Photoshop on new Intel Macs
Hi Graphics people I've heard a rumour that Photoshop doesn't run as well as it should , on the new Intel processor Macs. Has anyone else heard anything about this? I mainly use Photoshop and am thinking of buying the new Mac. Cheers Denise Williams-Photographer Ph/fax 08- 9447 3468 Mob 0417 184592 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
podcast
Does a podcast actually download to one's computer? I've done a variety of searches but can't locate a file. Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see.
Re: podcast
Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does a podcast actually download to one's computer? I've done a variety of searches but can't locate a file. Merv Yes, Podcast is just a fancy way of saying recorded radio program converted to mp3. Podcasts gotten from ITMS live in your iTunes Library. Ones you get via a browser etc should be in your download folder/location. Have fun Paul
Re: Photoshop on new Intel Macs
I am running Photoshop 7.0 on a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo iMac with 1GB of RAM, and it hasn't missed a beat. Dudley Gager On 21/02/2006, at 12:43 AM, Denise Williams wrote: Hi Graphics people I've heard a rumour that Photoshop doesn't run as well as it should , on the new Intel processor Macs. Has anyone else heard anything about this? I mainly use Photoshop and am thinking of buying the new Mac. Cheers Denise Williams-Photographer Ph/fax 08- 9447 3468 Mob 0417 184592 [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: podcast
Paul is quite right about the location but just want those people who don't know a podcast is Podcasting is the distribution of audio or video files, such as radio programs or music videos, over the internet using either RSS or Atom syndication for listening on mobile devices and personal computers. A podcast is a web feed of audio or video files placed on the Internet for anyone to subscribe to, and also the content of that feed. Podcasters' websites also may offer direct download of their files, but the subscription feed of automatically delivered new content is what distinguishes a podcast from a simple download or real-time streaming (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast) So basically it is a feed you subscribe to rather than manually download one file at a time. Cheers Duncan -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2006 8:02 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: podcast Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does a podcast actually download to one's computer? I've done a variety of searches but can't locate a file. Merv Yes, Podcast is just a fancy way of saying recorded radio program converted to mp3. Podcasts gotten from ITMS live in your iTunes Library. Ones you get via a browser etc should be in your download folder/location. Have fun Paul -- 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: Photoshop on new Intel Macs
Morning, On 21Feb2006, at 12:43 am, Denise Williams wrote: Hi Graphics people I've heard a rumour that Photoshop doesn't run as well as it should , on the new Intel processor Macs. Has anyone else heard anything about this? Yes, their are lots of reports about this issue and it is not just Photoshop, but the creative suites per se. Adobe are working on issues with Apple etc. etc. But their will be no change over too Universal in short term, it will eventuate at the next Major release point for their CS, so the story goes. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/02/adobe_on_mactel.html Their will also be issues with the 32bit v 64bit processers, mainly to do with memory allocations? I mainly use Photoshop and am thinking of buying the new Mac. I would wait unless the need to upgrade is imperative, then again their are some really good bargains on the PowerPC architecture around the traps at the moment, with negotiation could be better still. Cheers! `Rob...
Re: podcast
On 21/02/2006, at 7:41 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does a podcast actually download to one's computer? I've done a variety of searches but can't locate a file. Merv -- You don't say what software you use to subscribe to your podcasts, but iTunes 6 (for example) keeps them in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ Podcasts. In there you'll find one or more folders named according to the podcasts you have downloaded. The podcasts themselves are in those folders. Other podcast clients will have their own locations. You might find it's better to search on the name of the podcast software instead of the podcast itself (which may well have been renamed by the software for indexing purposes, depending on the software). -- 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: podcast
On 21/02/2006, at 8:58 , Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 21/02/2006, at 7:41 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does a podcast actually download to one's computer? I've done a variety of searches but can't locate a file. Merv -- You don't say what software you use to subscribe to your podcasts, but iTunes 6 (for example) keeps them in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts. In there you'll find one or more folders named according to the podcasts you have downloaded. The podcasts themselves are in those folders. If you select a podcast (or a song or movie) in iTunes, you can hit ⌘-R to open the folder containing the selected track in Finder. Since I'm here, another shortcut that's very handy in iTunes is ⌘-L to take you to the currently playing song (these are both in the File menu) -josh
Re: Old Mac computers
