Re: Test... Unsubscribe...
Hmm... I should not see this return via the list, as I have unsubscribed... although I didn't receive a confirmation, so I am not 100% sure that it worked. I am off for 3 months break, so won't be needing the feed. It's been interesting as an ex-Mac user, watching the enthusiasm you all have for Mac's. Cheers, Mark Scholmann
Re: Mactherapy spam?
If it didn't mention anything of a commercial nature... then they may slip past the Spam Act. But, if the message was unsolicitated and the acquisition of the addresses could be considered via address-harvesting software then that would be bad. Luckily you know the person involved.:-):-( Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Ronda Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 10:53 Subject: Re: Mactherapy spam? On 01/06/2004, at 10:44 AM, Jude wrote: Hi all Just wondering if anyone else got notice from mactherapy.com about their mailing list membership? As far as I recall I have never subscribed to it and I would not use this email addy if I did. Also, the website seems to have only been in operation for a few days. I was wondering if the addresses were harvested out of WAMUG, since this would assure them of mac customers. Opt-out, as Bart would say, both sucks and blows. Yes Jude, I received an email from them and also have never subscribed as far as I know to their mailing list. Sounds suspiciously like 'spam' to me. Cheers, Ronni -- 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: memories...
I am sorry to show my past interests... but, the Classic Mac! Huh! Try the Commodore Vic-20, now that was the start of it all. :-) Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 21 May 2004 11:07 Subject: Re: memories... I'll think I'll turn on my se/30 or Mac plus on for some memories. When things where just simple. I would love to go back in time and start the Macintosh journey all over again. Yeah! One 400k floppy drive. System on one floppy, compiler on another, project on a third. Compile the project. Spend 20 mins swapping floppies. Fun :-) Rob \ yeh but you could have those really really cool Startrek turbo lift door whoosh noises when you opened an application and the photon torpedo noises when you ejected a disk I had a engineer friend who kept his SE30 right up until the late 90's because his work supplied PC couldn't do that (I hate Trekies - I come from a family of them so I know what they are really like though at least none have learnt Klingon) -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works) -- 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: Deleting mail which does not turn up in trash folder
Does it have a delete mail immediately option , or something like it ? Mark S - Original Message - From: Adam Lippiatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2004 7:44 Subject: Deleting mail which does not turn up in trash folder Hi When I delete mail (drafts of my own messages only it seems) in Mail it just goes, but not into the trash folder. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks Adam -- 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: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...
Sounds like you better 'sell' the 'effect' to the client real quick!! :-) Antony : ...yeah, but seriously... this is the final, and the lettering, hmm, I just thought it matched the background better... ? Client : pause ok... yes, I can see what you're saying now... great! Good luck, Mark S - Original Message - From: Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:56 Subject: Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts... the export preset press uses acrobat 4 format. change this to version 5 (or later, if you are using CS i guess). v5 handles transparency much better methinks Have tried this without luck. Went to the printers (OfficeWorks are closest to me and are fine for a few A4 / A3 copies rather than giant runs) with at least 4 different versions of the art : different acrobat formats, transparency settings, recreated the original logo for importing - all with the same effect... -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = == -- 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: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...
I am not an InDesign expert (as only used once), but I believe you should be able open the Illustrator file directly in InDesign (native, don't PDF it across??). As a work around, you should be able to open the Illustrator native file in Photoshop (don't PDF it) and set the incoming opening pixel size to a suitable DPI for output and then save as a PSD photoshop image. It will retain the transparency and can then be opened into InDesign (as PSD, not PDF) for positioning. Good luck, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Denise Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:02 Subject: Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts... on 5/5/04 7:55 PM, Antony N. Lord at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to bring all my graphic design work up a notch. Almost all the printing companies I work with required PDF format files for output. Most of my layout work (posters and business cards) I do in InDesign an use the Press PDF export preset. I have one fairly major problem : * Some PDFs display correctly but don't print as they look Example I have been supplied with a logo in EPS format. Its white lettering on what appears to be a transparent background (when viewed in Illustrator). I don't seem to be able to get it to appear / behave as white lettering on a transparent background when I place it in InDesign. To work around I open and rasterize it in Photoshop and save it as a single layer (transparent background) in PDF format. It places in InDesign and displays properly. However when I print I get a variety of effects - mostly cutouts (box shape around the lettering) or burn throughs. I suspect something to do with transparency settings? I've trawled the help files (how I miss a big set of dead tree manuals) and googled but can't seem to work it out. Any design professionals out there with any ideas? I'd be happy to forward an example culprit PDF. Cheers, Antony. Hi Antony, Was very interested to read your message the subsequent suggestions from James Darren. I work with Quark also send the occasional file as a PDF to printers but actually prefer to burn to CD and save as EPS or native Quark post to printer. Not a good solution but safer. I too don't trust PDF's. Regarding the background. Seems to me like you need to convert the lettering to a clipping path (in Photoshop). This is the only way to remove those white backgrounds that come into all PSD files saved for export. Go to Help in PSD and type in Clipping Path or go to: file:///HARD%20DRIVE/Graphics/Adobe%20Photoshop%207/Help/help.html Could you send me the file? Good luck I'll be interested to see how you get on. Denise Williams-Photographer Ph/fax 08- 9447 3468 Mob 0417 184592 -- 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: SMTP blocking by ISPs at the moment?
