Re: Enabling PHP and Apache in Leopard
Shay is right about considering your needs for PHP MySQL. If this is just for personal testing on a local machine then using MAMP (free) or MAMP Pro (small shareware cost) which provides even more features is worth checking out. It provides a much better version of PHP than Apples. You can test sites under PHP4 or PHP 5. It provides all the admin interfaces you need to easily host a site. It even lets you activate Apples UNIX based mail server to allow testing of mail scripts in real time. For a newbie to servers you can't get any easier + it doesn't interferes in any way with Apple's version of PHP/Apache + works perfect in Leopard If you need this for a production server then you'll have to take the long road as mentioned in your earlier post or else check out the Entropy version of PHP. Can be installed like any other application , easy to set up but unfortunately a Leopard compatible version is only in beta not release yet. Just the same may be worth checking out. Whichever way you go you'll end up with a much better version of PHP than the dumbed down version Apple supplies. Trust me. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Summary of :- Spreadsheet for OSX to replace Excell ??
On 25/9/06 1:40 AM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, Google now has spreadsheets in development: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ Have fun, A couple of great features of Google Spreadsheets is that it can import and export Excel files as well as allowing you to set a spreadsheet as shared to allow people you work with to edit and add information. I've been using it for months and it's very cool. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Apple Discriminates against Australians Article
I have been busy following up the problems with the latest battery exchange program with Apple HQ here in Sydney. I initially spoke to John Marx who promised to pass on my concerns to those in charge of Apple Australia and promised to get back to me. Well about half an hour ago Fiona Martin the Public Relations Manager rang me up. This is where it gets strange! Fiona Martin insists that it is not Apple Australia's policy to force customers affected to have to send in their old faulty batteries first before being able to receive a new replacement. She also insists that Apple Australia has not threatened resellers to be charged for these batteries if the faulty ones aren't returned within 10 days and also claims all country customers will be sent the new battery along with a return postage paid package to return the old battery. She claims they do not have to drop off their faulty units to a reseller in person first. She claims Apple Australia has gone out of its way to inform every reseller of this. The only trouble is that 95% of posts I have read on various forums mailing lists claim the exact opposite is indeed the case. Fiona has asked me to contact the various groups I deal with and to ask that anyone who has been told by resellers that they must provide their old battery first before being eligible for a new replacement battery contact her providing details of those resellers making these claims along with any relevant details/problems with the process. Her contact details are below. Fiona Martin Public Relations Manager Tel: (02) 9641 8230/Mobile: 0421 052 769 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 6/9/06 5:31 PM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to say that is pretty disgraceful from Apple Australia. The only reason I think they are doing it this way is to stall for time. I'd say there are not enough batteries to go round for the whole world, so we get dealt a rough deal so everyone else can get their batteries ASAP. I wouldn't mind betting that the batteries that are being sent back are sent to Sony, refitted with new cells, then sent back to Australia. That would explain the 4-6 week turnaround :-) I could really imagine an executive going 6 weeks without a battery in his or her laptop. I can't imagine there will be a turn around on the policy. There would be a number of very ticked off people that have given up their battery and are waiting for a new one, only to find Apple have had a change of heart and now will send out a new one Next Day for all new replacement orders.
Re: Apple Discriminates against Australians Article
Hi I'm just passing on a correction to my earlier email after talking to Fiona for a second time an hour or so ago. Country customers will be able to use a return paid post pack for returns however people in the city will have to go directly through a Authorised Apple Service Provider (AASP). Also the 10 days return time for faulty batteries is not from when the customer receives the replacement battery but from the time the Authorised Apple Service Provider (AASP) receives the faulty one from the customer. She asked I refer people to Apple's web site FAQ on the problem at http://www.apple.com/au/support/batteryexchange/2006/faq/ Mind you this wasn't 100% clear to me but maybe others won't have the same problems interpreting what it says in relation to this problem. I've also discovered I had an old 12 inch G3 iBook which had a replacement battery installed about a year ago which is in the range of affected batteries so I guess I'll have a chance to see first hand if there are problems with the exchange process. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 11/9/06 1:11 PM, Greg Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been busy following up the problems with the latest battery exchange program with Apple HQ here in Sydney. I initially spoke to John Marx who promised to pass on my concerns to those in charge of Apple Australia and promised to get back to me. Well about half an hour ago Fiona Martin the Public Relations Manager rang me up. This is where it gets strange! Fiona Martin insists that it is not Apple Australia's policy to force customers affected to have to send in their old faulty batteries first before being able to receive a new replacement. She also insists that Apple Australia has not threatened resellers to be charged for these batteries if the faulty ones aren't returned within 10 days and also claims all country customers will be sent the new battery along with a return postage paid package to return the old battery. She claims they do not have to drop off their faulty units to a reseller in person first. She claims Apple Australia has gone out of its way to inform every reseller of this. The only trouble is that 95% of posts I have read on various forums mailing lists claim the exact opposite is indeed the case. Fiona has asked me to contact the various groups I deal with and to ask that anyone who has been told by resellers that they must provide their old battery first before being eligible for a new replacement battery contact her providing details of those resellers making these claims along with any relevant details/problems with the process. Her contact details are below. Fiona Martin Public Relations Manager Tel: (02) 9641 8230/Mobile: 0421 052 769 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheap Xserves + Spare Parts Kits
Hi everyone, I have access to a number of cheap second hand Dual 2GHz G5 Xserves as well as a number of Spare Parts Kits (spare logic board, fans etc) suitable for these machines. I plan on selling some of these on eBay but before I list them all on eBay I'm sending this message to the various MUGs first to see if either the groups or any of their members may be interested in getting any at a reduced price to what I will be charging on eBay. To give you an idea of the savings I will list below the approximate original Retail Prices based on my memory, the price I will charge on eBay and the price for MUGs. Original retail prices: Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 1 GB Memory nearly $5000 Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 2 GB Memory nearly $6000 Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 4 GB Memory nearly $8000 G5 Xserve Spare Parts Kit nearly $1700 The prices I'll be charging on eBay: Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 1 GB Memory $3200 Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 2 GB Memory $3600 Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 4 GB Memory $4000 G5 Xserve Spare Parts Kit $1000 The price for MUGs their members: Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 1 GB Memory $2800 Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 2 GB Memory $3200 Dual G5 2 GHz Xserve's with 4 GB Memory $3600 G5 Xserve Spare Parts Kit $800 This is a one off special offer. If interested please contact me ASAP and I'll put whatever anyone's interested in aside, otherwise they will all be sold on eBay. You can contact me directly using the mail address in my sig but you only have a few days to decide before I list them on eBay. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: web animations, die die die
It may be worth trying Firefox instead of Safari. There is an extension available which blocks Flash animations. Some readers on the Whirlpool forums also mentioned the added benefit that by blocking these animations, pages like the Telstra homepage load heaps quicker. On occasion up to 500% faster according to some. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: telstra bigpond cable
On 21/2/06 8:06 PM, Hugh Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/. How hard is it to self install bigpond cable wireless modems? ( the website says that self install is not supported for macs?) 2/. Does anyone know what the modem is that bigpond uses? ( there is no clues on the website and I wonder if it is just cable in wireless out, or whether there are also some actual output plugs?) Telstra Wireless is a pain in the butt. Nobody I've heard of with a Mac has had any success getting it set up. If you must use Telstra Cable just get the standard Cable Modem Telstra supplies. They sent me a new Motorola SB5101l-AU Surfboard Cable Modem a few weeks ago in preparation for their speed boosts as of March to 17MB/sec down 256K/sec up speeds. Use a 3rd party Wireless/Router such as a Netgear WG614 or similar that can handle wired or wireless clients. It will work out cheaper and be far superior. If you can get other options other than Telstra consider that also especially if you can get ADSL2+. Telstra is extremely Mac unfriendly and just about every ISP provides more value for your money. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Airport for imacDV
On 19/2/06 11:25 AM, Daniel Kam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while i understand you are after an airport card, another option is to go with the airport express. it plugs into the ethernet port to provide wireless access. the price may end up very similar, judging by ebay listings of the original airport cards ... plus it saves you the hassle and has a warranty. What a brilliantly simple solution. I can't believe I've never considered this as an option. Another added benefit is that instead of getting 11MB/sec like with the original Airport cards you would have 54MB/sec. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Airport for imacDV
With an iMacDV I'm pretty sure that apart from the Airport Card you will also need the Airport Adaptor Card required for this model that the Airport card fits into. Hopefully someone local can help (I'm in Sydney) but if not I saw both these items for sale on eBay today (can't remember when the auction ends) that may be worth checking out. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 19/2/06 12:20 AM, Peter Martinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, My (90) year old mother has an iMacDV in her retirement residence which is now offering broadband via a wireless network. I can connect to their network with my 17 Powerbook ( security is suspect). It's a setup where they wireless to an aerial on your roof then who knows what. I an seeking a retailer who sells wireless card and adapters to suit the iMacDV. Google searches give so many wireless extreme that they (old cards ) are hard to find. Does anyone know of any suppliers locally?