Last I heard the Timor project had been flooded with older models so have stepped up specifications to high end Power PC's and G3 models and above but I could be wrong I heard there's an organisation in the education department who bundle decommissioned Macs from all over WA and redistribute them to less fortunate schools like rural or regional primary schools by the pallet load as these schools don't have a great budget for information technology resources and have low demand activities for them Regards Christian On 20/02/2006, at 10:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, if you contact Notre Dame University in Freo, they support a project in Timor called the Bagita center, where they can always use extra machines to teach local people computing skills. cheers Nat On 20/02/2006, at 10:55 PM, Peter Martinson wrote: Hi everyone, Well I've finally bitten the bullet! I currently have about 100 -130 Mac computers, monitors and printers (in my games room) that I was intending to set up as a borrowing resource for students without computers. Unfortunately as a Deputy Principal and looking after all of our network ( at the moment) I just can't find the time to re image them etc. I hate throwing out good computers that work so. I remember a group that were setting up computers for use in Timor as well as the Computer Angels in Perth. These computers range from the original Classics to 6400's. ( I can still use iMacs on our network). I'm particularly interested in the Timor idea as the older models are more likely to be accepted. Do any of you have any contact info for me? thanks in advance. pmarty -- 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 -- 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: Old Mac computers
No, not so Notre Dame will take Licorice allsoughts, the tech guys down there really know there stuff, they usually repurpose these machines with freebsd or netbsd or another *nix and ship them to E. Timor for teaching and infrastructure gifthorse, mouth! cheers Nat On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Christian Kotz wrote: Last I heard the Timor project had been flooded with older models so have stepped up specifications to high end Power PC's and G3 models and above but I could be wrong I heard there's an organisation in the education department who bundle decommissioned Macs from all over WA and redistribute them to less fortunate schools like rural or regional primary schools by the pallet load as these schools don't have a great budget for information technology resources and have low demand activities for them Regards Christian On 20/02/2006, at 10:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, if you contact Notre Dame University in Freo, they support a project in Timor called the Bagita center, where they can always use extra machines to teach local people computing skills. cheers Nat On 20/02/2006, at 10:55 PM, Peter Martinson wrote: Hi everyone, Well I've finally bitten the bullet! I currently have about 100 -130 Mac computers, monitors and printers (in my games room) that I was intending to set up as a borrowing resource for students without computers. Unfortunately as a Deputy Principal and looking after all of our network ( at the moment) I just can't find the time to re image them etc. I hate throwing out good computers that work so. I remember a group that were setting up computers for use in Timor as well as the Computer Angels in Perth. These computers range from the original Classics to 6400's. ( I can still use iMacs on our network). I'm particularly interested in the Timor idea as the older models are more likely to be accepted. Do any of you have any contact info for me? thanks in advance. pmarty -- 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 -- 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 -- 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: Old Mac computers
Well I told you I could be wrong :P Can 68K processors cope with the being repurposed? On 21/02/2006, at 11:05 AM, subscribe wrote: No, not so Notre Dame will take Licorice allsoughts, the tech guys down there really know there stuff, they usually repurpose these machines with freebsd or netbsd or another *nix and ship them to E. Timor for teaching and infrastructure gifthorse, mouth! cheers Nat On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Christian Kotz wrote: Last I heard the Timor project had been flooded with older models so have stepped up specifications to high end Power PC's and G3 models and above but I could be wrong I heard there's an organisation in the education department who bundle decommissioned Macs from all over WA and redistribute them to less fortunate schools like rural or regional primary schools by the pallet load as these schools don't have a great budget for information technology resources and have low demand activities for them Regards Christian On 20/02/2006, at 10:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, if you contact Notre Dame University in Freo, they support a project in Timor called the Bagita center, where they can always use extra machines to teach local people computing skills. cheers Nat On 20/02/2006, at 10:55 PM, Peter Martinson wrote: Hi everyone, Well I've finally bitten the bullet! I currently have about 100 -130 Mac computers, monitors and printers (in my games room) that I was intending to set up as a borrowing resource for students without computers. Unfortunately as a Deputy Principal and looking after all of our network ( at the moment) I just can't find the time to re image them etc. I hate throwing out good computers that work so. I remember a group that were setting up computers for use in Timor as well as the Computer Angels in Perth. These computers range from the original Classics to 6400's. ( I can still use iMacs on our network). I'm particularly interested in the Timor idea as the older models are more likely to be accepted. Do any of you have any contact info for me? thanks in advance. pmarty -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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: Photoshop on new Intel Macs
