Re: Possible scam -- Fwd: MAIL ABUSE 157387292
This one has been around in various guises for some time Severin Crisp On 26/04/2011, at 10:39 AM, David Noel wrote: Hi All, the attached (one of several) looks like a scam, though I haven't opened it. Any advice? Cheers -- David Noel 2011 Apr 26 == -- Forwarded message -- From: Hinz, Caroline SktnHR caroline.h...@saskatoonhealthregion.ca Date: 26 April 2011 10:19 Subject: MAIL ABUSE 157387292 To: Dear Mail User, This message is from Web Mail-Upgrade-Team CLICK HERE and follow the instruction carefully Thanks System Administrator center. 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: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??
Many thanks to all who replied to my query. This is the first time I have had problems although I have been using the USB sticks for years and years - and have never formatted them. My daughter who has recently acquired her first Mac told me recently that she had had similar problems trying to transfer her photos in bulk from her old Windows PC to her Mac, and cannot now transfer any info from her USB stick onto her Mac, nor open it on her old Windows. So the photos seem to be locked onto her USB stick : permanently? Any suggestions how to retrieve the photos from this USB stick? So, from now on I will need to format my USB stick AND empty my trash and then eject my stick from the Mac. Ho hum, one step forward ... Regards Peta On 26/04/2011, at 12:35 PM, Ashley Mulder wrote: To add something else to the matter I never delete anything from a usb stick When it is full i merely drag and drop all the data into a folder on my mac (to do with what i wish at a later date) And then reformat Yes, a SSD can only sustain a limited number of reformats before giving up the ghost (specially more so the cheaper ones) but with USB sticks so cheap nowadays ($10 for = 2Gb) its no biggy If it does, it goes in the bin (quick hunting around reveals i have about 6 sticks varying in size from 128mb to 4gb, and to date NONE have done any dodgy yet) Ashley Mulder BSc (Forensic and Analytical Chemistry) | (Forensic Science Hons.) PhD Student (Chemistry) Department of Chemistry Curtin University ashley.mul...@student.curtin.edu.au a.mul...@curtin.edu.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: Font mystery
On 26/04/2011, at 11:51 AM, Bill Parker wrote: Just now I wanted to use a font called AQUA KANA. FontBook.app does not list it, so its not switched offFontDoc.app sees it, but nothing else does. Where is it? Find doesn't find it! Hi Bill, HD System Library Fonts - scroll to “AquaKana.ttc” Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.7 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: Font mystery
Tried that, re-located the font ( the braille one for interest) to the folder in Library. Read some stuff Bob Howells sent over(thanks!) Doesn't want to play ball! Bill On 26/04/2011, at 3:43 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 26/04/2011, at 11:51 AM, Bill Parker wrote: Just now I wanted to use a font called AQUA KANA. FontBook.app does not list it, so its not switched off FontDoc.app sees it, but nothing else does. Where is it? Find doesn't find it! Hi Bill, HD System Library Fonts - scroll to “AquaKana.ttc” Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.7 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 -- 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: Seagate external drive
just my 2c i bought a hp drive (seagate) 2t bytes in officeworks advertized as extension drive yes it was preformatted as ntfs for win xp/7 in the webpage there i found info that says: to use it with macintosh you partition the drive but select 1 partition that may do the trick, works for me James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 25/04/2011, at 9:46 PM, Alex wrote: Hello WAMUG friends, my daughter, who recently bought a MacBook Pro after having a Windows laptop for some years, has been given a USB 2.0 Seagate external drive (model name starts with an E - Expansion?). Now the box does say that it requires a Windows OS no mention of Mac compatibility. However, my understanding was that Macs can see access Windows-formatted disks, eg thumb drives, floppies in the old days, etc. When she connected the drive, it mounted we could see it the contents of the drive (some system files, info files .exe programme), but when she tried to copy files from the Mac to the drive, nothing happened. When dragging the files across to the drive, all that happened was that you could see the file ghosting back to where it came from with no message or anything. Can someone please explain whether it can be made accessible how, or is this a lost cause? Also, what has changed, considering the previously stated accessibility at least from the Mac perspective? Cheers, many thanks in advance for your assistance, Alex -- 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: Font mystery
