Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps folder on partition 1). The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with accessing the old user folders on partition 2 When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a second media partition. However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to the new one? -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone
Andrew Thanks for your help, it is appreciated. Regards Kim iMac 24” Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo iPhone 3GS 32GB iPhone 3G 16GB iTouch 16GB OS X Snow Leopard On 13/12/2009, at 10:13 AM, Andrew wrote: You can get composite (red/white/yellow) or component (red/green/blue for video and red/white for audio) connectors from Apple shops. The latter will give the best result if you have the connections on your tv. After market ones are also available from JB HiFi etc. The benefit of the genuine ones is they come with a USB mains plug and cable built in so you are charging at the same time. I have had good results with mine (I got the red/white/yellow) with downloaded AVIs on a 90 screen running through a hard drive recorder to a projector. RGB is definately better if you want the best result. Andrew On 13/12/2009, at 8:00 AM, Kim Maher wrote: Hi All Has anyone achieved or has an idea how to connect a iPhone 3GS 32GB to a TV to watch movies etc? I thank you all in advance. Regards Kim iMac 24” Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo iPhone 32GB iPhone 16GB iTouch 16GB OS X Snow Leopard -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
NDF files ??
Hi people, Our pay office has switched to a payroll package that emails payslips to employees as NDF files (Neller). It cannot be opened by anything at work or on my Mac at home. Has anyone any idea re this ? Have Googled readers but not with any success. Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
On 13/12/2009, at 3:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps folder on partition 1). The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with accessing the old user folders on partition 2 When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a second media partition. However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to the new one? Hi Neil, This is purely my own thoughts preferences, others might disagree ;-) I guess it's what suits your needs. I feel you will run into problems with the Leopard Clone being a Partition on the Snow Leopard iMac. I would prefer to have it on an External Firewire Drive, then you can boot Leopard from it. Personally I don't partition my internal drive. I find Leopard Snow Leopard run faster and cleaner on non-partitioned drives. I would partition an external drive into 2 partitions, and have 1 partition for your cloned Leopard, and the other for your EyeTV Recordings. Another problem with partitioning is you'll never be satisfied with the sizes. After you make them you'll want more here and less there etc. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: NDF files ??
Sounds like a really enlightened pay system - do you still get your money? Severin Crisp On 13/12/2009, at 4:42 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi people, Our pay office has switched to a payroll package that emails payslips to employees as NDF files (Neller). It cannot be opened by anything at work or on my Mac at home. Has anyone any idea re this ? Have Googled readers but not with any success. Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: NDF files ??
Surprisingly Yes !! On 13/12/2009, at 5:02 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Sounds like a really enlightened pay system - do you still get your money? Severin Crisp On 13/12/2009, at 4:42 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi people, Our pay office has switched to a payroll package that emails payslips to employees as NDF files (Neller). It cannot be opened by anything at work or on my Mac at home. Has anyone any idea re this ? Have Googled readers but not with any success. Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: NDF files ??
very interesting pay system!! NDf is an SQL data file read below :) SQL Server 2000 databases have three types of files: Primary data files The primary data file is the starting point of the database and points to the other files in the database. Every database has one primary data file. The recommended file name extension for primary data files is .mdf. Secondary data files Secondary data files comprise all of the data files other than the primary data file. Some databases may not have any secondary data files, while others have multiple secondary data files. The recommended file name extension for secondary data files is .ndf. Log files Log files hold all of the log information used to recover the database. There must be at least one log file for each database, although there can be more than one. The recommended file name extension for log files is .ldf. SQL Server 2000 does not enforce the .mdf, .ndf, and .ldf file name extensions, but these extensions are recommended to help identify the use of the file. On 13/12/2009, at 5:18 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Surprisingly Yes !! On 13/12/2009, at 5:02 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Sounds like a really enlightened pay system - do you still get your money? Severin Crisp On 13/12/2009, at 4:42 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi people, Our pay office has switched to a payroll package that emails payslips to employees as NDF files (Neller). It cannot be opened by anything at work or on my Mac at home. Has anyone any idea re this ? Have Googled readers but not with any success. Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Christmas BBQ
Hi All Many thanks to all those who organised today's BBQ. Tender melt-in-your-mouth steak, salads to die for, great company and a cool spot under an old gum tree Looking forward to seeing you all in the New Year with my new-found Mac skills greatly improved from the holidays. Regards Marlene Oostryck Ph: 9430 8006 oostr...@optusnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: NDF files ??