Re: Problem in verifying/repairing Disk Permission
On 22/1/06 1:18 AM, J Philippe Chaperon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will try Ronni's suggestion first and will report further, hopefully with good news The following article on MacFixIt might help and TrimTheFat the program mentioned is available at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28882 Stripping Universal Binaries of Intel code -- a potential troubleshooting procedure for PowerPC Macs It seems that the presence of Intel code in Universal binaries can cause some troubleshooting issues. For instance, a problem we've been covering where the presence of iTunes 6.0.2 causes Disk Utility to be unable to run can be solved by stripping the application of its Intel-based code. This workaround may be especially applicable for Mac OS X 10.3.9 systems. A new application called TrimTheFat is is a simple, silent drop-launch utility to strip the code for the architecture(s) you're not using from a Universal application Meanwhile, MacFixIt reader Frank Kittie offers a terminal based series of commands, with iTunes as the example application: * sudo ditto --rsrc /Applications/iTunes.app /tmp/iTunes.app * sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app * sudo ditto --arch ppc --rsrc /tmp/iTunes.app /Applications/iTunes.app * sudo rm -rf /tmp/iTunes.app Frank writes: This should replace the iTunes application with a copy of itself, the copy containing only PowerPC code. The --arch ppc strips all code for other architectures. For me the resulting application ran fine (in a quick cursory test) and a repair permissions no longer gave me the 'Disk Utility lost connection with Disk Management Tool and cannot continue.' -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Router doubling?
A switch is much better than a hub. Switches are now dead cheap and result in a faster more efficient network. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 16/11/05 4:38 PM, Paul Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Hub or switch? Vich vun is der best? I don't know the difference. Are either passive, like not needing external power? Only two computers would be involved at the end of the run, which is at a guess about 15 metres from the router/modem.
Re: Filemaker
All you have to do is drop the Excel speadsheet onto the Filemaker Application Icon. It will open a wizard to match fields and away you go. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 11/11/05 6:21 PM, thefrogs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another for File maker Is there an easy way to transfer Excel spread sheet to Filemaker 7 other than fully creating the page and going box by box
Re: FileMaker Pro help please
I'm pretty sure you only need to add a container field to your layout in which you can embed your graphic. The choice is whether to have it reference a graphic stored elsewhere or else to import the graphic into the database. If the database is only going to be viewed locally you can get away with a reference (however if you move the graphics location the reference breaks). If you're distributing the database to others you must embed the graphics. I prefer to just embed to avoid possible problems if I later decide to distribute the solution to others. If this was a server version of Filemaker the answer would be different (references are faster on web enabled databases) but in your case you don't have to worry. FM5 databases are compatible with FM6 thus the same extension. Likewise FM7 FM8 are incompatible with earlier versions but are compatible with each other. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 10/11/05 3:15 PM, wyvern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently running FileMaker 6 on 10.3.9 and have a database of info for a group of people and would like to add a small photo of each person to their record. is this possible and if so HELP!!! Also. if i export records or create new dbases etc the file shows as .fp5.. why not fp6?
Re: Muxing and demuxing: Particular pedantics
I went to Newington College which was a Methodist based school and my Latin teacher was also a Jesuit priest. They must have the monopoly on Latin and yes he was pedantic as well:-) -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 4/11/05 11:04 PM, Reg Whitely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is an 'oxymoron', a word I had trouble with as a young boy being taught by particularly pedantic well-educated Jesuit priests, fluent in Latin and Greek.
Re: Safari - secure connections fail
I'm in Sydney on Bigpond Cable and have had exactly the same problem with AppleTalk. I also can't access Apple User Group mailing lists and get some SMTP errors from my ISP when I send mail through my own servers. Somethings up big time. I read somewhere today about some big problems sending to MSN Hotmail using broadband in the US in the last 30 or so hours. Reports were that these broadband ISP's went crazy with all these mails in their relay cues and they have blocked both sites till it is sorted out. Perhaps there's some connection. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 1/11/05 1:14 AM, Rod Lavington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are those that are having problems with iiNet or other ISPs?
Re: ADMIN important
I read a while ago about Mathew leaving his job and saying this may affect the club as far as some of the facilities the club may have access to in the future. I've read other posts by Mathew requesting assistance keeping the web site up to date a while ago (hasn't been updated since June). Now there is the problem of finding a new ISP for WAMUG (I assume this problem will also apply to GMUG as well if they are sharing your server). The thing is Mathew is the Western Australian rep for the MUG Mentor Team (comprised of MUG leaders around Australia) and is subscribed to its mailing list Team Talk. As such perhaps Mathew could put together a list of all the problems WAMUG is having at the moment plus facilities it will need to find and post it to the Team Talk list. I know Mathew probably would prefer to look after things himself and he may be in full control of the situation but I just wanted to let him know if he needs any help we would be happy to do whatever we could to take some of the load off if possible. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: What was your first iTMS purchase?
What free track/tracks are available I couldn't find any free tracks? -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 25/10/05 12:14 PM, James Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being a tightass, my first purchase was the free download... Then it was Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Only cos Russ recommended it!!
Re: What was your first iTMS purchase?
Ignore my previous post, I eventually found it. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Filling an iPod with random albums (not songs)
I think the easiest way is to use a Sound Editing Application to join the separate MP3 tracks into one track. You may even be able to do this in Quicktime (if you have Pro version). Depending on the App you use you may be able to do it natively to the MP3's however many Apps may require you to convert your MP3's to AIFF's before joining tracks and then reimport into iTunes. I do it in reverse where I rip an old Album (Vinyl) as a single AIFF to my hard disk. Occasionally I import this single AIFF into iTunes it appears as a single MP3 track around 40 minutes in length. Normally though I split the AIFF into individual tracks and then import as individual MP3 tracks. The reverse of this as mentioned in the first paragraph should work for what you want to do however. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 18/10/05 7:19 PM, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/2005, at 3:21 PM, Adam Yap wrote: Hey all, I've been puzzling this for a while, trying to look for a solution and I thought I'd ask the group. I have a pretty large music collection, too large to fit onto my 4gb iPod. What I like to do is create smart playlists which put random tracks onto the iPod. However, I find that this puts random tracks, not full albums, which is my preferred way of listening. Does anyone know of a way to put random albums in a playlist as opposed to tracks?