Yes... in a way. Some ISP's (or all?, not 100% sure) will not allow you to send via their outgoing mail server (SMTP) if you are not logged in through their network (ie. dialup, etc). I logged on to iiNet the other day via modem, and set up OE to access an account with ca.com.au. Incoming (POP3) was okay, but outgoing (SMTP) was not allowed due to this reason. It stops malicious persons from redirecting through ISP's for spamming and virus purposes (without being logged in which could be traced). Mark S - Original Message - From: Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:19 Subject: SMTP blocking by ISPs at the moment? Hi All! Does anyone know (especially any ISPs on this list) whether other smtps are being blocked by ISPs eg smtp.mac.com does not work through my iiNet account, but sending a mac.com email through mail.m.iinet.net.au works fine. Just trying to troubleshoot my mac.com and ozmac.com email addresses! I hate PC viruses! Seeya Rod! -- 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: Win2K needs visible file extensions
There's a Folder feature (tick box, see Properties of Folders) that says show extensions or not Mark S. - Original Message - From: Oldham, Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:03 Subject: Win2K needs visible file extensions Metadata wil be the death of me yet. Does anyone know (outside of Maclink Plus) if there's a way of re-writing files en masse so they display their file extension? Windows 2000 doesn't recognise the mac files I have without visible file extensions - it gives them a generic windows icon. If a file has a .extension it displays the file correctly, but the freaking thing then has the gall to _hide_ the file extension on the windows box. Talk about two faced. I need the files to display correctly for my users who panic when they can't visuallly recognise their files. Maclink Plus Deluxe can translate files and attach file extensions, but it changes the creation date in doing so, which once again confuses users. Any thoughts, once again, gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Tobes. -- 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: CF card for Canon digital
Chris, is it due to the Mac placing deleted files in the trashcan ? If so, he may need to empty the trash on the computer whilst the card is connected ? Mark S. - Original Message - From: Chris Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 30 April 2004 7:44 Subject: CF card for Canon digital Hi All A collegue of mine, presently doing whale and bird surveys on a ship 150km off the coast of West Africa has a slight problem with the decreasing space on the 256 mb CF card he is using with a Canon D60. If he deletes the files from the card while it is in the mac they still show up when the card is put back in the camera, and if he deletes them in the Canon, it doesnt show or delete pics from older files. The memory keeps decreasing even though he has 'deleted' all pics from all folders on the card!?? Can someone with similar experience please help me out, so I can pass the info on to him. kind regards and thanks for any help Chris -- 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: digital cameras
Just noticed that Olympus are now providing (since 1 April,2004) world wide warranty on all Digital Cameras. If you move around a lot, it be an issue (I think mentioned in the first messages) Mark S - Original Message - From: Paul Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 30 April 2004 8:40 Subject: Re: digital cameras One extra bit of advice on choosing a digital camera - check what sort of battery it has. Lithium-Ion seems to be the best. This was a factor in my choice of Pentax, Many popular brands seem to have lesser types. Kind regards, Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Photo Scanner suggestions
Not sure of that scanner but, I am interested in alternative 35mm slide negative scanning, as I find the scanners don't reproduce them very well at all. I have previously seen a vertical standing image capture/camera? device, but don't remember the name ? I have heard of 4000 lpi scanners that are specially made for negatives. Anyone with experience or advice on purchase or. any businesses that provide this service (converting slides). Thanks, Mark S. - Original Message - From: Rob Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 30 April 2004 9:28 Subject: Photo Scanner suggestions Hi, Hoping for advice. I want to buy a scanner to digitise some or all of my photo collection, both from photos and from negatives. I have been looking at the Epson 1670 photo scanner (cost about $260). Is this a good model? Are there any alternatives? Cheers Rob -- --- Dr Rob Phillips, Senior Lecturer,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 4.38 Teaching and Learning Centre, Library North Wing Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, 6150, Perth, AUS Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Chair, 2004 ASCILITE Conference, http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/ --- -- 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: Fun with NextByte Nedlands...
Sounds like they didn't go to Customer Service 101, where the customer is always right (unless clearly shown otherwise). I wouldn't think the local Mac market was bouyant enough to conduct business like this (ie. with other shops closing down, etc) ? MarkS. - Original Message - From: Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 11:57 Subject: Re: Fun with NextByte Nedlands... *sigh* Does anyone have any advice for me on where I can go from here? If you bought it on a credit card you could take it up with your card provider on the grounds that they don't seem to have provided you with the goods you ordered. Also Department of Consumer and Employment Protection http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/ Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Bulk Emailing *To* Bigpond Accounts
Sending to Bigpond is a problem we experience... We have a lot of difficulty sending to our Bigpond customers (on our mailing list). Yet, if we were a Bigpond customer (we are told) then we wouldn't have these problems as they would recognise us as one of their customers who is sending the many emails across their own customer base hmm... not fair!! So, we also get told that Bigpond has a 600 msg / 10 minute / incoming server limit. no wait... then they corrected with 400 msg / 10 minute limit... so, we configured our system and did 75 msgs in 10 minutes and still we're getting blocked. All these email problems are compounded by the many different server set ups that respond differently and not always as they should. --- On a note about multiple msgs within each send out to another server. You should be able to send out more than 1 at a time!, but what the maximum is... depends on the receiving server, so you need to keep it fairly low to get through everywhere. On the reporting of error msgs due to bad addresses, etc... you should receive notice in a single message regarding any that failed, but the successful ones will get through. This is how our messages out are returned by other servers, but I don't know if this is how we send it or how other servers receive it that allows then to acheive this ? Good luck on the email front! MarkS - Original Message - From: Gordon Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Saturday, 24 April 2004 12:44 Subject: Re: Bulk Emailing From Bigpond Account Dudley Gager wrote: 1. They limit you to 100 recipients at a time I send out a list using BigPond's mail-hub as well and I've never had this problem. Although I stick all the recepients in BCC, maybe you could try that and see if the server turns it back. Gordo Need to get in touch? [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about its friends -Make something idiot proof and someone will build a better idiot -- 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: List overload
The list admin could force plain text and limit the attachment sizes... if that is what you mean ? For me, this list isn't any worse than any other list I'm on ? MarkS - Original Message - From: Robin Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2004 7:28 Subject: List overload Dear List Mom Is it possible to configure the listbot to strip out all non text portions of postings? i.e. html formatting and attachments. (and preferably sigs as well). Please? thanks robin -- 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: web page advice
Paul, it looks to be a Frontpage built site, probably using Frontpage Extensions... I am unsure why that would stop the Mac showing the data, as it is all server-side, I thought. Not sure if this is the normal Mac experience with FP sites going wrong ? MarkS. - Original Message - From: David Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2004 8:50 Subject: web page advice Hi A friend has updated his web pages and now they are unreadable to my collection of Macs (G3 PB MacOS9.1 and IE; G4 iMac MacOS 10.2.8 IE and Safari). The home page now just has empty text boxes rather than the content that used to be there. He is using a windows system. Would anyone care to look at the home page and offer some suggestions so it is again accessible by Macs? The home page is: simplyhifi.com.au Thanks Dave -- 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: List overload