Hi Bill, You can’t remove any font from /System/Library/Fonts through Font Book. If you try to remove an absolutely necessary font such as Helvetica, you’ll get a dialog telling you it won’t be removed. But when you try to remove an unnecessary font from that folder—Apple Braille, say—you won’t get the “You can’t remove dialog.” You’ll get the usual “Are you sure?” confirmation dialog, but even if you confirm the operation, the font won’t be moved out of the folder. Unnecessary fonts can be removed from the System Fonts folder only by working directly with the folder. If you “Option Drag” the AquaKana.ttc font from System Library to your Desktop Then Open Font Book.app And drag the AquaKana.ttc font into User Collection … the AquaKana.ttc will copy into User Library Fonts (the font does not show in Font Book.app as explained below. Font Destinations Where fonts go when you drag them into Font Book Target Font Copied To All Fonts Default install folder English [nothing happens, operation ignored] User ~/Library/Fonts Computer /Library/Fonts User-defined library Not copied, accessed at original location Any collection Default install folder Font list Currently selected item in Collection list Collection list, above the line, as new item Not copied, accessed at original location; creates user-defined library Collection list, below the line, as new item Default install folder; creates collection Cheers, Ronni On 26/04/2011, at 4:04 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Tried that, re-located the font ( the braille one for interest) to the folder in Library. Read some stuff Bob Howells sent over(thanks!) Doesn't want to play ball! Bill On 26/04/2011, at 3:43 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 26/04/2011, at 11:51 AM, Bill Parker wrote: Just now I wanted to use a font called AQUA KANA. FontBook.app does not list it, so its not switched off FontDoc.app sees it, but nothing else does. Where is it? Find doesn't find it! Hi Bill, HD System Library Fonts - scroll to “AquaKana.ttc” Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.7 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: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??
Yes Derek Until my recent disaster, I too worked that way, for years and years! Only takes once though. Peta On 26/04/2011, at 11:45 AM, Derek Perry wrote: Hi Peta, I move photo's between Windows XP Mac, (eMac i Mac) both ways, using flash drives of many different sizes don't have any problems, I have never formatted any of them, just used them straight out of the packet. Derek - Original Message - From: peta To: WAMUG Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:25 AM Subject: USB sticks / drives / formatting ?? Good morning all I came in to write my query, which is a little odd, and saw the correspondence on the Seagate external drive. This query is very similar to mine I think, but maybe slightly different, so I have given mine a different heading. I have carried my USB sticks with me for many years, everywhere I have gone basically, and quite often copied photos from my (then) Windows onto mainly friends/families Windows, and back to my PC or to (eg) Officeworks, Harvey Norman to copy and print photos. (Obviously, about 5 years ago this became to and from my Mac, to their Windows or Macs). Very recently (because I had a feeling that my USB stick was not quite right) I took my small external hard drive to Officeworks with a batch of photos for printing, to learn that apparently because the formatting was done on a Mac, I could not copy the photos onto one of their machines. So I bought a new USB stick from Officeworks, came home, copied the photos I wanted onto this, and had the batch of photos successfully printed. A few days later, I copied a batch of photos from my husband's Mac and transferred them onto my Mac. **This set of photo had been downloaded onto his Mac by a DVD and had - I assume -come from a Windows PC). Next I deleted that batch of photos from my USB stick. When it showed up empty in Finder I copied 121 photos onto it, including about 30 from the batch as in the above paragraph. About a week later I went back to Officeworks to have my 121 photos printed. When I inserted my USB stick all appeared well and they downloaded right up to the point where I had put my name, address and so on. Very strange though, it said there were 500 odd photos. Being distracted at the time because I was due to meet someone, I assumed I had downloaded more photos than I had realised, and just proceeded. Then the machine threw a big hissy fit and declared there has been a fatal error and shut down. The girl behind the counter did not know why and suggested I use another machine, which I did, and all went through (still showing over 500 photos though). Came the time to pick the photos and off I went home and laid them out - yes there were over 500 photos, nearly all of them from the large batch downloaded from the DVD set, which had been deleted from the USB stick and which did not show up in Finder. There were duplicates and triplicates of some of these. So I believed my USB stick was corrupt, and deleted everything from it. It is on my desk now and I believe it should just hit the bin. Before I deleted everything showing I checked and yes, it definitely only showed 121 items. In the future then is it necessary to format USB sticks if I am only copying from my Mac onto other Macs? I do not think I have formatted my USB sticks ever, certainly not for many years. Is it going to be possible to copy photos from my Mac to a PC and/or vice versa? I have done this in the past with no problems, though not recently. Thanks for any suggestions, enjoy the rest of our little holiday break. Peta -- 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
How do I display an image inline in Mail messages?
