Re: Profiler Preview
On 09/11/2005, at 9:48 PM, Vladimir James wrote: In an earlier letter I stated that I couldn't open System Profiler. Well, I found I can open it by going to the Apple menuMore Information. However, I still can't open it directly with a double- click. It's unlocked and I have access. Strange. I remember I had a similar problem with 10.4.1, where Software Update was greyed out in the Apple Menu, but I could activate it from the System Preferences. It all fixed itself when I graduated to 10.4.2. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
OT: M$ Access to MySQL
Hi all I have a pending project with the company I work for, if funding comes through. They have an internal Access db and wish to make this available to customers online for the purposes of ordering. My initial thought was to use PHP/MySQL. The problem is how to link or convert the data efficiently. Any ideas or thoughts? Have you done this perhaps? Thanks Paul
Re: G5 slowing down
Thanks to everyone for their help in offering suggestions to the above problem. I have downloaded Yasu, with very good results, I will also get the latest version of DiskWarrior. Thanks again, it really is good to know this great resource is close at hand and so responsive. Jon Getting to grips with digital photography Photoshop workshops Jon Davison has been a photographer and designer for 25 years. He has produced over 50 books. + 61 8 93806508 0403 235938 www.eyeinthesky.com.au/photoshop.html
Re: Free or going to dump on Saturday
Hi Robert, I'm not after any of your gear. I just wanted to pass on a recent experience. We just disposed of some old gear at Recycleit. They claim to recycle all that can be recycled and to responsibly dispose of all that can't. He seemed like an honest bloke trying to address a growing problem. Take a look at their website and see how you feel about it. http://www.recycleit.net.au/ Cheers Paul On 09/11/2005, at 5:46 PM, Robert Howells wrote: So there is a clean out happening here Some life left in 17 Apple Monitor 14 Apple Monitor Not working Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR 17Apple Monitor If still here on Saturday Morning they GO to the dump . email me direct or call Bob 92494459 Ballajura -- 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
FileMaker Pro help please
Hi there, I am currently running FileMaker 6 on 10.3.9 and have a database of info for a group of people and would like to add a small photo of each person to their record. is this possible and if so HELP!!! Also. if i export records or create new dbases etc the file shows as .fp5.. why not fp6? Yvonne
Re: FileMaker Pro help please
Hi Yvonne, I think it displays .fp5 so it'll run on FM server 5.5 . There is no Server version 6, it jumps from 5.5 to 7, and version 7 converts the databases so that FileMaker 6 can't use them. In a less confusing nutshell: - FileMaker 6 files work with FileMaker Server 5.5 - FileMaker 7 files work with FileMaker Server 7 I think FileMaker 6 allows you to include containers for graphics ... any developers out there clarified that for you yet? Cheers, Tobes. On 10/11/2005, at 12:15 PM, wyvern wrote: Hi there, I am currently running FileMaker 6 on 10.3.9 and have a database of info for a group of people and would like to add a small photo of each person to their record. is this possible and if so HELP!!! Also. if i export records or create new dbases etc the file shows as .fp5.. why not fp6? Yvonne -- 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: FileMaker Pro help please
On 10/11/2005, at 12:15 PM, wyvern wrote: Hi there, I am currently running FileMaker 6 on 10.3.9 and have a database of info for a group of people and would like to add a small photo of each person to their record. is this possible and if so HELP!!! Sure! Simply create a new field of type Container and give it a suitable name, and put it somewhere on a suutable layout. A container field can contain all sorts of data, including sounds, movies, and pictures (and others). The easiest way to get a picture into a container field is simply using copy-and-paste. You will probably also want to make sure that the field's display properties are set to display the picture in its correct proportions. There are detailed instructions all about this in the online help and in the FM manual. There are other ways to get pictures into container fields as well. Again, the book has all the gumph. Also. if i export records or create new dbases etc the file shows as .fp5.. why not fp6? It's because there is really no difference in the file structure between FM5 and FM6, so they did not change the file extension. Filemaker 5 will quite happily load and run files created in FM6, but it cannot use any of the newer features in 6 which are not in 5. There are basically three different (and mutually incompatible) filename extensions in the New World Filemaker (ie, since version 2). They are .fp3 (for FMP3 and FMP4), .fp5 (FMP5, 5.5 amd 6) and now .fp7 (for FMP7 and 8). -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Re: FileMaker Pro help please