Kat, I agree that HTML has no place on email. IF I could set OE to do nothing but PLAIN TEXT I would, but if I respond to a HTML email, it overrides the PLAIN TEXT setting and sends HTML ah M$ does not know what I want to do, hell half the time I do not know what I want to do ;o) If you set OE to not respond using the format received and then set your messages to Plain text (all in the settings window), then you will force Plain text always. I Disagree STRONGLY with removing sigs, they sit down the bottom of the email, and some of us use them on all email to advertise our businesses. Small, short sigs, with basic business info, yes but ASCII images... I don't think so! :-) While we are at it, could we change the list settings so that hitting reply automatically sends to the list and not the OP ? (as some times I forget and send to the OP only) Should be a simple setting on the mailing list software... and yes, I agree. MarkS. /sig
Re: Reducing pic size
Well... 3027 bytes to be exact on my PC but, you can get it down to 1.7K with a bit more of a squeeze. :-) Mark Scholmann. - Original Message - From: Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 7:46 Subject: Re: Reducing pic size If you are referring to the pic of the man with the whiskers, it is only 4k on my desktop Bob On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 02:45 PM, Paul Weaver wrote: My Blog is at http://www.livejournal.com/users/fremantlebiz/ Neil's suggestion about resource fork and using Graphic converter seemed to do the trick to allow upload of the pic, which is only about 7k, but in the get info window it still says it is 97k. Must study the new version of Graphic Converter I have downloaded - so many options. Cheers, Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- 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: Reducing pic size
Neil's resource suggestion sounds correct, but another angle could be the image format you are saving it as, and the amount of compression (or not). Cheers, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Paul Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 19 April 2004 13:10 Subject: Reducing pic size I need to produce a pic less than a 100 by 100 pixels and less than 40kb but whatever I do the size in get info remains much larger. How do I get around the problem please. Thanks, Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Webpage cannot be found 3
I think you'll find the reasoning of this issue, is that on a PC you can access your local file system via a browser window. ie. D:\TEMP = local drive D:, the \ is the PC folder separator and then folder TEMP. So, on IE it determines that the http: request is the Internet and therefore forces the correct slash /. Handy, but, then IE is also doing a whole heap of on-the-fly changes to filenames, etc that contain CAPITAL letters. Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: James Devenish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 16 April 2004 13:10 Subject: Re: Webpage cannot be found 3 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:49:58PM +0800, Neil Houghton wrote: The way I see it, the site uses relative references rather than absolute but sets the base reference for the page(s) using the following line in the header: base href=http://www.schoolfriends.com/uk\; It's the \ at the end that's causing the problem Well done for figuring that out (I assume you're correct). Interestingly, the use of backslashes in URLs is an invalid practice. When such invalid URLs are encountered, standards-compliant browsers might choose to refuse to use such URLs or they may choose to 'fix' them and try again. Some browsers may do this by 'escaping' the backslashes, forming a valid URL that can be sent to the web server. The web server, however, will probably not be able to use the URL because it doesn't have a resource called uk\ Windows browsers might take a different approach -- replacing the backslash with a slash -- because the programmers have anticipated this as a special case of human error. PCs obviously must translate this path correctly but Macs don't So, PC browsers might contain a workaround that hides the mistakes. My view is that while this is somewhat pragmatic for a Windows-only site, it's not standards-compatible and merely perpetuates the web developers' error. -- 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
Here's one for all you Mac maniacs...
Thought you might like this... http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php?id=759393285eid=-108 Summary : In what may well be Apple Computer's largest coup in the Australian enterprise space, the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will deploy 1200 Apple G4 iMacs across 140 registry offices. Mark Scholmann
Re: The mystery continues.........
To dig deeper into the problem... One of those slow-down points in-between the From and To servers can be a result of the huge increase in virus attempts. At Lotterywest, we get lots of virus attempts to our mail server, and we have extensive firewall and anti-virus defences. The results of which lately has been a big slow down in our ability to send out our weekly results. Each Saturday, we send out around 20,000+ messages to subscribers of Lotto results. A result of the bigger virus data files to check (our server checks all outgoing messages!), is that our software virus checks are causing a bottle-neck out of our system - with several days in delays for some customers depending on our software, their server and position on the list. We are switching over (soon) to an Appliance which is a hardware/software combo, dedicated to packet filtering (virus checking, etc)... which should see delivery times speed up. Throw into the mix... companies like Bigpond see our 1000+ emails in a night as Spam, so they block them. Also, we now have customers referencing anti-spamming laws in regards to removing themselves from our list. And that can be a challenge in itself when they have changed email addresses (but receive forwarded mail), so that our server doesn't recognise them anymore automatically. (Note : Lotterywest has a double-confirmation opt-in only process of subscribing customers to our Results Email Service.) Phew... sounds like a bit of a venting... but it's getting harder to get legitimate e-mails out the door! :-( Regards, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 - Original Message - From: Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:36 Subject: Re: The mystery continues. On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:28, Paul Troester wrote: My reply to Daniel's email finally showed up on the list yesterday, the 12th of April. Shades of Australia Post; I send email to the east coast of the states and have a response the next day but; when I send an email across town here in Perth it takes 6 days for it to show up on the list. A few points: Before we start, a packet is a little chunk that when combined make a communication stream like an email, or a web-page. It's the lowest logical level of communication on the Internet. (If you're a geek, there are lower ones, but lets not go there...) The Internet is a cooperative effort. What this means is that packets that my computer sends out arrive at their intended destination only by way of the cooperation of all of the networking equipment in between. To illustrate this, here is a simplified trace route from my computer to the WAMUG list server: SNIP..
Re: dig camera as a web cam
In a sort-of related task, I found it couldn't be used for this purpose. I wanted to use it with some stop-motion single frame recording software, but when the Sony goes into USB mode, it shuts off the camera function. ie. no pictures other than whats in memory stick. There are many others that allow pass through during connection with computer. Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Eugene To: WAMUG Mailing List Sent: Monday, 5 April 2004 9:00 Subject: dig camera as a web cam Hi all, has anyone attempted to use a sony cybershot DSC P72 (or similar) as a web cam? If so how would you do it? regards Eugene
Re: Digital Images to 35mm Slides?
Churchill Colour-Labs in Subiaco (although, they may have moved... I think?) used to do this a lot. Probably lots of others do as well. Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 5 April 2004 12:16 Subject: Digital Images to 35mm Slides? I need to transfer some images (Photoshop artwork of corporate logos) to 35mm slides so they can be projected on a wall. Can anyone here recommend a company that does this? I'm not sure if this falls out side of the scope of most photo stores... Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = == -- 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
Knowledge on Nubus Macs/cards required ?
Hi, Does anyone know of a way/product that could see my Media100 (video capture) Nubus? cards (1995) in my PPC 8100/110 Nubus? Mac - be moved to a newer PCI based Mac ? Or... has anyone got experience with the Accelarator cards that can be added into the 8100 to speed up/replace the CPU ? Thanks, Mark Scholmann
Re: Newton
From memory... (I still have the first model), the 2000 (?next) model's hand-writing interpretation/analysis *wasn't* as good as the original Newton? I just remember something about it at the time they came out ? Mark S. - Original Message - From: Jude [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 11:04 Subject: Re: Ebay The G5 is at http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=5item=359642 3832 On a related note, does anyone have an old Newton that they want to sell? I have an original Newton that I have just got going after about 8 years and its so cool I'm thinking a 2000 model (is that what they were called?) would be even more fun. It even does the 'puff-of-smoke' thing just like deleting something on OSX. Talk about ahead of its time. -- 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: Hiring video projectors?