I don't want to often, but sometimes I would like to display an image in an email, rather than attaching it to be opened. I know it can be done because I have received such mails - from iTunes and others - and my electronic signature can display images. I know about Show Stationery, but the options there and the templates don't fit the plain simple message style I want. Is it possible to get my desired result in Mail or do I have to abandon Mail and go to gmail, with a different email address, and try out their options? David Nicholas Mac OS X 10.6.7 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 15 Mail 4.5 -- 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: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??
On 26/04/2011, at 3:37 PM, peta wrote: Many thanks to all who replied to my query. This is the first time I have had problems although I have been using the USB sticks for years and years - and have never formatted them. My daughter who has recently acquired her first Mac told me recently that she had had similar problems trying to transfer her photos in bulk from her old Windows PC to her Mac, and cannot now transfer any info from her USB stick onto her Mac, nor open it on her old Windows. So the photos seem to be locked onto her USB stick : permanently? Any suggestions how to retrieve the photos from this USB stick? So, from now on I will need to format my USB stick AND empty my trash and then eject my stick from the Mac. Ho hum, one step forward ... Regards Peta You might like to have a look at Photo Rescue, an application designed precisely for the situation you describe. I have used is successfully in the past to recover photos from an unresponsive USB Drive. http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/v3/index.htm The way Mac OS X works, a special invisible folder called .trashes is created on each separate volume you access, and is specific to files on that volume. For this reason, it often happens that when you think your trash is empty, then plug in a USB Drive, you might find that your trash is no longer empty. This is because Mac OS X is accessing the .trashes folder on that drive. Formatting the USB Drive should remove this invisible folder, so there shouldn't be any need to format the USB stick AND empty the trash. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 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: How do I display an image inline in Mail messages?
On 27/04/2011, at 7:57 AM, David Nicholas wrote: I don't want to often, but sometimes I would like to display an image in an email, rather than attaching it to be opened. I know it can be done because I have received such mails - from iTunes and others - and my electronic signature can display images. I know about Show Stationery, but the options there and the templates don't fit the plain simple message style I want. Is it possible to get my desired result in Mail or do I have to abandon Mail and go to gmail, with a different email address, and try out their options? David Nicholas Mac OS X 10.6.7 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 15 Mail 4.5 Simply drag your image onto your email message, and it will be displayed inline. The trouble is that you have absolutely no control over how the receiver's email client is going to display or handle your content. In fact, many Windows users complain that when they receive images inline in this fashion from Mac users that while they can see the image, they cannot extract it from the email. This is entirely dependent upon their email client. Bear in mind that email, at the most basic level, is only able to handle raw text. All images, movies, sounds, PDFs, etc, must be attached to the message. Various tricks have been tried by a myriad email clients out there over the years to hide this fact, but nonetheless, attachments they remain. One of the most common tricks, started by Microsoft in Outlook Express many years ago, is to send your message in the form of an HTML page. In this way, the message is sent as pure test (because that is what HTML is) and all the images, sounds, etc are referenced by the HTML code. Apple Mail does not use compose its messages using HTML, instead it uses Rich Text Format (RTF). The exception to this is if you create a message using Mail's Stationery feature, which does use HTML. If you want to send a message using HTML, you'll have to use a different mail client such as Mozilla's Thunderbird which does have a full HTML editing environment. Your final message is still displayed at the whim of the recipient's email client, however, and is therefore always unpredictable. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 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: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??