Hi, I believe this would be Neller Document Format, and the employer should have provided information about viewing the file. Not only is it a proprietary format, I also don't know of a Mac viewer. Very non-enlightened. http://www.neller.com.au/Page.asp?PID=64 James On 13/12/2009, Roger Kortas rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: very interesting pay system!! NDf is an SQL data file read below :) SQL Server 2000 databases have three types of files: Primary data files The primary data file is the starting point of the database and points to the other files in the database. Every database has one primary data file. The recommended file name extension for primary data files is .mdf. Secondary data files Secondary data files comprise all of the data files other than the primary data file. Some databases may not have any secondary data files, while others have multiple secondary data files. The recommended file name extension for secondary data files is .ndf. Log files Log files hold all of the log information used to recover the database. There must be at least one log file for each database, although there can be more than one. The recommended file name extension for log files is .ldf. SQL Server 2000 does not enforce the .mdf, .ndf, and .ldf file name extensions, but these extensions are recommended to help identify the use of the file. On 13/12/2009, at 5:18 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Surprisingly Yes !! On 13/12/2009, at 5:02 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Sounds like a really enlightened pay system - do you still get your money? Severin Crisp On 13/12/2009, at 4:42 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi people, Our pay office has switched to a payroll package that emails payslips to employees as NDF files (Neller). It cannot be opened by anything at work or on my Mac at home. Has anyone any idea re this ? Have Googled readers but not with any success. Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app that you have trouble running. I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files. You could always add a 10.5 Apps folder to your Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL. Hope this helps a bit Ruben Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps folder on partition 1). The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with accessing the old user folders on partition 2 When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a second media partition. However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain things - so I was wondering if I
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Greetings! If you are using or are planning to use multiple external HD make sure to purchase HDs from different manufactures. Our club in California suggested to our members that two external HD backups was three times as safe. Some of our members purchased Western Digital (WD) HDs. Unfortunately WD had a batch (large amount) of faulty drives shipped to the western US. You can see where this is leading. I keep a 64 MG flash drive for very important backups of files generated that day. Our data is important to us, be it photos, video, music or documents. When you lose a terabite HD, It's a traumatic experience. Be careful how you configure your back up strategies. Cheers, Joe On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Dark1 da...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app that you have trouble running. I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files. You could always add a 10.5 Apps folder to your Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL. Hope this helps a bit Ruben Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Hi Neil, that was my thought, about installing Rosetta I mean. I can run all of my old programs in SL using Rosetta, but you have to choose to install it from the disks, it doesn't happen automatically as with Leopard. cheers, Susan. On 13/12/2009, at 6:30 PM, Dark1 wrote: Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app that you have trouble running. I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files. You could always add a 10.5 Apps folder to your Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL. Hope this helps a bit Ruben Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps folder on partition 1). The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as the old Leopard