On 21/02/2006, at 11:04 , Mike O'Grady wrote: In particular have a look at: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars/6 Ouch! If you are mostly in Photoshop, the options seem to be: -Wait until late 2006/early 2007 when CS 3 is Universal -Get a 20 iMac G5 *now*, since they may be gone any day (the 17 is already gone) -Get a PowerMac G5 when you need a new machine. You can be sure that the PowerMac G5 will be available until at least the time that most of the apps from folks like Adobe, Quark, Macromedia are Universal. Surely!!! cheers, Josh
Re: Photoshop on new Intel Macs
Quark, so we should see that ship around 2010..! ;) Nat On Feb 21, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Josh McKinnon wrote: On 21/02/2006, at 11:04 , Mike O'Grady wrote: In particular have a look at: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars/6 Ouch! If you are mostly in Photoshop, the options seem to be: -Wait until late 2006/early 2007 when CS 3 is Universal -Get a 20 iMac G5 *now*, since they may be gone any day (the 17 is already gone) -Get a PowerMac G5 when you need a new machine. You can be sure that the PowerMac G5 will be available until at least the time that most of the apps from folks like Adobe, Quark, Macromedia are Universal. Surely!!! cheers, Josh -- 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
Eudora help
Using Eudora 6.2 sponsored mode. I have just posted to the list regarding Old Mac Computers and my message bounced with the message ' Your message cannot be posted. It has the content-type: multipart/alternative, and this list accepts plain text only I haven't changed anything and and cannot see where to revert to plain text. Any ideas for me? Ta Kev
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Adobe/macromedia Lightroom public beta
Just a heads up for digital photographers working with RAW files. Adobe has, as part of their macromedia acquisitions, a public beta of the program Lightroom available for download. http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/lightroom/ After mucking around on it for a couple of days I have to say it seems to be a better option than Apple's Aperture (admittedly I only have a few hours racked up on aperture and wasn't overly impressed given the price and minimum hardware requirements) and it certainly beats the Canon Capture program hands down. Remember though it is a beta and is time limited but apart from that is, within what has so far been coded, fully functional including RAW to Adobe's digital negative conversion. running it on a dual g4 876 MHz processor importing and converting is slow (ie well over an hour to import and convert 300 RAW images) but is quite usable once files are imported. Image manipulation is pretty intuitive and spits out a image that is print/web ready or Photoshop ready if you want to do post processing. just to compare the following images are from the same RAW image file the first is a JPG processed in Canon's Raw processing program supplied with their EOS D-SLR cameras (and comes up only marginally better than using Apples own RAW import/process/export functions with in the humble preview program) and the second is with Adobe Lightroom WARNING BIG JPEG files between 5 7 MB each so not for dial up Canon http://bits-mark.biz.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker//images/lightroom/CRW_canon.jpg Lightroom http://bits-mark.biz.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker//images/lightroom/CRW_lightbox.jpg for the technically minded EOS D60 with EF100 f:2 prime, shot at 200 ASA f:2 and about 1/2500 Second at about 4 meters captured (obviously) as a RAW image file. no post processing in Photoshop so this is simply exposure, colour correction and some sharpening done in both programs ready for any sort of post processing or printing. -- ~ 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
Re: Adobe/macromedia Lightroom public beta
On 21/02/2006, at 12:28 PM, Mark Secker wrote: Just a heads up for digital photographers working with RAW files. Adobe has, as part of their macromedia acquisitions, a public beta of the program Lightroom available for download. http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/lightroom/ After mucking around on it for a couple of days I have to say it seems to be a better option than Apple's Aperture (admittedly I only have a few hours racked up on aperture and wasn't overly impressed given the price and minimum hardware requirements) and it certainly beats the Canon Capture program hands down. Remember though it is a beta and is time limited but apart from that is, within what has so far been coded, fully functional including RAW to Adobe's digital negative conversion. running it on a dual g4 876 MHz processor importing and converting is slow (ie well over an hour to import and convert 300 RAW images) but is quite usable once files are imported. Image manipulation is pretty intuitive and spits out a image that is print/web ready or Photoshop ready if you want to do post processing. just to compare the following images are from the same RAW image file the first is a JPG processed in Canon's Raw processing program supplied with their EOS D-SLR cameras (and comes up only marginally better than using Apples own RAW import/process/export functions with in the humble preview program) and the second is with Adobe Lightroom WARNING BIG JPEG files between 5 7 MB each so not for dial up Canon http://bits-mark.biz.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker//images/lightroom/ CRW_canon.jpg Lightroom http://bits-mark.biz.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker//images/lightroom/ CRW_lightbox.jpg for the technically minded EOS D60 with EF100 f:2 prime, shot at 200 ASA f:2 and about 1/2500 Second at about 4 meters captured (obviously) as a RAW image file. no post processing in Photoshop so this is simply exposure, colour correction and some sharpening done in both programs ready for any sort of post processing or printing. -- ~ 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 -- 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
Paid podcasts are on their way....