Re: A PC application I can't open
On 13/8/05 2:44 PM, Laurie McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't mention that I'm on 10.3.9 and tried it using QT 7.0.1 I did a Google Search and found the following .mpe File Type:MPEG Movie File Description:Video encoded in MPEG format Open With:Mac / Windows: Apple QuickTime Player; Microsoft Windows Media Player I don't know why Quicktime can't play it but since it is an MPEG Movie format have you tried playing it in VLC. Another thing you could try is using something like ffmpegX and see if you can convert it to a viewable format. Finally Flip4Mac allows you to view WMV. It might work, but unlikely. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: DVD regional codes
I would also go this way. You can even change your System Preferences to open disks in VLC Media Player by default. Although not strictly legal, if he did need to burn a copy he could also use something like MacTheRipper to create a region free disk image for burning. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 8/8/05 2:02 PM, Ronda Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lloyd, If he only wants to play the DVD's. VLC Media Player allows you to play any region DVD WITHOUT firmware. So what you need to do is disable opening of DVD player when a DVD is inserted. Then open VLC and press play. A menu will come up asking you to select a file or disk to open. Select a disc and open the DVD and start playing. There is an 'interesting' read here: Set Your DVD Drive to Region Free http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dezonage/indexGB.html
Info on GMUG
Hi I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about the GMUG site? The last couple of times I've tried visiting the site it was down. Judging by their domain name they are a sub domain being run on the WAMUG server yet the WAMUG site loads fine. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: New Mug
On 20/7/05 6:05 PM, thefrogs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We, at school, Mount Lawley Senior High, have just started up our own MUG- so many more macs than there have been for ages. Can we do anything to link into WAMUG or other groups. Putting links into the school web page would be good. Anything to promote who we are and what we are doing. tom samson Advice always received warmly. Whatever WAMUG could do would be good, however if you would like some other type of publicity/information send me a short note about your group and I'll write a story about it on our site. If you are serious about becoming a MUG (there are Education based MUG's) feel free to ask me any questions you may have and I'll direct you to the appropriate people resources. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: tv capture cards for G5
On 16/7/05 5:09 PM, thefrogs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone out there looked into this I have an Eye TV USB that I would like to not use to free upo a USB port. tom I saw a G5 desktop specked up as an Entertainment Server that had a PCI HD solution. You can check out Wicked Digitals (Sydney based) website to look at the set up and maybe contact them with any questions on the hardware used. http://www.wickeddigital.com.au/*ws4d-db-query-QuickShow.ws4d?G5ESERVE -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: sharing computer
On 9/7/05 9:21 PM, Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are probably silly questions, but I'm still learning. 1) When using wireless connection how do you connect from one computer to another? 2) I can't get the airport express to be seen at all if I plug the printer into it. 3) So, if one laptop (my powerbook) is plugged in to the usb printer, how can my husband, using his ibook share the printer? Please help. Powerbook is 1.67 GHz Power PC G4; 512 MB DDR SDRAM Using tiger Printer is MP780 Have you gone into System Preferences, selected Sharing then ticked Share Printer on the Powerbook. The iBook should then see it. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Shock and horror
On 5/7/05 2:51 PM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what happened to the jobs of those at the Australian call centre? Apple did the same thing to TAC (who service techs call for help). There were some great guys in there who were very knowledgeable and helpful :-( Its great that some Indians have work, but hopefully those who lost their jobs when all these call centres closed here have found work again. From what I have read, this is also happening in the US. And not only call centre work - programming and general tech jobs too. All to make that bottom line look better for the next day's trading on the NASDAQ ;-) Let's hope those who did lose their jobs found work again. Unfortunately most don't. The other big looser is the customer. I'm running a poll on our site on this very issue and although only about a half dozen votes have been submitted so far, everyone who has voted felt the quality of service from India is nowhere near as good as the Australian based support. I personally tried calling about upgrading a dual G4 to an Xserve. The guy on the other end kept thinking I had a Dell instead of a Dual G4 and kept asking if it was a laptop or a desktop. After 10 minutes without getting past this point I hung up in disgust. I ended up buying the Xserve on eBay because I couldn't get any service from Apple. Big companies and government are selling Australia's future down the river. In Sydney when you walk past any government office eg Centrelink, RTA, Tax Office etc you see that between 50-80% look like they're Indians. Companies like Apple, Telstra etc sack local support staff and move everything to India all to save money with no concern for quality of service to customers. I receive around 50-200 phone calls a week from marketing companies based in India (the telephone equivalent to junk mail SPAM) representing Australian companies, a nasty result of VOIP making it so cheap for these international call centres. I saw a report on the ABC around 18 months ago about a company in Australia with the contracts for outsourcing many of these jobs whose directors comprise ex politicians (both sides), lawyers, retired union leaders, public servants and ex company directors. They're scrambling for every dollar they can rake in and have no concern for Australian jobs. I'd like to see a royal commission into this scandal, but it won't happen. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Australian Dashboard Widgets
You can download free Australian Phonebook Widget from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/australianphonebook.html -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Part II streaming video now up
As someone from the other side of the country (Sydney) it was great to see the WAMUG meeting this way. I personally would love to see all Mac User Groups do something similar. Is there some way to find out more about the iLecture System and the steps taken to get the meeting online? It would be great if Macquarie Uni (which also has an iLecture system) could be convinced to host local Mac User Group meetings also. I currently run a number of online Mac User Groups but would love to hold live meetings and post them online as WAMUG has done. A number of other MUG's already hold meetings at Universities, colleges etc and once more people get onto broadband, technologies like this are sure to take off. I've recently brought my first Xserve along with some drive modules to take it to just over a Terabyte of storage. I've also purchased a Xserve Raid with around 1.2 Terabytes, a number of empty hard disk modules (which I'll be adding disks to), PCI Fibre Card and a 25RU Rack. Unfortunately everything is still packed up, until I can finish pouring a slab (it is formed up) to set it up on under the house. Currently I just use a couple of G4 Desktops as servers out of my bedroom. I realise I could never compete with the resources of a university but at least the new system should be a great start. Perhaps I may be able to do something similar to the iLecture system using QuickTime Streaming Server. I even run Lasso so perhaps I could create a front end system like iLecture as well. Any thoughts on considerations involved with such a project would be appreciated. Somehow though I think it may require at least another Xserve if I want to also serve sites, databases and possibly set up Netbooting (for a dozen or so local machines) for my home network. Anyway I digress, all I really need to say is, congratulations to all involved you've done a great job, been a huge inspiration to me and if you don't mind I'd like to write a story about what you've done on the Australian Mac Users Group site as an example of what a Mac User Group is capable of when they truly embrace technology. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Tiger non-delivery
On 4/5/05 6:55 PM, Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, no sign of it here either. I did receive an aplogy and a new date of 4th May for delivery though. I don't know what Apple Australia's position is on this, but in the US those promised Tiger by the 29th who didn't receive it also received an email like yours were initially offered no compensation. However a large number who actually rang up and complained about it were offered as a bonus a choice of either iLife 5, iWorks or something similarly priced for free to make up for the inconvenience. I've heard a lot of country Australia including many parts of WA missed out so it may be worth seeing what Apple's reaction is to offering similar compensation. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Applestores down.... any speculation?
New iMacs and eMacs.
Imac's
17 inch 1.8GHz
A$ 1,999.00
17-inch widescreen LCD
1.8GHz PowerPC G5
600MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load Combo Drive
ATI Radeon 9600
128MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem
17 inch 2GHz
A$ 2,299.00
17-inch widescreen LCD
2GHz PowerPC G5
667MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load 8x SuperDrive double-layer
ATI Radeon 9600
128MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem
20 inch 2GHz
A$ 2,795.00
20-inch widescreen LCD
2GHz PowerPC G5
667MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load 8x SuperDrive double-layer
ATI Radeon 9600
128MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem
All models include AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate,
integrated stereo speakers, Apple Keyboard, Apple Mouse, Gigabit Ethernet,
and 56K internal modem.
Emac's
Combo Drive
A$ 1,299.00
17-inch flat CRT display
1.42GHz PowerPC G4
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo drive
ATI Radeon 9600
64MB video memory
56K internal modem
Super Drive
A$ 1,499.00
17-inch flat CRT display
1.42GHz PowerPC G4
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
160GB Ultra ATA drive
8x SuperDrive
ATI Radeon 9600
64MB video memory
56K internal modem
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All the best
Greg Sharp
President/Webmaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG)
http://australian.macusersgroup.org
On 3/5/05 10:57 PM, Warren Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New iMacs!
On 3 May 2005, at 20:06, Mark Secker wrote:
could it be a makeover or ..{insert rumor here}
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Re: Warcraft 2 Classic
The scuffs may indeed seem minor but they may be at a point on the disk that is critical. Remember the DVD drive is more sensitive to this than CD drive. You can buy disk cleaning kits but I personally have never tried them. As I mentioned before, have you tried running the game from the hard disk with the CD inserted in your old Mac and then try running another copy of the game copied to the hard disk on your eMac and connecting via LAN to your old Mac for network play (by the way if you don't have a switch you'll probably need a crossover cable). You said it works when played from the old Mac and by doing this you'll find out 1/ if it works then your eMac can play Warcraft 2 and the problem is related to read problems on the eMac with the disk. 2/ if it still crashes Classic then it's not the CD but instead some other problem. By the way my son can play it under Classic on his iBook (combo drive). We don't have any eMac's so maybe the difference is there somewhere. Another thing that makes my son's disk unique is he bought it off some guy overseas who had it for sale in an overseas games forum. When it arrived it wasn't even an original but instead a burnt copy. So without meaning to my son had bought a piece of Warez (illegal copy) but at least it did work. But somehow I don't think this is related to your problem. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org On 2/5/05 2:21 AM, Rosie Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The disc has a couple of barely obvious scuffs on it, but I wouldn't say that it is badly scratched. It's really clean. Other Classic applications work okay on this computer. I also have 768 Mb of Ram on this computer, and like Tim, Classic quits when I try to open the game. I guess it must be a disc error. Greg, sounds like you must have the only copy of Warcraft II, that I am aware of, that actually works on an EMac.