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Hi Ronni, Thanks for the feedback. Responses below against your comments. on 13/12/09 4:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 13/12/2009, at 3:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps folder on partition 1). The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with accessing the old user folders on partition 2 When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a second media partition. However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to the new one? Hi Neil, This is purely my own thoughts preferences, others might disagree ;-) I guess it's what suits your needs. I feel you will run into problems with the Leopard Clone being a Partition on the Snow Leopard iMac. What kind of problems do you envisage? I would prefer to have it on an External Firewire Drive, then you can boot Leopard from it. Well, I actually have both since I have an external 1TB firewire drive which is partitioned to match the internal drive and I clone each internal partition to it's corresponding partition on the external drive. However, one of the problems with my original strategy is that the new i7 iMac will not boot up into Leopard, only Snow Leopard :( (I tried it from the Leopard partition on both the internal drive and the External Drive - and I know the cloned system on the external drive is OK because the old 24 iMac boots from it but the new i7 iMac doesn't). Interestingly, if I option start the i7 both the leopard and snow leopard systems show up as selectable but, if I select a leopard system, then start-up just hangs at the white screen with the Apple logo (but the moving clock icon doesn't show). Also: - running disc utility under SL and the Leopard partitions have the verify permissions and repair permissions options greyed out. - if I try to start the i7 using a Leopard installation DVD (to try a fresh leopard install) it again refuses to boot from the Leopard installation DVD. I am assuming that the new processor/hardware has certain requirements that are built-in to SL but not Leopard - since there were no i5 or i7 Macs available when Leopard was the current OS. Personally I don't partition my internal drive. I find Leopard Snow Leopard run faster and cleaner on non-partitioned drives. I would partition an external drive into 2 partitions, and have 1 partition for your cloned Leopard, and the other for your EyeTV Recordings. Yes, I hear what you are saying here - that's what I did with my 24 iMac which has a 320GB HD - its just that (without the EyeTV recordings) I never even came close to
Re: Name Tags! Re: Annual WAMUG Christmas Barbecue: 13 December 2009
On 13 Dec 2009, at 12:53 PM, kevin Lock wrote: Sorry folks, I did turn up and circled Heathcote twice without seeing any likely groups. The only people with name tags on seemed to be a small family group. Maybe there should have been a WAMUG notice visible. I'm sorry I missed catching up with the many people who have helped me over the years with my little projects. Me too. Sorry folks. I was a quarter of an hour late and presumably the cooking had finished by then. I also circled twice and failed to recognize a familiar face from the monthly meetings. Perhaps I am getting too old and shouldn't be allowed out without a keeper. Next time I will obtain some phone numbers and plug them into my mobile, regrettably not an iPhone. Regards and apologies Ian Reid regards, Kevin -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Yes, thanks Joe I currently have a mix of WD and LaCie and I¹m also looking to have some ³cloud² back-up/synch for more critical stuff. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/12/09 7:22 PM, Joe Mastrella at joey.pots.p...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! If you are using or are planning to use multiple external HD make sure to purchase HDs from different manufactures. Our club in California suggested to our members that two external HD backups was three times as safe. Some of our members purchased Western Digital (WD) HDs. Unfortunately WD had a batch (large amount) of faulty drives shipped to the western US. You can see where this is leading. I keep a 64 MG flash drive for very important backups of files generated that day. Our data is important to us, be it photos, video, music or documents. When you lose a terabite HD, It's a traumatic experience. Be careful how you configure your back up strategies. Cheers, Joe On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Dark1 da...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app that you have trouble running. I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files. You could always add a 10.5 Apps folder to your Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL. Hope this helps a bit Ruben Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