Thank you for this tip Peter - I will pass this on to my daughter. We had rain, lots over night and showers again this morning! Peta On 27/04/2011, at 8:20 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 26/04/2011, at 3:37 PM, peta wrote: Many thanks to all who replied to my query. This is the first time I have had problems although I have been using the USB sticks for years and years - and have never formatted them. My daughter who has recently acquired her first Mac told me recently that she had had similar problems trying to transfer her photos in bulk from her old Windows PC to her Mac, and cannot now transfer any info from her USB stick onto her Mac, nor open it on her old Windows. So the photos seem to be locked onto her USB stick : permanently? Any suggestions how to retrieve the photos from this USB stick? So, from now on I will need to format my USB stick AND empty my trash and then eject my stick from the Mac. Ho hum, one step forward ... Regards Peta You might like to have a look at Photo Rescue, an application designed precisely for the situation you describe. I have used is successfully in the past to recover photos from an unresponsive USB Drive. http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/v3/index.htm The way Mac OS X works, a special invisible folder called .trashes is created on each separate volume you access, and is specific to files on that volume. For this reason, it often happens that when you think your trash is empty, then plug in a USB Drive, you might find that your trash is no longer empty. This is because Mac OS X is accessing the .trashes folder on that drive. Formatting the USB Drive should remove this invisible folder, so there shouldn't be any need to format the USB stick AND empty the trash. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 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 -- 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: How do I display an image inline in Mail messages?
Thanks Peter. I will have a go and experiment with some internal messages before using long suffering friends. David On 27/04/2011, at 8:43 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 27/04/2011, at 7:57 AM, David Nicholas wrote: I don't want to often, but sometimes I would like to display an image in an email, rather than attaching it to be opened. I know it can be done because I have received such mails - from iTunes and others - and my electronic signature can display images. I know about Show Stationery, but the options there and the templates don't fit the plain simple message style I want. Is it possible to get my desired result in Mail or do I have to abandon Mail and go to gmail, with a different email address, and try out their options? David Nicholas Mac OS X 10.6.7 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 15 Mail 4.5 Simply drag your image onto your email message, and it will be displayed inline. The trouble is that you have absolutely no control over how the receiver's email client is going to display or handle your content. In fact, many Windows users complain that when they receive images inline in this fashion from Mac users that while they can see the image, they cannot extract it from the email. This is entirely dependent upon their email client. Bear in mind that email, at the most basic level, is only able to handle raw text. All images, movies, sounds, PDFs, etc, must be attached to the message. Various tricks have been tried by a myriad email clients out there over the years to hide this fact, but nonetheless, attachments they remain. One of the most common tricks, started by Microsoft in Outlook Express many years ago, is to send your message in the form of an HTML page. In this way, the message is sent as pure test (because that is what HTML is) and all the images, sounds, etc are referenced by the HTML code. Apple Mail does not use compose its messages using HTML, instead it uses Rich Text Format (RTF). The exception to this is if you create a message using Mail's Stationery feature, which does use HTML. If you want to send a message using HTML, you'll have to use a different mail client such as Mozilla's Thunderbird which does have a full HTML editing environment. Your final message is still displayed at the whim of the recipient's email client, however, and is therefore always unpredictable. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 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 -- 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
Local data recovery recommendation?