Re: An old question about Warcraft 2
I went direct to the source, I asked my 17 year old son. He said 1st copy the program from CD to your computer + any other networked machines you want to allow LAN gaming on. Next start the game when requested insert the CD. Whether playing single player or via LAN one machine must have the original disk inserted. Players on other machines log in to this machine for LAN play but aren't required to have a disk inserted. He has played it on an old 9500 running OS 9.1, a slot load iMac running OS 9.2.2 and more importantly for your info on a G3 800MHz iBook running OS 9.2.2 under Classic. So it does work under Classic. I mentioned to him you couldn't get it to run because it kept requesting you to insert CD even though you already had. He said that happened to him sometimes but all he did was give the CD a real good clean/wipe and then it was recognized again. This may be your problem. Before you say well it worked on my old machine, I have a theory on that. Your old machines have plain CD drives in them where as you mentioned your eMac has a DVD drive. The CD drive may not be as sensitive to marks/scratches etc than the DVD drive is because of the different mechanisms/lasers etc. Cleaning it properly should help. What you could do as an experiment for your own satisfaction is load the program onto both machines but put the CD in the old one. Then connect for a LAN game from the eMac to the old one. If the application runs fine under Classic from the eMac then it will pretty much prove the problem is in the way the DVD drive on the eMac reads the disk which would help substantiate my suspicion. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org On 1/5/05 7:36 PM, Rosie Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier this week I posted a question about Warcraft 2. Thanx to all of the people who offered suggestions about what I could try, to get the game working on my EMac. I tried all of the suggestions offered, unfortunately to no avail. It appears that it is not possible to play this game on current Mac computers. Sadly, I have found a reason not to get rid of my old (boat anchor) Performa. Thanx again for all of your suggestions. Regards Rosie :-)
Re: Warcraft 2 Classic
Can you run other Classic apps okay? How much memory do you have? Remember running under Classic requires more resources since it runs on top of OS X simultaneously. Classic shouldn't close down the way you describe. If Classic closes down there is no way the game is going to work under OS X. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org On 1/5/05 11:43 PM, Rosie Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the game is close to wanting to play, but just can't get there. Is there a way that I can keep the system running in Classic. Whenever I open classic, and try to do anything with the game, OSX over-rides Classic and closes it down. Could this be part of the problem?
Re: Upgrade rant
On 19/4/05 6:50 PM, Vladimir James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago I switched from Macromedia to Adobe products, figuring Adobe had more of what I needed. Went flat out last August, investing in the Adobe CreativeSuite Premium for about $1500. I thought I was all set. Less than 7 months later Adobe signals the latest CS upgrade. About $1300. Just to upgrade. Now, Adobe has swallowed Macromedia. I dread thinking about what the next upgrade will cost. Makes the PantherTiger upgrade look like excellent value. Peanuts. Look on the bright side I have to spend $1000 + on the CS2 upgrade like you but also I'll have to spend $6500+ for Tiger Server Unlimited a new Xserve, $1000 upgrading to Final Cut Studio, Tiger Client upgrades for 10+ client machines around $800 and around $4000 on a new G5 for my new main day to day machine. In the last few months I also spent $1500 upgrading to Filemaker 7 Server Advanced, $400+ upgrading WebStar V server/mailserver software, $500+ upgrading Lasso Server , $600+ on new Gigabit PCI cards, $1500+ on Gigabit Switches, $2500 on a second hand Xserve with 10.3 Unlimited Server, $3000 on a replacement 17 Powerbook for my son for school, $500+ on a Rack for my servers, $100's on cables, patch panels etc + many thousands on other required/desired software, external hard drives etc. I currently have around 13 machines and should get to 15-16 by June and I run everything from home. I also runs 3 not for profits MUG's which limits the number of hours I can actually earn an income (I also run 4 online businesses as a sole trader) so costs like these have a huge impact on my standard of living. Add to this, I'm a sole parent of a 17 year old son (with special needs) fighting for access to my 14 year old daughter who was kidnapped by her mum 5 years ago (despite court orders giving me access) after throwing my son out on the street. She ran off with an aboriginal (who goes by an alias) to the country with my daughter and wont let me have any contact or even let me know what town they live in. It's been years since I've been to a pub, seen a band, had a holiday or eaten out and I basically work around 16-18 hours a day 365 days of the year just to keep my head above water and earn enough to keep fighting (legal fees) to get my daughter back. As they say, Life wasn't meant to be easy.
Re: Mac OS 10.3.9
On 17/4/05 10:42 AM, Tony Cockbain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded the 10.3.9 update and Safari no longer works. On investigation I seem to have Safari 1.3. When I restored version 1.2.4 from my backup everything seems to work as before. Curious. There are other reports of the same problem on the MacFixit site (http://www.macfixit.com). They have traced some of this to a couple of Safari plug ins for most people. If you don't run these plug ins then I'd suggest you run repair permissions.
Re: DVD backup
If all you want to do is backup a non encrypted DVD you can use Apple's inbuilt Disk Utility to make a disk image of the original DVD then you can easily burn single or multiple copies of the image. Solution Free! If you have Toast Titanium (commercial) you can do the same plus a lot more. If the original disk is double layer and your burner isn't you can reduce the size and burn using Popcorn or DVD2One both are commercial. Not that I'm condoning it but DVDBackup (freeware) can be run first on DVD to create unencrypted version, minus copy protection as well as being able to set region eg 0 so it plays on any system no matter what country your in. There are also multiple programs capable of converting media from one format to another if you want to back up different quality versions eg VCD, SVCD, AVI, DivX, MPEG2 etc. Between these tools you should be able to do anything you could on your old PC. All the best Greg On 7/4/05 7:31 PM, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend an easy to use DVD backup program for OSX 10.3 I use DVD Shrink on WinXP but have no DVD burner only copying to hard drive. I would like to use something similar on the Mac - preferably freeware. I have done Google search, but don;t know good from bad and would appreciate advice. Andrew 20 iMac G4 1.25Ghz -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Tricking a PPC 580 into running OS8 CDROMS
My mum still runs an old LC 575. She was running out of space (only had 500MB Drive) so I added a SCSI Zip drive I had lying around and moved her 3rd party apps to zip disks. By clearing this space similarly you should have plenty of room for upgrading to OS 8 on your built in hard disk. A SCSI Zip Disk with a few 100MB disks thrown in on eBay should be no more than $20. Greg Sharp On 14/3/05 4:32 PM, Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually it's IDE hard drive required ... and existing 500Mb is too full to handle OS 8.1 and he needs at least1Gb IDE hard drive ! I have already offered 500Mb if they could be used but it doesn't work out for an all in one like the Performa 580 Anybody with 1 Gb IDE drives ?
Re: Running out of disk space
On 25/2/05 12:06 PM, Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I simply drag the photos (not iPhoto) folder to the new drive I either get a message Some files could not be copied. Do you want to skip these and continue? When I click Yes, files are transferred but about half of them (approx. 800MB worth) haven't been copied across and I can't work out which are on the new drive and which are still on the original drive because the original folder on my existing hard drive contains all of them. I've gone through the image files as best I can and removed and / or in the names of the files. Mind you, I would have thought that if I can have names of files on my HD with such characters, why wouldn't I be able to on the new firewire drive? Because of permissions in OS X you can't just drag files from one disk to another. You will need to use Carbon Copy Cloner or some other similar backup utility to maintain correct permissions. Wipe your firewire drive and try again using one of these utilities. All the best Greg Sharp
Re: iPhoto corrupted was no subject
On 8/2/05 1:42 PM, Inkavannell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an e-Mac, system 10.3.4, 256mb RAM and it's got a curious problem with iPhoto. In the past I have deleted photos and just recently all the files have disappeared but the pictures were still in the frame although I couldn't open them or Slideshow them. Now the pictures have gone as well and when I open iPhoto I get rows of blocks without photos in them. I must have upset something somewhere. Please tell me I don't have to lug my heavy eMac back to the shop.? Hold down command-option-shift and then launch iPhoto. It will ask if you want to rebuild your library. Say yes.and then wait. This should rebuild your iPhoto Library and return things to normal. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Domain name registration question
I was with Melbourne IT when I registered my first domain years ago. Now I have registered many and am much smarter. I use NetRegistry they provide a far superior product financially with no loss in quality. Melbourne IT are just way too dear. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org On 2/2/05 3:32 PM, Toby Oldham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would I register a domain name with Melbourne IT for $140.00 for 2 years when Conexim Australia would do it for $79.00? Or Netregistry for $55.00? I can't discern any differences ... would someone enlighten me?