on 13/12/09 6:30 PM, Dark1 at da...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. Yes, I already have four 1TB external drives (more will no doubt eventually follow). Primary back-up for all three partitions is a 1TB external firewire drive with an identical partition scheme to the internal 1TB drive. Each partition on the internal drive will be cloned to the corresponding partition on the external drive - though, from a schedule point of view, each partition will be separately cloned as required - depending on what I have been working on. This will also be complemented with TM back-ups of most of my stuff and I am also intending to incorporate some cloud back-up/synch of some critical stuff. There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app that you have trouble running. That's the plan. I've since found forum feedback that office 2004 WILL run under SL - provided you address some issues(particularly some font conflicts - so I have my fingers crossed here. I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. True, but since I clone the whole partition to let me get running again in the event of disc failure or restore to another machine in the event of a more major machine malfunction, new EyeTV recordings would significantly increase the cloning time - so I like to keep these separate with separate priorities and schedules (losing a few EyeTV recording would be annoying but not a real big deal). In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files. You could always add a 10.5 Apps folder to your Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL. That's good to hear, I can probably live with a slight performance hit while I am testing the apps. I have sometimes used the old folder/new folder approach before when upgrading/migrating - however in this case I intend to also re-organise my whole document/data filing system and my priority is keeping track on what is old and what is new/current across multiple folders in hierarchies sever levels deep - I decided that the best way to do that was start with a fresh slate and just move things to my new system as and when I wanted/needed/classified them. Hope this helps a bit Ruben Thanks Ruben. -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps
B/Q
Many thanks for all the hard work in organising the B/Q regards Neil Botterill -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: mail accounts
Hi RonniThank you for that.I had a look at the link and it is for the initial set up. Once you are in there is no way to change.She is stuck on her PC for now and I have a glorious 27" iMac to myself for a couple of weekscheersPedroOn 13/12/2009, at 7:43 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:Hi Pedro,It looks likeIncrediMail doesn’t implement IMAP correctly. It doesn’t synchronize the IMAP folders, but instead just downloads the messages, while leaving them on the server.From the IncrediMail Help files:"How you can easily configure your IMAP email account in IncrediMail.Note that although IncrediMail does not support IMAP folders synchronization at this time, a copy of each email message is left on the IMAP server, ensuring thatincoming messages are available for download on all your email accounts and computers."Scroll down to No.3 underManually configuring the Email Accounthttp://help.incredimail.com/incredimail/help_center/help_article.aspx?is=tarticle_id=6Cheers,Ronni17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GBOS X 10.6.2 Snow LeopardWindows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)On 12/12/2009, at 9:08 PM, Pedro wrote:Hi SusanI think you are right with the settings. I went thru it today with some help from iinet. The problem is she is using incredimail which is like a drug. Once you start using it , you can't stop.Some of the emails she requires access to are very important ethics cases and if she loses them my life won't be worth livingThank you for the inputPedroFrom the iPhoneOn 12/12/2009, at 20:55, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote:Hi Pedro, I wonder if your wife's POP3 email account is set up to 'remove from server' on her Windows PC. Therefore, the inbox on the server keeps getting emptied, and because the IMAP account sets the computer inbox to sync with the server inbox, the messages on the IMAP account keep 'disappearing'.Its possible to set up the Windows email account to leave the messages on the server, just as it is in Apple Mail. Its a matter of ticking a particular box in the setup. You can modify the email account at any time. So, you can have both POP3 and IMAP accounts accessing the same inbox on the remote server (iinet). Again, this is something I have done myself, so know its possible.If you think of the IMAP folders on your computer as being 'mirrors' of the inbox on the remote server (at iinet), then its logical that if the messages are being removed after being downloaded to the Windows computer that