users added on my machine) Also reported here http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx- admin/2005-June/042645.html I don't know a solution, other than creating a new user by hand, which is a damn pain. I have submitted a bug report on this issue. -josh Hi all, Has anyone had this problem? I add a user, and all seems well (including the creation of the user's directories, etc), but the new user does not appear either in the user list in the accounts preferences pane, or when I use the login screen! I've also tried rebooting with no effect. I'm using 10.4.1 on a 1.25GHz G4 17inch iMac. Cheers, Andrew -- 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# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works) -- 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 Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding User Problems
On 16/06/2005, at 2:55 PM, Josh McKinnon wrote: On 16/06/2005, at 13:28 , Mark Secker wrote: umm let me hazard a guess, off the cuff and all that, that somehow the new user has been created with a UID (User ID) of less than 500? UID's of 501 or lower are generally reserved for system processes and are hidden from the GUI's list of users No, this is not the problem. This is affecting at least two computers that I use, running 10.4.1 - one clean installed, the other delivered with 10.4. The new user's home directory is being created, but no user or group is created. The home directory is even created with the (seemingly) right UID (ie. 523, then 524 for two users added on my machine) Also reported here http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-admin/2005-June/ 042645.html I don't know a solution, other than creating a new user by hand, which is a damn pain. I have submitted a bug report on this issue. -josh So , has Repair permissions been run ? Bob Has anyone had this problem? I add a user, and all seems well (including the creation of the user's directories, etc), but the new user does not appear either in the user list in the accounts preferences pane, or when I use the login screen! I've also tried rebooting with no effect. I'm using 10.4.1 on a 1.25GHz G4 17inch iMac. Cheers, Andrew -- 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# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works) -- 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 Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [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
Re: Adding User Problems
On 16/06/2005, at 15:35 , Robert Howells wrote: So , has Repair permissions been run ? Bob Yes, I tried that. I'm too lazy to try reinstalling to fix it (which is how the poster to the OmniGroup list fixed their issue). So, Andrew, if you're not as lazy as me, maybe try reinstalling 10.4? -josh Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding User Problems
On 16/06/2005, at 1:04 PM, Andrew Schox wrote: Hi all, Has anyone had this problem? I add a user, and all seems well (including the creation of the user's directories, etc), but the new user does not appear either in the user list in the accounts preferences pane, or when I use the login screen! I've also tried rebooting with no effect. Are you Admin or Root whilst adding users? Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can always tell if you're working on a Mac or a PC, he said. Just take your applications and stick them in and see if they run (Gates 05). If it does Welcome to Mac OS X! (RJDarts 05).
Re: Adding User Problems
Rob, I add a user, and all seems well (including the creation of the user's directories, etc), but the new user does not appear either in the user list in the accounts preferences pane, or when I use the login screen! I've also tried rebooting with no effect. Are you Admin or Root whilst adding users? Admin, but this has never been a problem before. And in reply to Josh: So, Andrew, if you're not as lazy as me, maybe try reinstalling 10.4? I am pretty lazy... However, if all else fails I'll try this in a few days time. Cheers, Andrew
Re: Skype
Interesting !! How does one get cheaper than zero dollars ?? On 16/06/2005, at 4:24 AM, Onno Benschop wrote: Stephen Chape wrote: I have been using Skype for about 6 weeks, since my wife's son moved from UK to United Arab Emirates. My phone is with AAPT and to phone UAE costs $1.21 per minute (UK is about 9 cents a minute). So if he is offline we use Skype to call his phone and ask him to go online so we can call back computer to computer. Oddly enough comp to comp is clearer than comp to phone. It is also free. To call comp to phone to UK is 3 cents per minute and to UAE is 35 cents per minute. And if you get a calling card it's even cheaper and you don't have to futz around with a computer or install Skype. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..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] -- 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 Regards, Stephen Chape
Re: Skype
Stephen Chape wrote: Interesting !! How does one get cheaper than zero dollars ?? You get given money to make phone calls? Seriously though, your Internet phone call *is* costing money, just that you're paying for it in another way. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..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]