Re: Downloading music from Destra
On 30/1/05 10:07 AM, John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the apparent illegality of copying music to an iPod really a new problem? We've been doing it for years copying vinyl and CDs to tapes to protect the original or play them in the car. What about the rampant use of the VCR? When I was younger everybody copied records to cassette so they could play them in the car etc but the record companies never cared because the quality was always inferior to the original. By the time beta videos came out the quality had improved markedly and eventually when VHS took over as the most popular format these big companies got together with the manufacturers to put in chips that prevented commercial videos from being recorded. Beta machines never had this chip and you could copy a commercial VHS tape to beta no problems. To kill off beta the big companies insisted that local video shops stop selling blank beta tapes and beta movies. Even today the professionals at tv stations still use beta but for the general public it's a dead technology. They killed off beta to ensure they had total control. Over the last few years the same thing has happened to records. Today audiophiles who appreciate the greater dynamic range of records than cd's are the only people still playing them. Record players are inherently dumb machines with no way to circumvent copying. So once again the big companies got together and phased out record production, ran campaigns denigrating record quality and converted the masses to using cd's instead (remember being told they would last forever and couldn't be scratched with adds showing people hitting them with hammers and then playing them flawlessly in their cd players). The side effect being only those with computers and cd rewriters were able to copy them. Once they realized this loophole they invented the concept of adding copy protection. By the time music downloading from the net became viable and the mp3 format was introduced these companies decided to get involved again. MP3's can't contain copy protection due to limitations in its format, therefore no commercial companies released music in that format instead settling for proprietary formats like AAC, WMA etc. This means for Apple users with iPods in Australia with no ITMS available any copyright material they place on their iPods makes them criminals. DVD's have gone through a similar process. Before consumer DVD Rewriters became available the big companies didn't care, but by the time dvd rewriters were available on computers they introduced copy protection. To date it is easy to circumvent this protection using software however for home users with stand alone recorders this is impossible without getting illegal hacks made to your machine. With the upcoming introduction of blue-ray and similar technologies the big companies will be adding a whole new type of copy protection that they think will be unbreakable. Unfortunately this means we the consumer will be forced to buy brand new DVD recorders since current machines will be incompatible with this new format. With the advent of digital tv this process continues. If you sign up for Foxtel digital and thought you'd be able to copy the Pay Per View channels you'll find you can't because they have implemented copy protection via encryption of the signal. What is also scary is the fact that from July 1 2005 all manufacturers in the US will be adding this new digital tv copy protection mechanisms to all new dvd rewriters, PVR's (like Tivo's), EyeTV's etc. Their plan is to enforce copy protection on digital tv programs as well. Perhaps only movies at first but eventually the tv stations will have total control over what you can record. These huge multinationals pump millions into political parties campaign funds on the understanding the governments will enforce their new regime of copy protection on everything. Personal freedom is a thing of the past. Welcome to a brave new world of total government control sponsored by big business. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Downloading music from Destra
On 29/1/05 3:39 PM, Roger and Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded a track from Destra music http://MusicandGames.destramusic.com (still waiting for Apple to get their act together!) It was in wma format..wouldn't play on Windows Media player on my Imac (Panther) (says it only plays on Windows WMA player!) Message reads The content you are trying to play is restricted to Windows Media Version 7.1 and above running on Windows Operating systems Downloaded Easywma http://www.carrafix.com/EasyWMA/ which is supposed to convert wma to mp3. This programme says it converts the file but it converts the title and nothing in it. Reading further it says Notice that EasyWMA will not convert wma audio files including DRM. For these files, EasyWMA will problably just create an empty file. Don't have a clue what DRM is. Anybody had better success with playing files from Destra? I'm pretty sure that means it has digital protection to stop copying. This won't work on the Mac and thus the need for Windows Media Version 7.1 and above running on Windows Operating systems. Don't waste your money on that site. All the best Greg Sharp
Re: Downloading music from Destra
On 29/1/05 3:55 PM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally if they make it that difficult I'd rather not give them my money. I agree totally. I have no interest in supporting companies that use DRM. I only buy real CD's that give me the ability to copy/backup. I would never sell a copy illegally but if I pay for music I want to be able to use it the way I want not the way Sony or some other greedy multinational company tells me. Legally as far as Australia is concerned just about every person who owns an iPod is a criminal if you copy music to it. Any law that is so unjust as to make you or your kids a criminal just for copying music to an iPod should be fought to the bitter end. All I can say is boycott DRM and let everyone know exactly why you are. These multinationals only care about profits so hit them where it hurts, their bottom line. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Re : Reverse lookup?
On 25/1/05 1:05 PM, Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From your description I wonder though whether it is a person or some sort of automatic dialing machine . A recent trick being used by spammers/marketing people is to use an automated system that will ring up a number at all sorts of times on different days. They analyze the results to create profiles on when you are most likely to be home and then on sell this information to other marketing companies. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Good comparison article
On 19/1/05 7:21 PM, Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I am not slamming the Mac, far from it, but I think each has its place, if I wanted to do DTP, I would not use anything other than a mac as it has ALL the software I need, and it works well, but for serious engineering work, the mac is lacking, I can not find any Xilinx tools for FPGA work, Eagle is still in beta for EDA work and they still want au$1200. I couldn't agree more with what you said. I had someone ask me recently to find an OS X solution for controlling a Step Down Motor for an engineer and couldn't find anything under thousands of dollars yet there were plenty of cheap PC based solutions. Another point you didn't mention was the lousy game support for Mac's. I know there's a few good ones but not many. Most Mac games stink. Probably due to most Macs having under powered graphic cards. As soon as I get more time I'm going to build a Linux box as you described (it's one of the few platforms I haven't used yet). I started on computers around 20 years ago on a DEC VAX Mainframe using punch cards and tape backups. Over the years I've run Amiga's/Commodores, Windows PC's, etc till I got my first Mac in 1994. Now I run around 16 Mac's and will probably add a few more this year. The funny thing is most of these old computers still hold a place in my heart for the fact they could do some things my Mac's couldn't. To me computers are like any other tool. Sometimes to get a job done properly you just have to swap the tools your using to get things done the way you want it to. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Non Reply To Posts
I don't run Communigate Pro on my servers but I sure wish I did. I personally consider it to be the Roll's Royce of E-Mail Servers. As a webmaster I frequent many lists dedicated to running server software and Communigate Pro is held in the highest regard by every webmaster I know. Perhaps any problems may be just the result of some configuration setting but let me assure everyone you wont find better software than Communigate Pro at any cost. You just couldn't imagine how jealous I am. All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group http://australian.macusersgroup.org On 5/1/05 6:29 PM, James Devenish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why the list is run the way it is, but for some reason I get the impression that CommuniGate Pro has a number of quirks in its default configuration.
Re: Wireless Network Products
On 2/1/05 9:00 PM, Andrew Schox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My potential problem is that we have a largish, two storey house, and it would be nice to have access from anywhere in the house (and preferably out near the pool, too!). I've heard of problems with Airports in this regard. Can anyone provide some personal experience with this issue? I am keen to hear of particular products which people have found useful. My son uses an old iBook at 11MB/s wirelessly at school. Even though the school is Windows only I installed ADMITMac and he can log in mount and use the schools Windows 2000 Server network printers. The school has a pile of Belkin Wireless Access Points but their range is 50 metres at best and the signal drops away quickly. At home we have a 3 level house with a pool out back, we used a 111MB/sec Netgear Access Point connected to a wired router at first and my son had no problems accessing our network wirelessly. We have a primary school behind our house and he could access our network from their playing fields. This is at least a 100 metres. We have since added a Netgear 54MB/s Wireless Router to replace our old fixed router and attached a Airport Express to the Stereo and he wanders anywhere in the house always at full signal strength. He tells me it all seems so much better at home compared to school. As far as I know while the a standard is 11MB/s compared to the g standard at 54MB/s, the a standard has a better range. I guess it comes down to what type of card the PC Laptop uses and what you'll put into your other laptops but the faster speed option is the way I'd go. If you find you don't get enough range you can always add another Access Point which are much cheaper than full wireless routers. All the best Greg Sharp
Re: Anyone in Sydney around the 12th.....
I've already booked in to go so I'll let you know all about it. I'll also probably be writing an article and publishing some pictures over at the Australian Mac Users Group site as soon as I get home from the event. All the best Greg Sharp On 30/12/04 5:31 PM, Rod Lavington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://support.apple.com.au/seminars/mwsf2005/ Fingers crossed, eh! Hoep everyone had a great Christmas and a safe New Year!
AppleMac-Q/Lions Club MUG asks for help.