Hi All! Seems the inevitable is happening: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/02/20/ricky_gervais_podcast_paid/ Fans of the current series will have to fork out for the next lot ($7US per month), at 4 per month and 12 in the series, so to listen to the next series will cost you $21US. I wonder how far off the video podcasts will be before charging, such as Rocketboom and TikiTV. They must have enormous bandwidth costs per month, plus purchasing the hardware to create a video podcast. (Although Rocketboom just sold their first advertising spot on ebay for $40,000US). It will be interesting to see what happens from here, whether people pay for the podcasts, or we have to put up with advertising. If I can preview the content, then I would be happy to pay. But if I am paying, no ads! Like iTools, I think the free ride is coming to an end :-) Seeya Rod!
Re: Eudora help
Kev On the top menu bar go to: Special - Settings - Styled Text and then choose Send plain text mail only. Dave Watkins --- On 21/02/2006, at 12:06 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote: Using Eudora 6.2 sponsored mode. I have just posted to the list regarding Old Mac Computers and my message bounced with the message ' Your message cannot be posted. It has the content-type: multipart/alternative, and this list accepts plain text only I haven't changed anything and and cannot see where to revert to plain text. Any ideas for me? Ta Kev
re Old Mac Computers
I tried to give a number of older Macs to schools in East Timor through the Bakhita organisation http://www.bakhita.org/contact.htm under the umbrella of Notre Dame. Below is the reply from Paddy Fagan. regards Kev At 2:10 PM +0800 9/2/06, Paddy Fagan wrote: From: Paddy Fagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Macs for Timor Hi Kevin Sorry it has taken a while for anyone to get back to you. My name is Patrick Fagan and I have been involved with Leeuwin Care and the Bakhita Centre for a number of years now (http://www.bakhita.orgwww.bakhita.org ). The program that used to send materials up from Perth to Timor is no longer is in operation as the owner of the container company changed and the new owners were not interested in doing the shipping for free. I think the cost to get it to Darwin was around $2000 and there is no money at all to cover it. Saying that I have emailed a few other people who may know ways to get the computers to Timor. I will try and get a response for you in the next week or so. Sorry again for the delay. Regards Patrick Fagan
Re: re Old Mac Computers
well thats news!, hope they can find a carrier as it would be a shame for machines that we consider too old to not be able to get to a good cause like the bakhita center (thanks for the spelling correction btw) cheers Nat On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:46 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote: I tried to give a number of older Macs to schools in East Timor through the Bakhita organisation http://www.bakhita.org/contact.htm under the umbrella of Notre Dame. Below is the reply from Paddy Fagan. regards Kev At 2:10 PM +0800 9/2/06, Paddy Fagan wrote: From: Paddy Fagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Macs for Timor Hi Kevin Sorry it has taken a while for anyone to get back to you. My name is Patrick Fagan and I have been involved with Leeuwin Care and the Bakhita Centre for a number of years now (http://www.bakhita.orgwww.bakhita.org ). The program that used to send materials up from Perth to Timor is no longer is in operation as the owner of the container company changed and the new owners were not interested in doing the shipping for free. I think the cost to get it to Darwin was around $2000 and there is no money at all to cover it. Saying that I have emailed a few other people who may know ways to get the computers to Timor. I will try and get a response for you in the next week or so. Sorry again for the delay. Regards Patrick Fagan -- 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
telstra bigpond cable
Hi, I know internet connections and specifically providers are a recurring theme here, but I have a few very specific questions as I am considering connecting to bigpond cable. Current set up is imac G5, imac snow (G3), PS2 and ibm laptop. Laptop and PS2 are not on network, and imacs are hardwired together (length of cable running down hallway and up stairs, not pretty!)G5 is on dial up. House has cable points (one has foxtel connected, others are not used, but are connected). 1/. How hard is it to self install bigpond cable wireless modems? ( the website says that self install is not supported for macs?) 2/. Does anyone know what the modem is that bigpond uses? ( there is no clues on the website and I wonder if it is just cable in wireless out, or whether there are also some actual output plugs?) Any other comments welcome, Thanks Hugh -- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message.