Could depend on length of hire, what inputs, accessories, etc ? Mark S. - Original Message - From: Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 10:18 Subject: Hiring video projectors? Hi... Anybody got any recommendations on where/where not to hire video/data projectors from? Currently I'm checking out * Hire Intelligence * BH Australia Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join WA's annual festival of Opinions for hire [POQ] Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://chronopolis.sf.org.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Mac TO PC File Transfer
If both are quite old computers (with no ethernet?, etc), you could set up a null-modem serial cable (which could be another drama, trying to get one?), and use a simple modem program (eg. Blacknight if it is still around). You can then set up a Zmodem transfer of files across the link, at the very pathetic speed of about 115000 baud (about ~5-10k / sec... yes 'k'). You can then work out that you may be able to transfer up to 500K per minute... (if you are lucky). I have done this to transfer about 50 MB's over a day or so (8100/110 to PC)... and at the time it was the easiest and readily available means of doing so. File formats (ascii, binary, etc) can be an issue sometimes? Otherwise, I am sure there is some Network (appletalk) set up that would be preferable !! Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Diana Graham Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 23 February 2004 12:13 Subject: Mac TO PC File Transfer A friend needs to transfer files from a Power Mac 5500/255 to a PC. He is doing it using a floppy and it is very slow. He can't email the files as the PC has no modem. Is there any quicker way to transfer the files? 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
eMac with OSX and no Help.... Help!
New to the new Mac's and our e-Mac in our Test room, doesn't seem to have any Help files ? I was trying to work out how to capture (grab) a screen for test purposes, but when trying help there appeared to be no information or a null topic available. How can I re-instate this one aspect of the OS ? Thanks, Mark Scholmann
Re: Full screen PC apps...
To throw in a combo users 2c's worth... From Amiga days, where the use of screens was a feature (easy to isolate applications), to being able to crash the mouse on the edge of a Windows screen and reach edge controls quickly (scroll bars, menus, etc), to having a slighlty cluttered looking Mac screen (personal opinion)... I like full screen applications if the switching to each app is fast and simple, and I have to say that OS X's F9 quick select is the sexiest and easiest switcher I have seen. Why can't they make both possible, have a full screen mode and a desktop full mode ? Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Peter Hinchliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 6 February 2004 8:16 Subject: Re: Adobe Reader 6 On 05/02/2004, at 6:06 PM, Robert Howells wrote: HI, Is anybody else using Adobe Reader 6 with OSX 10.2.8 ? My documents open to the extremity of the screen width which means that the Bar on the rightt is practically not useable unless the screen is resized. happens every time and I have not found a way to change that. TIA Bob Acrobat 6 appears to be a direct port of the Windows XP version, complete with cheezy icons. Since Windows applications love to fill the screen, thereby completely obliterating the Desktop, this is the default behaviour of Acrboat 6, both Reader and Full versions. For some reason, it seems almost universally accepted among Windows users that the Desktop must NOT be seen when running an application of any sort. And no, I don't think there's any way of changing the default behaviour. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: WAMUG Warning notices
My past experience with this issue... may be different now-days If the subject line is something like Warning (23245244), then I am assuming it's the quirky old Communigate Pro software that drives this mailing list. It used to have a severe bug with the Warning messages, by sending them out to anyone and everyone on the list (our own lists, that is!). We quickly put a server rule on to trap and remove these emails from getting out, as 1) they did not represent the actual state of subscribers, 2) the system worked without them, 3) there was no option to turn them off, 4) etc. In the end... happier customers... a bit more error processing behind the scenes. The new version of CGPro is better, but the owner of this list could rule them out of existance. I think it all relates to the ISP server responses being returned to the CGPro server and the ISP's compliance (or non compliance) to email standards. That is to say, that the CGPro mailing list was very particular about the server responses and couldn't previously even handle MS Exchange mail replies (yes, PC person... waiting for der's from Mac users! :-) So, you have a mailbox full response and I think it thought it was a major? Therefore, better send a message to warn the subscriber that it has stop sending emails until they send a reply response to say they are alive. In the end, it should still function without sending out these messages... as we determined that - if it really was bad, and you couldn't receive the message, then you wouldn't be able to receive the Warning message... so, why bother. Regards, MarkS. x232 - Original Message - From: Oldham, Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 9:47 Subject: Re: WAMUG Warning notices Brad, I've been getting the same messages, and I'm at iinet ... so I'm not sure it's an ISP thing. Something I haven't tried yet (since I haven't tried anything ;-) is unsubscribing then resubscribing. T. -- From: Brad Helden Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:20 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: WAMUG Warning notices Every day I get e-mail from WAMUG with the subject being WARNING and a number. It says (in part ) that - This is an automated message from the wamug@wamug.org.au mailing list manager List messages sent to your address [EMAIL PROTECTED] have bounced. If you read this message, your mail system has been probably fixed. Obviously my mail system has not been fixed otherwise I wouldn't get them regularly. Does anyone know why I am getting them and how I can rectify the situation? Thanks, Brad -- Brad Helden Japanese Culture Consultant Graphic Designer Typesetter Japanese Typesetting Translation Perth, Western Australia * The contents of this email transmission are confidential and may be protected by professional privilege. It is only intended for the named recipient/s of this email. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Files with .pps
The OpenOffice.org suite of Office apps has a slideshow app, but I have just downloaded it, and not tried this yet. I mention it, as it is free, and opens other MS document formats. Mark S - Original Message - From: Mervyn Giuliana Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2004 8:35 Subject: Files with .pps A friend from the darkside frequently sends files with a .pps suffix. I suggested he send them as Word or pdf files but he said he hasn't got a translator. Is there a Mac application that will see these files? I'm running an iMac PowerPC G4 with OS10.2 Thank you Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- 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: Can Safari save Web Pages in different format?