Hi all I'm passing on a request from the AppleMac-Q/Lions Club MUG for help with the Sunami victims in South East Asia. It would be great if all the Australian MUG's could band together to help them. I've written an article concerning their plight on the front page of our site and have offered to co ordinate efforts to help them between the various Australian MUG's. I will be setting up a special forum on our site where I hope the various MUG reps can discuss how they can help. I'll pass on more info later. On a similar note could those members of your group who are currently organising the Computers for Bali program contact me about what their doing and what kind of help they may require and I'll set up a similar article discussion area for you as well. It would be great to get Australian MUG's behind both causes. All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Editing AAC audio files
In my opinion you'd be better of saving original recordings as AIFF. Once in this format practically any decent audio editor should let you edit it how you like. You could then archive the AIFF originals if you wanted and if not you can import them into iTunes and have it do the AAC encoding (set in import preferences) and then delete the originals to save space. I liken attempting to edit a AAC file to trying to edit a word document that had been compressed to a Stuffit file. You shouldn't do it. All the best Greg Sharp On 27/12/04 2:09 PM, Jim Cummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: My kids gave me a great present - radioSHARK, a USB AM/FM radio that lets you record radio in AIFF or AAC format. Now I have the challenge of hacking in to recorded programs to edit out bits and pieces I want to keep and save them to iTunes. For example, that wonderful music show the Daily Planet, which for practical purposes will now only be available online as the all-wise ABC has cut the afternoon show so that it's only going to air at midnight. Until now I've been using Audio Hijack Pro, but this does not not read AAC format and I don't particularly want to fill up my hard disc with uncompressed AIFF files. I've had a look at Media Rage but although it deals with a variety of formats it doesn't seem to offer the facility of hacking in to cut out segments. Any suggestions? If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake (jazz pianist), age 100. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Problem sending emails to list
Hi all One of your members Paul Chong contacted me off list. He is receiving emails from the WAMUG list but his postings are being returned with the message that the list only accepts plain text and his messages are multipart. He is trying to post an add. He is using Eudora 5.1 on Power Mac 7600/120. I don't use Eudora so could someone who does post instructions for him on how to set his outgoing mail to plaintext here. Since he is receiving WAMUG emails he'll get the answer he needs straight away. Thanks Greg Sharp
Suspicious email
I just received an email claiming to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a Subject called Hi (which is commonly used as a title for viruses) and the body just said Try this, or nothing! +++ Attachment: No Virus found +++ Bitdefender AntiVirus - www.bitdefender.com Being suspicious I didn't open the attachment called game_xxo.zip which was just 39k in size. Sure enough when I checked the headers they appear to be forged claiming to have been Received: from australian.macusersgroup.org (dialup-153.127.221.203.acc04-stge-pth.comindico.com.au [203.221.127.153]) BY mail.e4me.net.au ([192.168.0.20]) WITH ESMTP (4D WebSTAR V Mail (5.3.4)); Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:56:56 +1100 The trouble is australian.macusersgroup.org's mail server is not on a dialip account from comindico but hosted by me with a Cable account. This had been faked. Obviously an attempt to try and get around my servers IP Allow/Deny set up. What can be learned from this. Even if an email at first appears to be from trusted parties if you see something that just doesn't seem right then stop what your doing and make some investigations on the headers of your email before opening any attachments. I'm glad I did. My first impulse was to open it assuming someone had sent me some info from the WAMUG list but luckily my brain kicked in before I did something silly. All the best Greg Sharp
10% OFF PICA SOFTWARE FOR MUGS
I've just organised a deal with PICA Software where bye all Australian Mac User Group members are now entitled to a 10% discount on their entire range of software. They are the largest distributor of Macintosh Software in Australia. Such as - * Suitcase Server X1 * StuffIt Deluxe 9 * Diskwarrior 3.0.2 * Shrek 2: The Game * Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Plus hundreds of other titles. This deal is specifically for Mac User Group members and when you order you specify that you've seen the offer on the Australian Mac User Group site and inform them what group your from and that your claiming the 10% discount. Below is PICA's contact info PICA Software Pty LtdACN 053 857 275 22 Aintree StreetPhone: +61 3 9388 9588 Brunswick East VIC 3057 AustraliaFax: +61 3 9388 9788 Email Addresses:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] World Wide Web:http://www.pica.com.au From now on the Australian Mac Users Group will be acting as a go between PICA the various Australian groups (PICA will be adding a link to the Australian Mac Users Group site in relation to this offer in the next few weeks on their index page). We have their pricelists available for downloads and if you sign up for a free membership you will be able to log on to the Members Forum and view our Special Deals for MUG's area (in the future we hope to add many other deals). I will get back to you all soon with more info. By the way if any companies on your list who currently offer special deals for WAMUG members would also like to make these offers to other MUG's please let me know and I'll have you listed also. All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Merry Xmas from the Australian Mac Users Group
Hi Everyone, I just want to wish everyone at WAMUG a wonderful Xmas and a Happy New Year from the Australian Mac Users Group and wish you all much success in the coming year. Keep up the great work. All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: Computer Name
All you have to do is open System Preferences and select Sharing. You can change the computers name from that panel. All the best Greg Sharp On 20/12/04 11:57 AM, Diana Graham Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to change the computer name? I reinstalled OSX from the Panther CD, I skipped the registration page as I had already registered. The only information I had to provide was my name, short name and password. No place for the computer name, the default is DIANA-STEVENS-C, which I hate. If I had registered Panther again would it have let me name the computer? I would reinstall Panther (and update to 10.3.7 again) in order to change the name. But I don't want to go back to OS 10.1, which came with the G4 Quicksilver, as it installs OS 9 at the same time and I want it on a separate partition. Diana -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Editing non-standard size movies
I agree with Martin that QuickTime Pro is the best solution though I'd suggest reading QuickTime's online help to get a better understanding. Most professional authoring programs or compression programs should also be capable but cost much more. Greg Sharp On 16/12/04 1:11 PM, Martin Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My favourite is: - Quicktime Pro ($US29) http://www.apple.com/quicktime/buy/
Re: Dreamweaver Permissions - OSX
Firstly what type of server is it not all handle permissions of uploaded files the same. Possibly using a program such as Rbrowser which allows setting permissions on the server of FTP'd files through a GUI may work. Another possibility would be to try and set up WebDAV on the server. Dreamweaver MX MX2004 supports this and this way permissions aren't changed on upload. Another method is to use a Folder Action Script if the servers running OS X and have it set so any files uploaded to a particular folder or recursive folders are set to the right permissions. All of these suggestions apart from the first require you to either have Admin access to the server or a very co operative ISP. All the best Greg Sharp On 16/12/04 7:24 AM, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Aside: Third attempt to send this message - someone decided to black-list the Optus firewall...] Have a situation where a web-site has been moved around between several computers during its development and when it has been approved, it gets uploaded to an ftp site. The upload succeeds, but the file permissions are completely stuffed. This means that some files will have appropriate permissions, and some will not allow any access to anyone at all. Directories are similarly affected. Can anyone point to why this is and how it gets to be fixed? (Yes I'm familiar with the chmod command, I was hoping for a more automated solution.)
Re: Hiding email address
The easiest way is to make a graphic with your email address and post the graphic on the site instead of a text based email address. Problem with this though is that people have to manually enter address into their email client. There is software available that puts your email address in a non spider friendly format. Though I'm not sure if there are freeware programs or not. You can also if you know a bit of javascript design solutions that put the different sections of your email address into vars that can be called by functions to reconstruct the right email address. I would have to do a search through some of my webservers mailing lists to get the code though. Now days programs like Dreamweaver MX 2004 have extensions available to do this type of thing as well. I'm sure there are other methods as well depending on the software you have available. What program/method do you use for making web pages as this may determine the best method for you. All the best Greg Sharp On 11/12/04 4:55 PM, P.Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we are on the subject I remember a posting years ago that had a clever way to hide an email address displayed on a web site. Since leaving iinet the amount of spam on my personal account has dropped but I get heaps from my web site address. Does anyone know or remember how to disguise an address from the robots? Peter Bull -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Was: Wanted Startup Disk for Apple Iic or e now AppleWorks Startup Program
It took a lot longer to organise than I thought it would, but at last it appears everything has been sorted out as far as sourcing the required disks. I'd like to thank everybody who offered help both on list and privately. This episode demonstrated one of the great reasons for belonging to a Mac User Group. In the beginning this invalid pensioner had her AppleWorks Startup disk destroyed by her grandkids. As a housebound pensioner one of her only means of entertainment (her old Apple Iic) couldn't be used. She lives in Sydney and when she called Apple they gave her the phone numbers to all 3 of the Sydney Mac User Groups. The first 2 she rang laughed and said no way they would be able to help so by the time she called the Sydney Mac Users Group which I also run and I heard her story I wanted to help. I also run the Australian Mac Users Group (whose aim is to help ALL Australian Mac User Groups and Mac users) and try to monitor/get involved with all the various Mac Groups in Australia. This is where WAMUG comes in. Of all the Australian groups I feel WAMUG has the best email list and a great membership based on my observations. It may seem strange with me being in Sydney but WAMUG was my first choice in seeking help. Despite a number of hick ups I got numerous offers of help. I'd like to publicly thank James/Hans Kurt, John Weekes, Andrew Nielson for their offers Kathy Quinlan, Rod, Robert Howells, Peter Hinchcliffe, Reg Whitely, Tom Lewis, Rod Finlay, Jon Davison for their suggestions (hope I didn't miss anyone) and James Fraser for eventually copying the disks and contacting the lady about the disks. The interesting thing is that James Fraser lives in Tasmania. It's funny that a Sydney Group went to a Western Australian Group to be helped by a Tasmanian. This whole process shows what can be achieved when Mac Users get together. It might seem minor to most people but to the lady involved it was a small miracle. All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
Re: quicktime or firefox bad?