I'm pretty sure you only need to add a container field to your layout in which you can embed your graphic. The choice is whether to have it reference a graphic stored elsewhere or else to import the graphic into the database. If the database is only going to be viewed locally you can get away with a reference (however if you move the graphics location the reference breaks). If you're distributing the database to others you must embed the graphics. I prefer to just embed to avoid possible problems if I later decide to distribute the solution to others. If this was a server version of Filemaker the answer would be different (references are faster on web enabled databases) but in your case you don't have to worry. FM5 databases are compatible with FM6 thus the same extension. Likewise FM7 FM8 are incompatible with earlier versions but are compatible with each other. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 10/11/05 3:15 PM, wyvern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently running FileMaker 6 on 10.3.9 and have a database of info for a group of people and would like to add a small photo of each person to their record. is this possible and if so HELP!!! Also. if i export records or create new dbases etc the file shows as .fp5.. why not fp6?
Re: Free or going to dump on Saturday
On 09/11/2005, at 5:46 PM, Robert Howells wrote: So there is a clean out happening here Some life left in 17 Apple Monitor-- GONE 14 Apple Monitor Not working Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR 17Apple Monitor - GONE If still here on Saturday Morning they GO to the dump . email me direct or call Bob 92494459 Ballajura -- 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: OT: M$ Access to MySQL
Paul wrote: Hi all I have a pending project with the company I work for, if funding comes through. They have an internal Access db and wish to make this available to customers online for the purposes of ordering. My initial thought was to use PHP/MySQL. The problem is how to link or convert the data efficiently. Any ideas or thoughts? Have you done this perhaps? The only DB migrations I've done have been from an old FileMaker Pro version to MySQL, and later through to the considerably superior (and also free) PostgreSQL. This was a full migration, and involved re-building the user interface as a web application, so it's probably not what you're after. In this case, though, you might be interested to know that PostgreSQL (and I think MySQL) can be used as data engine back-ends for Access. Rather than using Microsoft Access's internal database engine (JET?), you use an ODBC interface to store the data in a real relational database system (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, etc) and just use Access for the user interface. The actual database server need not even be on the same computer (you could, for example, run it on your main server). With your data in a real RDBMS, it's stored in a superior database engine that's much more suitable for multi-user access, more easily backed up, and probably faster and more reliable. You can still use Access for the user interface, so as I understand it users who aren't actively modifying the database schema (creating, modifying, and altering tables and views) won't even know much has changed. On top of that, you can do things like have your web server talk to the database to expose that same data through a web application, use 3rd party and open source reporting tools to analyse your data, and more easily write quick SQL queries against the database (using tools like the `mysql' and `psql' command-line clients) if you just need to do some one-off analysis. In your case, being able to share the same data between Access and your web server would no doubt be the most attractive aspect of the configuration I've described. I haven't done this with Access myself yet (I have with other database tools), but probably should have a play with it since I have a copy of Access lying around. Here are some articles (straight off Google) on the topic: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/v2/Guides/Using%20Microsoft%20Access%20with%20PostgreSQL/view http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/mysql/access/ http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:rZdNUWo1Wc4J:www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/mysql-access.html+%22Microsoft+Access%22+MySQLhl=enclient=firefox-a Your other alternative might be to use the ODBC interface for Access's internal data store to poke into the Access database. I suspect that approach won't be too attractive though - potentially slow, unreliable, and almost certainly much less capable of dealing with larger numbers of users. I've seen similar schemes work very poorly indeed. -- Craig Ringer
Re: OT: M$ Access to MySQL