Sorry, not to answer your question but, in reference to IE on Mac and Safari as browsers... I have found the following compatibility point... We had experienced many issues with Mac's and our web site. It was after a site update, our customers experienced many 'strange' page display problems (in fact we still have these issues). We are PC based. We purchased a Mac and when 'playing' around on IE and Safari, etc, I suddenly noticed that the problems were not evident on Safari. Through more trial and error testing of the code, we found that the SPAN tags being used were not liked by IE or Netscape on the Mac, although Safari seems fine with them? So, we are looking at now being able to change the SPAN's to DIV's as a quick fix (which does seem to work). The code is still a mess (sigh!), but we are moving to a new platform, which I have tested with the Mac and it all seems fine. *** Any reliable stats on percentage of Mac users who use Safari. Currently, it is not included in our Test plans for Browsers. I need some evidence to include it, but would not know where to Mac-look for it ? Any tips ? Regards, Mark Scholmann Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 - Original Message - From: J Philippe Chaperon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:21 Subject: Can Safari save Web Pages in different format? Dear WAMUGers, I have finally taken the plunge and after 8 years of using OS 8.1 am now in the modern camp using OS X 10.3.2. So my learning curve is pretty steep and am currently experimenting with Apple's internet suite of Safari and Mail. I have found using Entourage from M$ easier than Mail, but then I have been using Outlook on both Mac and Win platforms for many long years. So I guess that familiarity did influence my opinion. I have not decided as yet whether Safari has an edge over IE, so far everything seems to be OK except that for some reason while using Safari to read my mail my whole computer froze, and all the cooling fans came on (overheating I guess). There was nothing I could do except to shut down and reboot. I thought that application errors could not take down the OS! Besides Safari, I also had Virex on and wonder whether this caused the complete freeze. (Hardware is G5 running 10.3.2 and lots of RAM) My question on Safari is: can it save a web page in the 3 formats available from IE - Web Archive, HTML Source and Plain Text? Many thanks for any comments. (Onno, I'm glad I have bought a 17 solid state screen. It is so much better and I can now work on my spreadsheets with great comfort. Thanks for the advice.) Regards to all and see you at the next meeting. Philippe C. -- 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: Westpac spam scam
Peter, be careful... and not for fear of bank fraud!... many of the nonsical spams that go on are mining for legit email addresses. If your email address does not bounce back to their system then they can be confident that it got through if you confirm the loop by replying, then you have probably just made it onto their Platinum/Gold list of email addresses for sale. If it is some sort of evil spam, then the reply address would have been faked anyway, so no-one will see the response. The bank web site scams have got to the stage where they were using the faked domain address bug in IE (not sure of other browsers), which allowed them to link to what looked like the real Westpac domain address, and then they mocked up the Login page exactly. In the code we saw, the input form fields had been simply changed to take the submitted values to their own server. So even if it is annoying to receive them, it's probably best to just set up your filtering rules and ignore them! Good luck, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Peter Sealy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Saturday, 17 January 2004 6:50 Subject: Westpac spam scam I received of those scam Westpac spam emails asking for my account details which I guess many of you also have received. I am not a Westpac customer so I don't know how the scammers got to me, but it doesn't matter. Just wondered whether anyone thought it might be a good thing for the world if I sent back an answer with some dud info so as to screw up their system? Would doing this even have any disrupting effect? . Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: OT a web page with 'live data
Kathy, if you are writing the program, then you can do a simple trick, which is to use IMG SRC=single_pixel_block_of_colour height=[TempValue*Scale] width=[width_of_graph_bar]. The image is stretched upwards like a bar chart set a loop to display many images across the page, based on the data. Set valignment to bottom, an place in a table of something ? The program could spit out the whole HTML web page required to display the new data. This way, on the frequency you set for data streaming in, you could run your program to read the data and build the new web page. The web page then has a refresh command to update automatically at set intervals. As the program builds the chart, you could also set conditions for critical temperatures or what-ever is required. This could change the colour image to use, etc. Another way, would be to convert the streaming data into XML format and have a web page set up to read and display the results using XSL? or what-ever displays XML data now-days? (Haven't worked on XML for a while). Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Sunday, 18 January 2004 12:35 Subject: OT a web page with 'live data Hi all, This is for our experienced web designers :o) I have live data coming in a FreeBSD server through the RS-232 port (I will be writing the program to turn the data from the incoming stream into a format for a web page) now I need to display this data on a webpage with graphs etc. Think of the FreeBSD server as an OsX server (as they are both similar) Now how do I design the web page to graph and display these values ? The data coming in is basically power status and temperature readings of the equipment in the roof :o) Any help appreciated Regards, Kat. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 8/01/2004 -- 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: cookies
James, additionally to the info about what a cookie is... it is not usual that you (the visitor) has to know anything about the cookie. I interpret their statement as a statement telling you how they will record the Visa details once you enter them. If this is so, then I am not sure why they would do it that way and how safe it is ? Normally the method would be to have an encrypted web-form that sends your personal information directly to the server for processing, without recording your Visa details anywhere (unless using a sophisticated user account system, where you log in, etc) ? Good luck, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: James Mandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 29 December 2003 22:25 Subject: Re: cookies www.google.com.au: what are cookies? Web Definition: Cookies - Persistent Client-State HTTP Cookies are files containing information about visitors to a web site (e.g. user name and preferences). This information is provided by the user during the first visit to a web server. The server records this information in a text file and stores this file on the visitor's hard drive. When the visitor accesses the same web site again the server looks for the cookie and configures itself based on the information provided. www.netiq.com/support/fwr/glossary.asp - More definitions - Original Message - From: WILLIAM CRABB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: cookies Hello, I am buying software from the USA and they have asked me to send my credit card details in a cookie. Can anyone explain to me what a cookie is, Thanks Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
OT : Phil's story
Not experienced with the success of notifying Cash'Converters and the like, but I believe their procedures are to send a list (daily / weekly ?) of all incoming items to the police as part of their pawn-broker licence. So, if you have serial's and a good desciption with police it c/should help. Good luck, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Bill Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 29 December 2003 6:48 Subject: Phil's story Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:19:09 +0800 From: Phillip McGree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: House burglary tonight My house got burgled tonight. I fell asleep really early tonight, whilst laying on my bed watching tv. I didn't mean to doze off so early, and so hadn't locked the front door. I woke up at about 3:30am and noticed that there was someone in my bedroom (I live alone). In that first few seconds I have recognised that there were two unfamiliar people in front of me, looking as startled as I was. I look to my left, where my Apple PowerBook G4 laptop normally is, and notice that it's gone. Alarm sets in as I realise that these people in front of me are stealing from me, and have got my PowerBook. I jump up SNIP Subject: Re: OT: House burglary tonight Hi Phil, I don't know if this is any help, maybe, maybe not, but go around to the hock shops and describe your camera. Chances are new digi-cams don't come in too often, and maybe there will still be images on the camera's SNIP When my car was stolen the child seat was taken when the car was abandoned and I was told to check out the hock shops for it. No luck, but that was hardly surprising given it was worth bugger all. Best of luck. A friend of mine also had his wallet and keys stolen last night, from the house of one of his friends. Hope today gets better for you. So do I Phil. I had a v.expensive Nikon lens stolen from my truck around Christmas 2002. Not recovered but after reporting to the Midland police they said I might have a chance at the Cashies, so I hope you have serial numbers. Unlike me, you have much more chance of recovery because it seems camera gear of that sort is hard to fence locally so it goes east. ( I went to every hock shop - and gave them the number of the lens). Full description of Power Book, widely circulated won't go a amiss. It will surface somewhere and the potential buyers should be made aware. Best of luck in the search. Bill -- Dr Bill Parker RENEW - Scientific and Technical writing editing in energy and resources. Box 322 Mt Lawley WA 6929 08 9371 6373 0403 583 676 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: members.westnet.com.au/renew/ -- 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: warningfake internet domain bills