Have you tried going into Firefox's Preferences. Under the downloads section you can set actions for downloaded files. If something is confused causing Quicktime to be the default then explicitly selecting your Real Player app here may help. Greg Sharp
Re: iTunes Music Store - Can't Browse
I had the same result when I tried accessing iTunes Store with latest version of iTunes. I kept choosing US and kept getting the error message. I then hit the browse button (looks a bit like an eye) in the top right corner of the window and I was then able to browse the store. All the best Greg Sharp
Re: Was: Wanted Startup Disk for Apple Iic or e now AppleworksStartup Program
I'll have to get back to the lady again to confirm but I have had a number of offers so I'm sure I should be able to sort this out. From my reading Appleworks first came out in 1983 and went through many incarnations eg v1.2, v1.3, v2 . From version 3 Claris was formed to look after it up until recently when Appleworks went back to Apple's direct control. I imagine this lady is after one of the version 1 or 2 versions since I think by v3 it went to 3 1/2 inch disks (though 5.25 inch disks could be specially ordered) but I could end up being proved wrong. Unfortunately my first Mac was an LC575. Prior to this I had been using punch cards on a DEC VAX System. After getting the LC575 I could never face the thought of going back to anything more primitive. Now days I even find my G4's struggling to keep up with my needs and will soon have to upgrade a number of them to G5's. I guess whatever you use comes down to what you want to do. I run about 13 Macs on my home network and I'm always complaining about needing more. Thanks Greg Sharp On 18/11/04 11:54 AM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the Americans like to say, 'Back in the day' before the Mac, the Apple II series used AppleWorks. I think once the Mac came on the scene, AppleWorks may have been spun off into its own division and became Clarisworks. By the time version 5 came around, the software had reverted back to Appleworks. From memory there was a text version for the II c/e series, and a graphic version for the IIGS. If I am wrong, can the Apple historians on the list please correct me! Seeya Rod!
Was: Wanted Startup Disk for Apple Iic or e now Appleworks Startup Program
I'm sorry for all the hassle everyone but can you please IGNORE my previous posts. I got back to the lady and queried her over a point raised by someone on the lists where it was suggested doesn't she mean AppleWorks Startup with Appleworks program on other side not System Startup since she claims it's a double sided disk because the System Disk is only single sided. Sure enough she had given me the wrong info. So what I'm looking for is actually a 5.25 inch Appleworks Program Disk on one side and Appleworks Startup on the other. Reading back to me from her damaged original disk it stated for 2e or 2c ProDOS etc691-007-B I'm sorry for the inconvenience especially to those who responded on and off list but still hope somebody can help. Thanks Greg Sharp
Re: iPod/iTalk voice recording
I don't know if this applies but some info from the iPodLounge site forums (though I don't know how accurate this is)/ It seems the italk requires a Dynamic microphone, not a condenser mic. Many others reported problems with external mics and there were claims Griffin had acknowledged the problem. I went to Griffins site but could find no mention. It may be worth contacting their support. All the best Greg Sharp On 17/11/04 10:38 PM, Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul I have the plug to go into iTalk. The amp is for an audience. There is an output on the amp which works when plugged into a Windows laptop but not when plugged into iTalk/iPod. I have recorded successfully so far by recording from the PA speaker but there is a lot of background noise. I need to get a 'clean' sound by recording from the amp. I am going to try using another line from the amp to the iPod. Thanks for your help Paul, much appreciated. Best wishes edward On 17/11/2004, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Hi Edward By the way Griffin has made this I suppose they expect a mic plugged directly into the iTalk. This would probably only require a small adapter for the end of your microphone lead so it can plug into the iTalk's external mic input - 3.5mm mini-jack. Is there a reason why you need to use the amp? Apart from playing it *at* the iTalk that is;) Is the amp for an audience? If you do need to use it, there needs to be an output on the amp. All you would need then is a cable with suitable ends to go between the amp and the iTalk. If you have tried the above to no avail then the problem may be in the vicinity of the iPod/iTalk itself. I take it you have recorded successfully with the built-in mic in the iTalk. Is there control software for the iTalk? Maybe you need to select the external mic port or some such. Out of my league there, I try not to think about iPods, I dont know much about G5s either;) Also, try plugging in a known good source before you go too much further. Someones computer mic or similar that is working in another device. Good luck Paul PS searching formums (fora?) can sometimes help fill gaps too -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Wanted Startup Disk for Apple Iic or e
I feel a right goose. I've cleaned up the subject line. Teach me to make posts while watching Futurama. All the best Greg Sharp On 15/11/04 10:01 AM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you kinda missed the point on Andrew's post Greg. Have another look at your subject line..
Anyone know anything about Newtons?
Below is a copy of an email I got from a guy in Canberra. He has been unable to find any repairers in the ACT willing to work on his Newton. I realize your group is the other side of the country but I was hoping someone may be able to help. If anyone can help or knows someone who can please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Greg Sharp G'day Greg! My thanks for your quick reply. I have two Mesagepad 120s. One with sys 1.3 in mint condition and a 2.0 with a scratched screen. I would like the motherboard from the 2.0 and put into the case of the 1.3. I have the disassemble instructions but am not game enough to attempt it myself. Any assistance you can give me to find a skilled person would be gratefully appreciated. Obviously I am willing to pay for the work and necessary postage. Thank you again for your time and assistance. Regards, Peter
Wanted Startup Dick for Apple Iic or e
Hi all Sorry to be a pain but I've been asked if I could try and find a Startup Disk for an Apple Iic (Apple Iie would also work). This is an old double sided 5.25 inch floppy (Disk Utilities on other side). Either an original or a copy doesn't matter. The files are free on Apple's site but I have no machine old enough to come with a 5.25 inch drive so I can't make up a disk for this lady. She is a physically handicapped pensioner and her old Apple IIc is her main entertainment. Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you can help. She will pay postage and any costs. Thanks Greg Sharp
Re: Reading CD from PC burn
Hi I downloaded Ragtime Solo (free version) to see if I could find a way. On page 334 of RagTime 5 Reference.pdf it states, This paper format dialog box panel is only available under Mac OS and only for RagTime 5layout and master layout components. There's a few more lines of text and a diagram. A little further on it shows an icon that looks like 2 horizontal arrows on top of each other facing opposite directions with a selection box beside it that sets landscape view. If you have troubles finding this setting you can read about it in more detail in the manual I mentioned above. If you can't find the manual it can be downloaded free from Ragtimes site or else contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll organize sending you a copy as an attachment or I can load it on one of my ftp servers for you. If you still have trouble one of my customers is the Marketing guy for the Australian distributor down in Leeton near Griffith, so he may be able to help find out the best way to do this. It appears from my brief reading you can also set these settings indepenently for pdf output and another option to make it match your printers settings. It actually appears to be a pretty cool program with lots of features but the settings are confusing. Hope this helps Greg Sharp On 14/11/04 9:53 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, I took on your suggestion and a simple text document was sent by email in landscape format and it appeared in portrait. I can diminish the image size so that the whole page is eventually visible but it is too small to work with. I checked the application default settings and there appears to no way that I can set the layout in landscape. Any other thoughts? Merv
Re: Wanted Startup Dick for Apple Iic or e
If you know the name of one of these places or contact details that would be great. Another WAMugger is also checking if they have a copy but if not your info could be essential. Thanks Greg Sharp On 15/11/04 12:55 AM, Andrew Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm led to believe that such an item might be procured in a brown paper package from a variety of stores in Fyshwick in the ACT ;-) -- Andrew Nielsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reading CD from PC burn
What you could do is try sending a Ragtime file from the PC to Mac as an email attachment and see if you have the same problem. This should at least isolate whether it's a Ragtime problem or related to the burn process. Greg Sharp On 13/11/04 1:05 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Ragtime 5.6.4 on my iMac 10.2 at home. I can burn files to a CD using Toast and Hybrid format and these can be read with Ragtime 5.6 on a PC at the office whether in portrait or landscape layout. However, when a Ragtime document in landscape is burned to a CD by the PC running XP I can only see the left hand half of the landscape page on my iMac at home. The PC software for burning on the PC is the standard software built in as part of the XP operating system. One of my son's who also drives a PC running XP can see the total file. He saved the document in ISO format using NERO and the same problem occurred on the iMac. I have only tried this for Ragtime so I do not know whether other applications using landscape produce the same result. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, is there a solution? Merv
Re: strange Safari behaviour
Most people use their ISP's DNS as this provides shorter ping times and frequent requests are cached for quicker responses. However this doesn't mean you can't use another DNS server and I think you can use any you can get an IP for whatever the ISP. DNS servers are set to relay requests to and from anywhere so they should always be available to the public as long as they're not behind a router for use on a private network (some people set up their own DNS servers on their network to speed up serving and allow for greater control). You can even in your network settings allocate one of your ISP's DNS servers as well as a second DNS server that can be somewhere else. This might not fix the problem but at least would provide a fallback in case the problem is in any way related to your ISP. All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group On 9/11/04 7:08 PM, Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really ... generally you'll want to pick up your ISPs settings rather than specify them explicitly. That way, if your ISP changes DNS servers your computer just picks up the change rather than stops working. For troubleshooting a specific problem, however, it may be worth explicitly configuring them.