they will be removed from your local inbox.Could this be what is happening?cheers, Susan.On 12/12/2009, at 6:47 PM, Pedro wrote:Hi Susan and PeteI tried your idea Susan late last night when I got home and it set easy and worked fine except I couldn't get messages to stay in the inbox.After a lot of reading today and a few experiments I worked out it is not recommended to mix imap and a pop account.So, until she finishes dealing with her overseas contacts in a few weeks she will be using the PC.I will be following your recommendations though and setting up the iMac with an imap account as she will need to access email from two separate computers if thenew MacBook Pro arrives under the tree in time for Christmas. I also found a friendly ear at iinet that said I could set it up that way with no problemsI hope everyone has a good time tomorrow at the annual Christmas get together and manages to stay out of the heat (don't forget the sun screen)I will be thinking of you all as I sweat over a hot paint desk at workregardsPedroOn 11/12/2009, at 9:41 PM, Susan Hastings wrote:Hi Pedro, I have the following settings in Mail on my MacBook (and other Macs):To set up I go to Prefences, add a new email account, then choose IMAP instead of POP3, and give my username, password and set the server setting as below.incoming server: smtp.iinet.net.auOutgoing server: smtp.iinet.net.auIts no more difficult than setting up a new POP3 account, just the servers are different.cheers, Susan.On 11/12/2009, at 5:15 PM, Pedro wrote:Hi SusanIt was iinet that told me. I guess you can't believe everything you hear from tech support. I shall have to do some more digging to see how it worksThanks for thatCheersPedroFrom the iPhoneOn 11/12/2009, at 16:33, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote:Hi Pedro, I'm using iinet's IMAP for my emails on a daily basis. I wonder who told you that IMAP was unavailable. regards, Susan.On 11/12/2009, at 10:51 AM, Pedro wrote:Hi SusanIt appears iinet will only support pop3 accounts so she is stuck with the PCuntil she finishes the work she doing. In the mean time I get the glorious 27" screento myself for awhile. cheersPedroG'day Pedro.I've still still got my old PC and use it quite regularly for dedicated Windows thingys. It's also good for getting the heart pumping under higher blood pressure and exercising the vocal chords plus plenty of quiet time waiting, waiting, waiting...Anyhow, both still receive email. My iMac is set to delete from the server after 1 day whilst my PC is
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Hi All Son going overseas and he feels he needs a webcam to use with a 12 inch ibook 1.33mhz. Is it worth trying to find a firewire isight webcam or can anyone recommend another make. Regards Rob -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Is this some graphics controller fault on my Pow erBook?
i had a look @ the pic it seems other equipment is disturbing the reception, through diconnect/reconnect you may find the offending part, from my experience it could be a vcr power supply putting a high frequency into the antenna line, disconnect everything then connect the antenna directly to the crt screen see if that gets a clear reception sometimes it's poor grounding (the outer part of the antenna plug not connecting..) cheers James On 13/12/2009, at 13:19, Brian Scott wrote: If the link to the picture of the faulty screen didn't work, try this one.. http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/walfau/Computer/Faulty-PB- screen1.jpg Thanks Brian On 13/12/2009, at 12:26 PM, Brian Scott wrote: Hi, I was was about to setup EYeTV to record a show yesterday when my screen started getting a mess/mesh of dots and lines. Not just on the PowerBook 15 but on my TV (CRT) that it is connected to also. The external HDD started unexpectedly removing itself invoking Device Removal warnings. This happened not long after upgrading some system software and repairing permissions. It's has OS 10.4.11 When I started it this morning it was clear until I moved the PB screen to view it better. But moving it again doesn't make it clear. And it wasn't movement that made it go off the first time or other times. I've tried re-setting PRAM, removing everything connected to it and replacing the ram module but it made no difference. From the Preferences the screen details are Model: 9C20 and Manufacture Date: B87B9680 See a picture of the faulty screen here.. |http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/walfau/Computer/Faulty- PB-screen.png| Has my PowerBook become useless or can it be easily fixed? Thank you for looking. Brian -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Is this some graphics controller fault on my Pow erBook?