Mark, all such domain invoices or suspect renewal notices can be directed to Chris Disspain, the CEO of auDA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not 100% sure if this is the most appropriate address, but Chris will certainly reply promptly to any queries). auDA are actively attempting to action change through court cases, against companies that operate within the Domain registration industry in Australia with suspect processes of renewal, invoicing, etc. Their web site has their latest warnings and activities - www.auda.org.au. Cheers, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 11 December 2003 9:37 Subject: warningfake internet domain bills Please be wary of domain name registration invoices doing the rounds. One of my clients, a non academic organisation internal to The University of Western Australia received a delivery in this weeks mail that asked for a not to insignificant sum of money for the registration of their domain name with in the commercial domain (so yourorganisationname.com). This was professionally produced/printed document made to look like an official tax invoice complete with perforated tear off payment section and a list of payment options. While the people issuing these invoices may argue that they are simply using creative push marketing it is my personally held, so non legally binding and therefor non libelous, opinion is that this has crossed the border in to the realms of theft by deception. It was only by chance that I was there assisting the purchasing officer with a computer related issue when they showed me this account. I immediately contacted the IT director of the organisation and after a short discussion it was deemed this was not a legal invoice for services rendered or ordered. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ present day present time -- 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
Request for comments on web page ? (http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/results.cfm)
Dear WAMUG'ers, could I request assistance in testing a new page on our web site ?... from a Mac perspective that is ! The page is - http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/results.cfm We have removed our previous Lotto Kiosk page for a simpler text based version, as the old page had many issues with Netscape and various other interface problems. I am looking for comments on anything not working, speed of loading, general thoughts, etc... Thanks to many on the list for previous input on a similar request! As Mac advocates, you will be happy to know that I was finally given approval to purchase a Mac for our test room. It is an eMac (white monitor - all-in-one), which will be suitable for all our testing requirements. We will be testing initially on IE5.2.2, until the stats show Safari increasing in use. It is no easy thing to get a Mac in a total PC / NT environment for Government... so, hopefully we will be presenting better in future revisions of our site. I will be dependent now on this list to indicate when it is safe to upgrade my browser and OS... as I will need to maintain the computer separate to our Infrastructure team! Yikes! 8-) Cheers, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232
Re: EXCEL
Tom, you can make a simple Macro to copy a sheet, in a loop. Here is a sample... Sub CreateSheets() ' ' CreateSheets Macro For sheetNum = 100 To 1 Step -1 Sheets(Sheet1).Select Sheets(Sheet1).Copy After:=Sheets(1) Sheets(Sheet1 (2)).Name = New sheetNum Next sheetNum End Sub - Put the above code in as a macro (look for the Macro Editor to do this). Make sure you have 1 sheet ready called Sheet1. Then run the macro and it copy that sheet 100 times. The reverse loop is so that the new sheets come out ordered 1-100 (as opposed to reversed). The name of the new sheet is dictated by the New keyword. So change this to whatever you like... it adds the number on after. Good luck. Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: tom samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2003 12:16 Subject: EXCEL can anyone out there tell me how I can , in a workbook tell me how I can make a copy of a work sheet 100 times without going edit /copy/move click on make copy and then start all over again tom samson -- 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: Repeated frequently
To list owner ? The Warning messages are a method of the CGPro List server of maintaining the subscribers. When a 'non-fatal' bounce arrives back to the mailing list server, it has a function to send out a Warning message to prompt the subscriber to respond. (You should also set the suspended time to the minimum 1 hour). I think it also generates the message when the list is Cleaned every set period of time, hence the multiple occurances. I believe it is a (very) broken function, and unfortunately on the CGPro List server it does not have an OFF option. We have placed a system wide rule to trap the messages going out, so that no one sees them. They serve no real purpose as the 'bounce' is still counted, so the list is still maintained. Over several weeks we have a count of about 16,000. Other things to trigger problems, are non-compliant server response from the many various mail servers out there. We had customers on 6 different lists, so they used to get multiple Warning messages. Annoying! Regards, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Severin Crisp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:09 Subject: Repeated frequently I am constantly getting this message and responding to it - sometimes! What does it really mean Severin Crisp This is an automated message from the wamug@wamug.org.au mailing list manager List messages sent to your address [EMAIL PROTECTED] have bounced. If you read this message, your mail system has been probably fixed. To clear the bounce counter and to prevent automatic cancelation of your subscription, use the Reply command in your mailer. Check that the Subject of the reply message contains the confirmation ID: 3483643570, and the reply is directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the 'From' address of your reply is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. All requests about this mailing list should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: mice
Adam, all injuries are different, but I know of someone at my work who has had a similar experience. The person had to switch mouse hands for a while (using left instead of right)... then, pressure pads under the wrist to assist with the correct height and position of the hand... now, the person uses a track-ball (upside down mouse). Although, you would think the extra thumbing around would be annoying (* well, it is), but it is saving the wrist from movement, and you can still get quite good control. Not useful if you are into designing / drawing on the computer, as it doesn't work that well. You don't get a continuous move across the screen in one thumb... if you know what I mean. Anyway, check for injury guidance from doctor/books/internet, as it all comes down to your chair, monitor position, hand angles, keyboard position, height, having rests, excercises, etc, etc... Good luck, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 8:57 Subject: mice Hi All, After working with computers for the last 15 years and working with computers for 7, I have really started having problems with RSI in my mouse hand. This has recently been compunded further by the purchase of my awesome iBook and the use of its trackpad. My question for the list is, what mice do you guys use or recommend that are ergonomic enough to reduce the damage I am doing to my hand? I guess the ultimate mouse I am looking for would have to also be portable so that I can take it with my ibook, but not as important as comfort. Cheers, Adam. -- 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: Retailer/Service and Database
I guess one problem with only posting positive comments is what determines a positive (or negative) comment to the database engine ? Unless you are talking about setting up a moderated list (read, time consuming) ? I was on another list that also added into the mix... legal defamation/slander issues due to comments about businesses, etc. Good luck, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Kelly Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2003 15:04 Subject: Re: Retailer/Service and Database I would think there would need to be serveral fields in rating every retailer/support service. I'd like to see customer service ratings, speed and efficiency, if the job is done properly, if the business in question goes out of their way to help with extra areas, if they recommend good products, if they have a wide range of products readily available or if you need to wait 2 weeks to order something in urgently. It would also possibly work better if it was done in various catergories, retail hardware or software, tech support, specialist areas so that places that are really good for what they do don't look worse off because they get rated down in one area in particular. Its no good having someone who's really good at rebuilding and backing up machines being rated lower overall because they don't stock a large vaiety of games on hand. I'd like to be able to read through comments on the site too, maybe not listed with the ratings for the business but an option to read through what other people have to say about them, not just a rating of 1-5 or however it will be done, like Version Tracker does for software. Often I think comments are more useful than ratings. I think only accepting possitive comments would help stop abuse, and perhaps letting each user only rate each retailer once, allowing them to edit their ratings, so if they have a bad experience and go back for whatever reason and get served by somebody different and find it to be really helpful they can put the rating up. That would stop people voting for the same place as being very poor multpiple times for a one off experience. If you want a hand with this, Onno, email me off list, I'm happy to help out, I think its a really worthwhile idea. Regards, Kelly If you like the idea of a retail and support rating database, let me know what kind of features this would have. What would you need to make it useful for you and others. How would you stop abuse, how would you rate organisations, how would you moderate the site? Have fun, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18 - E128:45'05 (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk -- 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: help with excel