Craig Ringer wrote: Paul wrote: Hi all I have a pending project with the company I work for, if funding comes through. They have an internal Access db and wish to make this available to customers online for the purposes of ordering. My initial thought was to use PHP/MySQL. The problem is how to link or convert the data efficiently. Any ideas or thoughts? Have you done this perhaps? snip you might be interested to know that PostgreSQL (and I think MySQL) can be used as data engine back-ends for Access. Rather than using Microsoft Access's internal database engine (JET?) snip You can still use Access for the user interface That could mean I don't have to change the way the users operate. In your case, being able to share the same data between Access and your web server would no doubt be the most attractive aspect of the configuration I've described. oh yeah That should cut my coding load considerably, thanks. snip Your other alternative might be to use the ODBC interface . potentially slow, unreliable snip Most heartening indeed. I had a gut feeling that ODBC or even MyODBC connections might cause me premature ageing. When it comes to it I think replacing the backend with a more flexible one will allow me safer trialling and development. Good thinking, I think :-) Thanks Paul
Re: OT: M$ Access to MySQL
Paul wrote: snip Your other alternative might be to use the ODBC interface . potentially slow, unreliable snip Or as I wrote, ... for Access's internal data store to poke into the Access database. ... That snipped part changes the meaning rather dramatically. Most heartening indeed. I had a gut feeling that ODBC or even MyODBC connections might cause me premature ageing. Either approach will involve ODBC. The way you use MySql / PostgreSQL as a backend for access is through the ODBC driver for the database. With the other approach, your program uses the Access ODBC driver to interact with the Access database file. The main difference is that the MySQL / PostgreSQL ODBC drivers are made for fast, reliable, shared access either locally or over a network. Most of the real work is done on a proper database server, and the drivers just translate from the ODBC interface used by many applications to and from the native protocols the database servers speak with their clients. By contrast, my understanding is that the ODBC drivers used to interact with Access databases aren't really made for such robust use. For example, I don't know what the situation is with network access to Access databases, or if it's even possible from non-Windows machines. As far as I know, the ODBC driver essentially contains the program that reads the database file, potentially having to share access with (eg) a running copy of Access. Shared databases _can_ work well without a central server, but usually tend to scale poorly and can have reliability issues. The issues you'd run into sharing your Access database would be the same sort of thing as people who use MYOB over a network between several clients encounter - the more users, the slower and less reliable it gets. When you consider that a web based application could easily have several concurrent users... -- Craig Ringer
Re: FileMaker Pro help please
Thank you... thank you so much. I find help files very easy to understand once I find what I am looking for but I think I must be the world's worst for finding things in help files whether in an index or table of contents. All working perfectly thank you again Peter and the others who replied Y On 10/11/2005, at 1:08 PM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 10/11/2005, at 12:15 PM, wyvern wrote: Hi there, I am currently running FileMaker 6 on 10.3.9 and have a database of info for a group of people and would like to add a small photo of each person to their record. is this possible and if so HELP!!! Sure! Simply create a new field of type Container and give it a suitable name, and put it somewhere on a suutable layout. A container field can contain all sorts of data, including sounds, movies, and pictures (and others). The easiest way to get a picture into a container field is simply using copy-and-paste. You will probably also want to make sure that the field's display properties are set to display the picture in its correct proportions. There are detailed instructions all about this in the online help and in the FM manual. There are other ways to get pictures into container fields as well. Again, the book has all the gumph. Also. if i export records or create new dbases etc the file shows as .fp5.. why not fp6? It's because there is really no difference in the file structure between FM5 and FM6, so they did not change the file extension. Filemaker 5 will quite happily load and run files created in FM6, but it cannot use any of the newer features in 6 which are not in 5. There are basically three different (and mutually incompatible) filename extensions in the New World Filemaker (ie, since version 2). They are .fp3 (for FMP3 and FMP4), .fp5 (FMP5, 5.5 amd 6) and now .fp7 (for FMP7 and 8). -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Ati Radeon AGP cards
Hiall Can anyone tell me what versions of the Ati Radeon series have the ADC connector rather than DVI? Regards Christian