Has anyone had any experience with a perth or Australian based clean room (hardware) data recovery business? And if so know what (ball park) cost of inspection and recovery is? We have a system disk fail that, for unknown reasons, hasn't had its normal backup run in over 6 months. The disk is clicking when powered on and is not visible when mounted in a MacPro's IDE bay (neither on the desktop or in system profile:Serial ATA) Nor does DataRescue X (II or III) either booted or run from the host OS. The disk is a 1TB drive with about 600GB of user data. mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Teaching Facilities Administrator Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- 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: Local data recovery recommendation?
Hi Mark, Others may want to add to what was already said, but here is a thread from earlier this year that mentions three places: http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/msg62439.html Cheers, Carlo On 2011-04-27, at 11:52, Mark Secker wrote: Has anyone had any experience with a perth or Australian based clean room (hardware) data recovery business? And if so know what (ball park) cost of inspection and recovery is? We have a system disk fail that, for unknown reasons, hasn't had its normal backup run in over 6 months. The disk is clicking when powered on and is not visible when mounted in a MacPro's IDE bay (neither on the desktop or in system profile:Serial ATA) Nor does DataRescue X (II or III) either booted or run from the host OS. The disk is a 1TB drive with about 600GB of user data. mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Teaching Facilities Administrator Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- 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
CDs and players
I have had ongoing problems with audio CDs that I burn either from iTunes or Toast. That will play perfectly in any of our three computer drives, perfectly in one Sony disc player but are very reluctant in a second (older) player. In that machine after several rejections a disc will finally play - usually! Once going, no problem Commercial CDs all play perfectly. Internet reading does not give me a definitive answer though brand of blank disc seems to be a factor. I am currently using TDK with mixed fortunes. I am always burning at a low speed and have no apparent difference between three choices of burner. I suspect that there is no definitive solution but would appreciate WAMUG comment, experience. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto: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
OT: playstation network hacked
For anyone with a playstation especially if you have ever ordered any downloads, the Playstation Network was hacked about a week and a half ago and they appear to have downloaded all the users' data. The PSN has been taken off line over nearly the past week and is now having some security beefed up. Sony are cagey about whether the all important credit card details also got downloaded but they aren't sure at this point. So anybody who uses PSN just be warned and check your credit card statements online for the next little while I would suggest. DD -- 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: Local data recovery recommendation?
Thanks for that.. I did a _quick_ scan through a few mailing lists I'm on but only found stuff that was quite old. So that at least gives me a ball park price to ponder on, given the first time I ever had first hand experience of clean room recovery was about 1/2 million dollars to recover a 200mb HRM database in the mid 80's and the last time was $5,000'ish to recover just under 1/2 TB about 5 years ago I was expecting it to almost affordable/justifiable for important personal data like this. Of course not just doing your backups but verifying your backup is probably cheaper and easier On 27/04/11 12:25 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, Others may want to add to what was already said, but here is a thread from earlier this year that mentions three places: http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/msg62439.html Cheers, Carlo On 2011-04-27, at 11:52, Mark Secker wrote: Has anyone had any experience with a perth or Australian based clean room (hardware) data recovery business? And if so know what (ball park) cost of inspection and recovery is? We have a system disk fail that, for unknown reasons, hasn't had its normal backup run in over 6 months. The disk is clicking when powered on and is not visible when mounted in a MacPro's IDE bay (neither on the desktop or in system profile:Serial ATA) Nor does DataRescue X (II or III) either booted or run from the host OS. The disk is a 1TB drive with about 600GB of user data. mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Teaching Facilities Administrator Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- 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: watch BBC etc from outside UK
Hi Merv I think there is a program called Hotspot Shield that works for US TV but I'm not sure about BBC. You might be able to adapt that program somehow or you could just use a generic program to run a VPN/Proxy through the UK since that is essentially what these programs do. I haven't really tried it myself so, unfortunately, I can't be of much help. Good Luck Ruben So far my search on this topic has come up with only one application, Expat Shield. However, it is not for Mac. Has anyone achieved success at watching the BBC or itv online from Australia? BBC's iPlayer and itv Player can only be used if you are in the UK. Hope you are all home safe and sound following the long weekend. Merv -- Education without values and knowledge without ethics is a false education. -- 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