Chris, try this - if you had the numbers in A1 = 32 and B1 = 118 then in C1 put this formula - =VALUE(A1.B1) Then copy down against all other numbers and the result will be a concatinated number value. Also, in the formula change the cell references to where ever the numbers are. Cheers, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Chris Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 11:47 Subject: help with excel Hi everyone I have a dilemma with hundreds of records of gps data. It has been entered in 3 columns as Degrees, Minutes and Seconds: eg 33 32 118Unfortunately I think it should have been in two columns as: Degrees and decimal minutes:eg 33 32.118 Can someone please assist with a short cut to tell excel to add the decimal point and the seconds column to the minutes, so I dont have to go through and retype each record? Blowed if I can think of the solution here, and the help is not that intuitive. I have thought of the Concatenate function but it deals with text...is there another that will use numbers and dots! thanks for any help chris -- 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: help with excel
Oh, yeah... I forgot to mention... when you have the complete list of formula based values... you will then want to highlight and copy the whole column. Then Paste Special and set the output to values. This pastes the data back in with only values and no formulas. Insert column next to matched numbers (eg. 33) and clean out the rest. Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Mark Scholmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 11:55 Subject: Re: help with excel Chris, try this - if you had the numbers in A1 = 32 and B1 = 118 then in C1 put this formula - =VALUE(A1.B1) Then copy down against all other numbers and the result will be a concatinated number value. Also, in the formula change the cell references to where ever the numbers are. Cheers, Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: Chris Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 11:47 Subject: help with excel Hi everyone I have a dilemma with hundreds of records of gps data. It has been entered in 3 columns as Degrees, Minutes and Seconds: eg 33 32 118Unfortunately I think it should have been in two columns as: Degrees and decimal minutes:eg 33 32.118 Can someone please assist with a short cut to tell excel to add the decimal point and the seconds column to the minutes, so I dont have to go through and retype each record? Blowed if I can think of the solution here, and the help is not that intuitive. I have thought of the Concatenate function but it deals with text...is there another that will use numbers and dots! thanks for any help chris -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: We've come a long way
David, add this one to the quote... from guess who! I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger. - Steve Jobs Must be the reason for all the fancy iMac colours ? :-) Mark Scholmann - Original Message - From: David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 12 September 2003 10:56 Subject: We've come a long way This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. Western Union, internal memo, 1876 Everything that can be invented has been invented. Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics, 1949 I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year. The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 640k ought to be enough for anybody. Bill Gates, Co-Founder and CEO of Microsoft, 1981 -- 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: Password problem
From a PC user point of view... Is there something different in the PPP specs on new Macs or something to do with the way data is transmitted/received (character set?, etc) ? I only ask, as I notice the bagging of iiNet on this list, but have to say that after 7-8 years with them (on both Mac and PC) I can not say I have ever encountered more than a reasonable period of down time due to some specific reason. In the past 4 years I have had only a handful of engaged signals (20 at most), with connection times ranging from 8 hrs - 70+ hrs. I have an old dinosaur Mac 8100/110 , which I occassionally fire up to do some things, and the connection still works on a Motorola 28K modem using the old (original) PPP scripts. I have friends with iMac's and a Mac laptop (ibook?), and I have helped them connect to iiNet, with no problems of what I read on this list ? I understand that the Support call centre may not always appreciate the Mac customers. Surely, there must be a simple reason for the connection issues ?... well, certainly not ones that result in you having to purchase a Net Friendly Fridge to get on line ? Regards, Mark Scholmann ANTI FLAME SHIELDS = ON :-} - Original Message - From: Kelly Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:31 Subject: Re: Password problem I recently changed from iiNet due to their customer service. I would be more willing to accept that the fault was at my end sometimes if they actually took into account that they could also be at fault at times.I got my phone line tested, changed all my settings numerous times, turned my modem speed down, spent months trying to fix my problems with them and gave up. The best excuse I heard was from a friend who was told by iiNet that his fridge could be the problem. Of course everyone needs to go and buy a new fridge when you get disconnected from the internet... I'm still hnting a decent ISP, it looks like Westnet is the next one on my list for trialing. Good luck, Kelly --- Ken Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ditto... I have the same experience. Some days are ok, on others I can get the home page but no email, yet again on others I can receive email but cannot send it (or vice versa). Numerous calls have been made to their tech support line, and everything on the face of the earth has been blamed except iinet. Cable is to long or wrong brand? Telstra is at fault, or it is the lightning, it is a systemic problem with OS9/X or what ever system I happen to be running. Basically their customer service sucks!!! Ken... On 10/9/03 5:56 PM, James Kunz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it may sound a bit unbelieveable but about 4 years ago iinet changed to micro$oft hardware/softeware and since iinet's system is affected from any virus, during the last few weeks whole sections dropped out, thus the mixed problems with accessing the net through iinet..they never admit that their system was cauring the problem most interesting was in my case: if a problem arises i disconnect...wait a few hours or days and everything is ok...no changes done on my mac from an experienced iinet userJames [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. This is no help but the problem is iinet. I left them so did my sister (A few weeks ago) and most of WAMUG.(about 2 years ago). The last year they have had too many problems with mail and slow dial up speeds. Regards from Alan. On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 01:53 PM, Jon Bjorn wrote: I have been unable to donnect to my mail server (mail.cocosmail.cc) for a few days. I am using Entourage and get the following error message. I can access my mail over the web using same userid and password. The server returned the following error Invalid userid/password. Error 7002 Access to another mail account at iinet is no problem. Anyone had simioar problem and knows a solution. Cheers Jon -- -- Jon Bjorn Jonsson M.Ed. Cocos Island DHS ph 9162 7592 fax 9162 7577 - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines
Re: help! one for the Photoshop gurus
Mark, On the PC, I use the menu option Window -- Workspace -- Reset Palette Locations - this 'should' reposition palette windows to within your system identified monitor screen size ? Regards, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 - Original Message - From: Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 12:52 Subject: help! one for the Photoshop gurus just came across something weird with Photoshop (PS 7 on OS X)... Normally I have my PowerBook at home and plugged in to a 21 monitor that sits to the left (remember to the left - sounds trivial but is important) of my PB - as this monitor is somewhat old and a bit faded I use this for my menus etc and have the picture I'm working on displayed in the PowerBooks screen. I went to a users office to do some quick photoshoping for something they need to get to a publisher and came across a very curious problem. I started the Powerbook without the second monitor (obviously) and launched Photoshop and while the toolbars and pallets where now located on the built in, now only, screen when ever I tried to pull up the layer blend window or the layer effect window it was off on to the now non existent monitor. I tried detect monitors but the powerbook knew there was only the internal so it was obviously a photoshop issue. tried Photoshop's view menu options and changing the resolution but no mater what the lost windows would not come back. In the end plugged in my powerbook in to the users monitor - fortunately they had a Apple LCD so correct monitor plug and the external monitor appeared and arrange by the system to the right of the built in screen... but still no layer pallet until I rearranged the external monitor in the control panel so it was logically to the left bingo... dragged it back to the internal monitor then unplugged the external so he could use his mac again. just got me thinking - what if next time there isn't a spare monitor or I don't have my apple to vga adaptor? Just how would I get this pallet back then? -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- 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
Could someone send me a screen shot of the Safari browser in action ?