Re: telstra bigpond cable
On 21 Feb 2006, at 5:06 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Hi, I know internet connections and specifically providers are a recurring theme here, but I have a few very specific questions as I am considering connecting to bigpond cable. Current set up is imac G5, imac snow (G3), PS2 and ibm laptop. Laptop and PS2 are not on network, and imacs are hardwired together (length of cable running down hallway and up stairs, not pretty!)G5 is on dial up. House has cable points (one has foxtel connected, others are not used, but are connected). 1/. How hard is it to self install bigpond cable wireless modems? ( the website says that self install is not supported for macs?) 2/. Does anyone know what the modem is that bigpond uses? ( there is no clues on the website and I wonder if it is just cable in wireless out, or whether there are also some actual output plugs?) Hugh, Look here and read all the faq's. There are a number of modem's mentioned Make sure you copy all of the url to you browser . http://bigpond.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bigpond.cfg/php/enduser/ std_adp.php? p_faqid=5574p_search_text=modemp_created=1082510550p_sid=5C2owI*hp_l va=5587p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NTA mcF9wcm9kcz0zJnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0xLjMmcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9wbGF0Zm9ybT0 mcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1tb2RlbQ**p_li=p_topview=1 Have fun Bob Any other comments welcome, Thanks Hugh
have a read.....
are you ipod user?, then have a read..James Police warning for iPod users http://tinyurl.com/af5p8
Re: Old Mac computers
Of course Christian Mail boxes, fish tanks, backpacks (now that's an idea - a few straps in the right places and a hood over the screen opening. Nice solid case for the trek through the Andes!) Reg On 21 Feb 2006, at 11:11am, Christian Kotz wrote: Well I told you I could be wrong :P Can 68K processors cope with the being repurposed? On 21/02/2006, at 11:05 AM, subscribe wrote:
Re: Old Mac computers
I meant coping with *BSB stuff. I actually made a satchel out of a Plus... Major chafe before even hitting the Andes, great space for packing your pan flutes though On 21/02/2006, at 9:19 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Of course Christian Mail boxes, fish tanks, backpacks (now that's an idea - a few straps in the right places and a hood over the screen opening. Nice solid case for the trek through the Andes!) Reg On 21 Feb 2006, at 11:11am, Christian Kotz wrote: Well I told you I could be wrong :P Can 68K processors cope with the being repurposed? On 21/02/2006, at 11:05 AM, subscribe wrote: -- 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: telstra bigpond cable
On 21/2/06 8:06 PM, Hugh Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/. How hard is it to self install bigpond cable wireless modems? ( the website says that self install is not supported for macs?) 2/. Does anyone know what the modem is that bigpond uses? ( there is no clues on the website and I wonder if it is just cable in wireless out, or whether there are also some actual output plugs?) Telstra Wireless is a pain in the butt. Nobody I've heard of with a Mac has had any success getting it set up. If you must use Telstra Cable just get the standard Cable Modem Telstra supplies. They sent me a new Motorola SB5101l-AU Surfboard Cable Modem a few weeks ago in preparation for their speed boosts as of March to 17MB/sec down 256K/sec up speeds. Use a 3rd party Wireless/Router such as a Netgear WG614 or similar that can handle wired or wireless clients. It will work out cheaper and be far superior. If you can get other options other than Telstra consider that also especially if you can get ADSL2+. Telstra is extremely Mac unfriendly and just about every ISP provides more value for your money. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Old Mac computers
On 20/02/2006, at 10:55 PM, Peter Martinson wrote: Hi everyone, Well I've finally bitten the bullet! I currently have about 100 -130 Mac computers, monitors and printers (in my games room) that I was intending to set up as a borrowing resource for students without computers. Unfortunately as a Deputy Principal and looking after all of our network ( at the moment) I just can't find the time to re image them etc. I hate throwing out good computers that work so. I remember a group that were setting up computers for use in Timor as well as the Computer Angels in Perth. These computers range from the original Classics to 6400's. ( I can still use iMacs on our network). I'm particularly interested in the Timor idea as the older models are more likely to be accepted. Do any of you have any contact info for me? My church people say you could try http://www.greenpc.com.au/. Dunno if they take Macs though. Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com aim: pixglen