Re: (Forcing?) Permissions on Web Server
It may also be worthwhile looking up info on Apple's site about Folder Action Scripts . This should allow for an action where all files uploaded to that folder automatically have their permissions changed to whatever you need. I haven't used this method but others on my servers mail list have and say it works fine. I imagine there's a few ways you could approach this. Greg On 8/11/04 10:54 PM, James Devenish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:45:52PM +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: A PC here in the office uploads (FTPs) a webcam image to an OS X machine (webserver) with -rw-r- permissions. This image can't be seen when used in a HTML document. (a) Fix the webcam software (which you have ruled out). (b) Change the group ownership of the file to whatever group the webserver runs as. You may also need to change the group ownership of the enclosing directory to make it stick (and set `chmod g+s .`, if necessary for the filesystem/file functions used with your FTP). -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: strange Safari behaviour
I also have found the problem still exits when I visited Version Tracker using Safari. I think Apple may have fixed one particular problem but there appears to be a bigger problem that can effect anyone based on similar reports from Linux Windows users. It might not be widespread but something is happening behind the scenes All the best Greg On 7/11/04 4:45 PM, Adam Lippiatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated the MacOS to 10.3.6 and am still getting the double entry problem with Safari. Adam
Re: strange Safari behaviour
My Netgear WGR614 router is set to automatically use my ISP's DNS and all my LAN machines have my ISP's DNS set manually on each machine. Greg On 7/11/04 5:41 PM, Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, AS a matter of interest do the people who are still having trouble have the DNS numbers of their ISP inserted in their Network TCP/ IP panel Bob
Re: iPod/iTalk voice recording
I'd try just recording through the iTalk's built in microphone to see if it's working properly first. If that works then try plugging the external mike into the iTalk and see if it still works. This won't fix the problem but it will isolate where the problem may be. Is it essential that the mike goes through an external amp first? Greg Sharp Webmaster/President Australian Mac Users Group On 2/11/04 6:32 PM, Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to record a voice using an external mic into an amp and then line out to iPod via iTalk. There is only silence when I record. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks and Best wishes edward -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: DVDs
That's the way I'd do it too but be aware iDVD unlike DVD Studio Pro doesn't work with external DVD burners. However there is a hack available to allow this. The program is called Hpfurz and you can either get it from Version Tracker or if you like on our site at http://australian.macusersgroup.org I have an article on how to use it (you'll find it in our Most Read section of our homepage plus the program itself in our downloads area under Mods Hacks). I haven't used this as I have a built in Superdrive so there's no guarantees but at least it's worth knowing about. Greg Sharp Australian Mac Users Group On 28/10/04 9:35 PM, James / Hans Kunz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: best is use imovie or compressor to export/compress the file into m2v = mpeg2 format, then idvd will accept it and reformat the file into piece also creates special folders: audio_ts video_ts these 2 folders contain quite a number of .bub, .ifo. .vob files which are in fact content list your mpeg2 file in bits pieces depending on movie produced the audio_ts folder may remain empty good luck James
Request for Reseller Details
Hi all I realize Apple has their official Reseller Locator on their site but they don't cover resellers who don't meet their criteria. From reading previous posts to this list I'm sure you know people who do a great job both for Mac users and groups but can't get listed. I've set up a reseller locator on my Australian Mac Users Group site and would like to get these people included. I don't want to replicate Apples list but I do want good resellers listed. If anyone knows of people who they think should be listed could they please email me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the emails the Resellers name or shop name whichever is appropriate along with their full address (including postcode) ,phone number and website address. If you don't know all the details any info would be a help. Thanks in advance Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group
Re: Recording DVD Sound
Hi A program such as Audio Hijack Pro would do what you want All the best Greg On 29/8/04 1:45 AM, Brock Woolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to try and record some DVD sound samples off a DVD movie, so I can make a remix with samples from a movie. I can record by playing the DVD in the drive, then recording through the microphone but this make some really bad quality recordings with static. I was wondering if there is a program out there that can capture audio from a DVD as it plays INTERNALLY. Or if I can extract the audio by some other means.. P.S. If this helps I have a G4 iBook, 1.2GHz, 256MB, 60GB HD, Combo Drive, 1x FireWire, 2x USB 2.0 ports. Thanks in advance - Brock -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Good dealer - bad dealer
Hi Tim Before any surveys are run we would really need to open up discussions on the topic. I agree that there are all types of resellers like Daniel who would be shut out of competition if we weren't careful about doing this just right. One solution I see is having various categories eg Best Personal Service, Best Supporter of MUG's, Best Range of Products, etc This would ensure all the people who deserve recognition get it. Apple Resellers have their own awards for most sales and other corporate type criteria. The awards should be kept separate from corporate dollars and truly display the choices of actual MUG members. As Mathew pointed out If nothing else, it would make the resellers more receptive to the goals of MUGs. I also see it as a chance for all the Australian Mac User Groups to work together and that has to be good for everyone. Thanks Greg Sharp Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/8/04 12:45 AM, Tim Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm one of the obviously large band of Macwizardry supporters, but I'd like to add a note of caution about the polling to ensure, pardon the pun, apples are compared with apples. One of Daniel's strengths as I have experienced, is his personalised service coming to home or office when needed. It's great. No question. But as far as I know he doesn't have a showroom or staff. Now this isn't a weakness if people know 'kind of' what they want. But what about people who need to 'see' what is on offer from Apple and need to go into a shop, or are new to Apple customers? Whilst it is entirely fair to expect a high level of personalised service and quality advice from a shop, it's a bit tough on them to be compared with someone who doesn't have the shop part of the business to contend with. I might be digging myself a hole here, but all I am trying to point out is that whatever survey is done needs to be fair to the various styles of businesses around. We need the shops, and we need the Daniels. Let the survey reflect that - especially if it's going to be a nationwide exercise. Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: wireless networking possible for these three?
On 7/7/04 5:50 PM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A thought from anyone knowledgeable... Is it possible to wirelessly network a g3, and two early model 233mhz imacs, all running 9.2? Well, it would have been easier until Lucent EOL'd the original Airport cards... You might still be able to purchase them somewhere... You don't say which G3. Some had built in Airport antennas, but would also need a card. As to sharing the printer, can you currently share the printer under 9.2? If not then don't expect it to work wirelessly. Have fun, Shay Apart from the problem with original Airport Cards reaching end of line status (though still available on eBay) I don't think old iMac 233's even have anywhere to put them. I think this capability was added to later models only (iMac 266's onwards). The G3 doesn't either but I think there are 3rd party solutions available using a spare PCI slot. All up though probably impossible to do what you want with that combination of Mac's. Sorry to bear the bad news. Greg Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: Sorry Shay I sent this reply originally to you instead of list by mistake.
Request for contact details
Hi I'm confirming the details of all the Australian Mac User Groups so Apple can correct incorrect details on their site and I am also publishing these new details on a site I have set up to promote local groups at http://australian.macusersgroup.org Could someone confirm that your groups details below are still correct. Western Australia Mac UG Contact; Matthew Healy Phone: 0414 827 915 fax: (08) 9332 8447 Fee: $30 annual (student and family discounts) Meetings: 1st Tuesday of each month (except January) Curtin University, Bentley Campus email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.wamug.org.au/ Also does your group have an email address that the public can reach to contact your group rather than making them join your list to get messages to your group. If so that address would be a much more suitable email contact address. I had to join your list to be able to get a message to this group to try and find out the required information. By the way does anyone know if the group below is still in existence. It appears dead but there is a link on their site to your groups list. Nothing has been posted on their site for nearly 12 months. Geraldton Macintosh User Group Contact; Reg Whitely Phone: (08) 9965 3449 fax: (08) 9965 3449 Fee: Gold coin donation Meetings: Monthly/bi-monthly (Saturday) Geraldton 6530 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmug/ Thanks Greg Sharp Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Request for contact details
Thanks for the responses. Matt has provided latest info to me off list. Thanks Greg Sharp