On 13/12/2009, at 1:19 PM, Brian Scott wrote: If the link to the picture of the faulty screen didn't work, try this one.. http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/walfau/Computer/Faulty-PB-screen1.jpg Thanks Brian On 13/12/2009, at 12:26 PM, Brian Scott wrote: Hi, I was was about to setup EYeTV to record a show yesterday when my screen started getting a mess/mesh of dots and lines. Not just on the PowerBook 15 but on my TV (CRT) that it is connected to also. The external HDD started unexpectedly removing itself invoking Device Removal warnings. This happened not long after upgrading some system software and repairing permissions. It's has OS 10.4.11 When I started it this morning it was clear until I moved the PB screen to view it better. But moving it again doesn't make it clear. And it wasn't movement that made it go off the first time or other times. I've tried re-setting PRAM, removing everything connected to it and replacing the ram module but it made no difference. From the Preferences the screen details are Model: 9C20 and Manufacture Date: B87B9680 See a picture of the faulty screen here.. |http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/walfau/Computer/Faulty-PB-screen.png| Has my PowerBook become useless or can it be easily fixed? Thank you for looking. Brian -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au My initial reaction is that something nasty has happened to your graphics hardware, and I suspect the only cure will be a logic board replacement. Take it to your nearest Apple Repairer (any registered Apple Reseller should be able to help) for an expert opinion, but you'll have to weigh the costs of repair vs replacement with a new or good 2nd hand laptop. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Hi Neil, I'll try to reply to the questions you have asked me below. On 13/12/2009, at 7:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Neil, This is purely my own thoughts preferences, others might disagree ;-) I guess it's what suits your needs. I feel you will run into problems with the Leopard Clone being a Partition on the Snow Leopard iMac. What kind of problems do you envisage? You should be ok, I tend to err on the side of caution. ;-) You can read Snow Leopard partitions from Leopard. You cannot execute Snow Leopard applications from Leopard. Apple has applied compression to most of the system executable files in Snow Leopard. However they do not appear to apply it to data files for any applications, (but I could be wrong here). Apples documentation for ditto (go to terminal and type man ditto at the prompt, without the quotes) states: --hfsCompression When copying files or extracting content from an archive, if the destination is an HFS+ volume that supports compression, all the content will be compressed if appropriate. This is only supported on Mac OS X 10.6 or later, and is only intended to be used in installa-tion installation tion and backup scenarios that involve system files. Since files using HFS+ compression are not readable on versions of Mac OS X earlier than 10.6, this flag should not be used when dealing with non-system files or other user-generated content. I would prefer to have it on an External Firewire Drive, then you can boot Leopard from it. Sorry Neil, I did not read this part of your email thoroughly enough. You cannot boot Leopard on your new iMac. I explain why below. Well, I actually have both since I have an external 1TB firewire drive which is partitioned to match the internal drive and I clone each internal partition to it's corresponding partition on the external drive. However, one of the problems with my original strategy is that the new i7 iMac will not boot up into Leopard, only Snow Leopard :( (I tried it from the Leopard partition on both the internal drive and the External Drive - and I know the cloned system on the external drive is OK because the old 24 iMac boots from it but the new i7 iMac doesn't). Interestingly, if I option start the i7 both the leopard and snow leopard systems show up as selectable but, if I select a leopard system, then start-up just hangs at the white screen with the Apple logo (but the moving clock icon doesn't show). Also: - running disc utility under SL and the Leopard partitions have the verify permissions and repair permissions options greyed out. - if I try to start the i7 using a Leopard installation DVD (to try a fresh leopard install) it again refuses to boot from the Leopard installation DVD. I am assuming that the new processor/hardware has certain requirements that are built-in to SL but not Leopard - since there were no i5 or i7 Macs available when Leopard was the current OS. Yes, you cannot boot Leopard on the NEW iMac! Apple doesn't program any Macs not to allow an earlier version of the OS to be used. However, a Mac cannot successfully boot from an OS that does not include appropriate drivers for its hardware components, more recent Macs have upgraded hardware that are not supported by the drivers shipped with older versions of the OS. For this reason, the OS installer package checks the hardware of the Mac targeted for the OS install compares it to a list of what it can support. If the Mac isn't on that list, it will refuse to install the OS. For the same reason, if you bypass the installer, like by using a clone