Hello, As a PC user, I am looking for help from someone who could snap-shot the Safari browser screen (on say www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au) to see what it looks like. If you could email them direct to me that would save the list the pain of seeing their favourite browser over and over! :-) Of course, if everyone sends images I will let all know to stop. Thanks, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 Lotterywest Disclaimer - This transmission and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this transmission in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this transmission and any attachments is strictly prohibited. Lotterywest does not represent that this communication (including attachments) is free from computer viruses or other faults or defects. Lotterywest will not be liable to any recipient of this communication for any loss or damage (including direct, consequential or economic loss or damage) however caused whether by negligence or otherwise which may result directly or indirectly from the receipt or use of this communication or attachments. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. You must destroy the original transmission. To the extent that any applicable law that cannot be excluded imposes any liability on Lotterywest, that liability shall be limited to the cost of re-supplying this communication or having this communication re-supplied. Any views expressed in this transmission and attachments are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Lotterywest.
Re: Could someone send me a screen shot of the Safari browser in action ?
Thanks to all who sent in images. Appreciated! Regards, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 - Original Message - From: Mark Scholmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:21 Subject: Could someone send me a screen shot of the Safari browser in action ? Hello, As a PC user, I am looking for help from someone who could snap-shot the Safari browser screen (on say www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au) to see what it looks like. If you could email them direct to me that would save the list the pain of seeing their favourite browser over and over! :-) Of course, if everyone sends images I will let all know to stop. Thanks, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 Lotterywest Disclaimer - This transmission and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this transmission in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this transmission and any attachments is strictly prohibited. Lotterywest does not represent that this communication (including attachments) is free from computer viruses or other faults or defects. Lotterywest will not be liable to any recipient of this communication for any loss or damage (including direct, consequential or economic loss or damage) however caused whether by negligence or otherwise which may result directly or indirectly from the receipt or use of this communication or attachments. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. You must destroy the original transmission. To the extent that any applicable law that cannot be excluded imposes any liability on Lotterywest, that liability shall be limited to the cost of re-supplying this communication or having this communication re-supplied. Any views expressed in this transmission and attachments are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Lotterywest. -- 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: Thanks... for Assitance with testing a web page built on a PC (for Macintosh compatibility)...
Hello, thanks for those who spent time testing the Lotterywest web site last week, as I requested. The feedback has been informative and helpful. We have worked out a few areas we can improve our web pages for Mac displays. Within the next week, I will directly contact those who replied with feedback, as I require assistance with one more page (which includes some modifications based on the information provided). So, thank you to what appears to be a very united group of computer users ! Cheers, Mark Scholmann Technical Internet Support Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 Lotterywest Disclaimer This transmission and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this transmission in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this transmission and any attachments is strictly prohibited. Lotterywest does not represent that this communication (including attachments) is free from computer viruses or other faults or defects. Lotterywest will not be liable to any recipient of this communication for any loss or damage (including direct, consequential or economic loss or damage) however caused whether by negligence or otherwise which may result directly or indirectly from the receipt or use of this communication or attachments. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. You must destroy the original transmission. To the extent that any applicable law that cannot be excluded imposes any liability on Lotterywest, that liability shall be limited to the cost of re-supplying this communication or having this communication re-supplied. Any views expressed in this transmission and attachments are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Lotterywest.
Assitance with testing a web page built on a PC (for Macintosh compatibility)...
Hello, I am asking for assistance from Macintosh users who can visit a page, and inform me of any display issues they may experience. My name is Mark Scholmann, and I am with Lotterywest (previously Lotteries Commission). We recently re-launched our web site which worked well on PC's, but had some serious problems with Macintosh computers. Although, we have attempted some fixes, it appears that they do not solve all variations of OS / Browser combinations. We do not have any Macintosh computers and can not currently purchase or hire one. *** Warning! I have had feedback by some Macintosh users that our pages have crashed their computers! Please view after saving critical work. Two current web site pages are - 1. http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/corporate/grantsguide/guideline.html 2. http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/corporate/grantsguide/guid_001.html A current web site test page - 3. http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/corporate/grantsguide/guid_001_test2.html A newly built test page is - 4. http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/test_page1.html There should be a navigation javascript operating on the left side. The forth page is a dummy page, and even though the links may be active, they are not intended as such. I am looking for any comments/suggestions on how these pages appear or react on your computer + browser + OS combination. If you could copy and paste the client data table at the top of the 4th test page, it may help in providing details of your set up. Reply direct to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any assistance in this matter is appreciated. Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 PS : I was a Mac user in another life, so really want to solve this issue! :-( Lotterywest Disclaimer This transmission and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this transmission in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this transmission and any attachments is strictly prohibited. Lotterywest does not represent that this communication (including attachments) is free from computer viruses or other faults or defects. Lotterywest will not be liable to any recipient of this communication for any loss or damage (including direct, consequential or economic loss or damage) however caused whether by negligence or otherwise which may result directly or indirectly from the receipt or use of this communication or attachments. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. You must destroy the original transmission. To the extent that any applicable law that cannot be excluded imposes any liability on Lotterywest, that liability shall be limited to the cost of re-supplying this communication or having this communication re-supplied. Any views expressed in this transmission and attachments are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Lotterywest.