of the HD of a different Mac with an older OS version on it, it generally will not successfully boot a Mac with newer hardware. Note that the hardware differences can usually do include things other than just the CPU or graphics processor. Check /System/Library/Extensions, which is the home of the drivers (as well as other extensions) note that things like the System Management Controller (SMC) various input/output (IO) devices each have drivers that correspond to subsystems typically implemented with different hardware on different Macs. Personally I don't partition my internal drive. I find Leopard Snow Leopard run faster and cleaner on non-partitioned drives. I would partition an external drive into 2 partitions, and have 1 partition for your cloned Leopard, and the other for your EyeTV Recordings. Yes, I hear what you are saying here - that's what I did with my 24 iMac which has a 320GB HD - its just that (without the EyeTV recordings) I never even came close to filling a quarter of the 320GB disc (around 74GB at last look) and I already have four external 1TB drives (some partitioned) serving as clones and TM drives for the various machines - so, given that the new iMac has a 1TB drive, I wanted to go this route rather than buy more external drives (given each then requires another back-up drive) - as I didn't want to
Re: Apple isight webcam
usb camera will do the job, they are small lightweight give the 640x480 or better no external power needed i'm using a hongkong made 1.3 mpixel that has a led light built, in if its to dark it switches onthe included clip holds the camera on top of the screen James On 14/12/2009, at 6:44, Lodge family wrote: Hi All Son going overseas and he feels he needs a webcam to use with a 12 inch ibook 1.33mhz. Is it worth trying to find a firewire isight webcam or can anyone recommend another make. Regards Rob -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple isight webcam
On 14/12/2009, at 6:44 AM, Lodge family wrote: Hi All Son going overseas and he feels he needs a webcam to use with a 12 inch ibook 1.33mhz. Is it worth trying to find a firewire isight webcam or can anyone recommend another make. Regards Rob The Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac is an excellent device, though not exactly cheap at around $200. Guaranteed to work with your Mac though, with built in microphone and excellent camera. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Hard drive fills up for no apparent reason
Hi James, You can get the total amount of disk used by folder using Terminal : polaris:~ alex$ du -sh * 2.6GDownloads ... polaris:~ alex$ cd Downloads/ polaris:Downloads alex$ du -sh * 548KAbout Downloads.pdf 2.5Giphone_sdk_3.1.2_with_xcode_3.2.1__snow_leopard__10m2003.dmg ... polaris:Downloads alex$ As you can see my downloads folder holds 2.6GB out of which 2.5GB are made up of the iPhone SDK. Maybe a little technical using Terminal commands, but at least you don't have to install any new software. Have fun Alex On 12 Dec 2009, at 10:26, James I Fraser wrote: Please would anyone have any idea how 155GB of free space on a 500GB drive fill up in 5 hours with no user activity? The laptop - a MacBook Pro, late 2007, 4GB Ram running 10.6.2 was wirelessly connected to the internet and McAfee ran finding 431 malwares, but on the backup drive! To email I've moved 81GB of pictures to free up drive space. Best wishes, James -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Tivo networking package which allows streaming from iTunes and iPhoto
Hello People, My Son-in-Law is trying to get his TiVo to Stream iTunes iPhoto to his Plasma TV. He is using Leopard (not Snow Leopard). The TV can see the folders but won't access them unless he goes into System Preferences Firewall and Allow all incoming connections is selected. Has anyone got this to work in Leopard, and if so How please? Is it just a simple case of Allow incoming connections in the Firewall for iTunes, iPhoto and TiVo? Reading the Trouble shooting from Tivo there are a whole lot of ports (see below) that need to be open. Check that TiVo is not blocked by a firewall on your router and/or Mac. The following ports (whether inbound or outbound) must be open to enable your DVR to communicate with the TiVo Servers, other TiVo DVRs, and your Macintosh: * TCP port 37 * TCP port 8000 * TCP port 443 * TCP ports 8080-8089 * TCP port 2190 * TCP port 8101 * TCP port 4430 * TCP port 8102 * TCP port 7287 * TCP port 8200 * TCP port 7288 * UDP port 37 * UDP port 123 * UDP port 2190 He uses a Billion 7404V Series Router. I have sent him details how to Port Forward (Add Virtual Server on the Billion), but he has not been able to get it to work. Now he can't delete what he has typed into the Billion ( the Ports he has added into the Billion). Any help from TiVo users would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone
Hi Kim, Did you want to watch movies on your TV which are stored on your iPhone ? Cheers, Walter On 13/12/2009, at 8:00 , Kim Maher wrote: Hi All Has anyone achieved or has an idea how to connect a iPhone 3GS 32GB to a TV to watch movies etc? I thank you all in advance. Regards Kim iMac 24” Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo iPhone 32GB iPhone 16GB iTouch 16GB OS X Snow Leopard -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
